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Dem Party Lashes Out at Muslim Candidate for Not Embracing LGBTQ Community

Melissa Chaudhry, a Muslim Democrat running for Congress in Olympia, Washington, has reportedly threatened to switch parties if elected after fellow Democrats and LGBTQ activists pitted her Muslim beliefs against supporting LGBTQ rights.

Andrew Ashiofu, chair of the Stonewall Democrats, the official LGBT caucus in the Washington State Democratic Party, recently told Jewish News Syndicate, that Chaudhry threatened to leave the Democrat Party and become the first Green Party member of Congress during a local progressive publication’s election board meeting.

Board members reminded Chaudhry that the meeting was on the record. “This whole meeting, this whole process is on the record,” one member told Chaudhry, according to Ashiofu. “If there’s something, if you don’t want said, don’t say it in the meeting.”

Chaudhry is running for Congress in Washington’s 9th District and is attempting to primary longtime Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash.

Democrats Question Chaudhry’s Commitment to LGBTQ Rights

Before Chaudhry levied her threat, she received backlash from local Democrats because she told The Stranger, a progressive Seattle publication, that she omitted explicit references to LGBTQ rights from her website because “a lot of Muslims do not feel that way, unfortunately.” When asked directly by JNS whether Islam supports gay people or gay rights, Chaudhry emphasized broader religious........

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