The AFA and FRC Contine to Call for a Re-Criminalization of Gays while Claiming Thy're Not Hate Groups

As often noted on this blog, when every the lips of Christianists are moving, it's pretty much a 99.999999% likelihood that they are lying. The American Family Association ("AFA") is continue to whine and whimper over its designation by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-gay hate group in more or less the same league as the KKK and toxic white supremacist groups when it comes to marketing hatred. The hypocrisy is palpable. On the one hand we see the ever disingenuous Peter Sprigg (who for over a decade has been spinning anti-gay propaganda at various Christianist organizations) disclaiming that Family Research Council and its allies have engaged in any hateful activity towards LGBT Americans even as Sprigg and AFA's Bryan Fischer are on record calling for the re-criminalization of homosexuality. First these highlights from Sprigg's dishonest denials as reported by Right Wing Watch:

Family Research Council senior fellow Peter Sprigg appeared today on The Matt Friedeman Show on the American Family Association’s American Family Radio to discuss the budding controversy over the right-wing “charity” service CGBG. The progressive groups AllOut.org and Change.org have persuaded over 200 retailers to leave the CGBG . . . .

Sprigg: People are afraid of the homosexual activists and they’re particularly afraid of this character assassination that comes in the form of the word ‘hate.’ Nobody wants to be accused of participating in ‘hate’ and so throwing that word ‘hate’ around becomes a trump card even when nothing that we have done can reasonably be called ‘hate.’ On the contrary, everything we do is motivated by love for the people who are hurt by this lifestyle.

Such a claim is hard to believe coming from Peter Sprigg, who:

Said that he would “much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe homosexuality is destructive to society.”

Supported the criminalization of homosexuality.

Lobbied to make it harder for students to join Gay-Straight Alliances because “homosexuality is harmful to society.”

Argued that gays and lesbians shouldn’t be judges because a gay judge can’t “be held up as a role model.”

Linked homosexuality to pedophilia even when scientists rejected their correlation.

Opposed allowing same-sex partners or their adopted children from collecting their deceased partner or parent’s Social Security benefits.

Cheered on Lisa Miller after she kidnapped her daughter and fled to Central America in order to evade court order granting custody to her former partner.

But the LGBT community, Sprigg says, should see all these as acts of love.

As noted, Bryan Fischer is no less driven by contempt and anti-gay hatred than Sprigg. Right Wing Watch likewise looks at the latest anti-gay vitriol from Fischer. Here are highlights as well as a video of Fischer's batshitery:

On his radio show Focal Point yesterday, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer called on all fifty states to criminalize homosexuality.

Fischer: Both of the cases that went to the United States Supreme Court that dealt with the issue of whether states should criminalize sodomy, and of course they still ought to be able to do it, every state in the union criminalized sodomy until 1962 and then forty nine states until 1972, then they began to fall like dominoes. But by the time of the founding until the late 20th Century, homosexual activity was a felony offense in the United States of America, there is no reason why it cannot be a criminal offense once again, absolutely none.