Donald Trump’s potential Supreme Court judge thinks gay people should be JAILED for having sex and compares it to paedophilia
William H Pryor has previously compared gay sex to "polygamy, incest, paedophilia, prostitution and adultery"
A JUDGE tipped for a top job within Donald Trump's Supreme Court believes gay people having sex should be a crime.
William H Pryor, who served as Alabama’s Attorney General in 2003, once compared gay sex to "polygamy, incest, paedophilia, prostitution, and adultery".
In a legal brief, he wrote: "This Court [the Supreme Court] has never recognised a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of monogamous heterosexual marriage, let alone to engage in homosexual sodomy.
“Such a right would be antithetical to the ‘traditional relation of the family’ that is ‘as old and as fundamental as our entire civilisation.”
But the ultra-conservative nominee believes there is no issue with straight people having anal sex.
He explained: “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.”
Kevin Cathcart, executive director of Lambda Legal, which fights for civil rights of the LGBT community, slammed Pryor's anti-LGBT and anti-abortion comments.
He dubbed the man as the "most demonstrably anti-gay judicial nominee in recent memory" and claimed he blocked a law in Florida which would have allowed same-sex couples to adopt.
Cathcart added: "It’s clear from his record that William Pryor does not belong on the federal appeals court.”
President-elect Trump has previously stated he will not appoint a judge who will try to reverse the right to same-sex marriage.
The decision for the top position is expected to take place by the spring of 2017.
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