{"id":506207,"date":"2019-08-06T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/michael-farris\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:44","slug":"michael-farris","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/michael-farris\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Farris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Praised<\/a> bill signed into law in Arkansas banning transgender students from participating in sports: \u201cCongratulations to the Arkansas legislature and Governor Asa Hutchinson for enacting a bill to protect women\u2019s sports. This is the kind of courage we need. President Trump wasn\u2019t perfect but he showed us what a political leader would do in the face of an attack. He fought back and never caved in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Vowed<\/a> to \u201cstop same-sex marriage from infecting every state in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Patrick Henry College<\/a>, a Christian college he founded, listed \u201chomosexual conduct\u201d as a \u201cnonnegotiable principle.\u201d The school\u2019s site reads: \u201cWe choose to limit our student body, board, and staff to those who are committed to our statement of faith. PHC is committed to a non-discriminatory policy in so far as it is consistent with our statement of faith. The practice of homosexual conduct or other extra-marital sexual relations is inconsistent with our faith position.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Coauthored<\/a> an amicus brief arguing for the United States Supreme Court to continue criminalizing gay sex. The brief read, in part: \u201cthe history of this country reflects a deep conviction that sodomy is criminally punishable conduct and not a constitutionally protected activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Testified<\/a> before Congress in favor of upholding and strengthening the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act, comparing marriage equality to bigamy: \u201cWhile lawyers can make arguments about anything and find state interests that never entered the minds of the legislators who made the law, any honest person would say that laws prohibiting same-sex marriage, just as laws prohibiting bigamy, were based on traditional majority views of morality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Insisted that<\/a> by accepting LGBTQ youth, the Boy Scouts lost their moral character, and that his son will not be a Scout: \u201cI have gay friends. But I do worry about a society that does not recognize homosexual practice as sin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014While chancellor<\/a> of Patrick Henry College, gained national attention for threatening an LGBT student blog with legal action.<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> Christians are headed to \u201cheresy trials\u201d and \u201cthe dark ages\u201d due to marriage equality.<\/p>\n

\u2014Insisted<\/a> that our country would begin a \u201cfatal descent into darkness\u201d unless Indiana\u2019s notoriously anti-LGBTQ \u201creligious freedom\u201d bill was allowed to stand. From Farris\u2019 Facebook post: \u201cHomosexuals first asked to be left alone. They won that battle. Then they asked to get married. They are on the doorstep of the final victory for that battle. Now they are demanding the right to punish anyone who refuses to join their celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Framed<\/a> Christian colleges that compromise on civil marriage rights as \u201cdangerous\u201d and instructed parents not to send their kids there.<\/p>\n

\u2014Called<\/a> it an \u201coutrage\u201d that the U.S. Supreme Court left in place California\u2019s state ban on so-called reparative therapy.<\/p>\n

\u2014Argued<\/a> that \u201cit is impossible to say that the God of the Bible would sanction rights of homosexual marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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