Homosexual CDC official should not have had place resulting from ‘way of life’

Republican senator Rand Paul has mentioned a former Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official had “no business being in government” resulting from his “lifestyle.”

The notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ Kentuckian remarked that he believed former CDC director, Demetre Daskalakis, was unfit for the place over what he described as his “risky” way of life.

Daskalakis resigned because the CDC’s director for the Centre of Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases, alongside a number of different CDC officers, earlier this week over issues concerning well being secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s decision-making.

Asked concerning the resignations on Tuesday (2 September), Sen. Paul mentioned: “One of the blokes that’s the greatest proponent of doing all that is the man who describes the dangerous behaviour that he and his way of life contain.

“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,” he went on.

“He should have never had a position in government. 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.”

According to The Hill, Daskalakis posed for the duvet of Plus Magazine sporting a leather-based harness underneath a pinstripe swimsuit in 2021. In 2020, he issued advice for these partaking in group-sex acts in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, recommending to “limit the size of your guest list.”

Following his resignation, Daskalakis spoke out in opposition to RFK jr, saying he may “only see harm coming” from the well being secretary’s insurance policies.

“I may be wrong. But … based on what I’ve heard with the new members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, or ACIP, they’re really moving in an ideologic direction where they want to see the undoing of vaccination. They do want to see the undoing of mRNA vaccination,” he instructed ABC final week.

Among lots of Kennedy’s controversial choices was the closure of an LGBTQ+ youth suicide lifeline underneath orders from president Donald Trump.

The LGBTQ+ Youth Specialised Service hotline, often known as the ‘Press 3 Option’, was closed in July. The Trevor Project, which helped to create the service, mentioned they have been “devastated and heartbroken” over its closure.