US:Pastor who called homosexuality an “epidemic” on UN panel on overturning sodomy laws

By Alex Bollinger 

The Trump administration held a panel on its efforts to decriminalize homosexuality around the world, but one panelist is getting attention for his anti-LGBTQ history.

The U.S. Mission to the U.N. held a side event alongside a meeting of the U.N. Security Council last week entitled “Decriminalizing Homosexuality in Solidarity with LGBTQ People.”

The event was a panel discussion intended to highlight the Trump administration’s goal of decriminalizing homosexuality in the around 70 countries that ban it. At the meeting, which was attended by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Knight Craft and out U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the names of the countries that ban homosexuality were read.

“I want these countries to be called out,” Grenell said in prepared comments. “I want these countries to feel the pressure. This list should be read here every day.”

But the Trump administration’s message was undermined by the presence of Johnnie Moore – a member of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom and the founder of the public relations firm Kairos Company – who has a history of anti-LGBTQ statements and actions. Read more via NBC