Craig Northcott is the District Attorney for Coffee County, Tennessee. He’s also a raging homophobe who was just cleared by the Board of Professional Responsibility after a two year ethics investigation into some truly vile remarks he made about gay people.
The self-proclaimed “good Christian man” first made headlines a couple of years ago when he said he didn’t believe domestic violence laws should apply to LGBTQ people.
More specifically, he said domestic violence laws exist “to recognize and protect the sanctity of marriage” but with same-sex couples “there’s no marriage to protect, so I don’t prosecute them as domestics.”
The remarks sparked a huge backlash, resulting in 330 lawyers sending a letter to the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility calling for Northcott’s law license to be suspended.
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But after a two year investigation, the disciplinary counsel for the Board of Professional Responsibility have determined that his comments about LGBTQ people are totally fine and they’re not going to do anything about it.
In a statement issued Friday, Northcott gleefully said that “there is no legal and/or factual basis to find that I violated a single Rule of Professional Conduct” and called the whole investigation an “attack” against his Christian beliefs.
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Posted by Craig Northcott on Friday, July 9, 2021
“It was alleged that I am unfit to serve as District Attorney and to remain an attorney in Tennessee because I taught the Word of God regarding homosexuality,” Northcott wrote.
“Amazingly, this simple exercising of my God-given, constitutionally protected rights so upset certain groups of people that I made local, national, and international news and had to fight their efforts to have me disbarred for the last two years.”
Northcott went on to urge his “Christian brethren” to “stand firm” against “the growing assault against us in this Country.”
UPDATE: D.A. Craig Northcott, who refuses to recognize marriage equality despite the SCOTUS ruling and called Muslims “evil”, had the Board of Professional Responsibility complaint against him dismissed, credits God for it.
Why did this take so long? And not even a censure? ? pic.twitter.com/wW6VXLcfoz
— Coffee Holler (@CoffeeHoller) July 10, 2021
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BoylesqueBubble
What a piece of sh*t!
blackhook
Why do all the Southern homophobe haters look like big fat walruses? Sad!
BoomerMyles
Sounds like a candidate for Gilead.
This is the type of person Margaret Atwood warned us about.
Hdtex
Yea shall know them by their no-necks!
rbernard
Ordinarily, an unfit guy like Craig Northcott would be unelectable for public service and he only exists in his capacity because of an anomaly of low information voters and the especially superstitious venue he represents.
Kangol2
Actually, the voters in his county have all the information they need. Coffee County, Tennessee is a far-right Republican stronghold and mainly known for its 100+ year old farms (Century Farms), and as a county in which Black people were periodically lynched from Reconstruction into the early 20th century. This homophobic goober fits right in.
Sanjo
This is the guy who will be caught by his wife and the press having sex inn a local motel with a rent boy (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
connorlarkin19
In fact that was Rep Ralph Shorter (R, OK)friend of DJRJr, who was caught with an underage 17 yo boy in Motel in Oklahoma. It happens all over Baptist and Holy Roller USA
Prax07
Was just going to say watch he’ll be caught getting rammed up his arse by his church’s pastor but y’all beat me to it.
scotty
those that protest the loudest, are usually found way back deep in the closet.
wwjd? he would smite you. if he were real i mean.
Mehki
Exactly, they certainly spend a inordinate amount of time wondering about what grown a* consenting adults are doing with their private parts.
An UNSEEMLY amount of time.
Makes you wonder why.
Mr. Stadnick
I am beginning to think there is no such thing as “a good Christian man”.
unreligious
Two thousand years of history should show you that they are nonexistent.
Mack
One of many reasons why I don’t visit my home state of Tennessee. i got out of there because of all the racism and bigotry. And last year I unfriended the family I have living back there and told them just how “unchristian” they were.
Fname Optional Lname
The law in TN clearly states that in domestic abuse cases, charges can be brought against current or former spouses and adults or minors who are dating or who have dated or who have or had a sexual relationship. So the next question is did this DA ever refuse to consider a case as domestic violence for straight couples who are not married? According to him those laws are strictly for married folk which would indicate that non married straight couples who engage in this behavior cannot have it considered domestic violence either. I seriously doubt that he has ever made the same statement about non married straight couples. This is how we all know their “religious views” have nothing to do with their homophobia, transphobia or bigotry. Remember, they all screamed the same “religious view” nonsense when states abolished laws that made it illegal for interracial couples to wed. They’re just hateful!!
yoshimura8869
” …because I taught the Word of God regarding homosexuality,” Northcott wrote. Why is a DA “teaching” people about his version of “Christianity”? That’s NOT his job! I hate these Mfers who want to shove their beliefs down our throats. If you decline, you are “attacking” his “faith”.
Matthewnow
Perhaps he should spend less time vomiting his hate speech on us and more time figuring out what to say to St. Peter.