Donald Trump’s ‘Evangelical Executive Advisory Board’ is a ‘Who’s Who’ of Anti-Gay Figures

[KamaAina]

http://www.towleroad.com/2016/06/evangelical-executive-advisory-board/

Donald Trump today announced his Evangelical Executive Advisory Board which is a ‘Who’s Who’ of anti-LGBT figures.

Said Trump: “I have such tremendous respect and admiration for this group and I look forward to continuing to talk about the issues important to Evangelicals, and all Americans, and the common sense solutions I will implement when I am President.”

The list:
Executive board members include:
• Michele Bachmann – Former Congresswoman
• A.R. Bernard – Senior Pastor and CEO, Christian Cultural Center
• Mark Burns – Pastor, Harvest Praise and Worship Center
• Tim Clinton – President, American Association of Christian Counselors
• Kenneth and Gloria Copeland – Founders, Kenneth Copeland Ministries
• James Dobson – Author, Psychologist and Host, My Family Talk
• Jerry Falwell, Jr. – President, Liberty University
• Ronnie Floyd – Senior Pastor, Cross Church
• Jentezen Franklin – Senior Pastor, Free Chapel
• Jack Graham – Senior Pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church
• Harry Jackson – Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
• Robert Jeffress – Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Dallas
• David Jeremiah – Senior Pastor, Shadow Mountain Community Church
• Richard Land – President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
• James MacDonald – Founder and Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel
• Johnnie Moore – Author, President of The KAIROS Company
• Robert Morris – Senior Pastor, Gateway Church
• Tom Mullins – Senior Pastor, Christ Fellowship¬
• Ralph Reed – Founder, Faith and Freedom Coalition
• James Robison – Founder, Life OUTREACH International
• Tony Suarez – Executive Vice President, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
• Jay Strack – President, Student Leadership University
• Paula White – Senior Pastor, New Destiny Christian Center
• Tom Winters – Attorney, Winters and King, Inc.
• Sealy Yates – Attorney, Yates and Yates

Trump made the announcement in a conjunction with a meeting with leaders of the Religious Right in New York and told the gathering of Christianists that they should not pray for all leaders, but selectively pray for the ones who aren’t “selling the evangelicals down the tubes,” specifically him:

[MH1]

1. SPLC will (rightly) be declaring this organization a hate group.

It sure has the right membership for that.

Ugh.

[gopiscrap]

5. as they should

[villager]

2. a regular "Murderer's Row." nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. I'm surprised he missed

pRick Sanitarium and Huckleberry Mound.

[beveeheart]

4. I have no words.