7 Trump Actions Evangelicals Did Not Like
6. Nominating Rex Tillerson
Some social conservative and evangelical activists, such as Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, were wary when it was announced last December that Trump would nominate former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state.
Perkins had raised an alarm about Tillerson's past with the Boy Scouts of America and his involvement in the decision to allow gay troop leaders.
"Now, after two terms of exporting radical social policy, Americans could finally see the light at the end of the Obama administration tunnel. To hear that Donald Trump may be appointing a man who not only led the charge to open the Boy Scouts to gay troop leaders but whose company directly gives to Planned Parenthood is upsetting at best," Perkins wrote. "FRC knows Tillerson all too well, having worked for years to put the brakes on his reckless agenda for a scouting organization that was already dealing with staggering numbers of sexual abuse cases."
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"Unfortunately, the BSA, under Tillerson, ultimately caved to the pressure of the far-Left, irreparably splitting the Scouts and destroying a proud and honorable American tradition. Under his chairmanship, ExxonMobil's score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate 'Equality' Index has also skyrocketed to 87 percent," Perkins continued. "Still, Trump calls Rex a 'world class player and dealmaker,' but if these are the kinds of deals Tillerson makes — sending dollars to an abortion business that's just been referred for criminal prosecution and risking the well-being of young boys under his charge in an attempt to placate radical homosexual activists — then who knows what sort of 'diplomacy' he would champion at DOS?"
