LGBTQ activist Alvin McEwen writes that at least one anti-LGBTQ hate group, the American Family Association (AFA), is “proud to stand by” (their words) alleged child molester and sexual predator Roy Moore:
"AFA Action believes Justice Roy Moore to be a truthful man and a solid Christian. Based on his statement of denial, we are proud to stand by our endorsement of Justice Roy Moore," [AFA Action vice president Rob] Chambers told OneNewsNow.
This is the same group whose director of issue analysis for government and public policy, “Big Gay” fearer Bryan Fischer, once called for “an underground railroad to deliver innocent children from same-sex households.” According to the Human Rights Campaign, Bryan has also compared LGBTQ people to pedophiles, once tweeting that "we should discriminate against unnatural and aberrant sexual behavior, whether pedophilia, bestiality, or homosexuality."
Now Fisher’s group is actively defending a man with a disgusting history of preying on young girls. Just like Jesus would do.
According to Media Matters, while numerous other anti-LGBTQ groups that endorsed Moore have for the most part stayed silent following the well-sourced Washington Post report, their endorsements remain active:
These figures include Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, Brian Brown (who endorsed Moore representing his extremist organization National Organization for Marriage (NOM) but also runs hate group World Congress of Families), Tim Wildmon of American Family Association (AFA), Peter Labarbera of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH), and Tony Perkins and Jerry Boykin of Family Research Council (FRC).
Labarbera, now there’s another human pile of dog shit. This one has a long history of one-man protests against marriage equality and statements trying to cast gay people as pedophiles, once declaring that pedophilia is a “subset of the larger deviancy” of homosexuality, according to Right Wing Watch.
But it’s AFA that takes the deplorable cake here. The group has been the most vocal in backing up Moore since the numerous accusations, “[retweeting] four of Moore’s tweets defending himself, including one saying, ‘Our children and grandchildren’s futures are on the line.’”
“How ironic,” McEwen writes, “that an organization who has lied for so many years about gays and pedophilia will turn a blind eye regarding a man who possibly did go after children simply because he is a Republican who touts the group's line about God. Or is it really ironic at all?”
Don’t let hate figures win. Just $1 will help Doug Jones defeat the vile Roy Moore.