“Director Severino presents himself as a civil rights lawyer. And what he has done as OCR director is turn the idea of civil rights on its head,” says Harper Jean Tobin, policy director at the National Center for Transgender Equality.

That’s because Severino — a devout Catholic and political conservative — has put the right to religious [discrimination] front and center …in health care.

Religious Freedom Counts First In This HHS Civil Rights Division : Shots – Health News : NPR

Perhaps it is human nature to want to discriminate against others after you, yourself, have been the victim of of discrimination.

….Or maybe this guy is just a bigoted asshole.