Here is another example of Congress grandstanding.
And this Senator wants to be your next President.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Thursday made news after repeatedly demanding to know
CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s views on gay sex at his confirmation hearing to become
Secretary of State.
Booker cited a speech Pompeo gave as a congressman in 2015 at a church, in which he
quoted words a pastor had once delivered before the Kansas State Legislature.
“America had worshipped other Gods and called it multiculturalism. We’d endorsed
perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle,” Pompeo had said.
Booker then repeatedly asked Pompeo: “Is being gay a perversion?”
“You believe gay sex is a perversion, yes or no?” Booker demanded, and Pompeo tried
to answer. “Yes or no, do you believe that gay sex is a perversion? … Yes or no, do
you believe gay sex is a perversion?”
Pompeo said he was going to give him the same answer. “My respect for every individual
regardless of their sexual orientation is the same,” he said.
On a side note the Huffington Post published a story in 2013 that seemed to question
Booker’s sexual orientation, citing an interview he gave to the Washington Post.
“This isn’t the first time ‘gay’ and Booker’s name have appeared in the same sentence,”
