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Trump's Anti-Gay Nominee for Religious Freedom Ambassador Just Can't Come Up With a Good Reason Why
Trump's Anti-Gay Nominee for Religious Freedom Ambassador Just Can't Come Up With a Good Reason Why He Killed LGBT ProtectionsIn 2009 Brownback Refused to Comment When Asked if 'Homosexual Conduct' Should Be Criminalized
Sam Brownback was grilled by Democratic U.S. Senator Tim Kaine Wednesday morning on why the Republican Governor had killed protections for state LGBT workers in Kansas. Brownback, currently the Kansas governor and an anti-LGBT religious extremist, is President Trump's nominee to become the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.
Senator Kaine asked Governor Brownback during his confirmation hearing (video) why he revoked an executive order, written by his predecessor, at the start of his second term in office. That executive order had made it illegal to discriminate against LGBT state employees.
“That was an order that created a right by the executive branch that wasn’t available to other people that wasn’t passed by the legislative branch,” Brownback explained as his reason for leaving the entire state workforce without protection from discrimination or even firing for being or even being perceived as LGBT.
In 2015 Gov. Brownback rescinded the order, signed by then-Governor Kathleen Sebelius.
Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/trump_nominee_for_religious_freedom_ambassador_just_can_t_come_up_with_a_good_reason_why_he_killed_lgbt_protections_in_his_state
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