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Behind the Aegis

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Mon Feb 25, 2019, 04:58 AM Feb 2019

Meet the rabidly anti-gay HHS official behind Trump's plan to defund Planned Parenthood

The Department of Health and Human Services may be the worst in the Trump administration (though it’s hard to choose when the pickings are so awfully plentiful). It’s certainly the most anti-LGBTQ, which is saying a lot. The department is run by an evangelical cabal that has made implementing the religious right’s agenda its top priority.

The latest example is the department’s move to ban Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds for family planning counseling. Instead, the department will steer funding toward anti-abortion and religious organizations.

It comes as no surprise that the man behind the move is not only a staunch anti-abortion activist but was once convicted for his part in an anti-gay protest. He also served as a lawyer at a leading anti-LGBTQ legal group.

Matthew Bowman started demonstrating outside abortion clinics more than 20 years ago while still a college student. He has a record of obnoxious disregard for peaceful protest, preferring in-your-face tactics, even with police.

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What a disgusting POS, but par for the course for this (mis)administration. Of course, I am sure there are those who will crow how he is really a secret homo because as we all know, homophobes can't be heterosexual.

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Meet the rabidly anti-gay HHS official behind Trump's plan to defund Planned Parenthood (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Feb 2019 OP
K&R and no, he ain't secretly gay... ck4829 Feb 2019 #1
K&R gademocrat7 Feb 2019 #2

ck4829

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1. K&R and no, he ain't secretly gay...
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 07:23 AM
Feb 2019

He's of the ultra right wing morality, which says that a heterosexual sex offender is still somehow morally superior to a law abiding GLBTQ person.

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