Hate group leader Tony Perkins appeared on Fox News this morning to discuss Trump’s National Prayer Breakfast vow to undo the Johnson Amendment, which bans tax-exempt religious organizations from endorsing political candidates. The host then turned the conversation to last night’s leak of a sweeping draft executive order that would legalize anti-LGBT discrimination.
As he routinely does, Perkins dismissed the concern of progressive and LGBT groups, declaring that people who support LGBT rights have “no faith in our free market system because people are going to be driven by profit.” Perkins expressed optimism that Trump will issue the order, concluding, “We shouldn’t be forcing people to do something that’s against their faith.”