Even Defended Pat Robertson’s Views on Same-Sex Marriage
Former CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany, who in the past 24 hours became both the face of “Trump TV” and the national spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, is vociferously opposed to same-sex marriage. She is also a birther. Even her boss, Donald Trump, supposedly dropped his vocal opposition to same-sex marriage (although he still opposes it, for now he’s said it’s settled law) and claims to no longer believe Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
Just two years ago, and days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage, McEnany agreed with far right wing religious zealot Pat Robertson, when he said gay people will make Americans “conform” to them.
“You’re gonna say that you like anal sex, you like oral sex, you like bestiality,” Robertson said on his “700 Club” show. “Sooner or later, you’re going to have to conform your religious beliefs to the group of some abhorrent thing. It won’t stop at homosexuality.”
That clip was played for McEnany on the Dr. Drew show, and she was asked to respond.
“I wouldn’t have chosen the same verbiage as Pat Robertson,” McEnany told Dr. Drew,, “but he’s making a point about religious liberty and how there’s going to be an infringement upon it because of what came out of the Supreme Court,” she said.
“He largely articulated the same rationale we heard from Chief Justice Roberts, and he’s exactly right.”
She went on to suggest if gay people want to marry they should go to an attorney and have legal contracts drawn up, but should not be able to marry.
McEnany also wrongly claimed Obama Solicitor General Don Verrilli told the justices “in oral arguments said some organizations might lose their tax exempt status because they don’t support same-sex marriage.”
That’s false.
Here’s the exchange between Verrilli and Scalia:
Alito: Well, in the Bob Jones case, the Court held that a college was not entitled to tax-Âexempt status if it opposed interracial marriage or interracial dating. So would the same apply to a university or a college if it opposed sameÂ-sex marriage?
Verrilli: You know, I don’t think I can answer that question without knowing more specifics, but it’s certainly going to be an issue. I don’t deny that. I don’t deny that, Justice Alito. It is – it is going to be an issue.
There’s a dramatic difference between “I don’t think I can answer that question…it is going to be an issue,” and “some organizations might lose their tax exempt status because they don’t support same-sex marriage.”
And before you consider giving her an out for being a rookie, McEnany has a law degree from Harvard.
Meanwhile, this tweet is making it way around social media today. A birther “joke,” courtesy of McEnany:
We also dug up this one:
And this one:
There are also these tweets she’s posted, which, if you look at them in the context that Trump is now president, they become pretty hypocritical, as she’s now working for him: