Trumps Texas Judicial Nominee Jeff Mateer Is Unfit to Serve
Just when you think Donald Trump’s judicial nominees can’t get any more extreme, along comes Jeff Mateer of Texas. Yesterday, CNN and Right Wing Watch reported on Mateer’s long history of extremism against LGBTQ people, including his assertion that transgender children are part of “Satan’s plan,” his defense of dangerously harmful “conversion therapy,” and his belief that allowing people to marry someone of the same sex would lead to allowing people to marry animals.
Mateer also spoke at a 2015 conference organized by right-wing extremist Kevin Swanson. As Right Wing Watch reported in 2015, before the event:
Swanson has called homosexuality a “death penalty crime” and defended a Ugandan measure to make homosexuality a criminal offense punishable by life imprisonment or the death penalty, saying he was glad the country was “standing strong” by adopting extreme anti-gay laws. He has said that it’s acceptable to attend a gay couple’s wedding only if you hold up a sign telling them they should be put to death.
Swanson was far from the only conference speaker who called for the execution of lesbians and gays. However, this did not deter Mateer from attending and lending his support to what Rachel Maddow dubbed the “kill the gays rally.”
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