Anti-LGBT activist Peter LaBarbera is
calling on the Religious Right to monitor President-elect Donald
Trump on LGBT rights and same-sex marriage.
Speaking on Focal Point, Bryan
Fischer's American Family Association (AFA) radio program, LaBarbera,
president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), said
that he was alarmed that few conservatives responded to Trump's
comments about marriage equality during a recent 60 Minutes
interview. While refusing to disclose where he stands on the issue,
Trump said that he was “fine” with last year's Supreme Court
finding that gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to
marry, saying that the decision had “settled” the issue.
(Related: Trump
“fine” with Supreme Court gay marriage ruling.)
Fisher noted other incidents, including
gay entrepreneur Peter
Thiel's involvement in the Trump campaign and Trump
waving a rainbow flag at a campaign rally, which raise “real
questions” about where the president-elect stands on LGBT rights.
“If Donald Trump, as a Republican,
begins to promote homosexuality as a civil right and so-called gay
marriage and homosexuality abroad,” LaBarbera
said, “coming as a Republican, that is actually more dangerous
than Hillary [Clinton] because everyone expected Hillary to promote
homosexuality just like Obama did. But when a Republican does it,
then the media is able to say, ‘Oh look, the consensus in the
conservative movement is gone, you can’t even resist homosexuality,
you’re a fringe movement.’ So this is of immense importance and I
would call on all pro-life and pro-family leaders not to look the
other way if and when Trump promotes homosexuality or same-sex
marriage.”