{"id":505913,"date":"2016-12-02T16:53:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/david-clarke\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:50","slug":"david-clarke","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/david-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"David Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Said<\/a> transgender people \u201csuffer from mental disorders\u201d and are \u201cfreakish\u201d: \u201cFolks, more evidence that transgender persons suffer from mental disorders more than physiological disorders…. Too often in this assault on the First Amendment, and this very totalitarian attitude from the left that any freakish lifestyle, any marginal lifestyle, is now considered part of the norm, and they\u2019re shoving it down our throats. So if you\u2019re not careful when you engage in this conversation, they\u2019ll look for the trap, and they\u2019ll catch you saying something that\u2019s clumsy or not well articulated, and then they\u2019ll just attack you\u2014they\u2019ll attack you with it. \u2018Transgender phobic\u2019 and all this other nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Tweeted<\/a> that a supportive mother of a transgender elementary school student is guilty of \u201cchild abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Insisted<\/a>: \u201cThere is no constitutional \u2018right\u2019 to marry. It is a \u2018state\u2019 sanctioned ritual based on ordering our society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014When Indiana Republicans compromised on a so-called \u201creligious freedom\u201d bill to make it clear that the law could not be used to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, Clarke tweeted<\/a> that these lawmakers \u201care selling true conservatives into PC slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Tweeting<\/a> in response to the 2015 Supreme Court marriage ruling, said he was \u201cborn to kick liberal ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Mocked<\/a> the idea that transgender people should have a right to use the bathroom: \u201cHow did America go from a nation that figured out how to get a man on the moon to one with people confused about what public bathroom to use.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> President Obama has started a \u201crace war.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> \u201cPlanned Genocide\u201d is the mission of Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a>: \u201cLet me tell you why blacks sell drugs and involve themselves in criminal behavior, instead of a more socially acceptable lifestyle: because they\u2019re uneducated, they\u2019re lazy, and they\u2019re morally bankrupt. That\u2019s why.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Insisted<\/a> \u201cBlack Lies Matter will join forces with ISIS to being [sic<\/em>] down our legal constituted republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Suggested<\/a> that the president should suspend habeas corpus and send people to Guantanamo Bay without due process: \u201cI suggest that our commander in chief ought to utilize Article I, Section 9 and take all of these individuals that are suspected, these ones on the internet spewing jihadi rhetoric…to scoop them up, charge them with treason and, under habeas corpus, detain them indefinitely at Gitmo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> it is \u201cpitchfork & torches time in America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":343,"featured_media":505914,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[],"hashtag":[138636,138632],"class_list":{"0":"post-505913","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"hashtag-anti-transgender","8":"hashtag-politics"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t