NYC Mayor Pushes Christian “Death to Gays” Pol for City Post

LGBTQ people outraged Mayor Adams pushing Fernando Cabrera

Former NYC Council member Fernando Cabrera in the Bronx in 2017. Cropped from official NYC DOT photo. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Shortly after Uganda lawmakers passed a “life in prison” law for homosexuality, and while they debated restoring the death penalty, a Democratic politician and Christian pastor from the Bronx named Fernando Cabrera traveled there and praised them for fighting homosexuality, claiming all government officials must first be servants of the Christian God.

• Cabrera made clear he supports harsh criminal penalties for gay people.
• Cabrera made clear he opposes Church/State separation.
• Cabrera made clear religious diversity is not what his God wants.
• Cabrera endorsed dangerously ignorant claims about HIV, directly opposite to reality, claims public health experts say help encourage the spread of HIV. (For more about Cabrera’s dangerous HIV claims, see extra content at the bottom of this article.)

Will Cabrera be bringing his dangerous views to New York City government? That sounds absurd, but it looks like the answer is yes.