Tag: Family Research Council
Reports of Anti-LGBTQ Extremists Tapped for Major Roles on President-Elect Trump’s Transition Team
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organisation, expressed concern about leaked documents indicating that President-Elect Donald Trump is considering for his transition team candidates with histories of anti-LGBTQ animus, including Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council, which has been designated a hate group.
Trump Hypocrisy on Display Days After Campaigning with Anti-LGBTQ Activists in Orlando
Just five days ago, Trump was campaigning with Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver and other enemies of global anti-LGBTQ equality.
HRC: Donald Trump & Mike Pence Would Fail Their Own Ignorant Test
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organisation, today released the following statement in response to media reports that Donald Trump will require immigrants to pass an “ideological test” that would include interviews about their feelings about LGBTQ equality.
Human Rights Groups Urge Public Officials Not to Attend Values Voter Summit, Avoid Legitimizing Anti-LGBT Extremism
A coalition of human rights groups is calling on public officials not to attend the upcoming Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., because its host, the Family Research Council, has spread demonizing lies about the LGBT community, and because one of its co-sponsors, the American Family Association, has linked homosexuality to the Holocaust.
GOP 2012 Platform: 9 Shocking Anti LGBT Planks in the Republican Plan for America
The Republican Party just ceded much political clout to extreme right-wing forces, and formalized new goals to oppress LGBT citizens via its official party platform.
Why is HRC calling the Family Research Council a hate group? Because it is one
Today the Washington Post published an op-ed column by HRC President Chad Griffin expressing condemnation for the shooting that occurred at the Family Research Council’s headquarters last week and detailing the virulent rhetoric that has earned them the designation of a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.