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turbinetree

(24,757 posts)
Thu Aug 9, 2018, 01:07 PM Aug 2018

Jeff Sessions wants to keep working with this hate group, so he told them they aren't a hate group

The Alliance Defending Freedom is totally a hate group.

ZACK FORD AUG 9, 2018, 9:53 AM

A week after announcing a mysterious new “religious liberty task force,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions once again addressed the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on Wednesday. He assured them that he does not believe they are a hate group for constantly advocating for discrimination against LGBTQ people, and then claimed that his Department of Justice does not “partner with any groups that discriminate.”

Sessions previously spoke to ADF last June, and his at-the-time secret address caused quite a backlash as many in the media pointed out that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has identified ADF as an anti-LGBTQ hate group. His remarks were later made public, and ADF took a conservative media tour to claim that they were a victim of this false accusation.

This time, Sessions addressed the controversy head on. After mentioning “the ordeal faced bravely by Jack Phillips,” the baker ADF represented in Supreme Court who blatantly discriminated against a same-sex couple, Sessions told the group that people of faith are facing “a bigoted ideology which is founded on animus towards people of faith.”

“You’ll notice that they don’t rely on the facts,” he said. “They don’t make better arguments. They don’t propose higher ideals. No, they just call people names—like ‘hate group.'”

https://thinkprogress.org/jeff-sesions-says-adf-not-hate-group-e0e5af4dfe70/


Hey Sessions, your a fucking bigot................I can say that under the first amendment of the Constitution...........that you fucking violated when you spoke to a spy and didn't tell the FBI...................I think your a traitor and a liar..................

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