Trump's Pick For Homeland Security Says Gay People Are Pedophiles, Like Drug Addicts
It's easier than shooting fish in a barrel: Name a Trump cabinet nominee and we'll tell you the terrible things they've said about LGBT people.
The latest is Kris Kobach, Kansas' Secretary of State and the president-elect's rumored pick for chief of Homeland Security.
In 2012, while backing GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Kobach compared gay people to drug users.
He was arguing in support of the now-defunct Defense of Marriage Act, claiming that "our government routinely judges situations where you might regard people [only] affecting themselves... like, for example, the use of controlled substances [or] polygamy."
"We condemn those activities," he explained, "even though they are not hurting other people, at least directly.”
In 2004, he claimed that LGBT groups like HRC organizations supported “homosexual pedophilia.”
Kobach would seem to appeal to Trump's nativist tendencies, having authored Arizona's SB 1070, one of the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measures in America.
Passed in 2010, it allowed police to stop anyone they had a "reasonable suspicion" of being undocumented to check their papers.
Sadly, Kobach put his nomination in jeopardy this week when he was photographed walking around with a printout of his detailed plans for Homeland Security.
Those plans involves reopening old cases, building a 2,000-mile barrier along the Mexican border and deputizing local police to enforce federal immigration laws.
It also involves quizzing immigrants from Arab countries about Sharia law, and their views on "the equality of men and women."