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by HRC Staff •
On Friday, Donald Trump will become the first sitting U.S. president to speak at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering in Washington, D.C., of the nation’s most extreme anti-LGBTQ politicians, candidates and activists.
On Friday, Donald Trump will become the first sitting U.S. president to speak at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering in Washington, D.C., of the nation’s most extreme anti-LGBTQ politicians, candidates and activists.
Trump, who last year addressed the group as a candidate, will again be keeping company with extremists who have made their careers seeding anti-LGBTQ hate in the U.S. and around the world -- from Vice President Mike Pence and former presidential advisor Steve Bannon, to the racist, bigoted Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Alabama.
The 12th annual event is sponsored by the Family Research Council, an organization that has been designated a hate group for its anti-LGBTQ agenda by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Past summits have featured cavalcades of radical speakers who have attacked marriage equality and transgender people, advocated criminal sanctions against LGBTQ people, compared LGBTQ people to pedophiles, and promoted the dangerous, debunked practice of “conversion therapy.”
This year’s gathering is no exception, serving up another agenda of bigotry and hate that includes these featured speakers:
Other anti-LGBTQ extremists who will be featured include Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel and former U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), whose life was saved by a lesbian police office during a shooting in June, is also among the scheduled speakers.
The Values Voter Summit enshrines the Trump-Pence administration’s embrace of the nation’s most radical anti-LGBTQ voices.
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