Gay CDC official’s ‘lifestyle’ disqualified him from authorities

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday mentioned a homosexual chief on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who resigned final week in protest of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had “no business being in government” because of the “lifestyle” he led.

Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, was among the many 4 CDC leaders who resigned final week, saying of their resignations that the adjustments underneath Kennedy have been stopping them from finishing up the company’s public well being mission.

“One of the guys that is the biggest proponent of doing all this is the guy who describes the risky behavior that he and his lifestyle involve,” Paul mentioned when requested concerning the exodus in CDC management Tuesday night, referring to Daskalakis.

Paul was discussing his opposition to toddler vaccinations in opposition to hepatitis B when requested.

“A guy that is so far … out of the mainstream, I think most people in America would discount his opinion because of the things he said in the past. He does not represent the mainstream of anything in America,” Paul continued.

“He should have never had a position in government. And he brags about his lifestyle, you know, this whole idea of bondage and, you know, multiple partners and all that stuff. He brags about that stuff, but he’s got no business being in government. It’s good riddance.”

GOP Rep. Buddy Carter (Ga.) has additionally criticized Daskalakis for his private life, calling him a “BDSM Satan worshipper” on CNN on Sunday.

Since resigning, Daskalakis has forcefully spoken out in opposition to Kennedy within the media, saying in an interview Sunday that he can “only see harm coming” from the secretary’s insurance policies. He has particularly criticized actions by the Health and Human Services Department that restrict entry to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

In 2021, Daskalakis posed for the duvet of Plus Magazine carrying a leather-based harness, an article of clothes standard amongst homosexual males and tied to the homosexual leather-based and BDSM communities. The cowl and different posts Daskalakis made on social media have come underneath scrutiny in conservative media since his resignation.

Daskalakis got here to wider public recognition when he led the CDC’s response to the 2022 mpox outbreak that primarily affected the social networks of males who’ve intercourse with males.

Other former CDC administrators additionally got here out in opposition to Kennedy in a New York Times op-ed printed Monday

“What Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has done to the C.D.C. and to our nation’s public health system over the past several months — culminating in his decision to fire Dr. Susan Monarez as C.D.C. director days ago — is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced,” they wrote.

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