Tulsi Gabbard’s spiritual “guru” called gay people “perverts” and spewed homophobic slurs when she was involved in his tiny group, an audio recording obtained by the Daily Beast reveals.
Gabbard is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be director of national intelligence after a dramatic political switch from left-wing Democratic presidential candidate to MAGA firebrand.
The tape shows how Chris Butler—the leader of the Science of Identity Foundation in which Gabbard was brought up—called homosexuality “abnormal,” “unhealthy and unnatural.” He compared it to having “sex with a fire hydrant” in a recording made a few years before Gabbard first ran for state office–which she did on an anti-gay platform.