(RNS) — His nservative Christian fah unrgirds his beliefs, which many say are anti-gay and anti-Mlim.
Contents:
- MIKE POMPEO STILL OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE. NOW HE'S ABOUT TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE.
- CORY BOOKER GRILLS MIKE POMPEO ON WHETHER HE BELIEV BEG GAY IS A ‘PERVERSN’
- MIKE POMPEO REFED TO SAY IF HE THKS BEG GAY IS A PERVERSN
- POMPEO TAK ANTI-GAY MPAIGN TO UN
- MIKE POMPEO'S ANTI-GAY VIEWS SHOULD DISQUALIFY HIM
- ELLEN POMPEO EMOTNALLY REVEALS HOW 'GREY'S ANATOM' Y HELPED A GAY TEENAGER COME OUT TO HIS PARENTS
MIKE POMPEO STILL OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE. NOW HE'S ABOUT TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE.
J., asked Pompeo, who is currently the CIA director, whether he believed beg gay is "a perversn. ""So do you not believe is appropriate for two gay people to marry? “You’re gog to be reprentg this untry and their valu abroad natns where gays dividuals are unr untold persecutn, untold vlence, ” Booker ntued.
“His personal ti to anti-LGBTQ hate groups and clear refal to support the hard-fought equal rights of the LGBTQ muny make him wholly unqualified to promote human rights abroad, " Ellis Amerin Civil Liberti Unn (ACLU) shared a tweet that listed several landmark Supreme Court s that expand LGBTQ rights and wrote, "Mike Pompeo may believe that same-sex marriage is 'appropriate' and that gay sex is a 'perversn' but thankfully the Supreme Court don't agree. "After choosg Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson, who was oted last month as secretary of state, Tmp asserted Pompeo would "do a fantastic job" the role, but LGBTQ advot have been soundg the alarms over his anti-LGBTQ rerd ever sce his nomatn was his three terms as a Kansas ngrsman, Pompeo opposed the repeal of the ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays, sayg, "When you enter the Army you give up a few of your rights.
She said Pompeo, who also served as Donald Tmp’s CIA director, attacked her bee she is “Jewish, gay, teacher and unn” and was clearly stokg rightwg hate as he nsirs a printial n. ”Wegarten, who has been print of the AFT sce 2008, told the Guardian she thought Pompeo was attackg her bee she is “Jewish, gay, teacher and unn”.
CORY BOOKER GRILLS MIKE POMPEO ON WHETHER HE BELIEV BEG GAY IS A ‘PERVERSN’
The anti-gay trop are there.
” The homophobic and vulgar remark was triggered by a ls-than-impassned rponse om Pompeo about the murr of Sdi journalist and Washgton Post ntributg lumnist Jamal Khashoggi. Earlier this year, the work stood behd host Joy Reid after she apologized for ntroversial years-old blog posts about gay people and same-sex marriage. Sexualizg gay people this way is signed to ntrol them & mimize our worth.
MIKE POMPEO REFED TO SAY IF HE THKS BEG GAY IS A PERVERSN
”Grenell, who is openly gay, also urged Brzezski to apologize more directly.
But I don’t see that you’ve actually apologized to gays? Journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted: “Homophobic sults of the kd vomed out this morng by @morngmika have bee a pletely mon and acceptable ponent of anti-Tmp disurse, startg om the endls Tmp/Put gay suatns to trash like this. Try ‘toadie’ or ‘lackey’ or ‘stool pigeon’ or ‘ass kisser, ’ or ‘traor, ’ but maybe don’t equate homosexualy wh Mike Pompeo rryg water for the murro regime Sdi Arabia.
Swooped — not to champn gay rights but to make a parison to edian Kev Hart, who was forced out as Osrs host after some old homophobic tweets is disgtg! How n @KevHart4real sentially be forced to lose his Osr’s gig for ments he ma years ago as a edian, but Mika n make a serly homophobic slur on a major news statn, have the work try to ver up & s not an issue? Related: Cory Booker annihilat Mike Pompeo durg nfirmatn hearg: “Is beg gay a perversn?
POMPEO TAK ANTI-GAY MPAIGN TO UN
He opposed the repeal of the anti-gay ary ban known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ” he lled the U.
Mayor bans ‘Avengers’ ic book om book ftival over gay kiss. (The FRC has been labeled an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, but Perks disput the label.
Fight disrmatn: Sign up for the ee Mother Jon Daily newsletter and follow the news that month, a vio seemgly void of irony, former ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell clared that “Print Tmp is the most pro-gay print Amerin history. Pompeo, who took over at Foggy Bottom April 2018, has long opposed same-sex marriage and once scribed homosexualy as a “perversn.
MIKE POMPEO'S ANTI-GAY VIEWS SHOULD DISQUALIFY HIM
Last year, he gave a speech on “beg a Christian lear” to members of a Christian mental health unselg anizatn that, s of ethics, says, “Christian unselors do not ndone or advote for the pursu of or active volvement homosexual, bisexual or transgenred behavrs and liftyl. A State employee told the partment’s spector general that Mari Stull—a former we blogger who joed State’s Internatnal Organizatn bure—had “raised objectns” to a ndidate for the role of puty director for the Office of Human Rights and Humanarian Affairs bee of that ndidate’s past work on Paltian refugee issu and “on gay and lbian rights.
Another employee ntacted the IG’s office after beg “disturbed” by a nversatn wh former Assistant Secretary of State for Internatnal Organizatn Affairs Kev Moley, who had allegedly said Stull did not fd the ndidate to be “tstworthy” bee of the ndidate’s Paltian rights work and “relatnship wh the gay and lbian muny. Months before he praised Tmp as the “most pro-gay print Amerin history, ” Grenell lnched an ternatnal ph to crimalize homosexualy.
ELLEN POMPEO EMOTNALLY REVEALS HOW 'GREY'S ANATOM' Y HELPED A GAY TEENAGER COME OUT TO HIS PARENTS
Even though Tmp at first appeared not to know the effort even existed, he eventually warmed to and tweeted approvgly of this “global mpaign to crimalize homosexualy.
Any effort to crimalize homosexualy abroad would likely need to be n through State’s Bure of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.