Wants Lawmakers Removed From Office for ‘Advancing a Threat to Democracy’
A Christian attorney is suing four congressional Democrats because they have LGBT Pride flags displayed outside their Capitol Hill offices. Chris Sevier, in a federal lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., claims being gay is a “religion,” and the flags are symbols of “homosexual denomination.†He is asking the court to force lawmakers to remove the flags and for $1 in damages, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
But that’s not all.
“Sevier also asked the court to overturn Supreme Court rulings that ended a prohibition against sodomy and federal policies that only recognized opposite-sex marriages, as well as Obergefell V. Hodges, the 2015 ruling that found that same-sex couples have a fundamental right to marry,” the Union-Tribune adds.
Citing national security, he’s also asking that all four Democratic lawmakers be removed from office.
“The Defendants know or should know that they are advancing a threat to Democracy…to the point that they are unfit to hold office and should be removed for cause for representing an internalized danger to National Security interests.â€
If the name Chris Sevier sounds familiar, it should. Last year he sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the Harris County District Clerk, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for not letting him marry his 2011 Macbook. The Houston Chronicle at the time reported Sevier “insists he is not being silly or satirical in his quest. He said he believes ‘the Constitution is being hijacked’ by giving same-sex couples the right to marry.”
This is not Sevier’s first ridiculous lawsuit, as NCRM reported last year. He’s filed similar lawsuits in other states, and in 2014 even tried to sue Apple for because they allowed his computer to access porn, then sued Florida for not allowing him to marry that laptop which he says he loves.
The four Democratic lawmakers he’s currently targeting in his new lawsuit are Rep. Susan Davis (CA), Rep. Alan Lowenthal (CA), Rep. Don Beyer (VA), and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (OR).
Rep. Davis “said the flag outside her office isn’t going anywhere and that the legal action only encourages her to double-down on her support for equal rights for members of the LGBTQ community.”
Rep. Blumenauer told Willamette Week in a statement, “I fly this flag because I want everyone—no matter their gender, sexual orientation, race, immigration status—to feel safe and welcome in my office.”Â
“Sadly, we’ve seen a rise in hateful rhetoric since the election of Donald Trump,” Blumenauer said. “It is more important than ever that we stand up to bigotry and hate of any kind. Nothing is going to stop me from fighting for equality, justice, and peace.”
Blumenauer “will continue to fly the flag in the hallway next to the American flag, the Oregon flag, and an ‘In Our America‘Â flag made by a local Portland organization called Nasty Women Get Shit Done.”
Hat tip: Joe.My.God.
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