Category Archives for Liberty Counsel

Anti-Abortion Extremists Would Rather Women Die Than Go to Planned Parenthood

By Dan | Published June 17, 2015

Listening to right-wing radio often leaves us wondering whether we need to get a rabies vaccine. It’s really that bad. But we monitor those programs so we can shine a light on the frothing, hateful nonsense they promote. Case in point: today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program from Liberty Counsel, the Florida-based organization so extreme that the Southern […]

Also posted in abortion, Mat Staver, Matt Barber, war on women | 1 Comment

Religious-Right Groups Launch Campaign to Pressure Boy Scouts to Keep Gay Ban

By Dan | Published January 31, 2013

UPDATE Late Thursday the haters at the right-wing Texas Pastor Council sent out an email promoting a “Save Our Scouts” rally on Wednesday at the Boy Scouts of America national headquarters in Irving (near Dallas). The message promotes the smear that gay people are inherent threats to children and churches: Pastors, if the scouts fall, […]

Also posted in American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, LGBT issues, Texas Pastor Council, Texas Values, TFNEF | 7 Comments

David Barton Promotes Vicious Column Attacking President Obama’s Religious Faith

By Dan | Published June 13, 2012

David Barton claims Christians are under attack in America, but he doesn’t seem to have a problem with fellow extremists who promote religious bigotry. A Twitter post from Barton pointed us today to a Washington Times column from Matt Barber of the right-wing, virulently anti-gay group Liberty Counsel. Liberty Counsel is based in Florida but […]

Also posted in David Barton, TFNEF | 7 Comments

A Lynch Mob Strategy

By Dan | Published September 30, 2011

Lynch mobs don’t care about facts. And lynch mobs made up of politicians and pressure groups really, really don’t care about facts. What they care about is manufacturing rage to advance political agendas. And that brings us to the story of a gay teacher and one of his students in a Fort Worth high school. […]

Also posted in David Barton, LGBT issues, Liberty Institute, Matt Krause | 7 Comments