NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 07: Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President and a Democratic mayoral candidate, speaks after receiving the endorsement from the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) in the Bronx on May 07, 2021 in New York City. In a new poll conducted by Washington, D.C.-based firm GQR, Eric Adams is leading the field of mayoral candidates for the first time. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Prior to being selected as a faith adviser by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, City Councilman Fernando Cabrera said repeatedly that gay marriage was “unacceptable.” He once praised a Ugandan law that made certain homosexual behavior punishable with life in prison.
Cabrera is among several of Adams’s new hires with anti-gay views.
Rev. Erick Salgado, named as assistant commissioner for immigrant affairs, has a history of anti-LGBT views as well. He referred to homosexuality as a mortal sin in his 2013 campaign as mayor. “My views have evolved as society has evolved,” Salgado said recently.
Adams has rejected the criticism, saying the hires are “best for the City of New York” and claiming that the two conservative pastors are sorry for their past views.
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