Trump’s Tillerson is Anti-Life, Supported Homosexual Boy Scout Leaders
Already facing concerns about his and his company’s ties to Russia, Secretary of State-nominee Rex Tillerson is also coming under fire from family groups opposed to his support for Planned Parenthood and gays in the Boy Scouts.
In his latest newsletter to supporters, for example, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said that the Exxon Mobil chief picked by President-elect Trump Tuesday to run State has backed several leftist issues.
“The last thing Americans need is a leader who would continue to advocate — however subtly — the leftist social policy of the Obama years,” he wrote.
His concerns add to others from conservatives who see Tillerson as out of touch with their views, especially on gays and abortion.
For example, the Heritage Foundation documented Exxon Mobil’s support for Planned Parenthood.
And FRC has noted the Eagle Scout’s support for opening up the Boy Scouts to gays, and also a tax on carbon emissions.
Wrote Perkins: “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. 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. 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.”