Tony Perkins Signals US to Abandon LGBTQ Rights Abroad

Religious extremism at the heart of Trump administration

James Finn
James Finn - The Blog
6 min readJan 9, 2020

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Tony Perkins speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC. Photo by Gage Skidmore on Wikimedia Commons

Contradicting previous Trump Administration announcements, Tony Perkins, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, has signaled that the US will not pressure foreign governments to end criminalization of homosexuality. Perkins is a prominent evangelical

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James Finn
James Finn - The Blog

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.