Thread by @cmclymer

William Barr has an openly anti-LGBTQ history and as attorney general, would present a threat to LGBTQ people everywhere in our country.

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Barr has previously advocated against interpreting federal laws to include gender identity – a position that disregards the holdings of more than 40 federal courts in the last twenty years.

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He has also argued that prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination “seeks to ratify, or put on an equal plane, conduct that previously was considered immoral,” and “dissolves any form of moral consensus in society.”

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Barr blamed AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections on “sexual licentiousness,” calling them “the costs associated with personal misconduct.”

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He disputed informing the American people about the transmission and prevention of HIV and AIDS, opposing public health interventions, such as distribution of condoms, because “by removing the costs of [sexual] misconduct, the government serves to perpetuate it.”

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William Barr has been a vocal supporter Jeff Sessions’ memo sanctioning religious-based discrimination, as well as the Justice Department’s interpretation excluding transgender people from coverage under Title VII and Title IX sex discrimination provisions.

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Tell your senators to block William Barr from confirmation as attorney general.

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