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The (AFA), a virulent anti-gay hate group based in Tupelo, Miss., has agreed to pay for a national day of prayer being organized later this summer in Houston by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a longstanding ally to prominent figures in the anti-gay movement.

Eric Bearse, a spokesman for the event billed as 鈥淭he Response: a Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis,鈥� on Sunday told that Perry contacted the AFA a month ago 鈥渢o call Americans together for a time of prayer.鈥� The rally will be held Aug. 6 at Reliant Stadium, which holds nearly 72,000 people.

Neither Bearse nor Perry鈥檚 press office answered email requests for comment. But in a written statement, the governor 鈥渦rged fellow governors to issue similar proclamations encouraging their constituents to pray that day for unity and righteousness.鈥�

The AFA is one of the most strident voices spreading malicious anti-LGBT propaganda. The group鈥檚 director of policy analysis, Bryan Fischer, claimed last year, 鈥淗omosexuality gave us Adolph [sic] Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.鈥� He has proposed criminalizing homosexual behavior and advocated forcing gay men and lesbians into 鈥渞eparative鈥� therapy programs. More recently, Fischer wrote that gays were the leading perpetrators of hate crimes.

With a long history of close ties to the anti-gay movement, it鈥檚 no surprise Perry would associate himself so closely with the AFA. In his 10 years as governor, he has waged a fight to keep 鈥渉omosexual conduct鈥� listed as a criminal offense in the 鈥� a law he has said is 鈥渁ppropriate.鈥�

In 2005, while signing a bill to amend the state constitution to specifically prohibit gays and lesbians from marrying, Perry was joined on stage by , a celebrity Pentecostal faith healer, who lauded the governor for 鈥減rotecting the children of Texas from the gay agenda.鈥� (The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately struck down the law.) Parsley offered a series of shocking statistics 鈥� for example, that only 1% of the LGBT population in American will die of old age. The numbers, in fact, were gross distortions pulled straight from pseudo-scientific studies by Dr. Paul Cameron, a crackpot psychologist and champion of the anti-gay crusade.

鈥淭he Response鈥� is being promoted as an event to bring America together at a time of widespread natural disaster and economic turmoil. But, more likely, it鈥檚 a response to the hard-fought advances in the gay community, most notably the pending repeal of 鈥淒on鈥檛 Ask, Don鈥檛 Tell.鈥�

Materials promoting the event have said as much. 鈥淥ur nation is at a crossroads. 鈥� The youth of America are in grave peril economically, socially, and, most of all, morally,鈥� a description on the event鈥檚 website reads. 鈥淎s a nation, we must come together, call upon Jesus to guide us through unprecedented struggles. 鈥� There is hope for America. It lies in heaven, and we will find it on our knees.鈥