Ivanka, smiling away at the rank homophobia surrounding her
Princess Ivanka has been hanging with the godbotherers.
It was an evening that featured a room full of LGBT prejudice and hatred, and in the photographs Ivanka Trump, alleged one-time supporter of LGBT equality, looked like she was enjoying every second.
Jim Garlow, senior pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, had the most pictorially successful evening at President Trump’s dinner for around 100 evangelical leaders held in the White House’s State Dining Room.
Garlow, whose passionate hatred of LGBT people appears as powerful as his taste for selfies, managed to get his picture taken with President Trump, Melania Trump, Karen and Mike Pence, Jared Kushner, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, and—most surprising of all, given that past professed support for LGBT people—Ivanka Trump.
Surprising not surprising. She’s in it for herself, for the money and fame. If that means snuggling up to homophobic preachers, then that’s what it means.
Ivanka, smiling away at the rank homophobia surrounding her, also had her picture taken with former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who likes to invoke “Sodom and Gomorrah” and “this day of wickedness,” and who has talked about the State Department’s “evil” in pursuing a “gay agenda”—meaning helping persecuted and vulnerable LGBTQ people in other countries.
.@robertjeffress with @IvankaTrump and @MicheleBachmann at @WhiteHouse evangelical dinner. @CBNNews @POTUS @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/kEzakLvIMs
— David Brody (@TheBrodyFile) August 28, 2018
Aw but look, she cleans up so nice. That’s all that really matters, isn’t it?
Other guests at the dinner included Franklin Graham, Billy Graham’s son, who first questioned President Obama’s Christianity (later apologizing for doing so), then accused him of “shaking his fist” at God for supporting same-sex marriage.
Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition turned founder and chair of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, was also there.
Reed has spent a career fulminating against LGBT people, from legislation against hate crimes to same-sex parenting, and describing the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act as an “Orwellian act of judicial fiat.”
These evangelical leaders and their fervent flocks have now found, in Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, two supremely powerful agents of government as keen as they are to pursue conservative social policies. In Trump, they have found a president desperate to maintain a base of support, which they offer.
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Pastor Jeffress told CBN that Trump had a 77 percent approval rating among evangelicals and was “the most pro-life, pro-religious liberty, and pro-conservative judiciary president in history which is why evangelicals continue to support him enthusiastically.”
The pussy-grabbing, the lies, the insults, the bullying, the corruption, the separation of children from parents – none of that matters, because he helps them impose their reactionary religious beliefs on everyone. Amen.
Prorities. They has them.
77% amongst evangelicals? Wow, even that number has gone down…
The lying and corruption are all in service to retaining conservative power so they are all fine, and the rest mainly harm women and brown people; i.e. a bonus. All the prominent figures have to say is “aww gee we wish he was not so tactless” which the punters understand as polite nothings that have to be said for public image purposes only.
Looking close-up, the princess appears to be snarling but her eyes seem terrified; she’s either rubbish at fake smiles, or being the sole Jew among 100 evangelical Christians has her in fight-or-flight mode.