Trump Chief Scientist Nominee: 'LGBT Behavior Is a Choice They Make,' Marriage Could Lead to Pedophi

[TexasTowelie]

Trump Chief Scientist Nominee: 'LGBT Behavior Is a Choice They Make,' Marriage Could Lead to Pedophilia, Polygamy

Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Chief Scientist at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), believes that the legalization of same-sex marriage can lead to pedophilia and polygamy, LGBT people should not be granted nondiscrimination protections, and being LGBT is not an innate characteristic but a choice. He is wrong on every point.

"Someone who engages in LGBT behavior -- I don't know what the science is on this, I think it's still out -- but as far as we know, LGBT behavior is a choice they make," Clovis says wrongly, as CNN's Andrew Kaczynski and Paul LeBlanc report (video below). "So we're being asked to provide Constitutional protections for behavior, a choice in behavior as opposed to a primary characteristic."

Clovis' arguments are not based in science, and nearly every major medical organization not only around the country but around the world would disagree with his false claims.

"There's no equivalency there between the civil rights issue associated between those protected classes and the civil rights of someone who engages in a particular behavior," Clovis adds, in the video from his 2014 Senatorial campaign which he lost to Joni Ernst. "Follow the logic, if you engage in a particular behavior, what also becomes protected? If we protect LGBT behavior, what other behaviors are we going to protect? Are we going to protect pedophilia? Are we going to protect polyamorous marriage relationships? Are we going to protect people who have fetishes? What's the logical extension of this? It can't be that we're going to protect LGBT and then we'll pull up the ladder. That's not going to happen, it defies logic. We're not thinking the consequences of these decisions through."

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/trump_chief_scientist_nominee_lgbt_behavior_is_a_choice_they_make_marriage_could_lead_to_pedophilia_polygamy

[dchill]

1. It's Republican marriage that leads....

to pedophilia. And golden showers. And divorce. And has-been country singers.

And Republican marriage IS a choice THEY make.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Good Grief! Could this "anti" appointment be any worse??

[MyOwnPeace]

3. Must have

gone to the Rickie Santorum sex-ed seminar.

[Doug the Dem]

4. Is there Any Kind of Sexuality the GOP Thinks DOESN'T Lead to Pedophilia???

Remember, these are the folks that just LOVED 19 and Counting as well as Seventh Heaven.

[raven mad]

7. Yes, one.

Abstinence, which is what I wish they'd practice.

[DetlefK]

5. So... Chief Scientist ignores scientific report to push political agenda?

There was a recent "topical review" by a south-african team on the origins of homosexuality. They combined the knowledge of hundreds of scientific publications into one single publication. The result? Homosexuality is a result of genetic and epigenetic factors.



One research-team developed an epigenetic test to test for homosexuality, but it only has 66% accuracy. They said, for 100% accuracy they would have to do the test on a sample that has been removed from the test-subjects brain...

[LostOne4Ever]

6. Fuck these homophobic science denialists! Nt

[AllaN01Bear]

8. THIS IS NOT A FUCKKING CHOICE. ALL PEDIOFILES ARE STRAIGHT WHITE MALES

I HAVE COPS TELL ME THAt. I HAVE HEARED THIS BULLSHIT COMMENT ALL MY 60 YEARS OF LIFE ON THIS FUcKING PLANET . get out of your asss. this is NOT A FUCKING SCIENTEST.

[Adrahil]

12. That second bit is not true....

It is true that a large majority in THIS country are, but some 20% are not, and in some other countries, it is, of course, not even close to true.

[Tanuki]

9. This should be disqualifying, quite apart from the fact that Clovis

had no apparent qualifications to be "chief scientist" in the first place other than having been national co-chair of the Trump-Pence 2016 election campaign.

[unblock]

10. Wtf does "freedom" mean to these idiots?

Obviously it's not a choice, who on earth would voluntarily sign up to be discriminated against if it was purely a matter of an idle choice. We're not talking about picking a color for your bedroom walls here.

Besides, how many of these homophobes would even admit to "choosing" heterosexuality? They all seem to insist that they're physically disgusted at the mere thought of homosexuality, doesn't sound like a "choice" to me.


But the clincher to me is, even granting their idiotic premise, they're still wrong! Even if it is a choice, so what! If "freedom" means anything at all in this country, it must include the right to choose your romantic partner (provided they consent and are of age of course).

What the hell is the big government interest in peeking into bedrooms anyway?

[cyclonefence]

11. Yes

And on top of that, we are *all* a "protected class" when we are assaulted or otherwise mistreated because of a (non-criminal) sexual preference. Does he suggest that someone who has been outed as, say, a foot fetishist is fair game for discrimination? Rickatola Santorum did this kind of thing, saying that legal sexual activity--e.g. fellatio--is equivalent to illegal sexual activity--e.g. pedophilia.

[not fooled]

13. Isn't it the USDA

not the FDA that this loon is supposed to infiltrate and destroy?

USDA employees on suicide watch.