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Trump Evangelical Board Stacked with Anti-LGBT Activists

Trump's Evangelical Board reads like a Who's Who of the Anti-LGBT Extremist Right.听

Two days after a massacre at an Orlando LGBT nightclub by a lone gunman, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted a 鈥渢hank you鈥 to the LGBT community for what he apparently believes is support for his candidacy.

The tweet included the line, 鈥淚 will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.鈥

A week later, Trump hundreds of conservative evangelical leaders in New York City at an invitation-only , who was working in conjunction with other groups including the Family Research Council, an anti-LGBT hate group. At the event, Trump called religious liberty 鈥渢he No. 1 question,鈥 and he promised to appoint antiabortion Supreme Court justices.

Trump鈥檚 campaign also who would make up his evangelical advisory board, and it includes several who are no friends of LGBT people:

Michele Bachmann: A former Congresswoman, Bachmann has a reputation for making damaging claims about and displaying听strange behavior toward LGBT people. She that LGBT people 鈥渢arget children鈥; has that two constituents who ran into her in a bathroom at a town hall meeting were 鈥渉olding her against her will鈥 (the women in question were Pamela Arnold, partner of famed Arctic explorer Ann Bancroft and a former nun); and was spotted at a rally opposing her amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage (she claimed she had sore feet and couldn鈥檛 stand anymore). 鈥淭his is not funny. It鈥檚 a very sad life,鈥 Bachmann . 鈥淚t鈥檚 part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay.鈥 At the time, she was speaking about her lesbian stepsister. In 2014, Bachmann the 鈥済ay community鈥 of pushing 鈥渄eviancy,鈥 鈥渢yranny鈥 and child rape.

Tim Clinton:听Clinton, president of the American Association of Christian Counselors, has advocated (PDF)听for so-called 鈥渆x-gay鈥 therapy, a harmful pseudoscience that claims to be able to make LGBT people heterosexual. In a 2009 鈥渇act sheet鈥 titled 鈥淗omosexuality,鈥 Clinton listed 4 steps for 鈥淔reedom from Homosexuality.鈥 They included ending homosexual relationships and choosing not to frequent places that involve homosexual relationship or activities. He also called to 鈥渁ddress the issues鈥 that may have 鈥渃aused鈥 homosexuality, including a 鈥渄eficit in relationship鈥 with a parent of the same sex or 鈥減ast sexual abuse鈥 鈥撯 common themes in the ex-gay community. The 2014 (PDF) for the AACC states, 鈥淐hristian counselors do not condone or advocate for the pursuit of or active involvement in homosexual, bisexual or transgendered behaviors and lifestyles.鈥

James Dobson: Founder of the right-wing Christian powerhouse Focus on the Family, Dobson and Focus on the Family were well-known for anti-LGBT views, including claiming homosexuality was 鈥減reventable鈥 and 鈥渢reatable.鈥 A strong supporter of ex-gay therapy, Focus on the Family launched the 鈥淟ove Won Out鈥 ex-gay ministry in 1998 under the leadership of , who was later photographed at a gay bar and left the ministry in 2003. Dobson, who now has an independent radio show, has referred to homosexuality as 鈥溾 and resulting from 鈥渆arly developmental problems.鈥 He that the 鈥渉omosexual activist movement鈥 is bent on 鈥渙verturning laws prohibiting pedophilia鈥 and that with same-sex marriage comes the fall of Western civilization. He also claimed that acceptance of bisexuality meant acceptance of sexual relations between both genders 鈥渋n groups.鈥 Dobson , 鈥淗omosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage鈥 which will 鈥渄estroy the Earth.鈥 Dobson has also to push his anti-LGBT views.

Ronnie Floyd:听Floyd is a pastor at Cross Church in Arkansas and the听current president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). At the 2015 gathering of the Convention, Floyd stated that 鈥淲e are in spiritual warfare鈥 against gay marriage. He is also the author of a book titled , a reference to a widespread conspiracy theory that claims LGBT people鈥檚 work for equality is actually a ploy to take over the world. According to Floyd鈥檚 book, 鈥渋f left unopposed [the gay agenda] will annihilate the family as we know it鈥 and that 鈥減roponents of the gay lifestyle have declared war against our culture and they have an agenda.鈥 Last year, SBC formally cut ties with a California church because of the latter鈥檚 support of LGBT people. The church 鈥渨alked away from us as Southern Baptists,鈥 Floyd said, 鈥淪o it is with compassion that I would appeal to them to reconsider their decision, mostly their position related to the Word of God on homosexuality.鈥 The SBC鈥檚 2016 resolutions that emerged from its recent annual gathering that last year鈥檚 Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage 鈥渄oes violence to the Constitution.鈥

Jack Graham: Graham is听a former president of the SBC and the current听pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, which in 2012. When asked to respond to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, , 鈥淸W]e will not accept, nor adhere to, and legal redefinition of marriage issued by any political or judicial body, including the U.S. Supreme Court.鈥 And though he claims that 鈥渨e affirm our love for all people,鈥 鈥渨e cannot and will not affirm the moral acceptability of homosexual behavior.鈥

Harry Jackson: Pentecostal Bishop Harry Jackson is a prominent campaigner against marriage equality who led the unsuccessful fight against it in Washington D.C., working closely with the National Organization for Marriage. Jackson is also a of anti-LGBT hate group FRC, and co-wrote a book with FRC director Tony Perkins. Jackson, who has worked to build a multi-racial religious right movement by using anti-LGBT and anti-abortion sentiment as a between Black churchgoers and their supporters in the Civil Rights movement, supports the so-called 鈥淪even Mountains鈥 doctrine, which calls for Christian domination over the seven cultural mountains of society: media, education, business, arts and entertainment, family, religion, and government. He has called gay marriage part of a 鈥溾 to destroy 鈥渙ur seed,鈥 claimed that gay people cannot reproduce, so they must 鈥.鈥 Jackson has听 that gay marriage is an 鈥渁ssault鈥 and that the 鈥淓nemy鈥 (Satan) wants it to be a seed planted in this generation that 鈥渃orrupts, perverts and pollutes society.鈥

Robert Jeffress: Jeffress is听another megachurch pastor based in Texas. Jeffress has a long history of anti-LGBT rhetoric. He has 鈥70% of the gay population鈥 has AIDS; that gay people live a 鈥溾; and . 鈥淭here are a disproportionate amount of assaults against children by homosexuals than by heterosexuals鈥nd the reason is very clear: homosexuality is perverse. It represents a degradation of a person鈥檚 mind and if a person will sink that low,鈥 Jeffress said, 鈥渢here is no telling to whatever sins he will commit as well.鈥

Richard Land: Land is a听former director of the SBC鈥檚 Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Land also has a reputation for anti-LGBT statements. He has homosexuality causes destruction in human society and the 鈥渉omosexual lifestyle鈥 also causes destruction. He that LGBT people 鈥渞ecruit鈥 children for 鈥渉omosexual clubs鈥 and peddled the myth that gay people don鈥檛 live as long as heterosexual and also claimed that LGBT people are out to 鈥渄estroy marriage.鈥 As current president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary, he has and warned that allowing gay Scout masters is 鈥渁 grave and dangerous mistake.鈥 He attempted to soften the blow by implying that all adult men are apparently attracted to young teens, so it would also be a mistake to put heterosexual men in charge of Girl Scout troops.

The members of the advisory board will convene on a regular basis, and will that will be announced later this month.

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