{"id":506231,"date":"2012-03-06T20:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/mat-and-anita-staver\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:55","slug":"mat-and-anita-staver","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/mat-and-anita-staver\/","title":{"rendered":"Mat and Anita Staver"},"content":{"rendered":"

All quotes are attributed to Mat Staver, except those attributed specifically to Anita Staver. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014In the wake of the massacre of LGBTQ people at the Pulse nightclub in Florida said<\/a>, \u201cAs tragic as it is, some of these officers have no doubt gone through trauma as well because they were going through the Pulse nightclub, it was blood everywhere and, you know, they\u2019re having to get tested for AIDS-related conditions because they\u2019re literally walking in pools of blood.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014Asserted<\/a> that gay judges should not be allowed to adjudicate cases involving religious liberty for Christians because they cannot be fair and impartial. <\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> the county clerk who refused to do her job and issue a marriage license to a gay couple is just like a Jew living in Nazi Germany: \u201cWhat happened in Nazi Germany, what happened there first, they removed the Jews from government public employment, then they stopped patronizing them in their private businesses, then they continued to stigmatize them, then they were the \u2018problems,\u2019 then they killed them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> LGBTQ activists are like terrorists.<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a>, without a shred of proof, that people behind transgender bathroom accommodations in North Carolina are pro-pedophile activists: \u201cThey have been identified, some of them that have been advocating this, as pedophiles\u201d; \u201cSome of this is being financed by those who are actively promoting pedophilia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014In response to Target\u2019s policy as of April 2016 in which transgender people are welcome \u201cto use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity,\u201d Anita Staver tweeted<\/a> 9since deleted) \u201cI\u2019m taking a Glock .45 to the ladies room. It identifies as my bodyguard. #BoycottTarget @Target.\u201d After backlash against this tweet, she responded<\/a>, \u201cI can\u2019t remember the last time I was in a public restroom without a gun.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014Suggested marriage equality should lead opponents to rise up and fight \u201canother American Revolution.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

\u2014Or a civil war, perhaps<\/a>: \u201c[The marriage fight] is the thing that revolutions literally are made of. This would be more devastating to our freedom, to our religious freedom, to the rights of pastors and their duty to be able to speak and to Christians around the country, then anything that the revolutionaries during the American Revolution even dreamed of facing. This would be the thing that revolutions are made of. This could split the country right in two. This could cause another civil war. I\u2019m not talking about just people protesting in the streets, this could be that level because what would ultimately happen is a direct collision would immediately happen with pastors, with churches, with Christians, with Christian ministries, with other businesses, it would be an avalanche that would go across the country.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed LGBTQ advocates are doing \u201cthe bidding of the devil.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed negotiating with what he calls \u201chomofascists\u201d (e.g., advocacy groups including GLAAD) is \u201calmost like negotiating with terrorists.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014On coexisting with LGBTQ rights: \u201cYou cannot coexist, you cannot give up on something, that is literally an attack on God himself.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed marriage equality obliterates the idea of God<\/a>: \u201cSame-sex marriage is ultimately the abolition of gender; it\u2019s ultimately the abolition of any moral behavior with regards to human sexuality. This whole assault on marriage is really an attempt to obliterate not only morality but Judeo-Christian morality, to obliterate marriage and to even obliterate the idea that there even is a God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014On the repeal of the discriminatory \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d: \u201cWe believe they\u2019ve slapped the military in the face<\/a> and have betrayed the men and women in the service by using the military to push the homosexual agenda. We will ask the House to refuse to fund the repeal, which will take millions of dollars to fund.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed: \u201cSame-sex marriage, same-sex relationships is [sic] destructive to individuals and it\u2019s destructive to our very social fabric.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

\u2014Said: \u201cWe are facing the survival of western values, western civilization<\/a>\u2026. One of the most significant threats to our freedom is in the area of sexual anarchy with the agenda of the homosexual movement, the so-called LGBT movement. It does several things, first of all it undermines family and the very first building block of our society, but secondly, it\u2019s a zero-sum game as well and it\u2019s a direct assault on our religious freedom and freedom of speech.\u201d (0:00\u20140:36)<\/p>\n

\u2014Said the LGBTQ movement constitutes \u201cthe abolition of civil rights\u201d<\/a>: \u201cThe transsexuals, some of the other bizarre things we\u2019re starting to see like this, [lesbians and gays] wanted to push off later. Don\u2019t put them in the cameras or the media because the public will have a reaction to it. Now they\u2019re beginning to parade them out, and it\u2019s becoming part of their overall abolition of gender notion that if you abolish\u2014if you ultimately have this accepted by society, that a man can be identified as a woman and a woman can be identified as a man and you out to have civil rights that follow your subjective, inner thoughts. Then they ultimately create sexual anarchy; they create an abolition of morality, and they ultimately achieve their goal\u2014which is to literally to explode marriage, and to literally abolish any moral absolute objective truth. If this is civil rights, this is the abolition of civil rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

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