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The Q in LGBTQ Means Protecting People Who Want to Have Sex with Minors, Says Mat Staver

Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver appeared on conservative Christian radio show Crosstalk last week to continue the Religious Right’s dishonest drumbeat against a non-binding resolution passed by the California General Assembly that calls on religious and other leaders to promote

Peter LaBarbera: Drag Queen Story Hour Is 'Mental Rape' of Children

Earlier this week, anti-LGBTQ activist Peter LaBarbera appeared on VCY America's "Crosstalk" program to promote the protest he was organizing outside the Supreme Court yesterday to call for the repeal of the 2015 Obergefell decision, which legalized marriage equality in America. During the discussio

Mat Staver: Extending Civil Right Protections to LGBTQ People Would Protect Pedophiles

Anti-LGBTQ activist and Religious Right attorney Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel told Crosstalk radio listeners on Tuesday that the Equality Act is “the most serious threat to religious freedom, life, and to family” and insisted that it would protect pedophilia. The comments came towards the end of a

Liberty Counsel Attacks Mike Pompeo Over Rumored LGBTQ Rights Memo

Mat Staver, who heads the Religious Right legal group Liberty Counsel, has launched an attack on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo—along with a lobbying effort targeting Pompeo, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence—over a memo that Staver says “is being drafted for Sec.