Tim Scott
Is Tim Scott gay? What are his thoughts on LGBTQ? Learn all there is to know.
Tim Scott is a Republican candidate who is looking to run for the 2024 United States of America Presidential campaign. He has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, owing to his anti-LGBTQ stance. However, people have been asking whether Scott is himself gay or not. As it turns out, we have all the answers to that question. So is Tim Scott gay?
To the best of our knowledge, the Republican candidate is not homosexual or a part of the LGBTQ community. The Republican U.S. Senate who filed paperwork on Friday with the Federal Election Commission to run for president in 2024, kicked off his campaign for the GOP primary with an announcement address Monday morning in Charleston. The only Black Republican member serving in the Senate, Scott developed a strident anti-LGBTQ record since entering national politics in 2010 with his first election to the House, during which time he told Newsweek homosexuality is a “morally wrong choice, like adultery.”
Today, Scott remains opposed to same-sex marriage, writing on his Senate bio that South Carolinians “have voted overwhelmingly to protect the traditional definition of marriage, and I stand with their decision.” Last year, Scott cosigned a letter with 20 other Senate Republicans urging the GOP caucus to oppose the Respect for Marriage Act unless it contained provisions allowing for discrimination against LGBTQ couples.
Scott, 57, is single and never married, which has led to some speculation about his sexual orientation.
In February, with GOP Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, Scott introduced legislation that would cut funding for any elementary or middle school in the country that changes a student’s pronouns, gender markers, or access to sex-based accommodations like locker rooms without first obtaining consent from their parents or legal guardians. Having developed a reputation as a fiscal and social conservative who is well-liked by his Republican Senate colleagues, Scott hopes to build a coalition of establishment types and evangelical conservatives who are skeptical or critical of the party’s 2024 frontrunner, former President Donald Trump.
According to Vox, Scott is polling around 1 percent, but he will be able to transfer $22 million from his Senate campaign coffers to help fund his presidential bid and has begun aggressively buying up television ads in early primary states as campaigns get underway in the next few months.
The junior senator from South Carolina will face off against the state’s former Republican governor, Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration. Haley, who appointed Scott to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint in 2012, announced her bid for president in February.
Scott supported the military ban on out LGB military members known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
The US Senator also considers homosexuality “a morally wrong choice, like adultery,” according to Newsweek. Scott has consistently opposed federal recognition of same-sex marriage and believes that state laws on marriage should supersede federal law. In November 2022, he was one of 21 Republican senators who signed a letter encouraging Republicans to oppose the congressional same-sex marriage bill, The Respect for Marriage Act, unless it contained a provision allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination against queer couples and restraining government officials from intervening to stop it.
In 2021, Scott introduced the “Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act” which would’ve prohibited any states receiving federal funds from excluding anti-LGBTQ+ adoption agencies and foster care organizations from participating in state-run child-welfare programs. This act signals support for agencies that oppose same-sex adoption.
What are Tim Scott’s thoughts on transgender people?
In September 2022, Scott introduced the Parental Rights Over the Education and Care of Their Kids Act (the PROTECT Kids Act) which proposed cutting federal funding to any schools that allow transgender students to use locker room facilities matching their gender identity.
This suggests he opposes trans participation in sports teams matching their gender identities. His PROTECT Kids Act would also withhold federal funds from any elementary and middle schools that allow trans students to use a different name, pronoun, or restroom rather than those matching the name and gender they were assigned at birth. Any school that wishes to make these accommodations for trans students would first require consent from a student’s parents.
In a September 20, 2022 tweet mentioning his PROTECT Kids Act, Scott wrote, “Schools exist to educate children — not indoctrinate them. I introduced the PROTECT Kids Act to safeguard parental rights and ensure that children can learn in an environment free of indoctrination.” While his PROTECT Kids Act doesn’t specifically mention the issue of LGBTQ+ content in schools, many right-wing politicians have claimed that LGBTQ+ content in classrooms is a form of “indoctrination.”
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