CNSNews.com may have briefly left the Trump plantation over the president’s attacks on Jeff Sessions, but it came running back when Trump decreed that transgenders should no longer serve in the military.
As longtime LGBT-haters themselves, CNS quickly embraced Trump’s decision. Susan Jones’ article on Trump’s tweets did surprisingly include reaction from critics, although she wrongly labeled Tom Perez as head of the “Democrat National Committee” (using “Democrat” instead of “Democratic” is a longtime conservative insult of Democrats, even though “Democratic National Committee” is the official name and Jones is actually violating journalistic standard practice by not using the actual name).
Gage Cohen followed up with a blog post noting that Trump’s decree “has the potential to save taxpayers up to $8.4 million dollars per year” in military medical costs. He didn’t mention that the military already spends five times that amount on Viagra pills alone and 10 times that mount on erectile dysfunction treatments in general.
CNS published a column by self-proclaimed ex-transgender-turned-anti-transgender activist (but who was actually just misdiagnosed) Walt Heyer and also a blog post by Craig Bannister redundantly summarizing Heyer’s column.
CNS also published a column by the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s Ryan Anderson praising Trump and bashing transgenders, asserting that “biology isn’t bigotry, and we need a sober and honest assessment of the human costs of getting human nature wrong.”
And of course, no CNS gay-bashing would be complete without managing editor Michael W. Chapman quoting his favorite bigot, Franklin Graham, ranting that we don’t need people in the military “who are confused about their gender” and insisting that “President Trump is laser focused on making our military better and stronger. … Pray for him as he faces critics and opposition.”