Ivanka Trump, Supposed LGBTQ Ally, Poses With Anti-Gay Preachers
Ivanka Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner, were once held out as an exception to the anti-LGBTQ Trump administration rule. The pair were even given credit for slowing Trump down on his path to stripping LGBTQ people of their rights through executive order.
And while that first order wasn't as aggressive as early reports made the community fear it might be, the rollback of rights under Trump has gone on at breakneck pace. From trying to keep transgender people out of the military, to rescinding trans student protections, to providing religious based carve-outs in civil rights law, the current administration has made it clear which side of this culture divide they are on.
White House Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump speaks alongside US President Donald Trump at US Steel's Granite City Works steel mill in Granite City, Illinois July 26, 2018.
Ivanka Trump attempted to position herself as an ally last year with a tweet wishing everyone a happy Pride, which was more than her father did, but the lip-service already fell flat. Since then, she has donated to an anti-LGBTQ church, for an effort whose stated purpose is to help migrant children in need.
And on Monday night, she took part in the White House dinner hosting evangelical leaders, whose support Trump has somehow managed to maintain despite being an unindicted co-conspirator in federal crimes, who has admitted to directing hush money be paid to a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair.
An Ivanka Trump impersonator attends the Drag Protest Parade against Trump in London.
Ivanka smiled her brightest smile next to anti-LGBTQ preachers Rev. Jim Garlow, the pastor of Skyline Church in La Mesa, California, and televangelist Robert Jeffress.
Kushner also got in the picture with Garlow as well, whose anti-LGBTQ rhetoric includes calling marriage equality demonic, and comparing children who lost parents during 9/11 with the children of same-sex parents.
Jeffress, for his part, has attempted to connect homosexuality to pedophilia, and has said that 70% of gay people have AIDS. He has also anti-Semitic statements, including that Jewish people are going to hell.
