Tmp’s Judicial Picks Call Trans Children ‘Satan’s Plan,’ Says Gays Are ‘Brawashg’ Kids, and More

‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR DANIEL FRANZE WAS ‘BRAWASHED’ INTO GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
CAN SCTN MAKE STRAIGHT MEN GAY?
TMP’S JUDICIAL PICKS CALL TRANS CHILDREN ‘SATAN’S PLAN,’ SAYS GAYS ARE ‘BRAWASHG’ KIDS, AND MOREHATENOT ONLY HAS THE PRINT PUT FORWARD UNQUALIFIED JURISTS, THE ON WHO SEEM QUALIFIED ARE BIGOTED.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED NOV. 16, 2017 9:45AM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 16, 2017 5:00AM EST OPNPHOTO ILLTRATN BY LYNE LUCIEN/THE DAILY BEASTAMAZGLY, THERE ARE STILL SOME GAY PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO THK DONALD TMP IS THEIR MAN. THEY SHOULD TAKE A LOOK AT THE PEOPLE HE’S NOMATED TO SERVE LIFETIME TERMS ON THE BENCH: IT’S A RABOW OF HOMOPHOB. HERE ARE SEVEN OF THE WORST.1. JEFF MATEERTHE MOST NOTOR OF TMP’S ANTI-GAY JUDICIAL NOME IS JEFF MATEER, NOMATED TO SERVE THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. UNUALLY FOR A JUDICIAL PICK, HE’S MANAGED TO EARN HIS OWN HASHTAG, #STOPMATEER.IN 2015, MATEER SAID A SPEECH THAT PARENTS SUG ON BEHALF OF THEIR TRANSGENR CHILDREN “REALLY SHOWS YOU HOW SATAN’S PLAN IS WORKG AND THE STCTN THAT’S GOG ON.” IN THE SAME SPEECH, HE SAID REGARDG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THAT “THERE’LL BE NO LE THERE… I MEAN, ’S DISGTG. I’VE LEARNED WORDS I DIDN’T KNOW... SOMEBODY WANTED TO MARRY A TREE. PEOPLE MARRYG THEIR PETS. IT’S JT LIKE—YOU KNOW, YOU READ THE NEW TTAMENT AND YOU READ ABOUT ALL THE THGS AND YOU THK, ‘OH, THAT’S NOT GOG ON OUR MUNY.’ OH Y IS. WE’RE BACK TO THAT TIME WHERE BCHERY L.” THIS IS SOMEONE WHO WILL BE LLED UPON, FOR S, TO CI THE FATE OF LGBT PEOPLE VOLVED CTODY DISPUT, EMPLOYMENT CLAIMS, ANTI-DISCRIMTN ACTNS: SOMEONE WHO FDS TRANSGENR KIDS TO BE PART OF SATAN’S PLAN, AND WHO THKS THAT MARRIAG LIKE ME ARE NO DIFFERENT OM PEOPLE MARRYG PETS (OR A TREE).THE SPEECH WASN’T SOME ONE-OFF ABERRATN EHER. ALSO 2015, MATEER ATTEND THE “NATNAL RELIG LIBERTY CONFERENCE” HOSTED BY KEV SWANSON, WHO HAS SAID THAT SOCIETY SHOULD IMPOSE THE ATH PENALTY FOR HOMOSEXUALY, HAS PREDICTED THAT GOD WILL PUNISH AMERI BEE OF HARRY POTTER’S “HOMOSEXUAL MENTOR” DUMBLEDORE, HAS SAID THAT FROZEN IS A SATANIC PLOT TO MAKE CHILDREN GAY, AND HAS BLAMED HURRINE HARVEY ON HOTON’S “PRO-HOMOSEXUAL MAYOR.” MATEER HAS NOT MA ANY STATEMENTS DISTANCG HIMSELF OM SWANSON.AT THAT NFERENCE, MATEER HIMSELF SHARED HIS VIEWS ABOUT OBERGEFELL V. HODG. HE ALSO SAID THAT NO HONT