A gang of antigay activists attempted to one-up Hillary Clinton’s 11 hour Benghazi hearing from last week by holding their own 11 and a half hour conference this week to discuss what they call the “gay identity paradigm.”
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Approximately 50 gay-hating extremists gathered in Salt Lake City, UT for the World Congress of Families conference. As a “warm-up” to that conference, they held an all-day hate session dubbed #Stand4Truth on Monday in which some of the most vocal antigay activists of our time took turns getting up on their soapbox.
Peter Sprigg, senior fellow of the American Family Association, delivered the morning keynote. In his speech, he said he wanted to focus specifically on “gay relationships” because, as he put it, they are “objectively harmful to the people who engage in it and to society at large.”
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Sprigg also said advocating against things like marriage equality, non-discrimination laws, and hate crime bills isn’t motivated by hate but by love. Take, for example, AIDS.
“The reason they died is because they chose to have sex with men,” Sprigg said, “not because conservatives told them not to. We do no one a kindness by denying the truth.”
Another highlight from the day included a rousing panel discussion between Kim Davis’ lawyer Mat Staver, American Family Association’s Sandy Rios, and MassResistance’s Brian Camenker, who all agreed that Christians need to be more aggressive in their approaches to bringing down gays.
“I think there is a place for being insulting and degrading, and I think I can back that up by scripture,” Camenker said. “I think we have to look at this as a war.”
“I do think that evangelicals have gotten a little bit soft and not understood warfare,” Rios agreed.
But the real kicker came towards the end of the discussion when Camenker likened homosexuals to Nazis.
“We are in a war,” he warned. “They would send us to concentration camps if they could!”
Other speakers from the 11+ hour conference included conservative radio host Michael Brown, Houston Pastor Dave Welch, “ex-gay” therapists Robert Vazzo and David Pickup, and former California lieutenant governor and anti-porn activist John Harmer.
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Watch the Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg spew his hateful rhetoric below.
h/t: Right Wing Watch
Hector Pagan
Sighs wat a stupid ignorant asshole !!ð??¡ð??¡
Stephen Meeks
We just need to weather this, sit back, and watch them destroy their “religion.” Christianity as it is now is a dying faith. When all the old bigots and haters are in their graves, and each generation finds fewer and fewer followers, history will look back at this era, and point to it as the beginning of the end.
Xzamilio
I’m assuming all of their phones were on silent or vibrate… otherwise the Grindr notifications would’ve been going off like car alarms.
Xzamilio
And no, it’s not me using homosexuality as some kind of negative joke… it’s just too damn obvious at this point the obsession these dudes have with gay men and sex. They’re convincing themselves of these lies more than trying to demonize us, as far as I’m concerned… the sick part is that so many impressionable youth and LGBT individuals get caught up in the self-hatred crusades of weak-minded closet cases that cling to fairy tales rather than the hairy tails they really want.
Tobi
I can understand their concerns, and blame the gay community for this unnecessary backlash, we need to do much more to reassure heterosexuals that we are definitely going to be keeping some breeding pairs… at least for now. 😉
Darryl Moir
Lets track him down and kill the bastard.
Brian JC Kneeland
can’t we just put people like this in the trash?
John Malin
Were they speaking in tongues, or using their tongues to rim their butts?
Tony Chaplinski
I would probably have felt more love at Hillary’s fiasco
Kevin J Desmond
Well from what I heard they spent 11 hours trashing gays and then spent another hour in a circle suck and swallow fest.
Marylou Porter
What a creepy piece of trash.
Giancarlo85
on behalf of California I apologize that we ever elected that idiot as Lt. Governor. I also apologize for that screwball Ronald Reagan. We learned our lesson.
Take notice gay republicans! These are the people you support!
Lestar
They are going crazy and I’m afraid there isn’t a cure.
David Pickersgill
This from a man so insecure in his appearance that he uses an off the supermarket shelf hair colour… or a really cheap wig
William Holahan
Wow, where was the after-party? All that pent up hatred might make for a fun and crazy crowd!
Jane Elliott
they must be getting really desperate trying to keep their closet doors locked, someone should tell them they don’t have to come out it’s not mandatory
Dennis Sandoval
I have never heard of an instance where the saying, “get a life” applied more.
Greg Ballard
Yawwwwwwwwn… This people have no true power and their kids as well as their kid’s kids will be embarrassed by what the history books will say about them.
Robert Presar
Then they all got naked and climbed into a hot tub together. #nohomo
gjg64
To the “Pro-Family” and Religious Right Movement;
Please stop telling me you love me. It’s getting creepy.
CWM85
These people need to get a life. They need real jobs and more concerned about themselves than consenting adults in same sex relationships.
Tino Valentino
Lol they think more about homosexuality then most homosexuals do
Valentina Vitale
What a monumental waste of time and energy – so stupid
Michael Carley
Christains – such love filled people – not.
scotty
so what im reading here is that a bunch of 50 or so deeply closeted, self loathing gays got together to trash themselves. nothing to see here. they deserve each other.
1EqualityUSA
white robes optional.
Douglas Schlitz
Sorry but this guys hair makes trump’s hair look good ! 🙂
BlueDude
Only 50 attendees at a “World” hate-the-queers conference???Someone could say awful things about mass shootings, or poison gas in that conference room, but, that would be reprehensible.
Shaun Adams
LubbockGayMale
If gays died of AIDS because man-love is sinful, how do they explain away the HIV+ population in Africa being mainly women and kids? Oh, right, those folks can’t vote or donate.
Tom Mchenry
The fact that they spent 11 hours on this is a very telling expample of their fear, bigotry and hatred (all very common “Christian” values, right??)…Do these people EVER once meet and discuss real pressing matters in our troubled world…like, let’s say..poverty…hunger…illness..rampant,drug abuse and addiction, child molestation, physical family abuse…illiteracy..hoplessness, mental illness…the list is too long to finish here. These people are delusional and hopefully dismisnishing in number. They are a real danger to our society not the other way around.
BRYANinSF
Okayyy, goodbye, Queerty and commenters, especially the snarky ones who seem to be advocating violence and those with their reiterative comments about hateful Christians’ being closeted. This site used to be interesting. Now it’s tiresome and predictable. I, for one, am moving on.
GayEGO
How ignorant and stupid these extremists are, they need to be exposed as cave men living in the dark ages.
GayEGO
@LubbockGayMale: They can’t explain it because they don’t know what they are talking about. I read a Rolling Stones article about HIV coming from SIV where a straight guy caught it from an ape in Africa. These idiots should catch the disease as proof it is not a gay disease! :>)
Billysees
Three great comments —
@Lestar:
” They are going crazy and I’m afraid there isn’t a cure. ”
@Greg Ballard:
: Yawwwwwwwwn… This people have no true power and their kids as well as their kid’s kids will be embarrassed by what the history books will say about them. ”
@gjg64:
” To the “Pro-Family” and Religious Right Movement;
Please stop telling me you love me. It’s getting creepy. “
Billysees
@LubbockGayMale:
” If gays died of AIDS because man-love is sinful, how do they explain away the HIV+ population in Africa being mainly women and kids? ”
That’s basically been the argument for the last 40 years or so. But these scorners don’t care about intelligently reasoning out a matter. They’re only interested in stirring up the minds of their following with immature and junk commentary.
gaym50ish
They want a war? They’ve got it, and we’re winning!
Maybe there are a few Christians we would like to put in a concentration camp, but gay people actually HAVE BEEN put in concentration camps.