Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott previously faced calls to resign over Islamophobic Facebook posts.
A Tennessee District Attorney is facing calls to be removed from office after video emerged of him indicating he would not prosecute anyone with domestic assault charges if they are in a gay marriage because he does not recognize their legal status.
Discussing the 2015 Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage, Northcott claims that the country is being ruled by"five people in black dresses" in reference to the number of judges on the bench needed to give a majority. "It's our choice, unfettered, so to deal with that you elect a good Christian man as DA and they'll make sure that they at least don't get prosecuted criminally."
"Well the reason where I came down in my evaluation was the reason that there's extra punishment on domestic violence is to recognize and protect the sanctity of marriage. And I said there's no marriage to protect. So I don't prosecute them as domestics." "He sounds like a crackpot, frankly, when he says that," Chris Sanders, of the Tennessee Equality Project, told WTFV in response to the video.
Both the Tennessee Equality Project and CAIR agree that Northcott needs to be removed from his role one way or another following the emergence of his comments.
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