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'Homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed,' say summit's host
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'Homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed,' say summit's host
This is making the rounds again, so...reminder.
"The Health Hazards of Homosexuality" - At the religious conservative Values Voter Summit, where Trump became the first sitting president to give a speech, goodie bags included an anti-LGBT flyer decrying the "hazards of homosexuality," October 2017. — in Washington, District of Columbia.
"Hercules" star Kevin Sorbo will be a speaker at the Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel (2500 Calvert St., N.W.) on Oct. 13-15.
Hercules star Kevin Sorbo will be a speaker at the Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel (2500 Calvert St., N.W.) on Oct. 13-15.
Sorbo appeared in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its made-for-TV movie series from 1994-1999. His most recent role was as Lar Grand on the CW series, Supergirl.
Other speakers include actor Kirk Cameron, Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, Sen. Ben Carson, Michele Bachmann, Sen. Tim Scott, Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump.
A full list of speakers is listed here.
The vice president spoke at the annual summit of the Family Research Council, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a hate group.
The event hosts a coalition of white supremacists, far right activists and religious extremists among its attendees.
Trump addressed the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit – classed 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.
Arriving at the event, Trump said it was great “to be among friends” as he declared: “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,” Trump explained.
He added: “I pledged that in a Trump administration, our heritage would be cherished, protected and defended like you have never seen before.”
Trump praised a bombshell directive that gave the go-ahead for religious businesses to discriminate against LGBT people.
The ruling effectively permits anti-LGBT discrimination across the US.
He told the cheering crowds: “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.”
The federal government directive was issued by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had been tasked by Trump to head a ‘review’ of religious liberty protections, after pressure from anti-LGBT lobbying groups.
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.”
Justice Scalia dissented on the Supreme Court’s 2002 judgement that struck down laws banning gay sex.He also said he salutes every person serving in the armed force, despite introducing a ban on transgender soldiers serving.
Trump caused controversy for speaking at the event while a presidential candidate in 2016.However no elected president had spoken at the summit – making Trump the the first to endorse the hate group.Speaking alongside Trump at the summit is former Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, who made shocking comments that he wants to “rid the Earth” of “wicked” gays.
And he’s not the only anti-gay extremist to speak alongside the 45th president.
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.Moore, now backed by Trump, was recently removed as a state supreme court justice for instructing state employees to ignore the US Supreme Court ruling in favour of marriage equality.In addition, Moore also has ties to an extremist pastor who has called for gay people to be put to death.The Southern Poverty Law Centre lists FRC as an extremist group with an anti-LGBT ideology.
Its own website in 2016 said: “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, Republican congressman Steve Scalise had his life saved by a heroic lesbian police officer.
Now fully recovered from the attack, one of Scalise’s first actions on his return to action will be to give a speech to the Family Research Council next week.Tony Perkins, the FRC’s president, said that Scalise’s return to health was not down to the brave actions of a lesbian police officer, but “an answer to prayer.”
“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.However, 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.
Last week, from Thursday, October 13 through Saturday, October 15 the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council put on its annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC., A prime networking event for the Christian right where anti-LGBT and anti-Muslim rhetoric is rife, this year’s summit welcomed its first sitting president as a speaker, Donald Trump.
Religious conservatives have begun to employ heartbreaking stories of people who have detransitioned to bolster the same old misinterpreted statistics and discredited studies that have propped up the infrastructure of anti-trans advocacy for years.
Heron Greenesmith at Rewire.News (10.17.2019):
This past weekend at the 2019 Values Voter Summit in Washington DC, the Family Research Council hosted a panel of anti-trans speakers who illustrated the evangelical-right’s continued shift towards storytelling as a tactic against health and justice for transgender people.
The panel began with Lynn Meagher, an activist associated with anti-trans Hands Across the Aisle and the parent of two trans children. Meagher described having a dream in which she held her children, fed them healthy food, and cared for them, only to wake up today feeling as if she had lost her children, who no longer speak to her. She retold what people have said her:
“You should be proud of your son for finding his true self.”
“Wouldn’t you rather have a live son than a dead daughter?”
“I’m sure if you worked a little harder, you could use his correct pronouns.”
“Don’t ever call him that name again. That’s his dead name. You’re traumatizing him.”
To her, that the comparison is not an apt one.
To Meagher, physicians and mental health professionals are too supportive of trans youth, for whom, in her opinion, the price of affirming care is too high. “There are young women with broken voices; permanent body and facial hair; male pattern baldness; scarred and flat chests; sterility; atrophy and permanent damage to their reproductive organs; their arms forever damaged, scarred, and weakened from radial phalloplasty surgery; mutilated genitalia; loss of sexual function; increased risk of heart disease; bone loss; and overwhelming psychological trauma.”
Aside from the fact that many cisgender “young women” have broken voices, body hair, scarred and flat chests from breast cancer survival, sterility, damage to reproductive organs, bone loss, and other symptoms from conditions completely unrelated to their gender identity, Meagher might be forgiven for buying into the myths of transition-related care for trans youth and the incidence of desistance (or de-transition). The myths of trans-affirming care for youth are fully supported by the network of anti-trans advocacy organizations that include the Family Research Council and the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), whose representative spoke next on the panel. Not to be confused with the American Academy of Pediatrics, the mainstream professional association of pediatricians, ACPeds is a longtime partner of the Family Research Council and an SPLC-designated hate group.
Prior to Trump, no president has actually spoken at public right-wing events like CPAC and the Values Voter Summit, and he's the first president to actively embrace the prosperity gospel.
After his CPAC speech, Jerry Falwell Jr., whose Liberty University played host to CPAC 2019, retweeted Trump’s statement, “I will be signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research dollars.” This move seems to signify Falwell will remain loyal given Trump will allow Christian schools to ignore SCOTUS rulings such as Bob Jones University v. United States (1982), a battle that launched the Moral Majority founded by his father. This ruling denied tax exemptions to religious institutions that practiced racial discrimination, which, they claimed, was a religious freedom issue.