President Trump is the first president who ran for office openly supportive of gay marriage. His administration boasts gay appointees, judges, and ambassadors. He has also launched an initiative to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide, and generally takes a laissez faire attitude toward gay rights issues.
Yet some anti-Trump critics are so deranged that they cannot give the president even the slightest credit.
The latest evidence of their Trump derangement syndrome comes courtesy of Alphonso David, president of the left-wing, hyper-partisan Human Rights Campaign. This organization purports to advocate for gay and transgender rights but really just shills for the Democratic Party.
In an appearance on Hill TV, David called Trump the “worst president on LGBTQ issues ever” and said, “We are living in an uncharted territory where LGBT people are being attacked every single day by the Trump administration.” This stupid and insane hyperbole, unfortunately, is HRC’s default posture, representing a far-left stance toward Trump that depends on partisan motivated reasoning.
WATCH: @HRC President @AlphonsoDavid joined @thehill today to discuss the Trump-Pence administration’s shameful and discriminatory proposals to license discrimination. https://t.co/E38pBEvMo2
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) November 8, 2019
Just think about the absurdity of this statement on its face. Are we really supposed to believe that Trump is more “anti-LGBTQ” than presidents were in the 1800s? Such deranged hyperbole robs David and HRC of any credibility and discredits their criticisms immediately.
HRC staff is unhinged. They’ve been against Trump from his very first day, and they have seized on and twisted every possible issue to falsely paint him as a bigot. For example, when Trump tweeted out his support for Gay Pride Month, HRC attacked him for it, which is, of course, exactly what they would have done if he hadn’t.
David’s comments come as part of the latest activist freakout over a Trump administration policy regarding federal funding for religious adoption agencies that do not serve same-sex couples in accordance with their faith. Even if you disagree with the policy, it’s not insane to believe agencies shouldn’t be pushed to shut down or be stripped of federal funding for wanting to operate in accordance with their religion. It’s a fairly minor change that won’t stop gay and lesbian people from adopting.
But, if you listen to David and his peers in the Democratic activist class, it might as well be the apocalypse. Then again, maybe it’s understandable why activists keep inventing fake reasons to get outraged and crying “discrimination” where none exists. They’ve got to keep the checks rolling into HRC’s bank accounts somehow.
Left-wing gay activists have consistently maligned Trump’s policies as “anti-LGBTQ” by spreading lies. For example, HRC and other left-wing activists spread lies about the Trump administration denying same-sex couples citizenship for their children when it was actually an extremely narrow Obama-era State Department policy causing the issue.
They’ve also wildly misrepresented the Justice Department’s legal position regarding Title VII and suggested that Trump has argued against gay and transgender rights when he’s really just arguing that current law means what it says, not what activists wish it said.
It’s a shame because Trump isn’t perfect on issues of gay and transgender rights. But HRC has no credibility to make such arguments. A sober and sane voice would be capable of criticizing Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military. The HRC has no such voice with which to speak.
