{"id":928684,"date":"2025-02-12T09:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/?post_type=gap&#038;p=928684"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:58:03","slug":"paula-white","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/paula-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/meidasnews.com\/news\/trump-faith-advisor-placing-lgbtq-foster-youth-in-safe-homes-is-wickedness-and-darkness\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Criticized<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> government policies aimed at ensuring LGBTQ youth in foster care are placed in safe and affirming homes. She described these policies as an attack on Christianity, saying, \u201cThis administration has put out memos&#8230; that say basically if you do not teach and train on an LGBTQ agenda&#8230; then you are a hostile environment&#8230; This is an ideology against God, against our faith and against our right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepinknews.com\/2025\/02\/10\/paula-white-cain-white-house-faith-officer-lgbtq\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Falsely<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> claimed that the Biden administration declared March 31, 2024 (which coincided with Easter Sunday), as Transgender Day of Visibility. No such declaration was made. She tweeted: \u201cThe White House issued a formal proclamation recognizing today, our Easter Sunday, as Transgender Day Of Visibility. They quickly found out it offended masses of Christians, people of faith, who are the backbone of this country and it moved them to swift action voicing their commitment to fight harder than ever before for those who support their values, fight for their freedoms and certainly recognize their most holy sacred day. Thank you President Trump who quickly responded to the Biden Administration to issue an apology, which they did not.\u201d The Biden administration did not issue an apology for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/white-house-bashes-dishonest-republican-criticism-bidens-transgender\/story?id=108687647\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">coincidence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Transgender Day of Visibility is always celebrated on March 31st; Easter is celebrated on different days every year according to the lunar calendar.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The White House issued a formal proclamation recognizing today- our Easter Sunday- as Transgender Day Of Visibility. They quickly found out it offended masses of Christians- people of faith &#8211; who are the backbone of this country and it moved them to swift action voicing their\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paula White-Cain (@Paula_White) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paula_White\/status\/1774487129206243499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014Supported Trump\u2019s first administration&#8217;s policies, including those targeting transgender people&#8217; rights, such as banning transgender people from serving in the military.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplefor.org\/rightwingwatch\/paula-white-back-white-house\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opposes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> marriage equality and has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/paulawhite.org\/teaching-articles\/welcome-back-to-the-church\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preached<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against it. 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