Trump Hosts LGBT Gala

An LGBT group, the Log Cabin Republicans, held a “Spirit of Lincoln” gala at Mar-a-Lago. The event was described as a “joyous celebration of gay rights.” Trump proclaimed at the gala that “we are fighting for the gay community, and we are fighting and fighting hard.” Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins expects evangelical voters to hold Trump to his platform stances in the past, saying “‘Marriage is an institution between one man and one woman’ is a tenet of the Republican Party platform, which Trump embraced as both a candidate in 2016 and as the incumbent in 2020…he set a benchmark, which I think evangelical, SAGECon voters are going to hold him accountable to.”

From The Washington Stand:

“It’s not the first time, actually, that we’ve seen the Log Cabin [Republicans] have an event there in Mar-A-Lago,” said FRC president Tony Perkins on “Washington Watch.” In fact, “other Republican leaders have been involved in the past. What was encouraging to see this time around [was] that we did not see the RNC involved.”

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But Perkins said Trump could lose support among evangelicals and SAGECons if he reneges on his commitment to family, marriage, and religious freedom. “He can’t go down this path of trying to champion the redefinition of marriage and the confusion that comes with all this gender ideology — he can’t expect to have the same support that he has enjoyed, embracing these types of policies. Nor can any other Republican or Democratic candidate for that matter.” Perkins repeated himself for emphasis, “if the quotes attributed to [Trump] from last Thursday’s event are accurate, he cannot go down that path and expect evangelical support to be as strong as he’s seen it in the past.”

Backholm wondered whether Trump’s hosting a gala to celebrate same-sex marriage could signal an attempt by his followers to change the party platform. “We need to pay attention to this,” Perkins responded. “We’ve got to be very clear, and we have been.” Perkins was a member of the platform committee in 2016. He attributed the RNC’s decision to step away from the Log Cabin Republicans, at least in part, to the party platform’s clarity on marriage. “They realize the importance of the party platform and the importance of that platform to conservative, evangelical, SAGECon voters.”

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