Battle Over Trump Appointment of Anti Gay Bigot to Ex-Im Bank

Hatred and Prejudice Does Not Disqualify Personnel in the Trump Arena

Politco is reporting on the battle to confirm a former Congressman who is openly and visciously anti-gay to head a key government agency. 

President Donald Trump’s nomination of former Rep. Scott Garrett to lead the Export-Import Bank has opened up yet another front in the Republican Party’s civil war.

Pro-business trade groups, free-market advocates and even social conservatives and gay-rights activists are targeting GOP senators with competing lobbying efforts as they clash over Garrett’s past attempts to shut down the bank and his controversial views on LGBT issues.

So who is this guy and why is this important?  Well first of all as a Congressman he wanted to end the agency is now trying to run.  But the big deal given the pro-bigot stance of Trump during the Charlottesville demonstrations is his horrific anti- LGBT attitude.

His views attracted controversy in July 2015, when POLITICO reported that he told a group of fellow Republicans that he had refused to pay National Republican Congressional Committee dues because it recruited gay candidates.

Garrett later denied that he was against gay candidates and said his concern was with support for same-sex marriage. But the political fallout contributed to his failed 2016 reelection bid and is becoming a more prominent issue in his Senate confirmation.

Apparently in his view the Constitution prohibits folks who are gay from serving in the Congress.  The fact that the Constitution promises equal protection for everyone doesn’t bother him,  he just wants to write his own version.