Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has suggested that he would nominate an anti-gay judge from Alabama to fill the vacant spot on the US Supreme Court.
Trump suggested judge William H. Pryor Jr would be a great replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia who passed away in February.
A report from People for the American Way has highlighted Pryor’s previous comments arguing that LGBT people should be prosecuted for private sexual activity.
In 2003 Pryor argued in a legal brief that Texas should be able to maintain its laws against sodomy.
“[There is] no fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy just because it is done behind closed doors.
“Homosexual sodomy has not historically been recognized in this country as a right — to the contrary, it has historically been recognized as a wrong — it is not a fundamental right.”
In his paper Pryor argued that homosexual anal intercourse was more dangerous than heterosexual anal intercourse.
“Texas is hardly alone in concluding that homosexual sodomy may have severe physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual consequences, which do not necessarily attend heterosexual sodomy, and from which Texas’s citizens need to be protected.” Pryor argued in 2003.
Prior is currently a judge on the United State Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit and a Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission. He was previously the Attorney General for Alabama between 1997 and 2004.
Pryor is just one of a list of potential nominees suggested by Trump.
The comments in the Texas case aren’t the only issue regarding Judge Bill Pryor that have been raised. There have also been accusations that the judge appeared in a photo shoot featured on well known gay porn site Bad Pupppy.
It has been alleged that the judge took part in the nude photo shoot when he was in college. The judge has denied he is the person in photograph.
OIP Staff
