Bad Advice: Homosexual rights sympathizer Scaramucci selected for role as key adviser to Trump
Anthony Scaramucci, who describes himself as a
committed “gay rights activist,” has been picked for a top job advising President-elect
Trump that is comparable to Valerie Jarrett’s preeminent role in the Obama
White House, The
Washington Post reported
Friday.
As LifeSiteNews previous reported,
Scaramucci told BBC in
November: “I’m … a gay rights activist. … I’ve given to the [pro-“gay” Republican]
American Unity PAC ... to the Human Rights Campaign, I’m for
… marriage equality.”
“We don’t want to be on the wrong side of
history,” Scaramucci told the
Huffington Post last April, explaining why his investment company, Skybridge
Capital, gives to LGBT groups. Scaramucci, a 2012 Mitt
Romney mega-donor, last year invited “transgender”
activist Bruce
(“Caitlyn) Jenner to
speak at his annual SALT conference, which he
describes as
a “premier thought leadership and global investment forum” for fellow
hedge-fund investors.
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the nation’s
leading homosexual-bisexual-transgender activist PAC. The D.C.-based group endorsed
Hillary Clinton and
heavily criticized Trump during the presidential campaign. It generally
supports Democrats with donations.
HRC bought the web domain “Dump Trump,”
said he is “unfit for the presidency” and that he “spews hate toward LGBTQ
people.” Meanwhile, The New
York Times reports that
Trump is the most pro-homosexual major Republican candidate in U.S. history.
The Post
reported:
Anthony
Scaramucci, a prominent New York financier and confidant to President-elect
Donald Trump, has accepted a top position on the incoming White House staff,
where he will coordinate the administration’s engagement with the U.S.
business and political community, according to two transition officials
familiar with the decision.
Scaramucci’s
position, which is expected to be formally announced this week, is described
inside the Trump team as akin to the job held by one of President Obama’s most
powerful advisers, Valerie Jarrett, who directs the Office of Public Engagement
and Intergovernmental Affairs, according to the transition officials, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak
publicly.
The officials said Scaramucci will take over Jarrett’s
position but that the name of the office could be changed to what it was in the
George W. Bush administration, the Office of Public Liaison and
Intergovernmental Affairs.
By many accounts, Jarrett is one of the most
influential presidential advisers in U.S. history, attending almost every
meeting with Obama, even with foreign delegations. The liberal New
Republic reported
in 2014 in an article on Jarrett titled “The Obama
Whisperer,” that “Obama has said he consults Jarrett on
every major decision, something current and former aides corroborate.”
Boasts of gifts to
anti-Christian LGBT groups
A Trump transition team executive committee
member, the New Yorker Scaramucci is known for his colorful media commentary as
a frequent guest on TV financial talk shows. But he can be loose with the
facts: In his recent BBC interview, he got two things wrong: that homosexual
pop artist Elton John would be performing at Trump’s inaugural (John said he is not
performing), and Trump “will be the first
American president in U.S. history that enters the White House with a pro-gay
rights stance.”
On the contrary, both Bill Clinton and Barack
Obama ran as strongly “gay rights” candidates and then governed as
pro-homosexual presidents. And Trump does not favor legalizing homosexual
“marriage,” a position to which the outgoing President Obama infamously and
allegedly “evolved,” and as did both Bill and Hillary Clinton. (Obama’s top
aide, David Axelrod, later wrote that Obama was “[bull-sh----ing]” American
voters in 2007 when he ran claiming to support traditional marriage.)
Moreover, as a Republican candidate, Trump promised
conservative evangelical voters that
he would appoint judges who would be in favor of reversing the “shocking” 2015
Obergefell ruling through which the Supreme Court effectively imposed “gay
marriage” on all 50 states.
After being elected, however, Trump told 60
Minutes that
national same-sex
“marriage” is “settled law.”
Pro-family conservatives and people of faith,
especially evangelicals whom Trump actively courted, are wondering which Trump
they will get on January 20. Will it be the Trump who has surrounded himself
with socially conservative advisers such as Vice President-elect Mike Pence and
Dr. Ben Carson, or the Trump who in the past (and present)
has sympathized with the LGBT movement, like fellow New Yorker and confidant
Scaramucci.