Trump district court nominee calls same-sex ‘marriage’ an ‘assault on nature’
President Trump is under fire from liberal and LGBT groups for nominating a man to the federal bench who has said same-sex marriage undermines the “very idea of marriage” and is part of an “assault on nature” that began with contraception. Gordon Giampietro, nominated for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin , is currently an assistant general counsel of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company , whose past statements in various forums have raised the ire of progressives and, in particular, the LGBT community. “No one would disagree with the fact that children, all the social science research shows this, are best raised by a man and a woman,” Giampietro said in an interview on a Catholic radio show . “This is natural, this is the truth, and it’s irrefutable. And so I think it has to be articulated in a way which isn’t dismissive of those troubled relationships, but it is reaffirming of the truth of marriage.” Giampietro also has warned tha