GOP Candidate, Christian Conservative Accused of Secret Same Sex Relationship
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| Abraham Enriquez gives a thumbs-up as he campaigns and greets voters during Tuesday’s Cinco de Mayo Parade in downtown Abilene May 5, 2026 | © Ronald |
Republican U.S. House candidate Abraham Enriquez denied a right-leaning website’s May 18 article claiming that he had a “physical,” “romantic,” but un-committed year-long relationship with a man he met via Grindr while Enriquez pushed for anti-LGBTQ+ policies as a student leader at Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Texas.
The article, published on the website The Current Revolt, contained screenshots of text messages allegedly shared between Enriquez and the man he met on Grindr in 2017. While the publication reportedly verified that the number in the text messages matches that of Enriquez’s personal cellphone and the cellphone number listed on his voter registration records, Enriquez denies the veracity of the text messages.
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The screenshots allegedly show the now-Republican candidate saying that he cannot host because he lives with four other guys, expressing uncertainty over whether he’ll ever come out, and responding that it’s “pretty intense” yet “perfect” after the other man comments on how sexually aroused Enriquez makes him.
In 2017, Enriquez was majoring in political science and serving as ACU’s student body vice president, the publication stated. In a YouTube video posted in January 2026 by Lubbock-based Trinity Church, Enriquez mentions vetoing a bill that would have allowed a LGBTQ+ student group to form at the university.
In the video, he says he felt compelled to veto the bill because he supports “traditional marriage” and is the grandson of a preacher. He said he considered resigning after students subsequently sought his impeachment, but his mother threatened to bar him from her home if he did because she raised him to stand on “biblical truth.” When asked about the accusations, Enriquez told the publication, “These accusations are ridiculous. My community knows who I am, and they can see this for what it is.” Enriquez claimed the report was a “last-minute smear” by Tom Sell, his political opponent, who Enriquez said was a lobbyist who donated “tens of thousands of dollars to liberal Democrats who pushed the transgender agenda on our children and then tried to throw President Trump in jail.”
Current Revolt reported that Enriquez has “positioned himself as a Christian conservative, taking stances against Pride symbols and flags, and promoting faith & family agendas.” His website professes his “pro-family agenda” and promises to “defeat the woke college cartels” and “the DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] bureaucracy poisoning higher education.”
“We must restore higher education to its real mission: education, not indoctrination,” his website states, echoing rhetoric of right-wing groups that oppose LGBTQ+-inclusive school policies.
Enriquez has been endorsed by Texas’ anti-LGBTQ+ Gov. Greg Abbott (R) but is expected to lose his primary runoff election against Sell on May 26, 2026, since Sell beat him by a 21.7-point margin in the state’s initial March 3 primary election.
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