Trump's Cabinet: A who's who of homophobia - By Michelangelo Signorile
During his election campaign, Donald Trump claimed he was “better for the gay community” than Hillary Clinton. He even stated in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in August that he would protect “our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.”
But what about a hateful domestic ideology that is a much greater threat to the actual rights of LGBTQ citizens in the United States?
So far, Trump’s transition team, led by Vice President-elect Mike Pence — the Indiana governor with a history of antigay positions and actions, including signing the draconian Religious Restoration Freedom Act in 2015 — appears to have given payback to antigay Trump supporters, including the Family Research Council, designated a hate group in 2010 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which described the group as a “font of anti-gay propaganda throughout its history.”
FRC’s Tony Perkins, who helped write the GOP platform, considered among the most anti-LGBT GOP platforms in history (and which promotes so-called “reparative therapy”), endorsed Trump, in a speech at the RNC, and helped turn out white evangelicals for Trump in percentages equal to or surpassing former GOP presidential candidates.
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