Lively, LaBarbera Launch New International Hate Group

Scott Lively and Peter LaBarbera have both made a career - and a comfortable living - out of disseminating anti-gay hate and lies.  Both have worked diligently to fan homophobia and anti-gay laws in Africa and Russia.  Having followed them and their foul activities for years, there literally is no lie that is too big or too outrageous for them.  Anti-gay hate and animus and the citation of false and fraudulent reports are their hallmarks.  Now, apparently emboldened by their successes in Africa and Russia these foul liars are launching a new international hate group to further spread their message of hate and religious extremism.  Their effort will be supported by many of the other usual anti-gay suspects.   The Bilerico Project looks at this disgusting development.  Here are excerpts.

Two of America's most infamous equality opponents announced the formation of a new international umbrella network of anti-LGBT hate groups at a press conference today at the National Press Club in downtown Washington. 

The purpose of the organization, called the Coalition for Family Values, is "to unify and coordinate" anti-equality organizations around the world in order to most effectively obstruct the global push for LGBT human rights. It was unveiled by Scott Lively of Abiding Truth Ministries and Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality; both organizations are SPLC-certified anti-LGBT hate groups. 

Other notable members of the still-growing coalition include Linda Harvey of Mission: America, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, former Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, and Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern.

LaBarbera -- who has traveled to Jamaica to spread his extremist anti-LGBT views -- and Lively -- who has spread homophobic propaganda in Russia, Uganda, Latvia, and Moldova -- were joined at the press conference by self-proclaimed "ex-gay" Greg Quinlan and Diane Gramley, head of the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Family Association (another SPLC-certified hate group).

Lively said the launch of the group was timed to coincide with the close of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. He lauded the government of Vladimir Putin for its wide-reaching, internationally-condemned crackdown on LGBT rights, including its ban on so-called "gay propaganda":

"[We] want to praise the Russian Federation for providing much-needed leadership in restoring family values in public policy, and to encourage the governments of the world to follow the excellent example that the Russian government has set... 

"By taking these steps in the face of intense criticism and hostility by some Western governments and NGOs, the Russians have demonstrated the high value that they place on their children and the 'natural family' model of society. We believe that God will bless the Russian people for their faith and courage."

As Michael K. Lavers of the Washington Blade notes, LaBarbera echoed Lively's praise for Russia:

"The United States of America, especially under President Barack Obama has nothing to teach Russia and the world when it comes to homosexuality-based so-called rights and sexual morality," he said. "Russia has enough problems of its own to be worrying about U.S. liberals who are obsessed with promoting the normalization of homosexuality and gender confusion, even to children."

Ignorant religious belief and religious based hate again prove to be pervasive evils that need to be eradicated from the world.