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Anti-gay activists gather outside HRC headquarters to denounce Pride Month
WASHINGTON — A group of leading anti-gay activists led by Peter LaBarbera, president of The Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), held a press conference in front of the Human Rights Campaign’s national headquarters on Tuesday to denounce LGBT Pride month.
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Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber compares gay adoption to having pets
WASHINGTON — Liberty Counsel’s Mathew D. Staver and Matt Barber, in their daily radio and web broadcast Tuesday, compared adoption by gay parents to having having pets.
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Matt Barber tweets homophobic cartoon of gay man tricking Boy Scout into sex
As one of the most nasty and mean-spirited figures of the Religious Right, it was no surprise to see Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel tweet this cartoon implying that a gay Boy Scout troop leader would sexually assault his scouts:
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Bachmann to headline conference of anti-gay, anti-women’s rights activists, birthers, truthers
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will be joining some of the most extreme right-wing activists in the country at the upcoming Awakening 2013 conference, which is organized by the Liberty University-affiliated Liberty Counsel.
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Matt Barber: Tolerance of homosexuality is ‘a cancer that brings down societies’
On Wednesday’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, Matt Barber and Mat Staver once again made their case against marriage equality, with Barber declaring that tolerance “of all forms of sexual deviant behavior” is “a cancer that brings down societies” and linking it to the strange theory that gay marriage was the catalyst for Noah’s flood.
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Matt Barber: Children of same-sex couples live in ‘disordered, dysfunctional households’
Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber joined talk show host Sandy Rios today where he maintained that the children of same-sex couples are in “disordered and dysfunctional households where immorality is being modeled that is obviously not the gold standard and not the best environment for them.”
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Barber, Staver: When the Constitution was written, homosexuality was a ‘crime against nature’
Mat Staver and Matt Barber were discussing the two amicus briefs that Liberty Counsel has filed with the Supreme Court for the hearings on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8, claiming that it is “absurd” to think that the Constitution guarantees any right to same-sex marriage because at the time the Constitution was written, homosexuality was widely considered to be a “crime against nature.”
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Liberty Counsel appeals ruling, calls limits on ex-gay therapy ‘child endangerment’
After a district court judge rejected their challenge of California’s law prohibits therapists from practicing dangerous sexual orientation conversion therapy on minors, Liberty Counsel has decided to appeal the ruling and has continued to portray the law as a boon to child predators.
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Liberty Counsel unveils ‘meme’ likening gays to drug addicts
As more conservatives argue that Religious Right groups need to take a more aggressive stance against the gay community in the wake of a disastrous election cycle, Liberty Counsel has come out with a meme maintaining that the government should treat gays and lesbians just like drug addicts.
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Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber: AIDS a metaphor of ‘God’s love for gays’
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.