Evangelical group wants gays removed from anti-lynching bill
Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver opposes including the words "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" in a federal anti-lynching bill.
The U.S. Senate last month unanimously passed a bill that would explicitly make lynching a federal crime. Not everyone, however, is pleased with passage of the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act.
Liberty Counsel, an evangelical nonprofit that opposes gay rights, and its chairman, Mat Staver, are taking issue with the bill’s inclusion of LGBTQ people.
"The old saying is once that camel gets the nose in the tent, you can't stop them from coming the rest of the way in," Staver said in an interview with conservative Christian news outlet OneNewsNow. “This is a way to slip it in under a so-called anti-lynching bill, and to then to sort of circle the wagon and then go for the juggler [sic] at some time in the future."
Staver told OneNewsNow that his organization, which has been labeled an anti-LGBTQ “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is lobbying lawmakers in the House to have them remove the bill’s “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” language before taking a vote.
Similarly, the group encouraged Congress in November to remove language about "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" discrimination from a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada.
Liberty Counsel did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 29 | January 10, 2019 10:10 PM
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Just in case anyone thinks this is some splinter group, it was VERY EFFECTIVE in getting words "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" out of the new NAFTA agreement
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 10, 2019 5:00 PM
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Yet more proof that things are worse for Gay Men than blacks.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 10, 2019 5:00 PM
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R2 - why must those be competing groups in your mind?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 10, 2019 5:01 PM
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Why do you bring black People up FOR EVERYTHING??? Race and sexuality aren’t the same. Get it through your heads. Being a black person is the same as being an Asian person or a white person cause it’s RACE. Skin color and DNA and ancestry.
Sexuality is who you’re sexually attracted to. Maybe one day you “Ivy League educated intellectual” white gays will GET IT. It’s sad you haven’t yet and that ANY MAN OF ANY RACE can be gay cause it has nothing to do with RACE.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 10, 2019 5:22 PM
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Look, more white People that wanna see gays killed but, you know, blacks are the ones that hate gays more than anyone.
Notice how quiet so many users are on these stories when it’s white People being homophobic? Cause it doesn’t fit their bulkshit narrative.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 10, 2019 5:24 PM
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"The old saying is once that camel gets the nose in the tent, you can't stop them from coming the rest of the way in"
An old saying from where, exactly? Sounds a bit "moose-lamb" to me. Is this the kind of person we want representing us?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 10, 2019 5:27 PM
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Evangelicals in America are decreasing in number, right? So their rise to prominence in the 80s-00s was related to a religious revival, right? Those happen periodically in America and cause political trouble. I'm hoping their ranks shrink more. Sad they've spread overseas, however.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 10, 2019 5:29 PM
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Imagine believing Evangelicals are the only people that feel this way... lmaoooo
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 10, 2019 5:34 PM
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If God was real he would just set all these types of hate mongers on fire, wherever they stood.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 10, 2019 5:38 PM
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This shit is soreading among Hispanic neighborhhods. You can see the churchiest going door to door and recruiting Spanish speaking immigrants down here.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 10, 2019 5:45 PM
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R10 but then most of you guys here would burn with all the racism
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 10, 2019 5:46 PM
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Shouldn't you be at the bar waiting for the American flag jacket guy to show up again?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 10, 2019 5:50 PM
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R14 I’m not off work yet and not drinking today. Going to a movie
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 10, 2019 5:55 PM
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Why do we need a Federal anti-lynching law exactly? Isn’t murder already against the law? How many lynchings have there been in recent years? Why not federal anti-stabbing laws or federal anti-drowning laws?
Another example of the federal government wasting time and energy on stupid bullshit.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 10, 2019 5:58 PM
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So he is basically saying it's okay to lynch gay people????
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 10, 2019 5:58 PM
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R16 cause lynching black People was ok The rave for decades upon decades.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 10, 2019 6:00 PM
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[quote]bulkshit narrative.
Alexa, can I get that with free 2 day shipping?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 10, 2019 6:00 PM
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I don't understand hate crime laws anyway. Why is assaulting someone WORSE because you're doing it for a protected reason? It's still assault!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 10, 2019 6:05 PM
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R20, certain groups are targeted more than others. It's to offer special protection for those groups. The penalty is worse if you attack those groups.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 10, 2019 6:24 PM
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I'm getting all tingly with excitement anticipating President Pence. Why don't we just cross "anti-" off the name of the bill? We'll lynch all the people we hate and let Jesus deal with them.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 10, 2019 6:53 PM
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Pelosi would never allow such a thing. They can lobby all they want.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 10, 2019 8:02 PM
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Where is all the outrage on here like they 50 Kevin Hart posts???
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 10, 2019 9:13 PM
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A thousand dollars says that piece of shit Mat Shaver has been on his knees before a glory hole many times.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 10, 2019 9:52 PM
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Religion may be shrinking but there's still plenty of even youthful religious people who could turn on what feels like a dime, on the homosexuality subject.
This Liberty Council stuff may be seen as alien and terrible to most religious youth, but many of them have just learned to couch their bigotry into the kindest possible terms (enough to often fool even activist gay people themselves until it shows itself).
It is better to nip any of these attempts in the bud.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 10, 2019 10:07 PM
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Ellen will expose them on her show.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 10, 2019 10:09 PM
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Religion is more prominent than homosexuality
by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 10, 2019 10:09 PM
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Where's a hungry lion when you need one?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 10, 2019 10:10 PM
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