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a judicial President Donald Trump’s candidates Admitted that he had given a sermon in which he said marriage was not for people with disabilities.
Justin R. Nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana Olson was questioned at a hearing on Wednesday. By the Senate Judiciary Committee.
And this is where the toughest line of questioning came from Trump’s own party.
Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana questioned Olson about a sermon he delivered in 2015 when he was an ordained elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America.
“During that sermon, you said that marriage is not for all people, including, and I’m going to quote your words, ‘our disabled friends or physically disabled people who can prevent the strong marriage that we are called to have,'” Kennedy said.
“Did you say that?” the senator asked Olson.
“I think I did, Senator, yes,” Olson replied.
“You believe that people with disabilities and physical disabilities should not marry?” Kennedy asked.
Olson said “no”, and said he was talking about why some people don’t get married, “not as a reason why someone shouldn’t get married.”
Kennedy then pressed Olson over a speech he gave at a church in 2022, in which he said that “transgenderism, homosexuality, adultery and all forms of sexual perversion” are a form of hypocrisy that comes from “shame from within.”
Olson responded that he “could not remember the exact words” but acknowledged that it sounded “familiar”. He said he would put aside his personal beliefs if confirmed.
GOP senators also asked Olson about another church speech she gave in 2015 in which she said God has “called wives to submit to their husbands” and “serve your husbands for their good and support their calling.”
“You believe that Christian marriage provides that women are to be submissive to their husbands?” Kennedy asked.
Olson said he was describing “our church’s understanding of what a Christian marriage should look like.” He said he was quoting the Bible, and added: “I believe every word of the Bible.”
Trump last month tapped Olson, an attorney at Kroger Gardis & Regas. The president said in his announcement that Olson “has been working tirelessly to keep men away from women’s sports”.
Olson, along with other attorneys, is representing former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Goins and other current and former college athletes in a lawsuit challenging the now-rescinded National Collegiate Athletic Association policies that allowed transgender women to compete in women’s sports as long as they meet testosterone limits on a sport-by-sport basis.
Reuters contributed reporting.