Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz stepped into a bit of hot water when she appeared to defend the treatment of LGBTQ people by the terrorist organization Hamas by literally comparing them to states like Texas.
Lorenz issued her bizarre statement of moral equivalency during an interview with former CNN anchor Don Lemon this weekend.
“Taylor, how do you reconcile the way marginalized groups fighting for what’s happening in Gaza, yet in Gaza, they would not have any freedom,” Don Lemon pointedly asked Lorenz.
“They don’t have any freedoms in Texas and Florida,” Lorenz shot back.
Don Lemon immediately corrected her by noting that people in Texas and Florida do not throw LGBTQ Americans from the rooftops of buildings.
“Taylor I’m a member of the LGBTQ community, if I go to Texas they’re not going to throw me off a roof,” he said.
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