After Trump said this week that he wouldn’t appoint a Supreme Court justice to attempt to roll back same-sex marriage, but one of his prospective picks has actually made some pretty disturbing comments.
Despite President-elect Trump saying that same-sex marriage is “settled”, he also said he wanted to appoint justices who would challenge the 1973 abortion rights ruling Roe v Wade.
One of those conservative judges is William H Pryor Jr, who has in the past suggested that same-sex couples should be punished with jail for having sex in their own homes.
The former Alabama Attorney General upheld a law in 2003 in Texas which criminalises consensual gay sex, comparing it to “polygamy, incest, pedophilia, prostitution, and adultery”.
Arguing that LGBT people were not protected by the US Constitution, Pryor said states should be able to criminally charge gay people for having sex.
“This Court has never recognised a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of monogamous heterosexual marriage, let alone to engage in homosexual sodomy,” wrote Pryor.
“Such a right would be antithetical to the ‘traditional relation of the family’ that is ‘as old and as fundamental as our entire civilisation.”
He also defended straight people’s right to have anal sex, saying straight anal sex was better than same-sex anal sex.
“Texas is hardly alone in concluding that homosexual sodomy may have severe physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual consequences, which do not necessarily attend heterosexual sodomy, and from which Texas’s citizens need to be protected,” he wrote.
Going on, he said there was “no fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy just because it is done behind closed doors… Because homosexual sodomy has not historically been recognised in this country as a right; to the contrary, it has historically been recognised as a wrong. It is not a fundamental right.”
So Trump could appoint a justice who has bee described by Lambda Legal as “the most demonstrably anti-gay judicial nominee in recent memory.”
Kevin Cathcart, Lambda Legal’s executive director adds that Pryor blocked a law which would have allowed same-sex couples in Florida to adopt.
“Several judges on the appeals court wanted to hear the case and said the law raised ‘serious and substantial questions,’ but William Pryor kept that from happening,” wrote Cathcart.
“As a result, lesbians and gay men in Florida cannot adopt children who need permanent, loving homes.”
We all should get Congress not to let this guy be confirmed.
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2013/09/alabama-republican-saw-photos-from-gay.html?m=1
Take a look at him. Hmmmm. Closet case.
And that comes from a man that went gay for pay nude on gay magazine mmm funny how when people want to play holy and moral they forget to wipe their asses
And the circus get bigger and bigger how can you respect all these clowns?:(
So glad I dont live there
i bet he wants all gays jailed up cause he is jealous he cant find a decent guy to please him!
Well supreme Court ruled that it is our right to have sex in this nation in 2003 when the last sodomy laws were struck down
Meaws sells ad space to gay reparative therapy clinics. They don’t get to be judgy about this, sick as is it.
That’s fine. When shit hits the fan, I’m gonna take my toothbrush and willingness to work somewhere else…screw the toothbrush, I’ll buy one when I get to where I’m goin.
seriously are we 12 years old get the fuck over yourself grow the hell up
yes because gay people are the only ones who are butt fucking
So if we are all in jail together what do they think we will be doing with nothing else to do Plus now all the straight people are providing us 3 meals a day, medical wow a giant bathhouse and getting paid for it
i don’t like it at all that can scare everyone across the country that right to do that so they can do only woman as a hooker not gay male !! trump trick people now !! do something about it then you all stupid jerk !!
I feel sorry for him. Just because he is in the closet and that make him be mad of the people who fought to be free, doesn’t mean he have to try to stop them. I gotta say. He looks very gay.
Then he should be jailed. Pictures have come out of him naked back in the 80s, and they hit some gay magazines, he claims they are not him, however look very closely, they could be, and he will not answer any questions about them. People need to be more careful about taking questionable photos of themselves, this is the age where everything gets put on thw internet. If your a politician you should be scared, very scared.
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