Hateful Anti-LGBT Activist To Give WH “Easter Blessing”

April 10, 2020 Christianists, Hate Groups

Politico reports:

On Good Friday, Trump is expected to issue a prayer proclamation from the Oval Office. He will be joined by Bishop Harry Jackson, a Pentecostal preacher from Maryland, and together they will participate in a televised blessing while stressing the need for physical distancing over Easter weekend once more, according to two people familiar with the plan.

Trump was widely perceived as the least religious of his crowded GOP primary field in 2016. But his pivot to religious rhetoric as the country battles a dire economic crisis and public health emergency is rooted in historical precedent. The difference, though, is his delivery.

Between his prayer requests and discussions of national sacrifice, Trump has suggested that federal assistance to states is contingent on how “appreciative” governors are of him and he has refused to follow his own administration’s health recommendations.

Longtime JMG readers may recall Harry Jackson as one of the most viciously anti-LGBT figures active during the Obama administration.

Jackson has compared LGBT people to animals, Hitler, Frankenstein, Satan, and icebergs that will sink the country.

Perhaps most memorably, in 2012 he declared that he had cursed the LGBT newspaper Washington Blade into bankruptcy:

“One night I walked past one of those newsstands. As I was walking past it, I looked at that newsstand and they had some article about same-sex marriage and all that blasphemous stuff. And I laid hands on that newsstand and I said, ‘In the name of Jesus, I CURSE THIS PAPER!’ Less than two months, that paper went bankrupt. It was part of a six-newspaper chain! It went bankrupt! It went out of business! IT WENT UNDER! It did!”

The Washington Blade remains in operation today.

Jackson has filed multiple lawsuits, including before the US Supreme Court, to overturn same-sex marriage.

In 2009, Jackson was scrutinized for falsely presenting himself as a DC resident in order to have standing to challenge that city’s same-sex marriage ruling, telling Bill O’Reilly that LGBT activists had “hacked” into his residency records to expose him.



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