Article 6CGRB Republican executive blogged about ‘conversion therapy’ for extremist group

Republican executive blogged about ‘conversion therapy’ for extremist group

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Jason Wilson
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Mark Trammell wrote posts in 2013 and 2014 for Liberty Counsel, a far-right group on a crusade to strip LGBTQ people of their rights'

The executive director of a Republican-linked nonprofit wrote blog posts for an extremist organization in which he advocated so-called conversion therapy", the supremacy of biblical rules on marriage over man-made law", and expressed a general theocratic view that divine law as interpreted by US evangelical Christians trumps secular law.

The since-deleted posts by Mark Trammell - now executive director of the self-styled civil rights group Center for American Liberty (CAL) - were written for Liberty Counsel, dubbed an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its work to ensure that Christians can continue to engage in anti-LGBT discrimination in places of business under the guise of religious liberty'".

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