Top Conservative Floyd Brown Fired by White House After Refusal to Recant Beliefs
"Floyd Brown has been a peaceful Trump supporting journalist who has posted thousands of pro-Trump posts with millions of readers over many years. In all the years that I have know him from my youth, he has always been a principled and devout Christian, " says Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate.
CNN is taking credit for prompting the firing of The Western Journal founder and former owner Floyd Brown, who only a month ago had taken a senior position at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The piece by CNN's Andrew Kaczynski describes Brown as a "far-right activist" who is a professing Christian and who has made statements in the past critical of the homosexual lifestyle and same-sex marriage.
The Bible identifies engaging in homosexual sex as sin in multiple passages, so Brown's views are certainly mainline Christian teaching.
The very first chapter of the Bible, in Genesis, records, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
And it adds regarding marriage in chapter 2, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."
Jesus affirmed this truth in the New Testament by quoting from the Old, saying, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?"
In February, President Donald Trump announced that he was naming Ric Grenell as interim director of the Kennedy Center.
The president wrote on social media, "Ric shares my Vision for a GOLDEN AGE of American Arts and Culture, and will be overseeing the daily operations of the Center. NO MORE DRAG SHOWS, OR OTHER ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA - ONLY THE BEST. RIC, WELCOME TO SHOW BUSINESS!" In other words, no more woke.
renell has been a Trump loyalist dating back to his first term, when he was acting director of national intelligence and ambassador to Germany.
By all appearances, he has acquitted himself well and is an effective communicator of Trump's America First agenda.
He also identifies as homosexual and is married to a male spouse.
I imagine most MAGA supporters are like me, holding to a libertarian view that adults should make their own life choices, and if he performs his official duties well, without discriminating against those who hold different moral views, that's what matters.
However, in his decision to fire Brown, that does not look to be the case.
Brown posted on social media platform X, "I was fired yesterday by @RichardGrenell from the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. One month ago, I was recruited to join the Kennedy Center as a Vice President.
"My firing came approximately two hours after @CNN sent an email asking me to comment on my past writings and statements about traditional marriage and homosexual influence in the @GOP," he added.
Brown further noted, "Comments rooted in my personal Christian views, which I have made in the past, have no impact upon my work here at the Kennedy Center nor do they impinge on my interactions with colleagues who do incredible work for the patrons of the Center. As a Christian I am called to work with others of different beliefs and worldviews."
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