Sunday, July 11, 2021

Anti-LGBTQ hate group leader caught trying to help overturn 2020 election

Michael Farris could talk for a long time about how God supposedly opposes homosexuality. But I bet he's silent on where God stands on his attempts to help overturn last year's presidential election.


I caught this item from LGBTQNation:

As the head of the hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), Michael Farris spends most of his time fighting LGBTQ rights. The ADF has been at the forefront of legal battles aiming to diminish LGBTQ protections by mandating religious liberty exemptions that would skirt nondiscrimination laws. But Farris has been expanding his repertoire lately.

 A recent report from Talking Points Memo (TPM) finds that Farris was advising the attorney general of South Carolina in November and December 2020 on how they could try and invalidate Joe Biden’s election.

According to the article, Farris was one of several right-wing lawyers attempting to overturn the election. The article also said:

Farris offered his legal expertise to state Attorney General Alan Wilson (R) while Wilson was pondering how he could challenge the national results. For the record, Donald Trump carried South Carolina by about 12 percentage points. The strategy at the time was for Republican-led states to challenge the results in states that Trump lost, an unheard of — and ultimately unsuccessful — approach. Farris sent Wilson a brief, and the attorney general followed up with a conversation with Farris. “Mike was very accommodating and knowledgeable about the legal issues raised in the pleading,” Wilson wrote in an email obtained by TPM. 

 Ultimately, SC joined the ridiculous and unsuccessful attempt by Texas to get SCOTUS involved.

ADF has been an anti-LGBTQ juggernaut, responsible for just about every recent attempt to undermine LGBTQ rights and health from bathroom bills to "religious freedom" to discriminate bills, to the recent attacks on trans youth athletes and adequate healthcare for trans youth.

Farris himself has been very outspoken against LGBTQ rights, from describing marriage equality as an "infection" to publicly defending laws outlawing gay sexual behavior.

Farris consistently brings up God when condemning LGBTQ people and our rights.  Strangely enough, he has been silent on where God stands about overturning a fair and safe election.

How convenient.