GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) are set to headline an anti-LGBT religious conference this Thursday in Orlando on the two-month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub attack, reports the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Trump and Rubio will be speaking to hundreds of pastors in a private closed-door event sponsored by the American Renewal Project. The event will feature some of the country’s most vehement anti-LGBT activists, including David Barton, Bill Federer, Ken Graves and Mat Staver.

“The event ‘Rediscovering God in America Renewal Project’ is a who’s who [of] some of the country’s most hateful anti-LGBT persons,” read a statement from the activist group Faith in America. “It’s incredulous a Senator of [the] United States is willing to collude with individuals who are dedicated to oppressing LGBT people. The beliefs shared by this group actively harm LGBT people. This is not the America we want. God will not be found anywhere near that event.”

The Florida Renewal Project, the group behind the anti-LGBT conference, is an affiliate of conservative activist David Lane’s American Renewal Project, which hosts “Rediscovering God” conferences around the country, reports Right Wing Watch.

Lane warned that “homosexuals praying at the Inauguration” in 2012 would cause “car bombs in Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Des Moines, Iowa” as a sign of God’s judgment and that the “pagan onslaught” of the LGBT rights movement will lead to the destruction of America, reports Right Wing Watch.

“Homosexual desire and marriage is unnatural and — more so — is a symptom of advanced cultural decay and precursor to the collapse of the Republican Party and the nation…,” Lane warns. “The mark of a decadent society is the exaltation and normalization of sin — which leads to the death.”

“In attending this vehemently anti-LGBT event, Trump continues to show he is truly a danger to the LGBT community,” said Eliel Cruz, Executive Director of Faith In America. “He isn’t savvy enough to understand how he’s being manipulated by the organizers of this conference. It is reported organizers of the event want to ask Trump about how he plans to combat ‘homosexual totalitarianism.’ Trump will probably nod his head and say ‘yes’ to any anti-LGBT requests made at the conference as his campaign is driven by his ego and he’ll do anything, including courting the most anti-LGBT voices, to become president.”

Equality Florida and other groups plan to protest Rubio and Trump’s appearance next week.

“Senator Marco Rubio continues to insult the lives of 49 people killed in the worst hate crime against LGBT people in American history,” writes Equality Florida. “Just down the street from Pulse nightclub Marco plans to join some of the country’s most vehement anti-LGBT activists on 8/11 & 8/12.”

Equality Florida adds: “Together we will make it absolutely clear that hatred and bigotry will no longer go unchallenged, especially here in Orlando.”

In July, Trump endorsed North Carolina’s anti-LGBT bill, which bans transgender people from using public bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, and bans cities from passing anti-discrimination ordinances protecting LGBT people.

When a reporter from The News & Observer asked him if he supports North Carolina’s anti-LGBT bill, here what he said:



“I’m going with the state. The state, they know what what’s going on, they see what’s happening and generally speaking I’m with the state on things like this. I’ve spoken with your governor, I’ve spoken with a lot of people and I’m going with the state.”

Trump selected Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to be his running mate, a man with a horrendous record on LGBT rights issues.

Last year, Pence signed into law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that allowed businesses and individuals in Indiana to deny services to LGBT people under the guise of “religious freedom,” and shielded them from potential lawsuits.

Pence said his bill would help the people of Indiana who “feel their religious liberty is under attack by government action.”

“The legislation, SB 101, is about respecting and reassuring Hoosiers that their religious freedoms are intact,” said Pence in a statement at the time. “I strongly support the legislation and applaud the members of the General Assembly for their work on this important issue.

In response to the abhorrent anti-LGBT bill, major corporations threatened to boycott the state, including Angie’s List, who suspended plans to expand its Indianapolis headquarters. “Angie’s List is open to all and discriminates against none and we are hugely disappointed in what this bill represents,” Angie’s List CEO Bill Oesterle said in a statement at the time.

During his 2000 congressional campaign, Pence argued that money from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program should be redirected to organizations “which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.”

When the House voted in 2009 to expand the definition of violent federal hate crimes to include those committed because of a victim’s sexual orientation, Mike Pence voted against the legislation.

Pence was a vocal opponent to the repeal of the discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy.

“There’s no question to mainstream homosexuality within active duty military would have an impact on unit cohesion,” Pence argued, dismissing the repeal as “some liberal domestic social agenda.”