How can someone like Sam Brownback have been elected governor of a state (Kansas, which he trashed), and how can this nut be President Trump’s nominee for Ambassador At Large For International Religious Freedom??? What has this country come to? Thanks to Sen. Tim Kaine for pressing Brownback on a very simple question (“Is there any circumstance under which religious freedom can justify criminalizing, imprisoning, or executing people based on their LGBT status?”), even if Brownback refused to give a simple yes-or-no answer.

![[UPDATED 1/29/26] Audio: Sen. Tim Kaine Talks to Blue Virginia About His “Five-Point Plan” to Fight Trump’s Orban-Like Assault on US Democracy; Civil Disobedience a la MLK Jr.; Trump’s Bogus “Energy Emergency”; the Crucial Importance of the 2025 VA Elections; etc.](https://bluevirginia.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/kaineinterview2-238x178.jpg)

![Sen. Tim Kaine on Appropriations Bills: “we shouldn’t give [Trump’s] deranged decisions the imprimatur of congressional approval by passing this legislation without significant amendment.”](https://bluevirginia.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/kaineblasts-238x178.jpg)




![[UPDATED 1/29/26] Audio: Sen. Tim Kaine Talks to Blue Virginia About His “Five-Point Plan” to Fight Trump’s Orban-Like Assault on US Democracy; Civil Disobedience a la MLK Jr.; Trump’s Bogus “Energy Emergency”; the Crucial Importance of the 2025 VA Elections; etc.](https://bluevirginia.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/kaineinterview2-100x75.jpg)

