Rep. Chris Smith Claims Obama Ignores Religious Persecution Overseas, Only Cares About ‘The LGBT’

Yesterday on “Washington Watch,” the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins said that the violent persecution of Christians in the Middle East is closely connected to “the religious intolerance that is growing here at home” under the Obama administration.

His guest, Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., agreed with his assessment of Obama’s purported “animus towards promoting religious freedom.”

The congressman alleged that the Obama administration is ignoring anti-Christian persecution because White House officials are either nonreligious or hostile to religion. According to Smith, they only care about “the LGBT, the abortion that is being promoted so aggressively overseas.”