On last Tuesday’s “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins,” the Family Research Council’s executive vice president, Jerry Boykin, complained about the Trump Pentagon’s decision to continue holding an annual LGBT pride event, which he blamed on a lack of “courage” from Pentagon officials who aren’t “stopping this stuff.”
“This is a social experimentation, and it has so demoralized our military,” Boykin said. “And it’s not just gay pride day, it’s women in the infantry, it’s a variety of things that were part of the Obama administration’s agenda.”
Boykin said that he had “great expectations” that the new administration would be “stopping this kind of stuff,” but was disappointed.
“They may be otherwise very courageous people, but when it comes to this issue they have shown no ounce of courage whatsoever, and they’re better people than that,” he said of Trump-appointed Pentagon officials. “It is time to take this on and say, ‘We are not going to celebrate how people have sex.’”
Boykin went on to say that he is “saddened” that Defense Secretary James Mattis “doesn’t see” that “the biggest thing that has happened to our military” is not sequestration budget cuts but instead is “these social experiments where our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, coastguardsmen have essentially been told by the actions of the administration that your primary mission really isn’t as important as a social agenda, and therefore I will put you into combat, I will put you in harm’s way, but what I’m really concerned about is whether we allow women to serve in the infantry, whether we celebrate how people have sex. That is insane as far as I am concerned.”
