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Trump Chief Scientist Nominee: 'LGBT Behavior Is a Choice They Make,' Marriage Could Lead to Pedophilia, Polygamy

Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Chief Scientist at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), believes that the legalization of same-sex marriage can lead to pedophilia and polygamy, LGBT people should not be granted nondiscrimination protections, and being LGBT is not an innate characteristic but a choice. He is wrong on every point.

"Someone who engages in LGBT behavior -- I don't know what the science is on this, I think it's still out -- but as far as we know, LGBT behavior is a choice they make," Clovis says wrongly, as CNN's Andrew Kaczynski and Paul LeBlanc report (video below). "So we're being asked to provide Constitutional protections for behavior, a choice in behavior as opposed to a primary characteristic."

Clovis' arguments are not based in science, and nearly every major medical organization not only around the country but around the world would disagree with his false claims.

"There's no equivalency there between the civil rights issue associated between those protected classes and the civil rights of someone who engages in a particular behavior," Clovis adds, in the video from his 2014 Senatorial campaign which he lost to Joni Ernst. "Follow the logic, if you engage in a particular behavior, what also becomes protected? If we protect LGBT behavior, what other behaviors are we going to protect? Are we going to protect pedophilia? Are we going to protect polyamorous marriage relationships? Are we going to protect people who have fetishes? What's the logical extension of this? It can't be that we're going to protect LGBT and then we'll pull up the ladder. That's not going to happen, it defies logic. We're not thinking the consequences of these decisions through."

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