Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins.
Yes, that’s right, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, a rabidly anti-queer religious extremist.
Donald Trump has reportedly donated $100,000 to help Louisiana residents affected by disastrous floods — but he’s put it in the hands of an anti-LGBT church whose interim pastor is Tony Perkins, head of the infamously homophobic Family Research Council.
I want to emphasize that reportedly, because supposedly, Trump has made donations before, but they have an interesting way of never showing up anywhere.
Trump visited the church, located in the Baton Rouge suburb of Greenwell Springs, and made other stops in the area at the invitation of Perkins. The church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, which believes that being LGBT is a sin. The Greenwell Springs church’s website includes a “Statement on Marriage and Sexuality,” which reads in part:
We believe that any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography or any attempt to change one’s sex, or disagreement with one’s biological sex, is sinful and offensive to God.
It asks church employees and volunteers to “abide by and agree to” the statement and “conduct themselves accordingly.”
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Perkins, as a Louisiana delegate to this year’s Republican National Convention, took credit for helping to create what even the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay conservative group, termed the most anti-LGBT platform in party history. It continues to oppose marriage equality, denounces the Obama administration’s call for transgender students’ access to gendered facilities of their choice, and contends that parents have a right to enroll their children in any kind of therapy. The last is a thinly veiled endorsement of “ex-gay” therapy, even though major medical groups condemn it as ineffective and harmful, and several states and cities have barred licensed professionals from subjecting minors to it.
The Advocate has the story.
Currently, Snopes is calling this “unproven” due to confusion / lack of confirmation: “[… S]ince we do not currently have documents showing that the donation was made, much less identifying to whom it was made, it is impossible to say exactly where the funds might be going and what they will be used for.”
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Yesterday (22-Aug) the bigot(Perkins) published a spittle-splattered rant against the NBA’s move of the All-Star Game to New Orleans in protest against North Caroline’s bigotry. I won’t link to his rant, but it contains such doozies as ; and ; and , and… and so and so and so on.
$100k is chump change for someone with Trump’s money. Besides, he probably took it out of his campaign fund (file under: marketing)
So, they disapprove of altering intersex newborns to conform to the gender binary? Actually, if you brought that up to them, they’d probably have trouble wrapping what passes for their minds around the idea of intersex.