Georgia-backed candidate for Congress, Vernon Jones, said Thursday that civil rights do not apply to the gay community because he insisted that gays “can really change” to become gay.
And if they do, they also obviously don’t need civil rights protection, Jones said.
“Civil rights for blacks and gay rights for gays are two different things,” Jones told former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in his War Room podcast.
“I don’t know who you are unless you tell me what you are like if you are gay. When I enter this room, you can say that I am Black. “I’m black from the cradle to the grave,” Joan said. “Let’s not get so confused.”
He added: “They can actually change. You know you can go from gay to transsexual and all those other genders. When you’re black, I have no choice … When did gays come here [slave] ships? ”
Jones also tried to drive a wedge between gay rights activists and anti-racists with a tweet.
Jones has hit several hurdles in his campaign.
Former Chamber of Speakers Newt Gingrich released a video supporting Jones earlier this week, then released hours later and released a video supporting his Republican rival Mike Collins, CNN reported. Gingrich’s team blamed “junior staff” for the confusion, but Gingrich apparently spoke of the controversial videos.
Jones and Collins are vying for an open house against a large number of Republican candidates.
Jones, now a Republican, was a keynote speaker at the National Congress of Republicans in 2020 and boasted of his support for Trump in the presidential election. But he voted Democrat in the primary, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last month. He was also a representative of the democratic state in Georgia.
In a video of approval, Trump called Jones “America’s first fighter who will never give in to the establishment or the radical left.”
Jones’ comments about Bannon’s podcast and his tweet drove critics on Twitter crazy.