10 Most Wildly Anti-Gay Preachers Ameri

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• 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• LIST OF ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPSELIMATE HATE·FOLLOW6 M READ·APR 13, 2017--LISTENSHAREIN 2016, THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER (SPLC) LISTED 52 ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPS THE U.S. AS SPLC STAT ON S WEBSE, “THE GROUPS ARE NOT LISTED ON THE BASIS OF OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE OR THE BELIEF THAT THE BIBLE SCRIB HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY AS SFUL. ANTI-LGBT GROUPS ENGAGE C NAME-LLG AND DISSEMATE DISPARAGG PROPAGANDA AND FALSEHOODS ABOUT THIS POPULATN, SUCH AS THE CLAIM THAT GAY MEN MOLT CHILDREN AT VASTLY HIGHER RAT THAN STRAIGHT MEN.”OUT OF THE 52 ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPS NATNALLY (FULL LIST AVAILABLE BELOW), SPLC HAS EXTENSIVELY PROFILED SIX OF THE MOST PROMENT ANIZATNS PEDDLG EXTREME, MALIC LI ABOUT LGBTQ PEOPLE. THE SIX GROUPS CLU:1. ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM (ADF)LOTN: STTSDALE, AZFOUND: 1994PRINT AND CEO: MICHAEL FARRISEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:FOUND BY SOME 30 LEARS OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, THE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM IS A LEGAL ADVOCY AND TRAG GROUP THAT SPECIALIZ SUPPORTG THE RECRIMALIZATN OF HOMOSEXUALY ABROAD, ENDG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND GENERALLY MAKG LIFE AS DIFFICULT AS POSSIBLE FOR LGBT MUNI THE U.S. AND TERNATNALLY. DPE S REGULAR FAMATN OF LGBT PEOPLE, THE GROUP HAS MANAGED TO W SPECIAL ADVISORY STAT AT THE UNED NATNS, THE EUROPEAN UNN, AND WH THE ORGANIZATN OF AMERIN STAT.2. FAY REARCH COUNCIL (FRC)LOTN: WASHGTON, DCFOUND: 1983PRINT: TONY PERKSEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:THE FRC OFTEN MAK FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT THE LGBT MUNY BASED ON DISCREDED REARCH AND JUNK SCIENCE. THE TENTN IS TO NIGRATE LGBT PEOPLE AS THE ANIZATN BATTL AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, HATE CRIME LAWS, ANTI-BULLYG PROGRAMS AND THE REPEAL OF THE ARY’S “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” POLICY.TO MAKE THE SE THAT THE LGBT MUNY IS A THREAT TO AMERIN SOCIETY, THE FRC EMPLOYS A NUMBER OF “POLICY EXPERTS” WHOSE “REARCH” HAS ALLOWED THE FRC TO BE EXTREMELY ACTIVE POLILLY SHAPG PUBLIC BATE. ITS REARCH FELLOWS AND LEARS OFTEN TTIFY BEFORE CONGRS AND APPEAR THE MASTREAM MEDIA. IT ALSO WORKS AT THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL, NDUCTG OUTREACH TO PASTORS AN EFFORT TO “TRANSFORM THE CULTURE.”3. AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN (AFA)LOTN: TUPELO, MSFOUND: 1977PRINT: TIM WILDMONEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:INIALLY FOUND AS THE NATNAL FERATN FOR DECENCY, THE AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN (AFA) ORIGALLY FOCED ON WHAT NSIRED CENT TELEVISN PROGRAMMG AND PORNOGRAPHY. THE AFA SAYS PROMOT “TRADNAL MORAL VALU” MEDIA. A LARGE PART OF THAT WORK VOLV “BATG THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” THROUGH VAR MEANS, CLUDG PUBLICIZG PANI THAT HAVE PRO-GAY POLICI AND ANIZG BOYTTS AGAST THEM. THE AFA HAS A VARIETY OF OUTLETS TO DISSEMATE S MSAGE, CLUDG THE AMERIN FAY RAD NETWORK, S ONLE ONE NEWS NOW AND THE MONTHLY AFA JOURNAL.4. LIBERTY COUNSELLOTN: ORLANDO, FLFOUND: 1989PRINT: MATHEW (MAT) STAVEREXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:THE LIBERTY COUNSEL WAS FOUND BY NSERVATIVE ACTIVISTS MATHEW (“MAT”) STAVER — AN ATTORNEY AND FORMER AN AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY SCHOOL OF LAW — AND HIS WIFE ANA. THE COUNSEL BILLS SELF AS A NON-PROF LIGATN, TN AND POLICY ANIZATN THAT PROVIS LEGAL UNSEL AND PRO BONO ASSISTANCE S ALG WH RELIG LIBERTY, “THE SANCTY OF HUMAN LIFE” AND THE FAY. MAT STAVER CHAIRS THE COUNSEL; HIS WIFE ANA IS THE PRINT. THE LIBERTY COUNSEL SHAR A CLOSE AFFILIATN WH LIBERTY UNIVERSY (FOUND BY THE LATE JERRY FALWELL LYNCHBURG, VA.) , PECIALLY THE UNIVERSY’S SCHOOL OF LAW. THE PARTNERSHIP CLUS THE WASHGTON, D.C.-BASED LIBERTY CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY, WHICH NDUCTS LEGAL REARCH AND WR ABOUT CURRENT LEGISLATN AND POLICI.5. TRADNAL VALU COALNLOTN: ANAHEIM, CA AND WASHGTON, DCFOUND: 1980PRINT: ANDREA LAFFERTYEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:PRBYTERIAN MISTER LOU SHELDON FOUND THE TRADNAL VALU COALN (TVC) 1980 TO SPREAD A “MORAL AND BEHAVR BASED UPON THE OLD AND NEW TTAMENTS” AND TO WARN AMERINS OF THE RISG “GAY THREAT.” THE TRADNAL VALU THE TVC FIGHTS FOR CLU: THE RIGHT TO LIFE (OPPOSN TO ABORTN AND THANASIA), CHASTY AND PATRTISM, ALONG WH OPPOSN TO HOMOSEXUALY, PORNOGRAPHY, THE TEACHG OF EVOLUTN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATN. SHELDON ALSO OPPOS GAMBLG, EXCEPT WHEN HE DON’T — 2000, HE HELPED KILL THE INTER GAMBLG PROHIBN ACT AFTER THE TVC RECEIVED A $25,000 CHECK OM ELOTTERY, A CLIENT OF NOW-DISGRACED FORMER LOBBYIST JACK ABRAMOFF. THE TVC, WHOSE PRINT IS SHELDON’S DGHTER, ANDREA LAFFERTY, CLAIMS TO REPRENT OVER 43,000 CHRISTIAN CHURCH ACROSS THE UNED STAT.6. WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH (WBC)
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI

