Trump to Join Titans of Homophobia at Orlando Conference
By Jeremy Stahl
Less than two months after a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando left 49 people dead, Donald Trump will be visiting the city to take part in a private conference featuring some of the most outspokenly homophobic anti-LGBTQ activists in the country.
On Thursday, 700 conservative pastors and their spouses will gather in Orlando, Florida, to attend the “Rediscovering God in America” event and Trump will be there to speak and take questions from the crowd, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The conference is being put on by American Renewal Project founder David Lane, a vocal critic of LGBTQ rights, and features speakers who have in the past taken anti-gay hate speech to remarkable extremes.
Lane endorsed Trump in May, saying that he “can be one of the top four presidents in American history.” He told Bloomberg that Trump’s proposal to change an IRS rule that prevents churches from using tax-exempt money to promote political candidates was a good “first step” in his appeal to religious conservatives, before pivoting to what he really hopes to see from Trump: a pushback against LGBTQ rights.
“Homosexual totalitarianism is out of the closet, the militants are trying to herd Christians there,” Lane said.
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