President Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who is set to replace John Kelly, has a history of supporting anti-LGBTQ policies that is alarming advocates.
Mulvaney has served as Director of the Office of Management Budget, and prior to that served in the South Carolina House and Senate, as well as the United States House, and has consistently stood in the way of the advancement of LGBTQ rights.
He has been an outspoken opponent of marriage equality, co-sponsoring a bill in South Carolina defining marriage as between one man and one woman; as well as another seeking to protect anti-marriage equality opinions as free speech; and yet another, the so-called First Amendment Defense Act, which would allow for a religious exemption to anti-discrimination laws.
