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Watch: Dan Savage Blasts Duggars For ‘Demonizing’ LGBT People While Covering Up For Their Son

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Watch as Dan Savage blasts Christian conservatives for their “projection,” wanting to make LGBT people the bad people who will harm their children, when in fact it’s more often than not someone already in the home.

There’s so much that has been said and so much more that should be said about the Josh Duggar scandal. Friday night, Dan Savage talked about it on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes,” and did what Dan Savage does best: identifying and calling out the hypocrisy of the Christian right, in a clear and sharp manner.

Savage, who segment begins about four minutes in, noted that Michelle Duggar, the “19 Kids and Counting” mom, had helped repeal an LGBT nondiscrimination law in Arkansas. She “argued that this law presented a danger to little girls, particularly, because it would allow trans women to use restrooms, and it was in the best interest of children to repeal this LGBT civil rights law,” Savage explained.

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“Just the hypocrisy of Michelle Duggar out there demagoguing and demonizing LGBT people while at the same time having covered up and protected her son who had actually molested at least five little girls that we know of is just staggering. It’s galling.”

MSNBC host Chris Hayes made the excellent point that the Duggars should never have even made the choice to be on TV.

“This horrible thing has happened in your family with your kids,” Hayes noted, speaking about the Duggars. “Horrible obviously to the kids who have been victims, also horrible to the 14-year old kid who has done this,” Hayes said, “and to choose to put yourself out as a national television product knowing that your family i keeping this secret and the weight that is bearing down on your family. As a parent, it just gobsmacks me. It gobsmacks me to do this to your kids.”

Savage also pounded the religious right for their “projection,” wanting to make LGBT people the bad people who will harm their children. Making “same-sex couples who wish to marry the threat,” he said, “absolves” straight people, straight couples, churches, from “responsibility of what they’re doing to marriage.”

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Religious conservatives, Savage added, “want to point a finger at non-family. They want to point a finger at people that they define as the enemies of family or not from or having families of their own: LGBT people, particularly trans people increasingly, with these anti-trans bathroom bills. And that is what the Duggars have dug in on, is attacking trans people and opposing this LGBT civil rights bill in Fayetteville where they were out there arguing that the threat to little girls in Fayetteville were transwomen when they knew, when they were covering for someone who had demonstrated, that he, at least at that age, was a threat to little girls himself.”

One last note, particularly to MSNBC viewers. Chris Hayes heads an excellent show that suffers from poor ratings. MSNBC reportedly will be making major changes to its entire lineup. If you like Hayes, you might want to let MSNBC know, as I did last night when I watched his show:

 

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President Donald Trump’s grasp of what’s happening on his watch is being debated, as the 78-year-old increasingly responds, “I don’t know” when asked basic questions.

Despite swearing—for the second time now—an oath to the U.S. Constitution, the President of the United States when asked if he is obligated to “uphold the Constitution” told NBC News’ Kristen Welker, “I don’t know.”

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“He’s taken the oath twice—but now he’s not sure if due process matters. That’s not a gaffe. That’s a warning. Believe him. He’s telling you what he may burn down next,” the group posted on social media.

The nonpartisan advocacy group Patriotic Millionaires, which works to have wealthy Americans pay a larger portion in taxes and says “tax the rich” on its website, pointed to the President’s “I don’t know” response to upholding the Constitution.

“That is something that an authoritarian-dictator-wannabe would say, and we should absolutely take him at his word when he says this,” they wrote.

When Welker asked if he would run for a third term, Trump said he would not but admitted “I don’t know” if the Constitution prohibits it, but it’s “something you’re not allowed to do,” he said.

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“I don’t know,” Trump replied. “You’ll have to ask Homeland Security.”

Also on Wednesday, a reporter told Trump, “Your Treasury Secretary just told lawmakers that a tariff exemption for certain baby items like car seats is under consideration. Will you exempt some products that families rely on?”

“I don’t know,” was the President’s response, adding he will “think about it.”

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“I didn’t know that,” the President told reporters.

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“What about the goose, the geese? What about the geese? What happened there?” he was asked.

“I have no idea,” was the President’s reply.

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Trump’s “I don’t know” remarks have become so frequent some have started to question why.

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It appears CNN has, at least in part, been keeping track.

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MSNBC columnist Michael A. Cohen commented, “Yet another piece of evidence that Trump is a bystander to the actions of his administration.”

CNN medical analyst Jonathan Reiner remarked, “The president says he doesn’t know the new Surgeon General but he appointed her because ‘Bobby thought she was terrific’. Who’s in charge here?”

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“These are people. It doesn’t matter where they’re born. They are people first. And so they need to be treated as people first.”

Prevost suggested the Pope will weigh in on controversial topics.

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“I don’t think he’ll stay quiet for too long if he has something to say,” Prevost said, according to The New York Times. “I know he’s not happy with what’s going on with immigration. I know that for a fact. How far he’ll go with it is only one’s guess, but he won’t just sit back. I don’t think he’ll be the silent one.”

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“That means we lose less money, you know?” President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “When I see that, that means we lose less money. Look, China was making over a trillion, $1.1 trillion, in my opinion. You know, different numbers from $500 billion to a trillion or a trillion, I think it was 1.1 trillion. And frankly, if we didn’t do business, we would have been better off.”

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The President’s remarks were quickly criticized.

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U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) commented, “It’s not a good thing. Dock workers & truck drivers don’t think it’s a good thing. Businesses don’t think it’s a good thing.”

U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) wrote, “I represent the second largest container port in the U.S, I promise you it’s a bad thing.”

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MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle, who spent 14 years at top financial services companies before starting her journalism career, wrote that she had just sent the President’s comments “to every wall st source I have that supported our President.”

“Every response I got was some sort of embarrassed emoji.”

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