In a newly surfaced video, a Tennessee district attorney argued that the reason he would not prosecute a domestic violence case between a gay couple as a regular assault is because “there’s no marriage to protect,” reports NewsChannel5 Nashville.

“Y’all need to know who your DA is,” Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott said at a 2018 Bible conference hosted by Dean Bible Ministries. “You give us a lot of authority. We can choose to prosecute anything. We can choose not to prosecute anything.”

“So the social engineers on the Supreme Court decided that we now have homosexual marriage. I disagree with them. What do I do with domestic assaults?” he tells the crowd in the recording.

“The reason that there’s enhanced punishment on domestic violence is to recognize and protect the sanctity of marriage. And I said there’s no marriage to protect. So I don’t prosecute them as domestics,” Northcott added.

Northcott said he believes public officials should use the Bible in their work.

According to a Tennessee law, a victim of domestic abuse can be “individuals who previously had or currently have a sexual relationship or people who previously or currently live together.”

Chris Sanders, executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, called Northcott a “crackpot.”

“When it happens, victims, survivors rely on those charged with enforcement of the law to protect them,” Sanders told NewsChannel5 Nashville. “And, in this case, it looks like we have a district attorney who is willfully ignoring the marital status, the relationships of members in our community and not protecting them fully.”

The Hill notes:

Northcott has also drawn nationwide ire for his statements on Muslim Americans. In a Facebook Post, he wrote that Muslims are “evil because they profess a commitment to an evil belief system” and that they are not entitled to constitutional rights, even if they are American citizens, according to NewsChannel5 Nashville.

“There are only God given rights protected by the Constitution. If you don’t believe in the one true God, there is nothing to protect,” Northcott said.

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