Please don’t be distracted by the flag-burning business making “news” today.
Trump tweeted about flag-burning purely to distract people’s attention from his one of latest Cabinet nominees.
Acting very consistently, Trump has made yet another awful selection for his Cabinet: Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price for HHS Secretary.
His goals are clear: eliminate the Affordable Care Act and privatize Medicare (music to Speaker Paul Ryan’s ears — Ryan has given a ringing endorsement of Price).
Given Price’s horrible record of ignorance and an explicit desire to do harm, it is clear that this will no longer be the top paragraph on the LGBT section of the HHS.gov website (http://www.hhs.gov/programs/topic-sites/lgbt/):
“HHS works to ensure that LGBT Americans, families, and communities receive equal access to health services by providing enhanced resources for LGBT health issues; developing better information regarding LGBT health needs; and working to close the LGBT health disparities gap that currently exists.”
Price appeared on a conference call in 2013 with Rabbi Noson Leiter, who once suggested that Hurricane Sandy was divine punishment for gay marriage. Leiter asked the congressman whether he thought it prudent to consider the medical and economic impacts of legislation that promotes a “homosexual agenda.”
(By the way, I can tell you that the “homosexual agenda” consists of one item: being treated equally — like other citizens of the United States, who are human beings.)
Price said he agreed. “The consequences of activity that has been seen as outside the norm are real and must be explored completely,” he added.