Ramaswamy: ‘cult-like’ LGBTQ community threatens ‘modern order’
Entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said the LGBTQ community seeks to “create an us-versus-them destruction of modern order” by bringing together otherwise incompatible ideas about sexual and gender minorities under one group identity.
Beliefs systems which support the housing of different social and political advocacy goals under the banner of LGBTQ rights constitute “cult-like” dogmas “with no obligation to logic,” he told right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson during an interview that was streamed on X, formerly known as Twitter, last week.
Ramaswamy claimed the LGBTQ rights movement’s existence is perpetuated by ideas that are based in faith rather than facts because its core premises are irreconcilably “in tension” with each other.
For instance, he said, “most lesbians don’t like gay men and vice versa,” while “trans [identities are] this totally weird separate thing.” The movement presupposes that sexual orientation is innate from birth despite the absence of a “gay gene” while simultaneously arguing “sex is completely fluid over the course of your life, even though there is a definitive sex chromosome,” Ramaswamy said, arguing these ideas are fundamentally incompatible.
