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Center For Morality/AmericansForTruth.com president Peter LaBarbera was a guest Monday, June 9 on VCY America’s “Crosstalk” program with host Jim Schneider. You can listen to the interview above, or on Crosstalk’s website, or on Sermon Audio’s site. Here is Crosstalk’s summary of the program.
Peter LaBarbera is the founder and president of Center for Morality and Americans for Truth. He’s a former reporter for the Washington Times, LifeSiteNews.com, WND.com and a former contributing editor for Human Events.
Interestingly, some are turning away from the moniker of June as “Pride Month” and instead, some are pushing “Fidelity Month,” “Life Month,” as well as “Family Month.” Peter believes this is happening because the homosexual activist movement won numerous victories, including imposing so-called, same-sex marriage on America. Then they went “full-bore” on the trans issue. This invited considerable push-back, including from the feminists who didn’t want men invading female spaces such as sports. Then there was the gender reassignment surgeries for children. The result is that they’ve reached so far that they’ve hit a breaking point as all of this is turning a lot of people off.
Nonetheless, the homosexual activist movement continues to make headlines in various ways. For example: A Navy ship named after a gay rights icon is to be renamed. A girls high school softball team wins a championship via the arm of a male born pitcher. The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) doubles down on their pro LGBTQ stance. Get the details on these news items and more including what’s up with Target stores, Sesame Street and dangerous libraries.
Then candidate for president Donald Trump poses with homosexual couple, John Reid (right) and Alonzo Mable, after a campaign rally in Virginia last year. Reid is the GOP’s current candidate for lieutenant governor of Va. Photo: JohnReidForVirginia.com.
By Linda Harvey; this article was originally published 6/2/25 on MissionAmerica.com.
Despite the policy triumphs showered on America by Donald Trump, there remains a blind spot in his administration. And in the view of many of his supporters, it’s a big one.
I remain a cheerleader of so much of what the Trump people are accomplishing as they try to restore order and sanity to our nation. So it’s agonizing to witness a grotesquely disordered policy gain muscle on his watch.
The GOP under Trump’s influence is embracing open homosexuality and same sex “marriage” and expecting that his base will not notice. Guess what? Plenty of us are noticing, especially when it comes down to this: faithful Christians who support authentic marriage are being fired by open homosexuals appointed by Trump.
Ric Grenell, named by Trump to lead the Kennedy Center, apparently just fired the Center’s vice president Floyd Brown over past comments Brown made supporting traditional marriage. Grenell is openly “gay” with a male “husband.” Brown, who is pro-Trump, refused when asked to recant past comments of support for biblical sexual morality and traditional marriage, revealed in a CNN post. So he was shown the door.
At the very least, where’s the religious liberty Trump promises? And would it be too much trouble for Republicans to ditch the love fest with allegedly “conservative gays”? It was not hard to predict that eventually there would be a showdown of values.
And here it is. The Ric Grenells, Scott Bessents, Tammy Bruces are ultimately going to choose their aberrant desires over religious liberty for traditional Christians. Homosexuals are too committed to the road they have chosen, which is living a life that gives a big middle finger to God’s design for healthy sexual function and marriage.
But until they are overcomers, these are public figures who can mislead a lot of people as they stab faithful Christians in the back.
And as such, these folks are a danger to conscience freedoms and school policy initiatives rooting out pro-“LGBTQ” lessons and programs. They can stand up against gender distortion all they want—and that’s a good thing. But they and their GOP allies seem to draw a hard line at fighting the companion perversion of sodomy.
It’s highly likely the “gay-cons” look wistfully at today’s school climate where homosexuality is often openly affirmed. “If only…” they muse about their own adolescent years.
Media homosexuals like Dave Rubin and Guy Benson are similarly double-minded. Benson sent numerous scathing looks my way when I was interviewed in studio by evangelical Christian radio host Sandy Rios years ago, when he was her producer. I couldn’t figure out why this person I had never met was so rude until many years later when he announced his open homosexual identity.
My hope for all these people is that they grow up emotionally and spiritually, realize they were not “born this way” and embrace the bodies God gave them (and their best functions) as they reconcile with their Creator.
Grenell and Benson profess to be Christians, but I am very skeptical that anyone so openly committed to sin and so ready to ditch the clear instructions of Scripture is a true believer. For a refresher on what Scripture says, go HERE.
