Republican congressional candidate Vernon Jones has argued that LGBT rights shouldn't be in contrast with civil rights for Black folks, saying being homosexual was a alternative.
In February, the previous president Donald Trump endorsed Jones within the race for Georgia's tenth congressional district solely days after he exited the race for governor within the Peach State.
In an interview on Friday with former Trump aide, Steve Bannon, Jones mentioned that "civil rights for Blacks, and homosexual rights for gays, are two various things."
After Bannon responded, "they are saying it is the identical factor," Jones interrupted with "but it surely's not the identical factor."
"I do not know what you're until you inform me what you're, in the event you're homosexual," Jones informed the Struggle Room podcast. "However after I stroll in that room, you'll be able to inform that I am Black. I am Black from cradle to grave, let's not get that confused."
"They'll really change," Jones mentioned in a remark that might put him at odds with LGBT advocates who've mentioned that sexual orientation is what you're born with and never a alternative.
"You'll be able to go from being straight, to being homosexual, to being transgender and all these different genders," he mentioned. "However if you Black, I haven't got a alternative."
"When did gays come over in ships?" he added, referring to the slave commerce.
Jones is famend for making headline-grabbing statements. In February, he mentioned that if elected to the Home of Representatives, he would introduce articles of impeachment in opposition to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on his first day in Congress for a "betrayal of public belief."
"Then I am going to forged my vote for President Trump to be Speaker and invite my colleagues to hitch me," he mentioned.
Jones was a Democratic state consultant who served a number of phrases within the Georgia Home earlier than proclaiming himself a Republican in January 2021 as his final time period expired.
Whereas nonetheless a Democrat, he endorsed Trump forward of the 2020 election earlier than the previous president returned the favor to Jones.
Earlier than quitting the governor's race, Jones constructed his Georgia gubernatorial marketing campaign round Trump's falsehoods that the state's election was stolen and promised one other audit of the 2020 presidential poll.
On February 8, he tweeted: "Hell, they even name me the Black Donald Trump!" Within the race for the U.S. Home, he faces greater than 10 Republicans within the congressional district which incorporates city and rural areas between Atlanta and Augusta.
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