Yesterday we found out Kris Kobach, the architect of the most racist law in modern American history had been named to Trump's team and it turns out, President-elect Donald Trump is just getting started on his transition to hate. He also added Ken Blackwell, the former Ohio secretary of state to his domestic policy transition team. From Rightwing Watch:
Blackwell gained national notoriety as Ohio’s secretary of state in the lead-up to the 2004 election, when he implemented a number of creative voter suppression measures. He now works for the FRC, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled as an anti-gay hate group thanks to its promotion of “discredited research and junk science” meant to “denigrate LGBT people.”
At FRC, Blackwell has latched onto apocalyptic rhetoric about the threat of LGBT rights, saying that President Obama is emulating totalitarian regimes by “weakening the family” and “trying to marginalize the church” and even linking a mass shooting to the country’s crumbling “moral foundation” thanks to developments such as “the attack on natural marriage and the family.”
As Rightwing Watch notes, Blackwell has been very vocal in his beliefs that homosexuality is a choice and LGBT can choose to change:
“I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it’s a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed,” Blackwell said in response to the question “Is homosexuality a sin, and can gays be cured?” according to published transcripts. “I think it is a transgression against God’s law, God’s will.”
He continued: “The reality is, again…that I think we make choices all the time. And I think you make good choices and bad choices in terms of lifestyle. Our expectation is that one’s genetic makeup might make one more inclined to be an arsonist or might make one more inclined to be a kleptomaniac. Do I think that they can be changed? Yes.”
This is real life, people. Our lives and our values are facing very real threats with each passing hour since Donald Trump won the Electoral College.
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