Family Research Council: Serving Conservatism or Serving the Republican Party?
By
Julio
Severo
In
an article titled “New Trump push: Make homosexuality
legal everywhere,” WorldNetDaily, one of the most
prominent conservative websites in the world, said,
“The Trump administration’s highest
profile gay person is leading an effort to decriminalize homosexuality in
dozens of nations where it’s still illegal.”
The
highest profile homosexual is Richard Grenell, U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
So
while WorldNetDaily reported about an effort of the Trump administration, led
by Grenell, to decriminalize homosexuality around the world, FRC reported
basically that the case is not so serious.
I
will argue that the case is very serious. Grenell is the most prominent
homosexual activist in the Republican Party and in the Trump administration. He
is married to another homosexual man and he defends many items of the gay
agenda, including homosexual “marriage.” No real conservative would ever
appoint such gay activist to any government post, but Trump did it. Trump did
exactly what Obama would have done. What should a president expect after
appointing a gay activist? Pro-family campaigns?
FRC
correctly said,
“For the last eight years, President
Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bludgeoned foreign capitals
with ‘diplomacy’ designed to advance an LGBT agenda around the world and in the
United Nations — doing
damage
to our relations with many countries as a result. The Trump administration
should be ending such efforts, not making them a priority.”
Yet,
immediately FRC mentioned Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a good example and that
“Now the tide has turned.”
How
such did change happened? In the Obama administration, State Secretary Hillary
Clinton celebrated June as homosexual pride month in
the State Department. If the tide has turned, as FRC said, then today, under
Trump, is there no celebration of homosexual pride in the State Department,
right? Wrong!
Under
Trump, former State Secretary Rex Tillerson proclaimed June 2017 as
“LGBT Pride Month.” And again under Trump, current State
Secretary Mike Pompeo proclaimed June 2018 as
“LGBTI Pride Month.”
So,
where has the tide turned?
FRC
thinks that a view of Pompeo sums up the best intents. FRC said,
“Now the tide has turned. Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo articulated the proper way to think about all this… Pompeo
responded: ‘I deeply believe LGBTQ persons have every right that every other
person has.’”
By
saying that homosexuals have every right that every other person has, Pompeo
betrayed the real intent of the Trump administration, because if every person
has a right to marriage and adoption of children, Pompeo’s declaration
suggested that every homosexual has a right to marriage and adoption of
children too.
The tide has not turned as far as celebrations
of homosexual pride in the State Department are concerned. But as far as
evangelical values are concerned, the tide has turned. Pompeo sees himself as a
conservative evangelical. If conservative evangelicals are now celebrating
homosexuality in the State Department, the tide has really turned — for the worse.
Then,
trying to find a compromise to please gay activists and conservatives, FRC
ended its piece saying,
“Let’s find common ground in calling
for an end to all forms of physical violence against homosexuals — but refrain
from imposing the values of the sexual revolution on the rest of the world.”
So
FRC showed that it supports a campaign to end “all forms of physical violence
against homosexuals.” Yet, why remember violence against homosexuals, but not
violence by homosexuals? Has FRC forgotten that there is an epidemic of
homosexual abuse against boys?
When
I think about violence and homosexuality, the first thought coming to my mind
is not individuals suffering violence for their immoral sexual lifestyle. The
first thinking is children suffering homosexual violence — physical and
psychological. There is a massive effort to cover up the suffering of children
in the hands of homosexual predators.
The
interpretation that I have regarding the FRC piece is that FRC tried minimize
and protect the Trump administration from the expected effects of the presence
of a homosexual activist in the government. FRC essentially minimized the
reality of the campaign to decriminalize homosexuality around the world, but at
the same time it recognized that it is willing to accept a campaign to end “all
forms of physical violence against homosexuals.”
How
about a campaign to end all forms of homosexual physical violence against boys?
Should not a campaign to protect boys and their innocence be much more
important than protecting individuals who chose an immoral and perverse sexual
lifestyle?
It
makes no sense to support a campaign to end “all forms of physical violence
against homosexuals” while thousands and thousands of boys suffer sexual
violence from homosexuals.
If
I were the State Secretary, the tide would really turn. I would launch a “Month
of Protection of Children Against Homosexual Propaganda and Violence.” I would
also launch a push to encourage nations to protect children and teens from
homosexual propaganda and its psychological and physical violence.
In my view, FRC and its president,
Tony Perkins, should be forthright if they really believe in conservative
values.
Last
year, FRC took part in the Conservative Political
Action Conference (CPAC), the oldest and largest annual “conservative”
conference in America. Shamefully, CPAC banned pro-family group
MassResistance as an exhibitor while permitting the homosexualist group Log
Cabin Republicans to remain.
Log Cabin Republicans is a wing of homosexual militants in the Republican
Party.
Why
did not FRC defend the conservative group and denounce the homosexualist group?
“It
is unconscionable that a self-styled conservative organization like CPAC would
ban a sponsorship table for a leading pro-family group like MassResistance —
while allowing the homosexual activist Log Cabin Republicans to sponsor a table
at the same conference,” said Peter LaBarbera, founder and president of
Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH). Interestingly, the precursor
of AFTAH was launched at a CPAC gathering 26 years ago.
“This
is upside-down,” continued LaBarbera. “It is Log Cabin Republicans, which
crusades for homosexual ‘marriage,’ that is undermining conservatism.”
When the ban of MassResistance became
a scandal after it was denounced by LaBarbera, LifeSiteNews and other pro-life
websites, CPAC invited FRC to have a booth, as a last-minute strategy to cover
up its scandalous ban against MassResistance.
It was inappropriate for FRC to accept the invitation without denouncing the
anticonservative actions of CPAC.
So
the tide has not turned in the homosexual celebrations in the State Department,
but it has done so in the conservative fight against the homosexual agenda. As
LaBarbera rightly said, to ban conservative groups and invite homosexualist
groups for the most important conservative event in America shows that
everything “is upside-down.”
Even if Trump had not approved the
campaign of homosexual activist Richard Grenell, let us remember that Trump
nominated a gay judge last October
and he himself appointed Grenell. And who else than Trump authorized, in 2017
and 2018, the State Department to celebrate June as homosexual pride month?
Also, in 2017 Trump kept Randy Berry as the Special
Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons, a post created by the Obama
administration. In fact, this U.S. Department of
State post, which was a global breakthrough, was pioneered by Obama to promote
the acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism abroad as the
official U.S. foreign policy.
Trump
kept this most powerful symbol of the former Obama administration’s homosexual
imperialism even after evangelical leaders had specifically asked for its
immediate demise.
In that time, Tony Perkins said,
“Keeping Berry only signals to the world that the extreme agenda of the Obama
years is still deeply entrenched in the State Department.” Why does Perkins
think that now the State Department has changed for the better?
Why do FRC and Perkins pretend to
ignore such homosexual advances in the Trump administration? Why do they refuse
to expose these scandals in their cruel reality? Why minimize them?
Proverbs 27:6 teaches that true
friends correct us. If FRC is a real friend of Trump and the Republican Party,
it should forthrightly correct them. Only this way the tide can turn.
It
is not easy to correct friends, and I know what I am talking about: I have been
a friend of FRC for over 25 years.
Portuguese
version of this article: Conselho de Pesquisa da Família: Servindo ao
conservadorismo ou servindo ao Partido Republicano?
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