LGBT groups: Trump 'couldn't have picked a worse' Army secretary nominee
LGBT groups are raising pressure on President Trump's nominee for Army secretary, just three days after the pick became official, and are vowing a fight.
Trump "couldn't have picked a worse nominee to pick a fight with Congress," David Stacy, government affairs director at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), said Monday.
"It's a nonstarter with Democrats, and a nonstarter with moderate Republicans. It's guaranteed to cause a fight on the Hill."
Stacy was speaking in a press call alongside Stephen Peters, HRC national press secretary, and Ashley Broadway-Mack, president of the American Military Partner Association, about their opposition to nominee Mark Green.
The White House late Friday announced Trump intends to nominate Green, a Republican state senator from Tennessee, to be the Army's top civilian leader, making official a nomination that had been expected.
If confirmed, Green would succeed Eric Fanning, the first openly gay service secretary.
Green has a noteworthy Army career, having served as a special operations flight surgeon. He was the emergency physician during the operation that captured Saddam Hussein in 2003 and was the first person to interrogate Hussein following the capture.
But as a Tennessee state senator, he's made numerous anti-LGBT statements and sponsored a number of anti-LGBT bills.
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