In another jaw-dropper, the GOP in Virginia is standing behind its lieutenant governor candidate, John Reid, a homosexual who also professes Christian faith. Trump expressed his support for Reid in 2024 at a rally in Virginia and even posed for a photo [see above] standing between Reid and his male lover, who regularly campaigns with him.
But would a true believer tuck dollar bills into the clothing of a drag queen performer, and smile for the camera, as Reid was pictured doing on an Internet site? Or allow himself to be photographed with a whole group of female impersonators? Reid, a former Richmond radio talk show host, has a much younger male lover to whom he is “engaged.”
His candidacy could spell doom for the GOP ticket in a state where Democrats are proposing a state constitutional amendment enshrining same sex “marriage” and Reid’s own position seems squishy at best.
“A 2021 study by political scientists Gabriele Magni and Andrew Reynolds found that Republican candidates perceived as LGBTQ+ suffer an electoral penalty of up to 14.8 percentage points among GOP voters and over 17% among conservatives overall. This so-called ‘identity penalty’ could drag not just Reid down, but any Republican linked to him by proximity on the ballot.”
And a 2025 Gallup poll tells the promising truth, that support for same sex “marriage” among Republicans has dropped 14 points in the last three years.
To be fair, this coziness by the GOP leadership with open homosexuals predates Trump. CPAC extended an invitation to the Log Cabin Republicans to exhibit in 2018, while denying an exhibit to pro-family Mass Resistance.
Let’s not forget former U.S. Senator Rob Portman from my state of Ohio, and his backing of same sex “marriage.”
Here’s what I wrote in 2021 about broadening Republican support for homosexuality:
“Mitt Romney. Marco Rubio, whose campaign was heavily backed by pro-homosexual billionaire Paul Singer and who famously said he believes homosexuality is not a choice. Lisa Murkowski. Susan Collins. The congressional representatives who voted for the ‘Equality Act’– John Katko and Tom Reed of New York, and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.
“Ric Grenell. CPAC. American Opportunity Alliance. Catalyst PAC. American Unity PAC. Big Tent Republicans. Log Cabin Republicans. The once-conservative Chamber of Commerce, now fully transitioned into a shill for the homosexual/ transgender agenda….
“In Ohio, we have our own troubling history on this. Former Republican Governor John Kasich surrounded himself with homosexual advisors and evolved into an open ‘LGBTQ’ advocate. Current Governor Mike DeWine has a checkered record that includes sporadic support for homosexual demands. Our current Secretary of State, Republican Frank LaRose, is a backer of Ohio’s version of the ‘Equality Act.’ Open homosexuals have served in key Ohio GOP party positions.”
And in 2022, four Republican Ohio congressmen—Mike Carey, Anthony Gonzalez, Dave Joyce and Mike Turner—supported the pro-homosexual “Respect for Marriage” Act.
Friends, this needs to change, because we see where it leads. We look like the hypocritical fools we are when party leaders wail about the 13- year- old boy secretly counseled to become “trans,” but apparently have no problem with a 13- year-old boy being instructed in “safe” anal sex for his “dates” with another male, as “LGBTQ- inclusive” comprehensive sex ed encourages.
It’s all perversion—we all know it — and stop pretending otherwise, even if there are seemingly well-spoken people in the “gay” camp. Until God gets a grip on their hearts, their venom and claws will emerge if they have authority over faithful Christians.
America is doomed if the most otherwise sane among us join hands with this movement. God is not mocked.
Below is an interview with my good friend Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival, who has done tremendous work over many years exposing Communists and other destructive leftist forces in America. We discuss openly homosexual Trump advisor Ric Grenell’s firing of longtime conservative activist Floyd Brown as a Trump appointee charged with cleaning up the “woke” Kennedy Center–because CNN dug up an old tape of Floyd criticizing homosexual activist GOP staff on Capitol Hill undermining the Party’s pro-family platform. So, ironically, the conservative Christian, Brown, was “canceled” by the gay guy ostensibly on his own MAGA team! (Sounds pretty “woke” to me; does President Trump approve?)
Incidentally, Grenell, sounding a lot like leftist “gay” theological revisionists, claims he was born gay and therefore was created that way by God. “So the fact of the matter is I fully embrace that I was made this way in the image of God and you can be gay and be a Christian. And there’s no problem with it,” Grenell told another “Homo Con,” Dave Rubin, in 2020.
