GOP candidate Vernon Jones: Civil rights don’t apply to gays as “they can change”

Vernon Jones (Photo: YouTube)

A former Democratic lawmaker turned Trump-endorsed Republican congressional candidate has come out swinging against LGBTQ rights.

Vernon Jones, 61, served in the Georgia State House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001 and from 2017 to 2021.

He switched sides to the Republican party shortly before leaving office on January 11, 2021, and announced last year he was running to become Georgia’s governor in 2022. Earlier this year, he dropped his aim of becoming Governor and announced he was running for a US House seat in Georgia’s 10th district.

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On the Steve Bannon War Room podcast on Thursday, Jones dismissed comparisons between LGBTQ rights and civil rights.

“Civil rights for Blacks, and gay rights for gays, are two different things,” said Jones.

Bannon replied, “But they say it’s the same thing.”

“But it’s not the same thing,” Jones interrupted. “I don’t know what you are unless you tell me what you are, if you’re gay. But when I walk in that room, you can tell that I’m Black. I’m Black from cradle to grave, let’s not get that confused.”

“They can actually change,” he continued. “You can go from being straight, to being gay, to being transgender and all these other genders,” he said. “But when…

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