Mick Mulvaney

—Claims, at the US Department of State’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, that the Obama administration’s efforts to enact foreign policy that discourages homophobia was “religious persecution.”

—Co-sponsored South Carolina’s marriage ban.

—Joined a letter calling on the Obama administration to enforce the discriminatory, so-called Defense of Marriage Act.

—Added his name to a letter questioning the Obama Administration’s transgender guidance.

—Indicated on a 2010 Christian Coalition survey that he is a supporter of a “Federal Marriage Amendment to prevent same sex marriage”

—His 2008 state senate race featured a robocall, purporting to be from a made-up group called the Alliance for the Advancement of Gays and Lesbians, which gay-baited his opponent for her support of “homosexual unions and abortion rights.” (Mulvaney later distanced himself from the call.)

—Co-sponsor of the so-called First Amendment Defense Act, designed to allow anti-LGBTQ people to discriminate for religious reasons without any recourse.