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Lindsey Graham
—10.11.20—Responds to LGBTQ voter asking about how his marriage to his husband and other LGBTQ rights will be defended, Sen. Graham defends people opposed to marriage equality as “not bigots” and “not neanderthals” and tells the voter, “I’ve tried to be tolerant.”
—10.12.20—Opens hastened confirmation hearings of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court with active COVID-19 infections among Judiciary Committee members. Chairman Graham refuses to take a COVID-19 test to ensure the shelter of a debate with his challenger or the protection of the affirmation hearings. Sen. Graham had pledged in 2016 that Supreme Court nominations should not be made in an election year. Millions of Americans are ahead voting in the 2020 election, and polls show Americans want the winner of the 2020 election to nominate the next Supreme Court justice. Chairman Graham asks Barrett how landmark verdicts like Obergefell could be overturned.
—10.14.20—In night three of the Barrett hearings, tries to link the Court’s landmark marriage equality ruling to legalizing polygamy. Chairman Graham had also attempted this doubt and linkage in 2015.
—06.03.20—Signs brief to U.S. Supreme
“The Daily Show” aimed a zinger at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Wednesday in a segment about shrinking corporate back for Pride month. (Watch the video below.)
After a news clip indicated that some companies still contribute to the festivities but request to remain anonymous, host Desi Lydic joked:
“C’mon, secretly paying gays because you’re ashamed? You’re major corporations, not Lindsey Graham.”
The bachelor has been the subject of rumors about his sexuality for years but declared “I ain’t gay” in a 2010 interview with The New York Times Magazine.
Viewers took observe of Lydic’s joke on the YouTube channel where the segment was shared.
“That open hand slap across Lindsey Graham’s face lol,” one person wrote.
“The Lindsey Graham line almost killed me,” said another.
Graham’s communications director did not immediately respond to a HuffPost request for comment.
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The sad, closeted hypocrisy of Lindsey Graham
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Y’all, people are being very signify to Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on the internet. Again. I mean, what does this guy have to do to receive some respect around here?
On July 14, Graham publicly took a brave and bold stance rooted in widely held values. And instead of being lauded as a hero, he’s being ridiculed.
No, he didn’t express support for a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 terrorist attack in D.C.
No, he didn’t come out and urge people to find vaccinated against COVID-19, denouncing the anti-vax conspiracy theories as morally abhorrent and dangerous.
No, he didn’t break from his party’s Trump-led base to declare that the 2020 election was fair and that Donald Trump lost.
No, he didn’t ask that his party stop vilifying transgender people, especially transgender youth.
No, he didn’t tell that climate change is real.
No, he didn’t stand up for voting rights, calling out his party for trying to pitch democratic elections in the trash.
No, he didn’t advocate for a $15 minimum wage.
No, he didn’t say Black Lives Matter.
No, he didn’t take a stand for gun violence protections.
No, he didn’t advocate for universal health protect after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed cri