Jeff Sessions tried to block an LGBTQ campus conference as Alabama AG
Source: lgbtqnation/CNN
Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney general, has a track record of opposing LGBTQ equality, including trying to block a conference on LGBTQ issues at University of Alabama in 1996, CNN reports.
Then Alabama’s attorney general, Sessions tried to bar the Southeastern Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual College Conference from meeting on campus, citing the state’s “no promo homo” law, which prohibited public funds from being used to promote “actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws.”
While Sessions stopped short of taking legal action, despite the support of then Gov. Fob James, he encouraged the university to stop the event. The conference was scheduled to include a discussions on coming out, religion, STDs, and substance abuse. “This is a matter that the university and board of trustees need to deal with,” Sessions told the Mobile Register at the time. “I don’t see how it can be done without canceling this conference.”
When the university responded by saying that they would “err of the side of the First Amendment,” Session took his opposition a step further, suggesting he would obtain a court order to stop the conference.
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