Hypocrisy among conservative politicians has run high since the Orlando massacre on June 12, and on Tuesday it may reach its boiling point. Just one week after repeatedly touting himself as the real friend of the LGBT community, Trump is set to meet with the leaders of some of the most anti-LGBT hate groups in the country.
The private event, “A Conversation About America’s Future with Donald Trump and Ben Carson,” is being held in New York City and has been described by the Huffington Post as “a private meeting with over 400 of the most bigoted, most homophobic and most influential anti-LGBT advocates in the United States from Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins to James Dobson, founder of the Focus on the Family the bedrock of the religious right, which has been a prominent part of the base of the Republican Party for decades.”
As of this writing, more than 700 evangelical leaders reportedly are attending the closed-door event presented by United in Purpose, a right-wing Christian get-out-the-vote group, and My Faith Votes, whose honorary chairman is former GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson.
