Donald Trump invites hate group leader Tim Wildmon to his Faith Advisory Council

In his never-ending bid to court evangelical supporters, Donald Trump has invited Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association – a hate group masquerading as a Christian organization – to join his Faith Advisory Council.

The Faith Advisory Council basically tell Trump what policies and initiatives to pursue to please evangelical voters.

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Wildmon will join other anti-LGBTQ evangelicals on the Council including Jerry Falwell Jr., whose Liberty University bans LGBTQ students; megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, who believes that homosexuality leads to pedophilia; and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, who wants to recriminalize homosexuality and considers white supremacists and neo-Nazis “mainstream Christian organizations.”

In a statement about his joining the Council, Wildmon said:

Yes, [Trump] is a flawed man, but still, he is not embarrassed to be seen with or stand with “the evangelicals,” as he calls us. One of the reasons President Trump has taken unrelenting, incoming fire from the liberal elites — even before he was sworn in — is precisely because he is not ashamed of the Bible, the Constitution, the family, and the free enterprise system.

While the AFA has a long and well-documented history of anti-queer statements equating homosexuality to disease, pedophilia, and bestiality, Wildmon himself has said that….

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