Florida Senator and presidential hopeful Marco Rubio would turn the clock back on President Obama’s LGBT protections if elected U.S. President.
In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Rubio says he would reverse administrative decisions, such as the executive order that bars government contractors from discriminating against LGBTs, because those protections mean the business owners are “compelled to sin” by anti-discrimination policies that force them to “violate the tenets of their faith.”
The Republican also has an eye on the Supreme Court, noting in the interview that the next president is likely to appoint one or more justices, and he would appoint justices who don’t think the Constitution is “a living and breathing document.”
“It is a document of limitation that’s supposed to be interpreted and applied based on its original intent, and there is no way that you can read that constitution and deduce from it that there is a constitutional right to an abortion or a constitutional right to marry someone of the same sex,” Rubio says.
In the interview, Rubio also namechecks abortion and transgender rights, stating that he would “reverse the executive orders the President has made on things like gender equality and restrooms.”
Rubio says, “Some local districts and others have been forced to provide girls access to a boys’ bathroom and so forth,” a gross oversimplification of the complex issues districts and humans face when striving to accommodate transgender teenagers.
Rubio is getting worse.
