Anti-LGBT Extremist Gains Lifetime Seat in Court of Appeals

 What’s with anti-LGBT officials being sworn into positions of power? We have a vice president who has actively tried to deny equality for LGBTQ people in Indiana, a president who wants to ban transgender people from serving in the military, and a delegate that compared LGBT people to the KKK so I’m not that surprised when Lambda Legal reported that Trump-nominated Allison Rushing, a woman who has ties to the anti-gay hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, was recently given a lifetime seat in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

On March 5th, Sharon McGowan, the Legal Director and Chief Strategy Officer of Lambda Legal, issued a statement in which she argues against Rushing’s confirmation. She wrote “Throughout her brief legal career, Allison Rushing has supported and closely associated herself with

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