Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott, a Tennessee prosecutor, is in big trouble after a video surfaced showing him proudly declaring that gay people are not protected by domestic violence laws because gay marriage is not recognized by God.

Newsweek reports:

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. Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott argued that as people face harsher punishment if convicted of domestic abuse in order to protect the sanctity of marriage, those in his district in same-sex relationships should not face the same penalties as he does not “recognize it as marriage.”

The New Civil Rights Movement reports:

A District Attorney in Tennessee is under fire for claiming gay people in his county do not have the same rights as straight people. Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott believes God does not recognize marriages of same-sex couples so gay victims of domestic violence are not granted the same protections in his county. Northcott says he prosecutes those crimes merely as basic assault cases.

News Channel Five reports:

A newly discovered video shows a Middle Tennessee prosecutor boasting that, if gay people in his district end up being victims of domestic violence, they should not expect him to use the state’s domestic violence laws to protect them.

The video, from March of 2018, depicts Northcott giving a speech and answering questions on “The Local Church’s Role in Government” at the Chafer Theological Conference. Afterf being asked about gay marriage Northcott said:

So the social engineers on the Supreme Court decided that we now have homosexual marriage. I disagree with them… Are you going to do what God says, or are you going to do what man says?

Northcott continued:

… 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 (domestic violence cases.)

Previously Northcott argued that “Islam is evil” and that Muslims were not entitled to constitutional rights because rights “come from the one true God” and according to Northcott, Muslims don’t worship that God, even though anyone familiar with world religions knows that Jews, Christians, and Muslims all worship the same imaginary God, the God of Abraham.

Bottom line: Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott is a dangerous Christian extremists who refuses to prosecute domestic violence charges in gay marriages because he believes that gay people are not protected by domestic violence laws because gay marriage is not recognized by God.