NYC mayor taps anti-LGBTQ pastors for city posts
metroweekly.comNew York Daily News. Salgado has long espoused anti-LGBTQ views, including criticizing “mortal sins” like abortion and homosexuality, during a 2013 run for mayor.
That year, he was endorsed by the National Organization for Marriage, which fights to make same-sex nuptials illegal. Two years prior, Salgado organized a march in the Bronx to protest the pending passage of New York’s marriage equality law.In 2013, Salgado blasted the city’s Parks Department for erecting statues in the Sheepshead Bay Holocaust Memorial Park in honor of non-Jewish victims of the Nazis, including homosexuals and political prisoners.
He claimed in a press release that it was inappropriate to build “controversial” statues, calling them “a betrayal of the community and even worse, disrespectful to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust.”“I am proud to serve in this administration under the leadership of Mayor Adams and share his long-held values of tolerance and inclusion,” Salgado said in a written statement put out by the mayor’s press office. “My views have evolved as society has evolved.
As MOIA assistant commissioner, my mission will be to lift up immigrant communities across our city, including LGBTQ+ immigrants, who often face barriers to accessing needed services.”Adams also seems intent on naming former Councilman Fernando Cabrera (D), a pastor from the Bronx, to some position in city government.
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