The Catholic Case for Trump by Austin Ruse

Author:Austin Ruse
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2020-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE Trump and LGBT

Gay rights is an area where some faithful Catholics will be disappointed in Trump. At the same time he was making his journey on the life issue, he was decidedly not making any kind of journey on the LGBT agenda. Like George Bush and the life issues, Trump was surrounded by family members who are friendly to the LGBT cause. There is no way Ivanka Trump does not favor the whole panoply of LGBT issues. Jared Kushner, too, and probably all the rest, including Melania.

Like his initial acceptance of abortion, his response on homosexual marriage was that he grew up in New York City. He said that to justify his acceptance of the LGBT agenda.

While the rainbow movement is not as vast as its members claim, it is very powerful. Gay activists say they are everywhere, but are they really? How could a group smaller than the Methodists be everywhere? The overall group of homosexuals in America maxes out at roughly 1.6 percent, according to the most robust data from the National Health Institute of the Center for Disease Control. Rainbow radicals began pushing the 10 percent figure back in the Jimmy Carter days. Small as it may be, the group is immensely powerful. Gays have come to dominate the levers of power in most major cultural centers, including Hollywood, the media, and even corporate C-suites. The annual ranking of gay-friendly companies produced by the anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign puts practically every major company in the country in the 100 percent gay-friendly category. Talk about pushing on an open door.

In what seemed like only a few years, this small but powerful group has turned the entire U.S. government around. Even the president of the United States, Barack Obama, moved from claiming he was against gay marriage—although this was very clearly a political tactic—to becoming a very vocal supporter of overturning American marriage laws. Although activists in support of man–woman marriage had won thirty-one statewide races, gay marriage supporters managed to get the courts to go along with them, culminating in the Supreme Court imposing same-sex marriage on the whole country.

According to gays who keep score on these things, Trump has a history of supportive words regarding homosexuality. In 1999, he said he supported gays openly serving in the military. He told The Advocate in 2000 that he agreed with amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation. And in 2005 he congratulated Elton John on his marriage to another man. As recently as 2015, he said then-governor Pence had done “a bad job” in the battle between nondiscrimination against gays and religious freedom for Christians who did not want to bake the wedding cake. Trump even said that Caitlyn Jenner (formerly Bruce) could use any bathroom he wanted in Trump Tower.

In July 2016, I went along with hundreds of other faith leaders to a come-to-Trump meeting at a Times Square hotel. He repeatedly dodged LGBT questions. Though he offered strong support for other items on the religious Right’s laundry list, he punted when it came to gay rights.

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