This Asshole Again

The Family Policy Institute's Joseph Backholm Is Backby Heidi GrooverMeet Joseph Backholm. That's him in the photo up there: lawyer, son of a pastor, a man who had his ass handed to him by voters in 2012—more on that in a moment—and currently Washington State's most prominent anti-trans bigot.Backholm works for the Family Policy Institute of Washington. He also heads Just Want Privacy, the campaign committee gathering signatures for Initiative 1515, which would allow businesses to di