ATTORNEY ULD FEND THE SUPREME COURT’S MARRIAGE EQUALY CISN, AND GAVE A PRENTATN WARNG OF LGBT “BRAWASHG” AND “REPROGRAMMG” EFFORTS. HE WENT AS FAR AS TO SAY THAT OBERGEFELL V. HODG IS “NOT THE LAW OF THE LAND” BEE “’S A 5-4 CISN WH JTICE KENNEDY JOG THE FOUR LIBERALS.” THIS IS SOMEONE WHOSE LIFE-TENURE JOB WOULD REQUIRE HIM TO RPECT SUPREME COURT PRECENT—EXCEPT, PRUMABLY, THOSE HE DON’T PERSONALLY NSIR TO BE THE LAW OF THE LAND BEE LIBERALS CID THE OUTE.AND YET SO FAR, NOT A SGLE REPUBLIN SENATOR HAS OPPOSED HIM—OR ANYONE ELSE ON THIS LIST FOR THAT MATTER.2. MARK NORRISTHE MAJORY LEAR OF THE TENNSEE SENATE, MARK NORRIS, NOMATED TO THE DISTRICT URT FOR THE WTERN DISTRICT OF TENNSEE, HAS SPONSORED A RAFT OF BILLS THAT TARGETED THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANTS, MLIMS, AND MANY OTHERS (PDF)—BUT HAS DISTGUISHED HIMSELF BY HIS FIERCE OPPOSN TO THE LGBT MUNY.NORRIS HAS SPONSORED OR SUPPORTED BILLS THAT ALLOW MENTAL HEALTH UNSELORS TO DISCRIMATE AGAST LGBT PEOPLE, PREVENT CI OM PASSG NON-DISCRIMATN PROTECTNS FOR LGBTS, FE PARENTAL RIGHTS CTODY BATTL TO EXCLU NON-BIRTH PARENTS (THIS WAS DUBBED THE “LGBT ERASURE BILL”), AND PREVENT ANY RMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY OM BEG SHARED OR DISCSED SCHOOLS (THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL).NORRIS AND A GROUP OF FELLOW LEGISLATORS EVEN SOUGHT TO TERVENE A CTODY DISPUTE BETWEEN A SAME-SEX UPLE TO NY RIGHTS TO THE NON-BIRTH MOTHER, OVER THE OBJECTN OF TENNSEE’S ATTORNEY GENERAL AND OPEN FIANCE OF OBERGEFELL. AS WH MATEER, NORRIS HAS SUBORDATED RPECT FOR THE LE OF LAW TO HIS PERSONAL RELIG VIEWS ABOUT MARRIAGE AND SEXUALY. NOT ONLY ARE THOSE VIEWS HARSH THE EXTREME, BUT THEY TMP THE MOCRATIC NORMS THAT FERAL JUDG ARE MEANT TO UPHOLD.3. DAMIEN SCHIFFWE REPORTED ON DAMIEN SCHIFF AS ONE OF SEVERAL RIGHT-WG BLOGGERS NOMATED TO THE FERAL BENCH BY PRINT COMMENT SECTN. IN ANONYMO BLOG POSTS, SCHIFF OPED THAT SOCIAL SECURY IS UNNSTUTNAL AND LLED JTICE ANTHONY KENNEDY A “JUDICIAL PROSTUTE.” BUT SCHIFF HAS BLOGGED ON LGBT ISSU TOO.ACRDG TO LAMBDA LEGAL, 2009, SCHIFF WROTE AN ANONYMO PIECE ENTLED “TEACHG ‘GAYNS’ PUBLIC SCHOOLS,” WHERE HE RAILED AGAST A CALIFORNIA ANTI-BULLYG LSON PLAN. SCHIFF SAID “ SEEMS TO TEACH NOT ONLY THAT BULLYG OF HOMOSEXUALS IS WRONG, BUT ALSO THAT THE HOMOSEXUAL LIFTYLE IS A GOOD, AND THAT HOMOSEXUAL FAI ARE THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF TRADNAL HETEROSEXUAL FAI.”THIS RPONSE TO A CURRICULUM THAT TRI TO PREVENT BULLYG OF ANY TEENAGERS EMED TO BE ‘DIFFERENT.’ OH, AND THE REMEDY? “ALLOW PARENTS TO OPT OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ALTOGETHER, AND LET THEM KEEP THEIR TAX.”ELSEWHERE – AND ALSO ANONYMOLY – SCHIFF POSTED: “THE IMPET FOR THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT IS THAT WE NNOT NY TO NSENTG ADULTS THE FULL CULTURAL AND LEGAL REGNN OF THE PROPRIETY OF THEIR SEXUAL FULFILLMENT.” AS IF LIFELONG MMENTS BETWEEN ADULTS, BUILDG FAI TOGETHER, SHARG THEIR LIV, AND SUPPORTG ONE ANOTHER FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, ARE NO MORE THAN “SEXUAL FULFILLMENT.”CAN YOU IMAGE IF MY HBAND AND I HAVE A SE BEFORE JUDGE SCHIFF? WILL WE RECEIVE EQUAL JTICE UNR THE LAW? AND IF WE WILL NOT, WHY HAS NOT A SGLE REPUBLIN SENATOR RISEN TO OPPOSE HIM?4. STEVEN GRASZNOMATED TO THE EIGHTH CIRCU COURT OF APPEALS (ONE LEVEL BELOW THE SUPREME COURT), L. STEVEN GRASZ IS THE SEND NOMEE TO RECEIVE A UNANIMO “NOT QUALIFIED” RATG OM THE AMERIN BAR ASSOCIATN. BY WAY OF PARISON, ONLY TWO OTHER UNANIMO UNQUALIFIED RATGS WERE ISSUED OM 1989-2015.AMONG OTHER THGS, GRASZ IS A BOARD MEMBER, AND FORMER BOARD CHAIR, OF THE NEBRASKA FAY ALLIANCE, WHERE HIS SON NATE ALSO WORKS. NATURALLY, THE NFA IS OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND LGBT EQUALY GENERAL. THE NFA ALSO NTU TO SUPPORT THE EFFECTIVE, THOROUGHLY BUNKED, AND PSYCHOLOGILLY HARMFUL PRACTICE OF “NVERSN THERAPY,” WHICH GAY PEOPLE (OFTEN TEENAGERS FORCED BY THEIR PARENTS) TRY TO PRAY, TALK, AND JOLE THEMSELV TO BEG STRAIGHT. NATE GRASZ EVEN WROTE THAT BANS ON FORCG MORS TO UNRGO SUCH ‘THERAPY’ “TRAMPLE ON PARENTAL RIGHTS.” FOC ON THE FAY HAS MA FIGHTG THE BANS ONE OF S SIGNATURE MPAIGNS.THE YOUNGER GRASZ HAS ALSO OPED THAT ANTI-DISCRIMATN “LAWS ARE NOT ED TO STOP ACTUAL DISCRIMATN BUT STEAD ARE ED TO SILENCE DISSENT AND PUNISH PEOPLE OF FAH WHO DISAGREE ON MARRIAGE AND HUMAN SEXUALY.” THE NFA IS AFFILIATED WH FOC ON THE FAY, ONE OF THE LARGT CHRISTIAN RIGHT ANIZATNS THE UNTRY, WHICH HAS LED THE FIGHT AGAST ANTI-DISCRIMATN LAWS, FOR RELIG EXEMPTNS, AGAST TRANSGENR CLN—YOU NAME . (FET CLN – THEY’VE LED THE FIGHT TO NY THAT “TRANSGENRISM” EVEN EXISTS.) FOC HAS EVEN ALLIED TERNATNALLY WH RSIAN ANTI-GAY ACTIVISTS, CLUDG THE THORS OF S NOTOR “ANTI-PROPAGANDA” LAW, AS PART OF THE WORLD CONGRS OF FAI.FOC IS LED BY JAM DOBSON, A NTROVERSIAL FIREBRAND WHO HAS SAID THAT THE GOAL OF THE LGBT EQUALY MOVEMENT IS THE “UTTER STCTN OF THE FAY,” HAS LIKENED SUPPORTERS OF MARRIAGE EQUALY TO NAZIS, AND, FOR GOOD MEASURE, HAS CLAIMED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS “ADVANC A HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA”MIKE PENCE RECENTLY TOLD FOC ON THE