Tag: Family Research Council (FRC)
Evangelicals are pledging to spend tens of millions to reelect Donald Trump
Evangelical Christian leaders are promising to pour millions of dollars into President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. While the politician has continually acted decidedly not Christ-like while in office, his willingness to enact their social agenda in exchange for campaign dollars and votes has won him their continued backing.
The Faith and Freedom Coalition has announced they will go all-in for the President, according to The Hill. They claim they will register a million conservative Christian voters and mobilize an army...
Anti-LGBTQ Christian hate group cheers as Trump administration shuts down HIV cure research
The Trump administration announced that it would immediately shut down an HIV research contract with a university and the move was hailed by an anti-LGBTQ hate group.
In a statement, the Department of Health and Human Services said that it would be reviewing research contracts with the National Institute of Health (NIH) that use aborted fetus tissue.
“Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the very top priorities of President Trump’s administration,” the statement...
The Trump administration will launch a human rights panel that stresses antigay ‘natural law’
The State Department announced that it will be launching a new advisory panel that will stress human rights in the context of “natural law.”
In contemporary politics, “natural law” is associated with conservative Christianity, especially opposition to reproductive and LGBTQ rights. Anti-LGBTQ activists use the phrase constantly to justify opposing basic human rights.
The State Department published a notice to create the Commission on Unalienable Rights. The notice says that the Commission “will provide the Secretary of State advice and recommendations...
Two senators that oppose LGBTQ rights were ‘honored’ at a gay Republican fundraiser
A conservative LGBTQ organization just held a fundraiser for several anti-LGBTQ politicians last week.
The $250 per person fundraising event, hosted by the leadership of the American Unity Fund (AUF), was held last week at the D.C. office of Hogan Lovells, a law firm.
AUF is an organization “dedicated to advancing the cause of freedom for LGBTQ Americans by making the conservative case that freedom truly means freedom for everyone,” according to their website.
Three U.S. Representatives and three U.S. Senators were...