Anti-LGBT Groups Launch Movement Against Federal Equality Act
Anti-LGBT hate group leaders and activists recently launched a new project, the #Gone2Far movement (GTFM), to oppose , the federal Equality Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include protections for the categories of a person鈥檚 sex, sexual orientation and gender identity.
The GTFM officially debuted at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, where participants decried the Equality Act, which has been introduced in Congress in one form or another since 1974 but has never passed. It has 聽in 2019 from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is committed to passing it.
The GTFM attempts to link LGBT people to pedophilia and refers to the Equality Act as 鈥淭he Pedophilia Act.鈥 The movement鈥檚 website is filled with false assertions that LGBT people are attempting to recruit or assault children.
The site includes a 鈥淧roclamation for Morality鈥 and claims that 鈥渢he consumption of fecal matter鈥 is a common sexual practice among gay men, and homosexuality is a behavioral choice caused by childhood sexual abuse, 聽among anti-LGBT activists. Visitors to the site are invited to sign their name in support.
The following people spoke at the press conference:
- Scott Lively, best-known for being sued for violating human rights in Uganda and for the pseudohistorical book The Pink Swastika, which claimed gay men were responsible for the Nazi party and the Holocaust
- Peter LaBarbera, director of anti-LGBT hate group Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH), who 聽pedophilia 鈥渋s a subset of the larger deviance of homosexuality鈥
- Randy Short, an advocate of anti-LGBT and anti-Soros conspiracy theories
- Stephen Broden, senior pastor of Fair Park Bible Fellowship, Dallas, Texas, and a Texas Republican congressional candidate with Tea Party ties who 聽and rails against the 鈥淣ew World Order鈥
- Stephen Black, executive director of Oklahoma鈥檚 ex-gay ministry First Stone Ministries
- Dan Fisher, pastor and former Oklahoma state representative 聽into the state legislature
Each speaker expressed a litany of grievances against LGBT people and the Equality Act during the over 90-minute event, with a focus on homosexuality and 鈥渢ransgenderism鈥 as behaviors that are not immutable characteristics and therefore are ineligible for protection under the Civil Rights Act.
Randy Short, the first speaker, set the tone of the event, proclaiming, 鈥淭oday is the day that we declare war on those who are ungodly, unbiblical and wicked.鈥 Short went on to say that 鈥渨e are sick and tired of all the deviants, all the eugenicists, all the homophiles coming out of the closet to destroy this country.鈥 鈥淲e have a group,鈥 Short said, in reference to LGBT people, 鈥渢hat nobody wants, that has decided like a parasite to hook itself to the history and legacy of the African American people.鈥
Other speakers offered warnings about the 鈥渉omosexual and pedophile agendas.鈥 Stephen Black claimed bans on pseudoscientific and harmful conversion (ex-gay) therapy are a way to 鈥渢ake our sexually confused youth and bind them into 人兽性交 chaos.鈥 Scott Lively warned of nondiscrimination policies including LGBT people that are 鈥渢he seed that contains the entire tree of the LGBT agenda and all of its poisonous fruit.鈥 According to Lively, LGBT people are introducing the pedophilia agenda through the 鈥渢ransgenderization of the children鈥 while Peter LaBarbera said that nondiscrimination means discrimination against Christians.
GTFM is currently promoting the upcoming 鈥淕od鈥檚 Voice: A Biblical Response to the Queering of the Church鈥 conference, slated for Oklahoma City on Feb. 22 and 23. LaBarbera and Black, members of the GTFM organizing committee, will also be spreading their message there.
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