{"id":506284,"date":"2012-03-05T19:43:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/matt-barber\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:56","slug":"matt-barber","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/matt-barber\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Barber"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Launched Christian Civil Rights Watch<\/a> with co-founder and fellow anti-LGBTQ activist Gordon Klingenschmitt and named as its targets most LGBTQ organizations (including the Log Cabin Republicans). Declares that \u201c\u2018Gay Pride\u2019 necessitates anti-Christian hate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says it\u2019s \u201cunconscionable<\/a>\u201d that gay couples are permitted to adopt children.<\/p>\n

\u2014Believes<\/a>: \u201cUnnatural behaviors beget natural consequences. \u2018Gay\u2019 is not who they are. \u2018Gay\u2019 is what they do. You think me callous. You think I hate. I\u2019m not and I don\u2019t. Truth is hate to those who hate truth. I love self-identified \u2018LGBT\u2019 individuals with a love beyond my own power to summon. I love them because Christ first loved me. I love them because, like them, I am a sinner in need of a Savior. They are under deception. The enemy of man is the father of lies, and he prowls like a lion seeking to both deceive and devour us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Argues<\/a>: \u201cLet\u2019s take it a step further. The \u2018gender\u2019 phenomenon is, in the larger sense, an artificial and anti-theist-tainted social construct. It\u2019s an overt act of fist-shaking rebellion against the laws of nature and nature\u2019s God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Insists<\/a> same-sex marriage is \u201ctempting the wrath of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Asserts<\/a>: \u201cSo, America, here’s a refresher. Homosexuality 101: The central, defining feature of homosexuality is same-sex sodomy, a filthy practice \u2013 both from a moral and biological standpoint \u2013 that spreads disease, ruins lives and mocks both God and nature. In short, these sexually confused and spiritually lost souls, particularly males caught-up in this lifestyle, can only \u2018consummate\u2019 a counterfeit \u2018gay marriage\u2019 through the squalid, unnatural and feculent abuse of both the reproductive and digestive systems. Yuck. Is it any wonder why these \u2018gay\u2019 jihadists want us to focus on the subjective specter of \u2018gay rights\u2019 and ignore the objective reality of \u2018gay\u2019 wrongs? This is why they terrorize anyone who fails to conform.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014More:<\/a> \u201c\u2018Gay marriage\u2019 is a disordered, sin-based & oxymoronic novelty that mocks God & defiles any church in which the silly stunt is performed…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Has calle<\/a>d President Barack Obama an \u201canti-American\u201d \u201cenemy\u201d who is \u201cdetermined to destroy America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> LGBTQ activists want Christians \u201ceither 1) dead, 2) imprisoned or, if they can have neither of these, 3) marginalized to the point where they can\u2019t even support their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Warns that God is going to destroy gay-accepting America<\/a>: \u201cEither way, God\u2019s \u2018due penalty\u2019 is non-discriminating. America\u2019s official endorsement of \u2018gay marriage,\u2019 \u2018gay pride,\u2019 homosexualist indoctrination in our schools, \u2018transgender\u2019 bathroom bills and bans on counseling to help with unwanted same-sex attraction will not end well.  Ask the Romans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says 2012 election results (President Obama, marriage victories, etc.) have invited God’s wrath<\/a> from which we may never be saved.<\/p>\n

\u2014Of a lesbian couple’s parental decisions for their transgender child, said<\/a>: \u201cWe shouldn’t be surprised that we see this kind of child abuse and brainwashing when we allow children to be placed intentionally in motherless or fatherless homes that model disordered sexual behavior and push the false notion that human sexuality is somehow androgynous,\u201d adding that the kid is \u201cthe poster child against the unconscionable practice of legalized so-called ‘gay adoption.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says gay people \u201cpurchase kids\u201d<\/a> and treat them \u201clike having little pets or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says tolerance is a \u201ccancer that brings down societies”<\/a> before linking same-sex marriages to Noah’s Ark and the Great <\/a>Flood.<\/p>\n

\u2014Said Ellen DeGeneres \u201cguides her many adoring housewife fans into rebellion against God’s divine and explicit natural order.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014Says gays make up violence<\/a> \u201cas a Trojan Horse to force, to compel nations and individuals and groups and churches that embrace traditional values, relative to sexual behavior, to push them into the closet and say \u2018no, no, you have to adopt a full affirmation of these perversions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says gay rights presents a \u201cclear and present danger\u201d<\/a> and \u201cinternationally the greatest threat.\u201d (58:27-59:00)<\/p>\n

\u2014Says LGBTQ activists \u201cuse\u201d gay kids<\/a>: \u201cIf you feel such despair, know this: it is not ‘homophobia’ causing it, as adult enablers might tell you, but, rather, it is the sin itself that causes it (or struggling alone, absent Christ, with the temptation to sin). You are being used. Adult homosexual activists with a political agenda are using you as a pawn to achieve selfish goals in a dangerous political game. You\u2019re just a means to an end. They may have convinced themselves otherwise, but they don\u2019t care about you. They don\u2019t love you. They can\u2019t. Their version of ‘love’ is built on lies. It\u2019s devoid of truth. Love without truth is hate. If you continue down this wide, empty path, make no mistake: it will not ‘get better.’ It gets much, much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says gay couples are just \u201cplaying house\u201d and are in \u201crebellion to God\u201d<\/a>: \u201cJust because two people want to play house and pretend that they\u2019re a married couple, a man and a man or a woman and a woman, guess what, they still have to bring in a third party, whether it\u2019s two lesbians with artificial insemination or two homosexual males through having to adopt from somebody who naturally had children. It\u2019s an assault on truth, it\u2019s an attack on truth and it\u2019s rebellion against God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Posted nasty cartoon<\/a> implying that Boy Scout inclusivity will lead to sex abuse.<\/p>\n

\u2014Has vowed to defy marriage equality laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Calls on Christians to rise up against LGBTQ rights and other progressive policies<\/a>: \u201cWhile there are those who will give way out of fear, weakness or a desire to conform to the world, there are many others who will not. Christians must peacefully come together, lock arms and redouble our resistance to evil.\u201d Threatened to pull Liberty University out of CPAC conference for accepting a sponsorship from LGBTQ group GOProud, with email reading: I was disturbed to learn that CPAC is allowing the \u2018Republican\u2019 homosexual activist group GOProud to sponsor a booth at the 2010 conference. Among other things, GOProud advocates in favor of both \u2018gay marriage\u2019 and \u2018civil unions,\u2019 against pro-marriage constitutional amendments ; is pushing for the repeal of \u2018don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell,\u2019 and advocates in favor of federal \u2018partnership benefits\u2019 for homosexuals. This group is pushing a radical leftist agenda that is an affront to the GOP platform, conservatism and, most importantly, the Word of God.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":506285,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138636,138635,138637],"class_list":{"0":"post-506284","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"region-national","8":"hashtag-anti-transgender","9":"hashtag-commentator","10":"hashtag-religion"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t