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Source: 30dB.com – Sam%20Clovis
His department heads were scrutinized by the Senate, with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos coming under particularly intense fire. But no department nominee has caused as much alarm lately as Trump’s pick for chief scientist at the Agriculture Dept. CNN revealed on Monday that nominee Sam Clovis has arguments about who should be afforded 14th Amendment protections that are an anathema to the LGBT community. He trotted out the argument that homosexuality is a choice, so protections for LGBT people would safeguard behaviors rather than characteristics. “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,” Clovis says in a video obtained by CNN. Although the science is inconclusive about Clovis’ initial premise, no major experiments are needed to demonstrate how Social feels: Clovis gets 75 percent negative sentiments on 30dB, with calls for the Senate to reject his nomination. –Hugo Guzman
Republished from 30dB