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TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON

When he’s really hont, he’s quick to remd you that gays are g after your children and your grandchildren and sexually transmted diseas are God’s punishment for ’s not jt a Christian though, he’s also a patrt. ” Yup, that’ll teach ‘em, pecially bee nothg says “my son is gay” like a limp d of his sermon leaked onle, Fahful Ameri gathered 10, 000 signatur om people pletely appalled by Harris’ statements.

LIST OF ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPSELIMATE HATE·FOLLOW6 M READ·APR 13, 2017--LISTENSHAREIN 2016, THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER (SPLC) LISTED 52 ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPS THE U.S. AS SPLC STAT ON S WEBSE, “THE GROUPS ARE NOT LISTED ON THE BASIS OF OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE OR THE BELIEF THAT THE BIBLE SCRIB HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY AS SFUL. ANTI-LGBT GROUPS ENGAGE C NAME-LLG AND DISSEMATE DISPARAGG PROPAGANDA AND FALSEHOODS ABOUT THIS POPULATN, SUCH AS THE CLAIM THAT GAY MEN MOLT CHILDREN AT VASTLY HIGHER RAT THAN STRAIGHT MEN.”OUT OF THE 52 ACTIVE ANTI-LGBTQ HATE GROUPS NATNALLY (FULL LIST AVAILABLE BELOW), SPLC HAS EXTENSIVELY PROFILED SIX OF THE MOST PROMENT ANIZATNS PEDDLG EXTREME, MALIC LI ABOUT LGBTQ PEOPLE. THE SIX GROUPS CLU:1. ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM (ADF)LOTN: STTSDALE, AZFOUND: 1994PRINT AND CEO: MICHAEL FARRISEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:FOUND BY SOME 30 LEARS OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, THE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM IS A LEGAL ADVOCY AND TRAG GROUP THAT SPECIALIZ SUPPORTG THE RECRIMALIZATN OF HOMOSEXUALY ABROAD, ENDG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND GENERALLY MAKG LIFE AS DIFFICULT AS POSSIBLE FOR LGBT MUNI THE U.S. AND TERNATNALLY. DPE S REGULAR FAMATN OF LGBT PEOPLE, THE GROUP HAS MANAGED TO W SPECIAL ADVISORY STAT AT THE UNED NATNS, THE EUROPEAN UNN, AND WH THE ORGANIZATN OF AMERIN STAT.2. FAY REARCH COUNCIL (FRC)LOTN: WASHGTON, DCFOUND: 1983PRINT: TONY PERKSEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:THE FRC OFTEN MAK FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT THE LGBT MUNY BASED ON DISCREDED REARCH AND JUNK SCIENCE. THE TENTN IS TO NIGRATE LGBT PEOPLE AS THE ANIZATN BATTL AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, HATE CRIME LAWS, ANTI-BULLYG PROGRAMS AND THE REPEAL OF THE ARY’S “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL” POLICY.TO MAKE THE SE THAT THE LGBT MUNY IS A THREAT TO AMERIN SOCIETY, THE FRC EMPLOYS A NUMBER OF “POLICY EXPERTS” WHOSE “REARCH” HAS ALLOWED THE FRC TO BE EXTREMELY