Trump Judicial Nominee Says Transgender Children Show ‘Satan’s Plan Is Working’

‘We’re Back to That Time Where Debauchery Rules’ Says Jeff Mateer

President Donald Trump has nominated to the federal district courts an attorney who says the existence of transgender children is evidence of the power “destruction” from “Satan’s plan.” Jeff Mateer supports harmful and dangerous conversion therapy, and warned the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell ruling will lead to “disgusting” forms of matrimony.

In May of 2015, as CNN reports, Mateer delivered a speech attacking the civil rights of transgender students.

“In Colorado, a public school has been sued because a first grader and I forget the sex, she’s a girl who thinks she’s a boy or a boy who thinks she’s a girl, it’s probably that, a boy who thinks she’s a girl,” said Mateer in the video above. At the time, Mateer was with what is now the First Liberty Institute, a Christian law firm with ties to the Trump transition team.

“And the school said, ‘Well, she’s not using the girl’s restroom.’ And so she has now sued to have a right to go in. Now, I submit to you, a parent of three children who are now young adults, a first grader really knows what their sexual identity? I mean it just really shows you how Satan’s plan is working and the destruction that’s going on.”

Mateer also warned “there’ll be no line there,” if the Supreme Court rules same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage, which it did just one month later.

“Why couldn’t four people wanna get married? Why not one man and three women? Or three women and one man? And we’re gonna spare you some of those slides. We actually have a presentation that we get into it. And I’ll tell you, we say it’s PG-13, it may be R, or what do they call the next one? NC-17 or whatever?” he told the audience.

“I mean, it’s disgusting,” Mateer said. “I’ve learned words I didn’t know. I mean, other than…my assistants here, have you ever heard the word ‘throuple’? ‘Throuple’ so that’s three people coming together of different sexes, maybe mixed sexes. Them coming together. There are people who marry themselves. Somebody wanted to marry a tree. People marrying their pets. It’s just like — you know, you read the New Testament and you read about all the things and you think, ‘Oh, that’s not going on in our community.’ Oh yes it is. We’re back to that time where debauchery rules.”

CNN adds that just a few months later, in November of 2015, Mateer lamented that LGBT civil rights supporters were “invading” the legislatures, and denounced states that were starting to ban harmful conversion, or “reparative” therapy. Every major medical organization has stated conversion therapy does not accomplish its goal of turning gay people straight, it is harmful. It has also been linked to suicide.

“Biblical counselors and therapists, we’ve seen cases in New Jersey and in California where folks have gotten in trouble because they gave biblical counseling and, you know, the issue is always, it’s same sex,” Mateer said. “And if you’re giving conversion therapy, that’s been outlawed in at least two states and then in some local areas. So they’re invading that area.”

Mateer last year was hired by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Earlier this month Paxton issued a statement heralding Trump’s nomination of Mateer to the federal bench.

“Jeff Mateer is a principled leader—a man of character—who has done an outstanding job for the State of Texas as First Assistant Attorney General,” said Paxton.

Concerned citizens of all states should call their U.S. Senators to explain their opposition to Mateer’s nomination as a judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas: (202) 224-3121.

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