We also discuss the candidacy of open homosexual Republican John Reid for Lt. Gov in Virginia, its implications for the GOP, as well as the leak of an uber-twisted perversion tape involving leftist journalist (and free speech advocate) Glenn Greenwald. The latter is a pro-homosexuality activist, a “gay parent,” a devotee of sadomasochism, and a favorite of conservatives (for defending Trump).
All of these stories are receiving little or NO coverage in the leading “conservative” media. That’s a problem. — Peter LaBarbera, Center For Morality; AmericansForTruth.news; X: @PeterLaBarbera
Trump embraces proudly ‘gay’ Lt. Gov. candidate and his male partner on the trail
Note: A version of this article first appeared in LifeSiteNews, published May 6,2025
By Peter LaBarbera, Center For Morality; AmericansForTruth.news
Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump poses with current GOP Virginia candidate for lieutenant governor John Reid (right) and his homosexual partner, Alonzo Mable (left), after a Trump/MAGA campaign rally in Virginia in 2024. At the rally, Trump acknowledged the men enthusiastically from the stage.
Has the Republican Party after a decade of Trump dominance and years of “homosexual conservative” advocacy been “flipped” to become a “gay-friendly” party? A party that no longer stands for preserving marriage as between a man and a woman?
It apears so, if the candidacy of John Reid, an out-and-proud homosexual and MAGA Republican running for lieutenant governor in Virginia (alongside his much younger boyfriend)—and its apparent widespread acceptance among the state’s Republicans—are any indication.
But the secular transformation of the GOP on this once-taboo issue will likely come at the expense of alienating and losing the votes of religious conservatives (socialcons) who for decades have been the backbone of the party. The few Virginia Christians who have spoken out publicly against Reid’s candidacy have been maligned—by fellow Republicans—as hateful, judgmental bigots, similar to how pro-LGBT leftists have savaged the “religious Right” ever since out-and-proud homosexuality was pushed into the mainstream of American politics more than half a century ago.
Reid, a pro-Trump former Richmond radio talk show host who favors repealing Virginia’s constitutional amendment banning “gay marriage” and hopes to “marry” his male partner of eight years, Alonzo Mable, became the VA-GOP’s candidate for lieutenant governor as the last man standing in the GOP primary, after a more prominent GOP candidate, Fairfax County Supervisor Pat Herrity, dropped out of the race due to illness.
Reid clearly is benefiting from Trump’s 2016 capitulation on “gay marriage” and his full, public embrace of homosexual couples, an entirely new twist in GOP cultural politics. It wasn’t too long ago, in 1995, when pro-family conservatives held enough sway in the Republican Party to pressure GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole to return a paltry $1,000 donation from the (homosexual) Log Cabin Republicans.
Flip ahead almost three decades and a video at the top of Reid’s campaign website shows Trump calling out his support of not just Reid, but also his male partner Mable, during a Trump MAGA rally in Richmond, Virginia in March 2024. Trump says, “And radio host John Reid and Alonzo. [Pointing to them in the cheering crowd:] They like you guys, wow!…”
Afterward, a beaming Trump posed for an official photo in between Reid and Mable (shown above), who is two decades younger than his aspiring politician boyfriend.
Dear Reader: As Center For Morality/AmericansForTruth.news resumes publishing after a long hiatus, we visit a little-noticed Rumble interview between Don Trump, Jr. and Ric Grenell, a longtime Trump loyalist who has become one of the most influential open homosexuals in President Trump’s political and governing sphere. This interview was posted more than a year ago, on May 2, 2024, but it is highly relevant to a new controversy involving Grenell: the firing last week of longtime conservative Christian activist Floyd Brown from a Trump-appointed position designed to reform the “woke” Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C. In a May 29 X post, Brown claims that Grenell fired him as VP of the Kennedy Center for not renouncing his past strong opposition to homosexual “marriage,” and for criticizing “gay Republicans” for undermining the GOP’s socially conservative Platform. (We will have more on the Floyd Brown firing, which has outraged many Christian Trump supporters, in future posts).–Peter LaBarbera, publisher; on X @PeterLaBarbera
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A key Trump aide, former Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell, says Republicans’ opposition to homosexuality has softened so much in recent years that “there’s no debate about [gay] “equality” in the GOP and being “anti-gay” could lead to people being “run out” of the party.
“I’ve watched how [conservatives have] changed on gay issues. … at this point, there’s no debate about [gay] equality,” the openly gay Grenell told former President Donald Trump’s son, Don Trump, Jr., in a May 2, 2024 interview on the latter’s show, “Triggered. ” “And now I really believe that you can’t be anti-gay in the Republican Party and not be run out of the party.”
“It’s really important for people to understand … that the [pro-gay] growth in the Republican Party has been enormous. Donald Trump has blown the doors off this process to really welcome gay conservatives in,” Grenell said excitedly, before tearing into the “gay Left.”
Grenell was appointed by then-President Trump (45) as U.S. Ambassador to Germany, before rising to Acting Director of National Intelligence, a cabinet-level position, in 2020. He is widely popular in MAGA world for his Trump loyalty and his strong defense of Trump’s “America First” foreign policy. In the current administration, Trump appointed Grenell as Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions of the United States.
Grenell’s cocksure assertion about the unpopularity of Republicans who oppose homosexuality—in line with pro-homosexual-“marriage” and pro-“gay parenting” statements by other leading homosexual conservatives (also called “HomoCons” or “GayCons”) like Dave Rubin—signals a growing confidence, bordering on arrogance, among this tiny portion of the Republican “big tent.”
With a shared self-interest in rationalizing their disordered sexual lifestyle, the GayCons have skillfully exploited Trump’s social liberalism and apathy toward GOP “culture war” politics. Trump’s nonchalance toward homosexuality goes way back; in fact, he was “introduced to conservatives at the annual CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) conference in D.C. in 2011 by activists with GOProud, a splinter group for homosexual Republicans that is now defunct.
Most Republicans probably are unaware that Trump as a New York City businessman once strongly advocated for “gay rights,” as he did most emphatically in a 2000 interview with the homosexual magazine The Advocate, in which he proposed making homosexuality part of U.S. civil rights law.
“I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward. We don’t need to rewrite the laws currently on the books,” Trump told the Advocate, responding to the question: “What would you do to combat antigay prejudice?”
“But amending the Civil Rights Act would grant the same protection to gay people that we give to other Americans—it’s only fair,” he said. “I actually suggested this first, and now I see [then-Democrat presidential candidate Senator] Bill Bradley has jumped on the bandwagon and is claiming the idea as his own.”
Twenty-five years later, with their legion of conservative media followers and allies, the GayCons make up a powerful force that could propel the Trump-dominated GOP to permanently abandon its longstanding Platform defending traditional marriage and opposing legal “rights” based on sex-and-gender aberrance.
If Grenell, other prominent homosexual conservatives and their libertarian allies succeed, they would effectively chop off one leg of Ronald Reagan’s cherished “three-legged stool” formula for electoral success in the Republican Party: 1) fiscally conservative tax-and-spending policies; 2) strong national defense and “peace through strength” foreign policy; and 3) traditional, pro-family and pro-life policies.
Surely, changing social attitudes, especially among Millennials and younger voters, are also driving the change in Republican approaches toward “gay” issues. But principled social conservatives and pro-lifers, mostly the biblically faithful evangelicals, traditional Catholics and religious voters who have long been considered the GOP’s voting base, find themselves increasingly alienated and ostracized by the gay-allied power-brokers in the GOP and conservative media.
Will the GOP go officially ‘gay’?
As a clearer picture emerges of Team Trump’s (including First Lady Melania’s) pro-homosexual-rights bent, and how unencumbered the President is by potential resistance from “the evangelicals,” as he calls them, it is time for principled social conservatives to come to grips with the real possibility that a President Trump 2.0 could transform the GOP into an officially pro-same-sex-“marriage” party.
A similar sea-change in core values occurred in the U.K.’s Conservative Party more than a dozen years ago under then-Prime Minister David Cameron, who bucked Tory social conservatives by advocating for legalizing “gay marriage” in the U.K., becoming an unlikely crusader for homosexual “rights.” The first legal homosexual “marriages” occurred in England in 2014.
In this scenario, a “modernized” GOP could officially sanction “gay marriage” (and gay adoption, etc.)—and even help deliver another public policy prize long coveted by LGBTQ+ activists (the “Equality Act”): making homosexuality, transsexuality and other “queer” lifestyles and identities the basis for federal “civil right” law, just like race.
