Just days after the appointment of openly-gay former ambassador Richard Grenell to the role of acting head of national intelligence, conservative critics have gone on the attack.
Though openly gay, Grenell has a long history of defending Trump and conversion therapy proponent Mike Pence. That record had done little to assuage far-right homophobes who see Grenell as a “gay activist.”
Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, a group which once said Washington was under the control of gay witches, slammed Grenell’s appointment. “There is concern among our pro-family allies around the world that ambassador Grenell will engage in LGBT+ activism as acting director of national intelligence, a cabinet-level position,” Perkins said in a statement. “An effort to impose the same redefinition of marriage upon other nations that was imposed upon Americans by an activist Supreme Court would be reminiscent of the cultural imperialism of the Obama administration.”
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Peter LaBarbera, President of Americans for the Truth about Homosexuality, an anti-gay hate group that claims the very existence of LGBTQ people threatens religious freedom in the United States, denounced Grenell’s appointment. “As an open and proud homosexual, [Grenell] bills himself as an evangelical Christian. This only confuses the Gospel and undermines true, biblical Christianity.”
We can find plenty of reasons to criticize Grenell’s appointment, starting with the fact that he has no experience within the intelligence community whatsoever, making him vastly underqualified for the job. How interesting then, that men like La Barbera and Perkins only attack Grenell for his sexuality, not the threat to national security he actually poses.
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Prax07
Any gay person that STILL supports trumpie should be figuratively burned at the stake, and I’m glad when they’re getting it from all sides.
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In other breaking news, water is wet…….
fur_hunter
HHEHEHEHEHEHE……You can’t see me but your post has me rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off. Thank you. A Gay RepubliKKKan is an oxymoron.
Hussain-TheCanadian
WTF!! How come no one told me this before? There are gay witches?????
ricdardc1
& on a Different Note, The Village People think it’s Okay for RUMP to use YMCA song, at his Cult Circles, is This True ? If so I will Never LISTEN to them again.
jummyboy3711
Actually the majority of the Village People songs were not owned by them. They were owned by Morali, and Belolo, their producers/manager. And until recently one of them sued and won 50% of two or 3 of their songs, one of them being YMCA. I googled this. Also David Hodo put out a post about this a few days ago. That the group couldn’t stop this, especially since the copyright is over 35 years old. “We” are not happy about this.
TruthBeKnown
Poor Grenell. Now he know how the Jews for Hitler felt.
fur_hunter
You have me cracking up with laughter. Thank you for the image I have in my mind.
Kangol2
Kieran, paging Kieran, who’s always trumpeting Drumpf’s choice of this incompetent gay token Richard Grenell, who was so awful as US Ambassador to Germany that many German politicians across the board not only repeatedly criticized him but some even wanted him expelled as ambassador.
Kieran, what do you have to say about these anti-gay attacks on Grenell from conservatives?
Kieran, have you asked Don the Con Drumpf to condemn his right-wing pals who are trashing Richard Grenell?
Kieran, have you asked other Republicans to denounce these anti-gay right-wingers who are attacking Richard Grenell?
Kieran, have you demanded Tony Perkins, Peter LaBarbera (who was trolling gay bath houses in Chicago–don’t believe me, google it) and others stop their anti-gay rhetoric against Richard Grenell?
fur_hunter
Superb comment. Thank you. Excellent comeback.
justyouandi
Kangol2, Grenell rubbed some Germans the wrong way because he stood up for America’s best interest; not theirs.
Kieran
On his nationally aired radio program today, Rush Limbaugh acknowledged that Ric Grenell is gay and stated that he has absolutely no problem with that. He fully supports Trump’s decision to appoint an openly gay man to his cabinet. That is called PROGRESS.
charlietex
Complete and utter BS. The same Limbaugh who criticized Pete’s marriage supports gay married Grenell? The same Limbaugh who said that Trump called him to insist that he not apologize? Or maybe the same shock-jock Limbaugh that Trump outrageously gave the medal of freedom? Politics pure and simple. Limbaugh will never cross the god Trump.
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Please honey run down to the clue store real quick like cuz it’s obviously you don’t possess a single one!
Cam
Translation: The right wing troll account is trying to deflect from the fact that Republicans hate LGBT people by telling a little story about one radio host.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
The problem with that comparison is Rush Limbaugh reads from scripts that he doesn’t preview. He could care less what he is expected to say.
justyouandi
charlietex, Limbaugh has never criticized Pete’s marriage.
mikeyk1964
To justyouandi, you are incorrect. Limpballs got his ample panties in a bunch on his show at the thought of children seeing Pete and his partner kissing on TV. So says the thrice-married philanderer. Hypocrisy, anyone?
GayEGO
Hmmmm……so Grenell is openly gay? How do I know that this isn’t fake news, so typical of Trump trying to get attention for himself.
jesse davis
Hard to believe. He has had plastic surgery obviously!
fur_hunter
Why…….Shut my mouth!…….RepubliKKKans are attacking Grenell because he’s gay??? I’m so shocked!……Really???? Lowd have mercy. What is this world coming to? (You do realize this is sarcasm, don’t you?)
CityguyUSA
Pro-family values of whose family exactly your secretaries, your 16-year-old page, your actual wife (would be the only pro-family values) and yet just a week or so ago another conservative with family values found gagging on dick.
Bob
But who can blame them.. They finally found out how tasty it is !!!
Gary Q VV
Here Trump goes again dangling his PRO GAY-BAIT before our LGBTQ community’s eyes to muster pre-election votes.