18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• IS MATT BARBER GAY?
• MATT BARBER’S BARBWIRE: GAYS, UNARIANS, AND SATAN, OH MY!
• MATT BARBER: IT’S ‘UNNSCNABLE’ TO ALLOW GAY PEOPLE TO ADOPT CHILDREN
• HOW MATT BARBER’S ANTI-GAY BARBWIRE IS PROVG THE CASE FOR LGBT EQUALY, ACCEPTANCE
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• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• AN HOUR OF MY LIFE THAT I’LL NEVER GET BACK: BARBER AND LABARBERA DISCS ALL THGS GAY
• ‘GAY’ DNC BUNDLER, FOUNR OF HRC CHARGED WH RAPG BOY
• MATT BARBER OF LIBERTY COUNSEL COMPAR GAY ADOPTN TO HAVG PETS

IS MATT BARBER GAY?

Relig Right activist and former Colorado state legislator Gordon Klgenschmt was joed stud at his “Pray J Name” webst this week by Matt Barber, the anti-LGBTQ activist who ns, and the nversatn quickly turned to their outrage over the fact that gay people are allowed to adopt children. To Klgenschmt and Barber, was obv that this child’s transgenrism was a form of child abe that had been forced on her by her gay activist parents and was evince of why gay upl should never be allowed to adopt children.

MATT BARBER’S BARBWIRE: GAYS, UNARIANS, AND SATAN, OH MY!

“It’s unnscnable that California law allows two women or two men who are engaged a so-lled same-sex marriage to go and adopt a child and tentnally prive that child or a mother or a father, ” Barber rpond, “and put them a home where homosexual misbehavr, immoraly and certaly behavr that leads to vastly creased risk of sexually transmted disease … For them to mol this immoral, uhil and unhealthy behavr, ’s unnscnable that California would perm that to happen. It’s safe to say that Bryan Fischer of the Amerin Fay Associatn has been partly supplanted as our rint go-to anti-gay activist when we want to dispel the anti-gay right’s claim that they don’t hate the lgbt muny and their homophobic actns are the rult of “ncern and love.

MATT BARBER: IT’S ‘UNNSCNABLE’ TO ALLOW GAY PEOPLE TO ADOPT CHILDREN

Barber, who no doubt nsirs himself as Barbara Streisand of the anti-gay dtry that he wr lumns, is a an at the extremely nservative Liberty Counsel universy, and published one ridiculo book on his anti-gay activism, seems to have outdone himself wh the foundg of onle publitn, Barbwire. In other words, a backdrop of a world where we are seeg more acceptance (not enough, md you) of lgbt people and fai and a basic unrstandg of our issu bee we are beg more out and vol, the last thg the anti-gay right needs is hyperbolic screechgs of “Nazis” and “Satan. Sometim we feel a ltle bad for wgnut's Wgnut Matt Barber, who spends so much of his time obssg about the Gays (and the threat they pose to Ameri) that we figure he mt be exhsted by qutg time every day.

HOW MATT BARBER’S ANTI-GAY BARBWIRE IS PROVG THE CASE FOR LGBT EQUALY, ACCEPTANCE

You see, Barber is Very Concerned about a HuffPo lumn by Mark Charl Hardie, which Barber characteriz thly:In a Febary 25 lumn headled, “Gay People Are Gods: Protectg LGBT Communi Is a Dive Right, ” Hardie go full Rabow Shirt.

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Unr the pretext of “mimizg troublg cints of anti-gay vlence, ” he shar that he has submted “an novative proposal” to the California State Senate to create “LGBT Squads” to enforce the “gay”, Matt, "Rabow Shirt" jt don't have the terrifyg ronance of "brownshirt, " but 's a nice try. Barber is pretty sure that Hardie's lumn prov that "homofascists" are jt chg to "pel, through any means possible (up to and cludg physil force), Christians and other dissenters to fully surrenr to their radil homosexual activist agenda. The goals of the proposed "LGBT Squads" are to better serve muni while mimizg troublg cints of anti-gay basilly, anti-gay-bashg teams that would allow "LGBT muni to wield police power backed by the force of law" and of urse to force Christians to bake penis k for gay weddgs, at gunpot if necsary.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

[ntextly_sibar id="QTCW50MESMEf77aYZy0UgzKcqlZlW8ba"]Barber is, of urse, terrified by Hardie's sistence that "we mt not only mand 'gay rights, ' but we mt also mand gay power'":To be clear, Hardie, a former staff attorney for CA ernor Pete Wilson and “public affairs tern” for Senator Barbara Boxer, is not llg for metaphoril “weapons” to enforce the “gay” agenda.

But Hardie's piece, more than beg terrifyg, is mostly jt a pretty dreadful piece of wrg; followg a horrific scriptn of a gay-bashg that he wnsed when he was ne years old, Hardie go jt the teensit b over the top, claimg that on the very same night, he jt happened to watch a viotape of Mart Luther Kg's "I Have A Dream" speech:I distctly remember Dr.

Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori. The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly.

AN HOUR OF MY LIFE THAT I’LL NEVER GET BACK: BARBER AND LABARBERA DISCS ALL THGS GAY

Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews. Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (AFTAH) was formed as a part-time venture 1996 by long-time gay-basher Peter LaBarbera, who reanized 2006 as a much more ser and fluential, if often vic, operatn. A one-time reporter for the nservative Washgton Tim, LaBarbera has been an energetic mpaigner agast “the radil homosexual agenda” sce at least 1993, when he lnched The Lambda Report, which claimed to do first-hand reportg to expose s gay enemi.

The same year, he posted an open letter to the Lhuanian people om long-time gay-basher Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), who has ma a seri of false claims about gays nng the German Nazi Party. DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet.

‘GAY’ DNC BUNDLER, FOUNR OF HRC CHARGED WH RAPG BOY

It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag. Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai.

In 2001, she hired proment anti-gay propagandists Robert Knight (now wh Coral Ridge Mistri; see below) and Peter LaBarbera (now wh Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy, above) to lnch CWA’s Culture and Fay Instute. CWA long relied on and displayed Knight’s articl and talkg pots, cludg claims that “homosexualy rri enormo physil and mental health risks” and “gay marriage entic children to experiment wh homosexualy. ” Last year, CWA acced the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), a group that works to stop anti-gay bullyg schools, of g that missn as a ver to promote homosexualy schools, addg that “teachg stunts om a young age that the homosexual liftyle is perfectly natural … will [e them to] velop to adults who are sensized to the harmful, immoral realy of sexual viance.

MATT BARBER OF LIBERTY COUNSEL COMPAR GAY ADOPTN TO HAVG PETS

In one recent say on the CRM webse, he argued agast allowg homosexuals to serve openly the ary, sayg that “Bible-believg Christians would quickly fd themselv unwele Barney Frank’s new pansexual, cross-drsg ary. In 2002, before jog CRM, Knight wrote that gay marriage “entic children to experiment wh homosexualy” and that acceptg homosexualy leads to “a loss of stabily muni, wh a rise crime, sexually transmted diseas and other social pathologi.

Both Dailey and Sprigg have phed false accatns lkg gay men to pedophilia: Sprigg has wrten that most men who engage same-sex child moltatn “intify themselv as homosexual or bisexual, ” and Dailey and Sprigg voted an entire chapter of their 2004 book Gettg It Straight to siar material. In a 1999 publitn (Homosexual Behavr and Pedophilia) that has sce disappeared om s webse, the FRC claimed that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of nsent laws and to eventually regnize pedophil as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual orr, ” acrdg to unrefuted rearch by AMERICAblog.