Trump invites pastor who called homosexuality an “epidemic” to UN panel on overturning sodomy laws

Johnnie Moore standing just to the left of Donald Trump. Photo: Facebook/Michele Bachmann

The Trump administration held a panel on its efforts to decriminalize homosexuality around the world, but one panelist is getting attention for his anti-LGBTQ history.

The U.S. Mission to the U.N. held a side event alongside a meeting of the U.N. Security Council last week entitled “Decriminalizing Homosexuality in Solidarity with LGBTQ People.”

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The event was a panel discussion intended to highlight the Trump administration’s goal of decriminalizing homosexuality in the around 70 countries that ban it. At the meeting, which was attended by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Knight Craft and out U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the names of the countries that ban homosexuality were read.

“I want these countries to be called out,” Grenell said in prepared comments. “I want these countries to feel the pressure. This list should be read here every day.”

But the Trump administration’s message was undermined by the presence of Johnnie Moore – a member of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom and the founder of the public relations firm Kairos Company – who has a history of anti-LGBTQ statements and actions.

In 2008, Moore wrote a column for the far-right site OneNewsNow with the title “Hey, Let’s Make Middle School Lesbians!” where he decried the Katy Perry song “I Kissed A Girl,” arguing that the song was a sign that “media moguls” were trying to “alter the healthy development of our nation’s kids.”

“We are facing the rise of the most homosexually friendly generation in history,” Moore wrote. “Homosexual experimentation is also an epidemic. This is the fruit of years of marketing that has literally altered the worldviews of our nation’s 80 million millennials.”

According to GLAAD, Moore signed a letter asking Congress to step in and force D.C. to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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