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Amy Coney Barrett’s Use Of ‘Offensive’ Anti-Gay Dog Whistle By Religious Right Sets Off Alarm Bells
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During Tuesday’s Senate confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked the nominee whether she shared her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s hostility to equal rights for LGBT Americans.
If confirmed, Feinstein asked, would Barrett, like her mentor, “be a consistent vote to roll back hard-fought freedoms and protections for the LGBT community”?
Barrett responded by claiming she had “no agenda,” a line Scalia also used during his own confirmation hearing. She added: “I do want to be clear that I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference and would not discriminate on the basis of sexual preference.” Barrett’s use of “sexual preference” alarmed many LGBTQ+ rights groups because the archaic
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Bruce Nickerson, gay rights legal champion, dies at 80
Attorney Bruce Nickerson sits in the hallway of the Torrance Courthouse and shares good news with his client, Charles Samuel Couch, July 21, 2017. The judge granted Nickerson’s request for a finding of factual innocence. Photo: Q Voice News photo.
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