Trump's nominee for chief scientist in the Department of Agriculture Sam Clovis believes that being gay is a choice and has said that offering legal protections for LGBT people will lead to protection for pedophiles.
“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 in a video obtained by CNN's KFile. “So we're being asked to provide Constitutional protections for behavior, a choice in behavior as opposed to a primary characteristic.”
“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,” continues Clovis. “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.”
When a questioner said some might call what Clovis' words extreme — comparing the approval of same-sex protections to allowing pedophilia. Clovis said it was “logical.”
“I don't think it's extreme,” said Clovis. “I think it's a logical extension of thought. And if you cannot follow the logic then you're denying your in denial.”
More at CNN.
Watch Clovis speak at an Iowa campaign stop during his failed race for the GOP Senate nomination about how homosexuality is a choice and that offering protections for LGBT people will lead to protection of pedophiles:
