Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs for the anti-gay organization Liberty Counsel, marked World AIDS Day with a tweet on Friday declaring that AIDS is a metaphor of “God’s love for gays,” with a link to a photograph of a young AIDS victim on his deathbed.
The image linked to is a 1990 photograph published by LIFE magazine of a young man, David Kirby, dying of AIDS.
Barber’s tweet called it a moving photo of “sin” and “the pain of a father.”
The vehemently anti-gay Liberty Counsel devotes much of its time fighting against rights for LGBT people, opposes same-sex marriage, civil unions, and adoption by gays, supports banning gays and lesbians from serving in the U.S. military, opposes efforts to prohibit employment discrimination against gay workers, and opposes “the addition of sexual orientation, gender identity or similar provisions into to hate crimes legislation.
Matt Barber
Barber’s follow-up Tweet: “Another day of angry liberals, homosexual activists and atheists telling me I’m not a good Christian. I’ll take the endorsement…”
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and your hardening arteries and obesity is your gods way of saying you are a glutton.
this moron is using superstitions to be mean!and what about all the people in Africa where in 38states there’s the death penalty ,life imprisoment for homosexuality,torture etc is that the love of ”God” as well?cos most straight people have the virus as well!what a moron and a nasty piece of work this man is!
Don’t be a dick, John.
WHAT AN ASSHOLE! WHAT A LOVE! ONLY GAYS GET AIDS? WHAT AN IGNORANT!
He’s a twisted man, probably another closet case.
SICK. He’ll have his judgement day.
Who knew Liberty Counsel had such a Director — one did not think that they did “cultural affairs?”
When you’re blinded into unwavering obedience to a long-dead idea, empathy kind of flies out the window.
Or, more aptly put, he’s an asshole.
What a POS! Thinking that only “GAYS” get aids is like still thinking the world is flat! He should be sterilized to help contain his ingnorance.
who cares what that fucked up Jesus freak thinks – stop promoting gay bashing – Barber & Liberty Counsel are tyrannical theocRAT terrorists who should be arrested by The United States Department of Justice for inciting violence against American citizens.
QUEER SPRING DECLARATION
I DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE AUTHORITY OF HETEROSUPREMACIST APARTHEID
Evil. That is the only word I can think of to describe this man.
Wow….how ignorant. God gives homosexuals aids?!? Speechless!!!!
- I’d say his claimed deity is a sadistic hypocritical sociopath and needs some serious professional attention….but then again, as the saying goes, man creates God in his own image.
This sick individual should have his tongue cut out, and his lips sewn shut, and his fingers cut off so he can never ever talk, or communicate ever again!!!
And for those that think he’s a closet case…. PLEASE who in their right mind would want that???!!!
That shows quite simply that his “god” is nothing more than a Demon in Disguise. May the Judgement that he casts on others return and be cast upon him and his false deity.
If that is the case, how does he explain cancer, heart disease and every other debilitating condition that impacts every human on the planet? The wages if sin?
well that’s one fucked up way to say “I Love You”, to gays OR straights.
Why do we still promote homophobia? I don’t understand why we give them gratification by posting their hatred. We know he hates us, we don’t like it, but isn’t there way more important things we could be talking about?
God does not like ugly…
I’ve long thought that if God had created a gay “plague” that it would only have been so He could see how His people would treat its victims. Many of His followers failed the test.
Don’t be an “arse” senau Danny!!!!
Does this mean God doesn’t love lesbians, seeing as how we are the lowest risk group? Damn, I thought God loved me:-)
Sigh…..I lost a friend and her 3 year old to AIDS.. She was not gay, nor was her baby. I am sick to my stomach…
I’d like to open a can of whoop ass on him!
God will judge him. I can’t wait to see the look on his face when he is told that what he thought was service to God was actually hatred and bigotry.
So that must mean Breast Cancer is a metaphor of God’s love for Women? Glad we cleared that up.
He’s such a jerk! Most people in the world at large with HIV are straight. His god must want everyone infected.
If this is true then god loves some babies more than others.
Why is his tweet NOT surprising?! I’ve gotten into arguments on Liberty Counsel’s FB page, in which the ignorant asshat behind the comments spread similar hateful rhetoric against LGBTQ. What is surprising is that Liberty Counsel has yet to be designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. How much longer must this hateful garbage continue?!
poor guy!
Typical.
I wonder what he thinks about cancer… And diarrhea…
Idiot!
I want to beat this piece of shit with a pipe.
God: ” You know nothing of my work!”
these organizations are FULL of sexually repressed and oh-so-in-the-closets!
As a Minister this is Shameful. He is Shameful!
wot a twat
Whereas the picture – a VERY moving picture of Christ