ACTIVE POLILLY SHAPG PUBLIC BATE. ITS REARCH FELLOWS AND LEARS OFTEN TTIFY BEFORE CONGRS AND APPEAR THE MASTREAM MEDIA. IT ALSO WORKS AT THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL, NDUCTG OUTREACH TO PASTORS AN EFFORT TO “TRANSFORM THE CULTURE.”3. AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN (AFA)LOTN: TUPELO, MSFOUND: 1977PRINT: TIM WILDMONEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:INIALLY FOUND AS THE NATNAL FERATN FOR DECENCY, THE AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN (AFA) ORIGALLY FOCED ON WHAT NSIRED CENT TELEVISN PROGRAMMG AND PORNOGRAPHY. THE AFA SAYS PROMOT “TRADNAL MORAL VALU” MEDIA. A LARGE PART OF THAT WORK VOLV “BATG THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” THROUGH VAR MEANS, CLUDG PUBLICIZG PANI THAT HAVE PRO-GAY POLICI AND ANIZG BOYTTS AGAST THEM. THE AFA HAS A VARIETY OF OUTLETS TO DISSEMATE S MSAGE, CLUDG THE AMERIN FAY RAD NETWORK, S ONLE ONE NEWS NOW AND THE MONTHLY AFA JOURNAL.4. LIBERTY COUNSELLOTN: ORLANDO, FLFOUND: 1989PRINT: MATHEW (MAT) STAVEREXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:THE LIBERTY COUNSEL WAS FOUND BY NSERVATIVE ACTIVISTS MATHEW (“MAT”) STAVER — AN ATTORNEY AND FORMER AN AT LIBERTY UNIVERSY SCHOOL OF LAW — AND HIS WIFE ANA. THE COUNSEL BILLS SELF AS A NON-PROF LIGATN, TN AND POLICY ANIZATN THAT PROVIS LEGAL UNSEL AND PRO BONO ASSISTANCE S ALG WH RELIG LIBERTY, “THE SANCTY OF HUMAN LIFE” AND THE FAY. MAT STAVER CHAIRS THE COUNSEL; HIS WIFE ANA IS THE PRINT. THE LIBERTY COUNSEL SHAR A CLOSE AFFILIATN WH LIBERTY UNIVERSY (FOUND BY THE LATE JERRY FALWELL LYNCHBURG, VA.) , PECIALLY THE UNIVERSY’S SCHOOL OF LAW. THE PARTNERSHIP CLUS THE WASHGTON, D.C.-BASED LIBERTY CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY, WHICH NDUCTS LEGAL REARCH AND WR ABOUT CURRENT LEGISLATN AND POLICI.5. TRADNAL VALU COALNLOTN: ANAHEIM, CA AND WASHGTON, DCFOUND: 1980PRINT: ANDREA LAFFERTYEXCERPT OM SPLC’S EXTREMIST PROFILE:PRBYTERIAN MISTER LOU SHELDON FOUND THE TRADNAL VALU COALN (TVC) 1980 TO SPREAD A “MORAL AND BEHAVR BASED UPON THE OLD AND NEW TTAMENTS” AND TO WARN AMERINS OF THE RISG “GAY THREAT.” THE TRADNAL VALU THE TVC FIGHTS FOR CLU: THE RIGHT TO LIFE (OPPOSN TO ABORTN AND THANASIA), CHASTY AND PATRTISM, ALONG WH OPPOSN TO HOMOSEXUALY, PORNOGRAPHY, THE TEACHG OF EVOLUTN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATN. SHELDON ALSO OPPOS GAMBLG, EXCEPT WHEN HE DON’T — 2000, HE HELPED KILL THE INTER GAMBLG PROHIBN ACT AFTER THE TVC RECEIVED A $25,000 CHECK OM ELOTTERY, A CLIENT OF NOW-DISGRACED FORMER LOBBYIST JACK ABRAMOFF. THE TVC, WHOSE PRINT IS SHELDON’S DGHTER, ANDREA LAFFERTY, CLAIMS TO REPRENT OVER 43,000 CHRISTIAN CHURCH ACROSS THE UNED STAT.6. WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH (WBC)