FAY THAT THEY HAVE AN “UNWAVERG ALLY” TMP, AND THE NOMATN OF STEVE GRASZ IS PART OF THAT “ALLYSHIP” (OR PAYBACK FOR THEIR SUPPORT 2016, IF YOU PREFER). GRASZ ISN’T JT SOMEONE WH PARTICULARLY ANTI-GAY VIEWS; HE IS PART OF ONE OF THE ANTI-GAY WORLD’S LEADG ANIZATNS.5. DON WILLETTTEXAS SUPREME COURT JUDGE DON WILLETT, NOMATED TO FIFTH CIRCU COURT OF APPEALS, IS ANOTHER LONGTIME DARLG OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT. WILLETT HIMSELF HAS BOASTED 2012 THAT “I’VE BUILT A RERD THAT IS WILY SCRIBED – WELL, UNIVERSALLY SCRIBED—AS THE MOST NSERVATIVE OF ANYBODY ON THE [TEXAS] SUPREME COURT. I’VE GARNERED SUPPORT OM EVERY RNER OF THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. THERE’S NO IOLOGIL DAYLIGHT TO THE RIGHT OF ME… I’M UNIVERSALLY REGARD TO BE THE MOST NSERVATIVE MEMBER OF THE URT, WHICH IS A LABEL THAT I ACCEPT WH, ANKLY, GLADNS AND GTO.”WILLETT’S NSERVATISM ISN’T LIMED TO LGBT ISSU—BACK 1998 HE CRIED WOMEN THE WORKPLACE, SAYG THAT WORKG WOMEN “PLACE KIDS THE RE OF RENTED STRANGERS”— CERTALY EXTENDS TO THEM. IN 2005, HE ATTEND A RELIG GATHERG WHERE SPEAKERS PROMISED LERAL HELLFIRE TO RA UPON GAYS AND LBIANS. MORE RECENTLY, WILLETT DISSENTED OM A 2015 TEXAS URT CISN ALLOWG TWO WOMEN TO MARRY BEFORE THE STATE BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAG EXPIRED BEE ONE OF THE WOMEN WAS DYG OF OVARIAN NCER.AND JT THIS YEAR, WILLETT WAS PART OF THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT MAJORY THAT HELD THAT OBERGEFELL DIDN’T GUARANTEE SAME-SEX MARRIED SPO THE SAME LEVEL OF BENEFS AS OPPOSE-SEX ON. ONCE AGA, NO REPUBLIN HAS OPPOSED WILLETT’S NOMATN.6. STUART KYLE DUNNKYLE DUNN, ALSO NOMATED TO THE FIFTH CIRCU, IS BT KNOWN FOR BEG THE GENERAL UNSEL AT THE RIGHT WG ‘RELIG EEDOM’ ANIZATN THE BECKET FUND WHEN THEY WORKED ON THEIR MOST PROMENT SE: HOBBY LOBBY, AT THE SUPREME COURT. BUT SCE LEAVG BECKET TO START HIS OWN FIRM 2014, DUNN HAS BEEN ON A CSA TO LIM THE RIGHT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. AS REPORTED BY LAMBDA LEGAL, DUNN HAS FEND LOUISIANA’S (PRE-2015) BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, FEND S REFAL TO REGNIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAG OM OTHER STAT, FEND S REFAL TO ISSUE A BIRTH CERTIFITE TO A CHILD ADOPTED BY A SAME-SEX UPLE, AND FEND ALABAMA AGAST A CHALLENGE OM A LBIAN MOTHER WHOSE PARENTAL RIGHTS WERE STRIPPED AWAY BY THE STATE.DUNN ALSO WAS THE LAWYER FOR NORTH CAROLA’S NOTOR H.B. 2, ARGUG A NUMBER OF S AND AT ONE POT STATG THAT TRANSGENR PEOPLE ARE MERELY “LNAL.” ONCE AGA, THIS IS NOT MERELY SOMEONE WH PARTICULAR VIEWS; DUNN