Former South Carolina GOP Executive Director, Todd Kincannon has publicly declared that some Americans should be interned in “camps.” Kincannon went on to refer to a trans person as a “goddamn he-she” and stated that trans people were “disgusting mentally ill weirdos.”
While certainly worded with cruel intent, how does Kincannon’s message of exclusion differ in substance from the stated position of the South Carolina GOP? The South Carolina Republican party is very clear about their views of LGBT people and their stated aims and goals with regard to LGBT people:
We oppose efforts to redefine the marriage unit to accommodate proponents of homosexual “marriages” and oppose any legislation that legally recognizes same-sex marriage, civil unions, or allows such couples to adopt children or provide foster care. Morally and pragmatically, the Party considers homosexuality a lifestyle detrimental to the health and well-being of individuals and therefore opposes its promotion as simply “an alternate lifestyle.” We applaud the state for prohibiting same sex marriage and adoptions, and consider such as detrimental to the peace and tranquility or our state.
We affirm the wonderful differences with which each gender is created and oppose efforts to blur or disregard the uniqueness of male and female genders. Furthermore, we affirm that one’s gender is fixed at birth and that no citizen should be entitled to special treatment or accorded any special benefits not accorded to others of the same birth gender regardless of how they have altered their anatomy or appearance. We oppose federal, state, county, or municipal laws, regulations or ordinances that require a person to be granted special rights or protections based on his or her “perceived” gender identity.
– South Carolina Republican Platform, pp 13 – 14
While the South Carolina GOP (SCGOP) won’t go as far as interning specific classes of American citizens, it clearly favors a society in which some classes of law-abiding American citizens are favored over others. It’s clear that SCGOP believes that only select groups of American citizens should have access to 14th amendment constitutional rights. In this way Kincannon and SCGOP are in agreement: full constitutional rights are the domain of cisgender heterosexual Americans only; LGBT Americans are immoral and unpragmatic in their aspirations for equality as American citizens.
HT to Papierhache!
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He’s apparently been disowned by even the worst of the establishment down there & banished from what passes for society. Look at the pathetic site he’s left to try and make ends meet from – http://www.thekincannonfirm.com/todd
It looks like something your kid brother cobbled together for you back in 1995. It must have the high rollers knocking down his door. Hence, so much time to indulge the “angels of his better nature” on twitter all day long. Sorry – he probably hates a Lincoln reference.
It’s hard to imagine someone would want to trust their campaign work to someone who can’t keep his mouth shut, isn’t it? But – stranger things have happened. He apparently convinced some woman to marry him.
I hear he and Lindsay Graham are just “good friends”.