Not long after declaring Donald Trump the most pro-gay president in American history (yeah, right), former US Ambassador Richard Grenell has announced his latest employment gig. Grenell will work as Special Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ).
Founded by infamous homophobe Pat Robertson, the ACLJ has a mission statement to further “universal, God-given and inalienable rights.” In reality, however, the ACLJ works to push a conservative Christian agenda in the law process, denying LGBTQ people legal protections and working to erode those of other marginalized people as well.
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“I’m excited to be joining the ACLJ,” Grenell said in a statement. “I have admired their work for years. This group has been instrumental in defending religious freedom here and around the world, and upholding the Constitution. Two issues that I also consider of utmost importance, especially as faith and liberty continually fall under attack. I look forward to being a part of their incredible organization.”
“He brings his broad foreign policy, national security, intelligence and political experience to this new role and we are honored to have him on the team,” Executive Director Jordan Sekulow said of Grenell’s hiring. Sekulow is the son of ACLJ co-director Jay Sekulow, who defended Donald Trump during his impeachment proceedings earlier this year. Jay Sekulow also has close ties to Russia, and has defended Vladamir Putin’s oppression of LGBTQ people there.
It should come as no surprise that nowhere in the ACLJ’s press release does it mention that Grenell is a gay man, married to another man. That could be because the ACLJ has a long history of opposing marriage equality. The group also has endured criticism for pushing the suppression of LGBTQ rights worldwide, including helping to draft anti-queer language into the constitution of Zimbabwe. Homosexual sex remains punishable by imprisonment there. The group also supported the criminalization of homosexuality in Uganda and Kenya as well.
It shouldn’t come as any dramatic surprise that Grenell has turned on his fellow LGBTQ people. Last month, while speaking to the Log Cabin Republicans, he criticized the queer rights movement, saying “They try and bully us into silence. Yesterday’s champions of diversity are today’s intolerance.”
Grenell attracted bipartisan criticism earlier this year when Trump named him acting Director of National Intelligence, a job for which he was grossly unqualified. He resigned from the position after only four months on the job.
Cam
So the guy all of the Republican trolls say is PROOF Trump is pro-LGBTQ because HE’s gay, shows he’s just another chicken defending foxes.
But please, by all means, come in here and tell us ALL About how a guy who happens to be gay who was hired by Trump and now is working for a hate group proves how not bigoted this administration is.
Kangol2
So Quisling Grenell is going to work for an anti-LGBTQ legal organization founded by arch homophobe Pat Robertson? He ought to hang his head in shame, but like the rest of the Don the Con crew, he’s shameless!
CNY1983
Pat Robertson, he must be 175 years old by now.
rbernard
It is too easy to call Grenell, Pat Robinsons house queer, but …
Our community biggest and scariest enemies are self loathing homosexuals.
Doug
Every time I see this guy, something about his smile is off. He doesn’t look like he’s very happy.
WSnyder
I’ve said this before. This guy is a Homosexual, not Gay. He prefers men sexually and emotionally but he’s not Gay. GAY is for people who prefer people of the same sex AND support the LGBTQ+ Community. Gay is a label that should be reserved for people who not just have a sexual preference for the same sex but ALSO support the RIGHTS of Equal Protection and Recognition and Treatment under the Law and within Society. This guy obviously does not. Let’s keep Gay as the label for Homosexuals who willing want to be within the LGBTQ+ Community.
That’s why there’s a ‘G’ in there and not an ‘H’.
CNY1983
That’s all that needs to be said. Thank you.
radiooutmike
Sounds like a perfectly wonderful idea!
Mister P
With friends like that………
Invader7
TRAITOR !!! Another shill for Adolph Drumpf !! Obviously Grenell has no self esteem,worth or love !! He’s letting these ANTI-GAY people and groups USE him and they have & will cast him aside when they’re done with him. What a sad, sordid, shameful mess !!
Toofie
Not surprising as Grenell only thinks of himself. This group he’s choosing to work for is even more anti-gay than the Republican Party. Sad really.
barryaksarben
IT just now came to me via the comment by WSnyder. This guy is the reincarnation of ROy COHN. HE always said he wasnt gay but just liked sex with men. the very definition of self hatred and a feeling of entitlement at the same time. May this douche wind up the very same way alone and miserable. How ANY actual gay person can go to work for an organization built by Pat RObinson is mind boggling. I do hope someone who knows this asshole tells him that HE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR US AND TO STFU ABOUT US AND OUR ORGANIZATIONS FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT FOR OUR EQAULITY
CNY1983
thank you.
yah_sure_youbetcha
What an awful person.
Hussain-TheCanadian
This is an example of a real prostitute, a person who sold his very being for a few silver coins. No morals, no class, no loyalty, no love, no honor, and certainly no dignity. Just a filthy human being who will be betrayed by the very people who told him all along ” You are less than”.
wikidBSTN
What a miserable sad sack.
TruthBeKnown
How much does this guy hate himself?
kpdubb
Ricky – you might want to read this definition of Quisling and repeat this phrase: I am a complete Quisling.
Quisling definition: “a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country.”
cuteguy
Fast forward a few years and he will pull a faux mea culpa just like that other moron Aaron Schmuck did. No one will care or believe this pariah