'My Faith Calls Me to a Different Place on the Issue' of Letting Gay People Be Parents
David Badash at NCRM:
Karen Handel says she is opposed to LGBTQ people being able to adopt children and start families because of her âfaith.â The Republican nominee is facing Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgiaâs June 20 special election to fill the seat held by former Rep. Tom Price, now President Donald Trumpâs HHS Secretary.
On Thursday Handel sat down with locals at Wrightâs Gourmet Sandwich Shop, as the Georgia Voice explains, where one woman told her that while she personally leans conservative, she has an LGBTQ daughter and fears what will happen when she wants to adopt children or start a family.
As you watch this video, note how quick Handel is to cut the woman off when the conversation moves to civil rights and equality for LGBTQ people. Handel politely nods as the mother begins to talk about wanting to support her child, asking the Republican candidate, âwhat protections do I have for her having a family in the future, wanting to adopt a kid?â
âSure. Sure,â Handel says, interrupting.
âI have to be honest,â Handel says, bringing her hand to her heart. âMy faith calls me to a different place on the issue.â
Handel, who once served as Georgiaâs Secretary of State and unsuccessfully ran for governor, adds that her faith calls her to be âcompassionate,â as if LGBTQ people need pity. âSo, I always try to do that,â she says, as if itâs a challenge.
âI donât,â she continues, âIâm not aware of anything in the law, right now, that Iâm aware of, thatâs going to be impactful, from a discriminatory standpoint, against your daughter,â Handel said.
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The Georgia Voice notes Handel had nearly the exact same response the same day at Wrightâs Sandwich Shop, telling longtime Georgia journalist Dyana Bagby of Reportersâ Newspapers, her âfaithâ calls her âto a very different place on these issues.â
âMy faith at the same time calls me to be compassionate and what I have always believed is that what has to be paramount is what is the best interest of the child,â she said.
Asked to explain further, she said, âThe best interest of the child. Period, end of paragraph. Thatâs not for you to decide. Thatâs not for me to decide. Itâs for the child advocates to decide, whether that be the court or the childâs guardian. The childâs best interest must be paramount.â
Handel is known nationwide as the high-powered Komen for the Cure executive who almost single-handedly destroyed the reputation of the once highly-respected breast cancer non-profit when she moved to defund the groupâs support of Planned Parenthood. She has told supporters she wants America to become a nation where "the very idea of an abortion is unthinkable.â
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Handel keeps on embarrassing herself. Vote Ossoff Tuesday!
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The conservative [sic] movement takeover of the Republican Party began in the 1960s and took decades to complete. [Regressives] still have not lost their sense of being an insurgent movement that might at any moment be betrayed by the party Establishment. [Regressives] think of their role as quasi-independent, but they also imagine it as focusing exclusively on enforcing fealty to their doctrine by politicians who might otherwise be inclined to wander. The scenario they are built to fight against is the Republican president who colludes with Democrats, not one who colludes with foreign dictators. If the president is fighting against the opposition party, they assume he is acting correctly. [Right-wing] organs like National Review originally viewed Richard Nixon with hostility, and â perverse as it may sound â came to his defense because of Watergate.
Many [regressives]Â opposed Trump during the primaries because they suspected, with good reason, that his [ideology] was shallow or insincere. They worried that, once elected, Trump would abandon their priorities and pursue the most expedient course.
But Trump has not done that at all. The policies or talking points Trump has abandoned are the centrist ones⊠He has positioned himself to the right of even House Republicans on domestic spending, and continues to push for their grossly unpopular plan to cut a trillion dollars from Obamacare. âThe Never Trump [regressive] argument that Trump is not a [regressive] â one that I, too, made repeatedly during the Republican primaries â is not only no longer relevant, it is no longer true,â points out the popular [right-wing] talk-show host Dennis Prager.
Trump Can Commit All the High Crimes He Wants. Republicans Arenât Going to Impeach Him.
The arrest of Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old federal contractor from Atlanta, Georgia, for leaking a National Security Agency report describing in far more detail than previously known Russian efforts to intrude in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump, comes in the midst of a deluge of Trump tweets and leaks.
Among the most sensitive leaks about national security since the start of the Trump administration was Trumpâs own Oval Office conversation with top Russian officials last month, in which he revealed allied intelligence information apparently coming from Israel. At that same meeting, Trump discussed his firing of former FBI Director James Comey the previous day, thereby relieving âgreat pressureâ on him, he said. (Comey will be testifying before Congress Thursday).
How do we even know about these discussions between Trump and Russian officials? They were leaked! So we had a leak about a leak, coupled with a leak about a potential coverup by the president of his attempt to obstruct justice.
The essential message of the Justice Departmentâs decision to go after Reality Winner is that those who leak will be targeted for prosecution if the information they give journalists is about Russia helping Trump win the election.
But letâs be clear. This particular leak of an NSA report is not the central problem.
The problem is Russia has directly and brazenly interfered in our democratic system. Yet we donât know exactly how â and we donât have a means of stopping Russia from doing it again.
The other part of the problem is that instead of resolutely focusing on this brazen attack on American democracy, we have president whoâs been actively trying to obstruct public knowledge of what happened.
TRUMPâS IRATE and irrational tweets have already gotten him in plenty of trouble, and will, no doubt, continue to be an issue as he pushes for approval of his controversial travel ban before the Supreme Court. Now, free speech advocates are condemning Trump not just for what heâs saying on the platform, but for what heâs preventing his constituents from saying to him.
In a letter sent to the President today, the Knight First Amendment Institute, an offshoot of the larger Knight Foundation that focuses on protecting First Amendment rights in the digital age, argued that when Trump blocks people on Twitter, heâs violating their right to free speech. The letter contends that the @realdonaldtrump Twitter feed is a âdesignated public forum,â no different from a city council or school board meeting. The First Amendment bars the government from censoring individuals in such forums, based on their views. Through the letter, the Institute asks Trump to unblock these accounts and stop blocking people in the future. If he doesnât, the Institute will file a lawsuit, according to Katie Fallow, a senior fellow there.
âThis is the bedrock principle,â says Fallow. âIf thereâs any kind of forum the government is operating for expression, it may not discriminate on the basis of viewpoint.â
The Institute provides evidence indicating the President has done just that. One Twitter user, @AynRandPaulRyan, was blocked after tweeting a gif of the Pope looking grim with President Trump.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
While right wingers like to scream about the first amendment when someone tells them their ideas are abhorrent or when anybody questions their ability to push their religion on others, they really need to read the entire thing.
Twitler needs to realize that blocking US citizens on twitter violates that right.
Ryan defends Trump on Comey: âThe presidentâs new at thisâ
By RACHAEL BADE
Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday defended President Donald Trumpâs communications with ex-FBI director James Comey, saying Trump wasnât âsteeped in the long-running protocolsâ of how to interact with law enforcement.
âThe presidentâs new at this,â Ryan said at a news conference. âHeâs new at government.â
The Wisconsin Republican also expressed sympathy for Trumpâs frustration with the Russia investigation, noting that Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that Trump was not the subject of the probe. âI think the American people now know why he was frustrated.â
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