{"id":23547,"date":"2026-06-02T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tennesee-gop-rep-andy-ogles-deletes-anti-pride-month-tweet\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:02:08","slug":"tennesee-gop-rep-andy-ogles-deletes-anti-pride-month-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tennesee-gop-rep-andy-ogles-deletes-anti-pride-month-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennesee GOP Rep. Andy Ogles deletes anti-Pride Month tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Andy Ogles made a social media post Tuesday saying “homosexuality has no place in America,” and then deleted it after drawing criticism from at least one fellow House Republican. <\/p>\n

The tweet from Ogles (R-Tenn.) wished his followers “Happy Nuclear Family Month” in an apparent reference to Pride Month, which began Monday.<\/p>\n

Rep. Mile Lawler (R-N.Y.) condemned the message as “absolutely idiotic” in a social media post. <\/p>\n

“Homosexuality exists. In America,” Lawler wrote on X<\/a>. “In fact Andy, you have family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and constituents who are gay and lesbian. It doesn\u2019t make them less than or somehow unworthy of being an American.”<\/p>\n

House leadership did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n

Pride Month commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York, which served as a major catalyst for LGBTQ+ rights. <\/p>\n

Ogles has been called out for his social media posts in the past. Earlier this year, he faced backlash<\/a> for posting that “Muslims don’t belong in America.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at the time called the Tennessee Republican a “malignant clown and pathological liar who has fabricated his whole life story.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Andy Ogles made a social media post Tuesday saying “homosexuality has no place in America,” and then deleted it after drawing criticism from at least one fellow House Republican. The tweet from Ogles (R-Tenn.) wished his followers “Happy Nuclear Family Month” in an apparent reference to Pride Month, which began Monday. Rep. Mile Lawler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}