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General News    H4'ed 7/16/16

Billboard of Trump, Cruz Kissing Goes Up in Cleveland Ahead of RNC

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A billboard in Cleveland sponsored by the nonprofit group Planting Peace.
A billboard in Cleveland sponsored by the nonprofit group Planting Peace.
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Just days head of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, a giant billboard depicting presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump locking lips with former rival Ted Cruz has made its debut in the city. The billboard is the work of Planting Peace, a nonprofit "founded for the purpose of spreading peace in a hurting world. What Donald, Ted and the Republican platform either fail to realize, or realize and just don't seem to care about, is that their words and actions toward our LGBT family - especially LGBT children - have meaning and impact. LGBT children hear these messages telling them they are nothing but second class citizens and are left feeling somehow broken or 'less than,'" wrote Aaron Jackson, president of Planting Peace, in a blog post on the organization's website.

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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

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