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[bionic77]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeff-sessions-addresses-anti-lgbt-hate-group-doj/story?id=48593488

Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a speech to an alleged hate group at an event closed to reporters on Tuesday night, but the Department of Justice is refusing to reveal what he said.

Sessions addressed members of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was designated an “anti-LGBT hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2016, at the Summit on Religious Liberty at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, in Dana Point, California.

The event promised to “bring together prominent legal advocates, scholars, cultural commentators, business executives and church leaders to examine the current state of religious freedom” and “develop legal and cultural strategies to allow freedom to flourish in the United States and around the world.”

Damn my country keeps on doing the most evil things possible.

Is that the official agenda of the Republicans these days?

 

[HStallion]

Its like Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions are in a race to see who can be the worst fucking head of their department.

 

[WiiredShawn]

The freedom to flourish...



... as long as you're straight, and preferably, white.


Sounds like Jeff Sessions, all right.

 

[Slayven]

Must have left the dogwhistles at home

 

[cameron]

A spokesperson for the Department of Justice confirmed that Sessions addressed the Alliance Defending Freedom on Tuesday but did not respond to multiple requests to release his remarks. The Department of Justice released a transcript of remarks he delivered in Dallas earlier on Tuesday and a transcript of remarks he delivered in Las Vegas on Wednesday, but a transcript of his address to the Alliance Defending Freedom has yet to be released.

Tremendous transparency.

 

[RoyaleDuke]

Must have left the dogwhistles at home

Who needs whistles when you have a standing militia, undying support of dangerous idiots, and control of the white house?

You don't need anything.

 

[Geist-]

Where's the leaks?

 

[norm9]

Terrible that they're getting oppressed and need to form an alliance.

 

[Impeccable]

Pence was busy?

 

[NandoGip]

The freedom to flourish...



... as long as you're straight, and preferably, white.


Sounds like Jeff Sessions, all right.

Also man

Straight white man

 

[Bronx-Man]

Terrible that they're getting oppressed and need to form an alliance.

 

[UberTag]

Damn my country keeps on doing the most evil things possible.

Is that the official agenda of the Republicans these days?

It's not like they know how NOT to be evil. That would be like asking a leopard to change its spots.

So yeah, that's their official agenda because all of the non-evil Republicans have decided to just furrow their brows and look upset while doing nothing.
They have a lot in common with your police departments. They're either evil or they're complicit to evil by enabling it.

Incidentally, incidents like this would lend credence to well-intentioned folks to go undercover and infiltrate hate groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom so they can expose folks like Sessions when they address them and don't tell anyone about it.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

They need to stop framing everything they don't like around RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.

 

[kirblar]

They need to stop framing everything they don't like around RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.

That's how they frame it to make a legitimate-sounding argument to disguise what they actually want.

 

[Fenderputty]

Tremendous transparency.

It's not like his bigotry isn't known. Why shy away from something a religious bigoted person should be proud of?

 

[Host Samurai]

We need some Jeff Sessions oppo dropped.

 

[sturgboski]

It's funny because religious freedom comes after the right to life liberty and pursuit of happiness. Same with the right to bear arms but apparently we need to live with it thanks to that fuck Scalia rewriting what that amendment meant.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

We need some Jeff Sessions oppo dropped.

Don't hold your breath, im still waiting for the mythodic OPPO to drop that was theorized during the last week of the campaign, that would have saved us from this bullshit.

 

[Lazy vs Crazy]

To be fair he probably just doesn't recall what he said to them.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Jeff Sessions is human trash. It is known.

 

[Mahonay]

God I hope someone reveals what this piece of shit said.

 

[Mr. X]

How long until they sue the DoJ to reveal it?

 

[Ithil]

Of course they have the old favourite buzzword "freedom" in their name.

 

[Kusagari]

It's not like his bigotry isn't known. Why shy away from something a religious bigoted person should be proud of?

This group literally wants to recriminalize homosexuality.

Who the hell knows what Sessions might have said. I'm sure it's a lot worse than just pledging to combat gay marriage.

 

[ElectricKaibutsu]

I have a feeling the word "freedom" will have a completely different meaning in 100 years.

 

[OrlanisWorks]

”We at ADF condemn all such manifestations of true hate," the post reads. ”They have no place in our society."

Right, right...

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alliance Defending Freedom is a legal advocacy group founded in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1994 that ”specializes in supporting the recriminalization of homosexuality abroad, ending same-sex marriage and generally making life as difficult as possible for LGBT communities in the U.S. and internationally."

Right, right, right....

Sessions is scum.

 

[diunxx]

LGBT for trump

 

[Aselith]

I'm sure the repubs will be up in arms about this since they are very concerned about secret speeches

 

[Jazz573]

Thanks for once again showing how much of a piece of shit the GOP is, Sessions.

 

[Korigama]

The event promised to “bring together prominent legal advocates, scholars, cultural commentators, business executives and church leaders to examine the current state of religious freedom” and “develop legal and cultural strategies to allow freedom to flourish in the United States and around the world.”

Simply reading this tripe makes it difficult to fight the urge to vomit.

 

[skullmuffins]

Don't hold your breath, im still waiting for the mythodic OPPO to drop that was theorized during the last week of the campaign, that would have saved us from this bullshit.

that was the steele dossier. it was floating around for a while but nobody had the balls to publish it until after the election.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

LGBT for trump

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

Wut

 

[Poor GRIMES]

 

[bionic77]

This group literally wants to recriminalize homosexuality.

Who the hell knows what Sessions might have said. I'm sure it's a lot worse than just pledging to combat gay marriage.

He was probably meeting with them to talk them out of it.

 

[RumbleHumble]

So I don't know much about FOIA, but could we FOIA this info seeing as Sessions is a government actor?

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

I have a feeling the word "freedom" will have a completely different meaning in 100 years.

Nah, same meaning it has now. White male christian = true freedom.

Everything else is below.

 

[tekumseh]

So, I just filed a freedom of information act request for a transcript of the speech. If you live in the U.S., you should do the same at FOIA.gov.

Fuck that miserable bastard...

 

[QuantumZebra]

Summarizing his address here:

"Keep doing God's work gentlemen"

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

Can someone please explain how any Christian's religious freedom is in jeopardy/lessened/taken away/etc?

If anything they get away with far too much. Such as mixing church and state.

 

[FTF]

Fuck that piece of shit. I hope whatever vile thing he said gets leaked.

 

[fuzzyset]

Few things get my blood pressure up like the phrase "religious freedom" in the context of white Christian Americans.

 

[greatgeek]

Can someone please explain how any Christian's religious freedom is in jeopardy/lessened/taken away/etc?

If anything they get away with far too much. Such as mixing church and state.

The Constitution/civil rights law denies them the freedom to legislate against "immoral" behavior.

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

US trying to catch up to Turkey in the shit cunt department.

 

[More_Badass]

Can someone please explain how any Christian's religious freedom is in jeopardy/lessened/taken away/etc?

If anything they get away with far too much. Such as mixing church and state.

Not having the freedom to discriminate against LGBT means their religious freedoms are being taken away

The Constitution/civil rights law denies them the freedom to legislate against "immoral" behavior.

I learned about Anthony Comstock a few months ago. Scary stuff, you just know they'll love to go back to those times

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Must have left the dogwhistles at home

Heard the dress code was all white too

 

[Angelus Errare]

Must have left the dogwhistles at home

Don't need dogwhistles when you have control of everything, a large group of supporters, and an even larger group of folks who are indifferent to it all.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Please let this leak.

 

[Host Samurai]

This old fossil needs to fuck off and rot in a prison cell. Evil Elf is my most hated creature in this despicable administration.