The lear of the famo Wtboro Baptist Church regularly pickets ary funerals, polil ralli, and gay pri gathergs to spread the msage that the bloodshed Iraq and Afghanistan is God’s punishment for toleratg gays. No stranger to ntroversy, the host of the 700 Club has done some outrageo thgs on his show like enuragg a father to seek anti-gay nversn therapy for his gay son, as well as pare gay marriage wh polygamy, btialy, and pedophilia.

A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head.

""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

Anti-LGBT groups engage c name-llg and dissemate disparagg propaganda and falsehoods about this populatn, such as the claim that gay men molt children at vastly higher rat than straight men. Alliance Defendg Freedom (ADF)Lotn: Sttsdale, AZFound: 1994Print and CEO: Michael FarrisExcerpt om SPLC’s Extremist Profile:Found by some 30 lears of the Christian Right, the Alliance Defendg Freedom is a legal advocy and trag group that specializ supportg the recrimalizatn of homosexualy abroad, endg same-sex marriage, and generally makg life as difficult as possible for LGBT muni the U. Tradnal Valu CoalnLotn: Anaheim, CA and Washgton, DCFound: 1980Print: Andrea LaffertyExcerpt om SPLC’s Extremist Profile:Prbyterian mister Lou Sheldon found the Tradnal Valu Coaln (TVC) 1980 to spread a “moral and behavr based upon the Old and New Ttaments” and to warn Amerins of the risg “gay threat.