Despite the problems with Benton and Lea, no one came off worse at this week’s hearing than Justin Olson, an Indianapolis lawyer who specializes in litigation seeking to exclude transgender athletes from college sports. Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Olson about his time as an ordained elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, during which Olson gave sermons about how “transgenderism, homosexuality, and fornication” are “sexual perversions” that come from “shame on the inside,” and argued that God “has called wives to be subject to their husband.”
But Olson didn’t stop there. He also argued that marriage may not be for everyone, including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.” Anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-woman beliefs have been pretty common among Trump nominees, but taking issue with disabled people because they might not be able to have enough sex is a new one. Variety is the spice of life!
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