#LGBTQ: Trump Speaks at Anti-Gay Hate Group Summit & Says Homophobes Will “No Longer Be Silenced”

Trump addressed the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit – classified as a “hate group” – as he told the crowds their anti-LGBT views would “no longer be silenced”.

Among those in the crowd were white supremacists, far right activists and religious extremists who oppose the equality of LGBT people. Trump said it was great,

“to be among friends… We are returning moral clarity to our view of the world.

I am honoured and thrilled to be the first sitting president to address this gathering of friends, so many friends.”

I pledged that in a Trump administration, our heritage would be cherished, protected and defended like you have never seen before.

To protect religious liberty, including protecting groups like this one, I signed a new executive action in a beautiful ceremony in the White House on our national day of prayer.

Among many historic steps, the executive order followed through on one of my most important campaign promises, important to so many of you.

To prevent the horrendous Johnson Amendment interfering with your First Amendment rights.

We will not allow government workers to censor sermons or target our pastors, our ministers, our rabbis.

These are the people we want to hear from and they’re not going to be silenced any longer.”

Trump told the group he had kept his promise to appoint a conservative to the Supreme Court, in Neil Gorsuch, the new Supreme Court justice who opposes LGBT equality.

“I appointed and confirmed a Supreme Court justice in the mould of the late great Justice Antonin Scalia.”

No elected president has ever spoken at the summit – making Trump the the first to endorse the hate group. Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has said he doesn’t know whether or not gays and lesbians should be put to death, will also be addressing the event.

On its own website, the

“Family Research Council believes that homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed. It is by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical and psychological health effects.”

Steve Scalise, the House Majority Whip, is also set to speak. Four months ago, Scalise’s life was saved by a lesbian police officer. Now fully recovered from the attack, one of Scalise’s first actions on his return will be to give a speech to this anti-gay hate group.

Tony Perkins, the FRC’s president, said of Scalise,

“His fighting spirit in overcoming the odds is a source of inspiration for those who are fighting for the heart and soul of our nation and our culture. I look forward to welcoming my friend and former colleague back to the Values Voter stage.”

Perkins once speculated that flooding was God’s punishment for homosexuals.

But when his own home was destroyed in what he called a flood “of near biblical proportions,” the homophobic pastor insisted it happened because of God’s love.

Apparently, he’s never heard of “Karma, bitch.”