Gay PayPal founder’s RNC speech to further muddy waters on Trump’s agenda
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump continued to send mixed signals on social issues in the days leading to his formally accepting the party’s nomination on Thursday night. After the GOP adopted what has been called the most pro-life and family platform in its history — including rejecting last year’s Supreme Court decision redefining marriage along with Barack Obama’s transgender bathroom edict — an openly gay tech investor will take the stage to speak just before Trump’s appearance closes the convention. Billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel, a delegate from California, is one of Thursday’s three headliners scheduled before Trump’s speech. Thiel , the co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook, is known as a libertarian politically, and according to Inside Philanthropy , he was a donor to the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), a nonprofit organization established in 2009 to support the plaintiffs in