Trump nominates homophobic former Family Research Council chief to board of 'religious freedom' crusaders

It was announced Tuesday that President Donald Trump nominated Gary Bauer to be the latest member of the Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Bauer once led the Family Research Council, the anti-LGBT organization that advocates that homosexuals are harmful to society. The group has even been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Before that, Bauer was known for his opposition to having an LGBT advisor to former President Ronald Reagan's Commission on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the 1980s.

"Millions of Americans try to raise their children to believe that homosexuality is immoral," he wrote in a 1987 memo. "In many states homosexual practices are illegal, including sodomy. For you to appoint a known homosexual to a Presidential Commission will give homosexuality a stamp of acceptability. It will drive a wedge between us and many of our socially conservative supporters."

Candidate Donald Trump boasted of his support for LGBT Americans during the 2016 campaign.

"Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs," Trump even wrote in a June, 2016 tweet.