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

 

Fact 

-- In 2011, said that “organized evil” and “homosexuality-embracing conservatives” are helping gay Americans drag “America into a cultural pit” and are even more harmful “to the cause of Truth than a thousand burly men in high heels strutting down Main Street.” 

-- Went after one marriage campaign for being too respectful to gays: "We need to stop conceding the moral high ground in a fearful bid to appear “tolerant”: one pro-family group, Protect Marriage Maine, asserted that 'same-sex couples are entitled to respect' – a claim at odds with historic Scriptural teaching. While Christians should respect all persons as made in God’s image, we must never 'respect' behaviors and relationships grounded in sexual sin."

-- Claimed that when President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advocate for equal protections for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people abroad, they are “spitting in God’s eye.”

-- Calls equality for gay Americans “one of the most spectacularly successful anti-God movements in human history.”

-- Says (23:53-24:19) "God detests homosexual practice and so we should expect that, since this is a sin movement, we should expect that they lie and are often nasty."

-- Says lesbian Senator Tammy Baldwin is "hardly a role model for young women, we want women to embrace marriage and healthy, wholesome behaviors, not lesbianism." 

-- Says of gay soldiers affectionately greeting their loved ones: "Only a decaying society pretends that homosexual relationships are morally equivalent to normal, male-female couples."

-- Said about the gay community: “We don’t use the term ‘homo-fascism’ lightly” (but routinely uses it for modern LGBT rights movement) 

-- Compared the alleged dangers of being gay to those of “smoking, alcohol and drug abuse.” [Southern Poverty Law Center] Similarly, AFTAH’s website carries essays describing being gay as a “lethal behavior addiction,” a “dangerous” practice that is “neither normal nor benign.” 

-- Says of homosexuality: "We must re-stigamtize it again in the culture"

-- Says "old people" know that "homosexuality is evil"

-- Claims "every homosexual triumph is a Pyrrhic victory because it elevates a destructive and immoral perversion to the realm of noble-sounding 'civil rights.'"
 
-- During 2012 election, claimed the two candidates themselves "are sort of a judgment on this country"