Deputy White House Liaison to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Merritt Corrigan has been fired after making a series of controversial comments attacking LGBTQ rights and gay marriage, two former Trump Administration officials confirmed to NBC News on Monday.
In a series of tweets Monday, Corrigan wrote that for “too long, I’ve remained silent as the media has attacked me for my Christian beliefs, which are shared by the majority of Americans.
Let me clear: Gay marriage isn’t marriage / Men aren’t women / US-funded Tunisian LGBT soap operas aren’t America First.” “It was unclear whether Corrigan’s departure was prompted by the tweets, which described LGBT identity as ‘sexual deviancy,’ or whether another situation may