Trump’s AG Jeff Sessions Fought to Derail Gay Rights Conference
Jeff Sessions — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Attorney General — went several extra miles to try and prevent a gay rights group from holding a conference on a public college campus in 1996, newly unearthed news articles from the time show.
The 69-year-old Alabama senator is an outspoken critic of LGBT rights on a federal level and called the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision to legalize gay marriage an “effort to secularize, by force and intimidation.” He has also voted against measures taken to expand hate crime laws to include attacks targeting sexuality, in addition to being a staunch supporter of the First Amendment Defense Act, which critics have labeled as a bill that enables the “right to discriminate.”
And Session’s intolerance for homosexuality apparently trails far back.
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