David Barton

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-- Head of WallBuilders and host of conservative radio show "WallBuilders Live"

-- Frequent guest on Glenn Beck's various programs

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-- Claims HIV/AIDS is God's punishment: "There's a passage that I love in Romans 1 - I don't love what the topic is - but it talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. And the Bible again, it's right every time, and studies keep proving that and that's why AIDS has been something they haven't discovered a cure for or a vaccine for, because it's the fastest self-mutating virus known to mankind. Every time they just about get a vaccine discovered for it, it transmutes into something new and they have to start over again. And that goes to what God says, hey you're going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior."

-- Suggested government should "regulate homosexuality" the way it does trans fats or cigarettes, saying that countries that have "rejected sexual regulation, like with homosexuality, none of them lasted past the third generation from the time that they embraced it."

-- Of New York's legalization of marriage for gay couples, said: "No disrespect to our Native American friends, but this is where you hang a bloody scalp over the gallery rail. You hang these four Republican scalps over the Senate rail and every other Republican senator looks up and sees those scalps and says, ‘my gosh, I’ll be hanging up there beside them if I don’t stay with this pro-family stuff.’ And that’s exactly what has to happen."

-- On God's retribution: "So I’ve got a ballot, I’ve got a vote, I vote for somebody that approves homosexuality, God doesn’t approve me if I approve those who approve homosexuality. The Bible is so good about helping us know how to vote, because what you said is exactly right. The reason homosexuality will kill the blessing and I’ll tell you why, if I support someone who supports homosexuality, it will kill the blessing on me whether I’m a homosexual or not" (see first video on webpage).

-- On gay people: "It is not normal in nature…It’s against evolutionary law. It doesn’t happen."

-- Says he doesn't care what the Supreme Court says because God has said gays are like murderers, fornicators, kidnappers, liars, etc.

-- On marriage equality: "Messing around with marriage will affect economic prosperity of a nation because you're violating the commands of God"

-- Says of gays: "Gay means happy, bright and cheerful and that’s not what homosexuality is.”

Commentator Accountability Project (CAP)

Tony Perkins

-- President, Family Research Council, which the Southern Poverty Law Center listed as an anti-gay hate group in 2010.

-- One of more frequently booked of the anti-LGBT pundits

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-- Says about gay people: “They are intolerant. They are hateful. They are vile. They are spiteful"..."pawns" of the "enemy.” (See 1:30 mark.)

Bob Vander Plaats

-- President, The Family Leader

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Brian Brown

-- President of the National Organization for Marriage

-- President of ActRight.com, a fundraising site for conservative candidates

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-- Testified in favor of a Russian law banning same-sex adoptions, saying that “Every child should have the right to have normal parents: a father and a mother”

Candi Cushman

-- Focus on the Family's Education Analyst

-- Head of organization's “Day of Dialogue" and "True Tolerance" projects

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Bryan Fischer

-- Director of Issues Analysis for the American Family Association (AFA), which the Southern Poverty Law Center listed as an anti-gay hate group in 2010.

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Maggie Gallagher

-- Founder and former president and board president of the National Organization for Marriage

-- President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy

-- Currently affiliated with the American Principles Project

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Peter LaBarbera

-- President of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), which the Southern Poverty Law Center named a Hate Group.

-- At various points, has worked for Illinois Family Institute, Concerned Women for America, and Family Research Council

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Scott Lively

-- Former state director for the California branch of American Family Association, which Southern Poverty Law Center named a Hate Group; formed anti-gay Watchmen on the Walls group based in Latvia.

-- Author of The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party, which purports that the "Nazi Party was entirely controlled by militaristic male homosexuals throughout its short history."

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