Donald Trump Spokeswoman Katrina Pierson In 2012: “Gay Is Not Normal”

Katrina Pierson told Buzzfeed her comments are not "relevant."
From: NewNowNext

Donald Trump’s official national campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson has responded to hateful comments she made about the gay community in 2012, calling them “humorous and sarcastic banter.”

Buzzfeed’s Dominic Holden uncovered the disparaging comments while digging through Pierson’s Twitter history.

In 2012, Pierson apparently engaged a gay Texan who pressed her for her views on same-sex marriage.

“Gay is not normal, accept that,” she wrote in response.

@michael_atx You will never for acceptance, but you could win coexistance. Gay is not normal, accept that.

— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) March 1, 2012

@michael_atx I didn't realize that #marriage was in the U.S. Constitution? Did I miss that page? Federal license? @tedcruz #txsen

— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) March 1, 2012

@michael_atx Even getting "married" in a church doesn't make it a marriage.

— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) March 1, 2012

Holden notes that throughout the exchange, Pierson also claimed that “getting ’married’ in a church doesn’t make it a marriage,” and questioned where the Constitution addresses marriage equality.

Asked for her response to the anti-gay comments, especially given Trump’s recent self-identification as “a friend of the LGBT community,” Pierson merely dismissed the man as a “troll” and her comments as “banter.”

“It’s a long reach to go back to 2012 to try to create a new hit piece and call it relevant,” she told Buzzfeed in an email.

“You’ll also find that as a grassroots volunteer for multiple campaigns, it’s quite common that Twitter is a platform to promote/defend the policies and values of the candidates at the time. Many times, it’s about engaging trolls which can lead to humorous and sarcastic banter.”

“I’m sure you’ll also find that the positions/values of the candidates are not necessarily a sole reflection of the individual promoting or supporting said candidate,” she added. “Therefore, there is nothing to square.”

On Twitter, the man Pierson argued with in 2012 is left wondering why nobody cared about the exchange in 2012—

Lol a conversation I had in 2012 is suddenly relevant now that the subject matter is moot.

— Michael Diviesti (@michael_atx) August 3, 2016

We've bigger problems than Trump's spokesperson saying anti-LGBT shit in 2012. Poverty, hunger, racism, sexism. Let's solve these please.

— Michael Diviesti (@michael_atx) August 3, 2016