IS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN THE LAWYER FOR ANTI-GAY AND ANTI-TRANS POSNS SE AFTER SE AFTER SE.7. MATTHEW KACSMARYKFALLY, WHILE MATTHEW KACSMARYK, NOMATED TO THE DISTRICT URT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS, HAS ALSO WORKED FOR CHRISTIAN RIGHT ANIZATNS SUCH AS THE LIBERTY INSTUTE AND THE BECKET FUND, ’S HIS PERSONAL WRG THAT STANDS OUT. IN A 2015 THK PIECE, FOR EXAMPLE, KACSMARYK WROTE THAT LGBT PEOPLE SEEK “PUBLIC AFFIRMATN OF THE LIE THAT THE HUMAN PERSON IS AN TONOMO BLOB OF SILLY PUTTY UNNSTRAED BY NATURE OR BLOGY, AND THAT MARRIAGE, SEXUALY, GENR INTY, AND EVEN THE UNBORN CHILD MT YIELD TO THE EROTIC SIR OF LIBERATED ADULTS.” ONCE AGA, NOTICE THE RCTN OF LGBT INTY TO “EROTIC SIR” AND THE STRANGE, UNCED, UNSUPPORTED CHARACTERIZATN OF HOW LGBT PEOPLE UNRSTAND THEMSELV OR THEIR MOVEMENT.SIARLY, AN SAY THE NATNAL CATHOLIC REGISTER, KACSMARYK APPROVGLY CED THE CATHOLIC DOGMA THAT “HOMOSEXUAL ACTS ARE TRSILLY DISORRED,” AND SCRIBED “SEXUAL REVOLUTNARI” AS HOLDG “VERY DIFFERENT FNS OF THE HUMAN PERSON” OM CHRISTIANS. FOR KACSMARYK, THERE APPEARS TO BE NO DISTCTN BETWEEN HIS SECTARIAN NSERVATIVE CATHOLICISM’S ERATN OF ‘NATURAL LAW’ (WHICH IS NOTHG IF NOT HUMAN-NCEIVED) AND THE AGREED-UPON SECULAR RIGHTS A MOCRACY SUCH AS OURS.TO BE SURE, KACSMARYK’S PHILOSOPHIZG IS A LIGHT YEAR AWAY OM THE MAGOGUERY OF JAM DOBSON. BUT SHAR THE HUMANIZG VIEW THAT LGBT PEOPLE ARE NOT RATNAL, SPIRUAL MORAL AGENTS, BUT RATHER SEX-CRAZED LIBERT WH NO UNRSTANDG THAT THEIR “EROTIC SIR” NTRAVENE SOME ABSTRACT NATURAL LAW, WHICH WE MT ALL AGREE TO BE VALID. ONE SHUDRS TO THK OF HOW THE BELIEFS WILL IMPACT KACSMARYK’S CISNS ON S—AS YET, NO ONE HAS ASKED.THERE IS ANIZED RISTANCE TO THE JUDG. LAMBDA LEGAL, THE LEADG LGBT ANIZATN FOCED ON LIGATN AND THE JTICE SYSTEM, HELD A RALLY ON THE STEPS OF THE CAPOL ON MONDAY, AND HAS FILED LETTERS OF OPPOSN TO THE AND OTHER NOME.BUT MUCH MORE WILL BE NEED. WHERE IS THE ACUNTABILY OF SUPPOSEDLY MORATE REPUBLINS WHEN TO NOME LIKE THIS? NO ONE WOULD EXPECT A REPUBLIN TO OPPOSE ALL, OR EVEN MOST, OF TMP’S 53 JUDICIAL NOMATNS—BUT THE MOST EXTREME, SUCH AS THE, SERVE MORE THAN IF TMP IS REALLY AS IRRPONSIBLE AS SENS. FLAKE, CORKER, MCCA (AT TIM), AND GRAHAM (AT TIM) HAVE SAID, THEN THOSE ENTSTED WH MATAG CHECKS AND BALANC MT BE MORE RPONSIBLE THAN UAL. OR AT LEAST MORE RPONSIBLE THAN THIS. JAY MICHAELSON

‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR DANIEL FRANZE WAS ‘BRAWASHED’ INTO GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

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