Amy Coney Barrett was a trustee at a school that bans LGBTQ people, because of course she was

Amy Coney Barrett at her 2017 confirmation hearings for a federal judgeship.
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett – who was nominated by Donald Trump to the Supreme Court – was a trustee at a school that bans LGBTQ students, parents, and staff, according to a new AP report.

Gay people who know her said that they are “terrified” and “petrified” by the possibility that she will get confirmed to the Supreme Court.

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Barrett was on the board of trustees for Trinity Schools Inc. from 2015 to 2017, which operates three schools in Indiana, Minnesota, and Virginia as a part of the extreme, oath-based religious community “People of Praise.” Not only do the schools’ official documents explicitly attack LGBTQ people, but former students and employees also say that the schools teach that “homosexuality is an abomination against God.”

Tom Henry was a senior at the Trinity School in Minnesota in 2017 and he was a “student ambassador” for prospective students. He was asked by a lesbian parent if the school would accept her child.

Henry said that he went to then principal Jon Balsbaugh and asked.

“He looked me right in the eye and said, the next time that happens, you tell them they would not be welcome here,” Henry told the AP. “And he said to me that trans families, gay families, gay students, trans students would not feel welcome at Trinity Schools. And then he said, ‘Do we understand each other?’ And I said, yes. And I left. And then I quit the student ambassadors that day.”

Balsbaugh said he doesn’t remember the conversation the same way but did not explain further.

Barrett was a professor at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana when she became a trustee for the schools – one of the schools is located in South Bend.

The parent handbook for the South Bend school says that marriage is “a legal and committed relationship between a man and a woman” and that same-sex love as well as straight sex outside of marriage “is not in keeping with God’s plan for human sexuality.”

But the handbook doesn’t stop with a statement about marriage; it appears to encourage conversion therapy…

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