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Lawyer: Banning ‘ex-gay’ therapy like requiring patients to embrace alcoholism

Mat Staver, the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, said Wednesday that California’s ban on so-called “ex-gay” or “reparative” therapy was akin to telling patients to embrace their alcoholism. “Leave it to California to come up with some bizarre law,” he said on the Faith and Freedom radio program. “This…

California sued for banning controversial ‘cure’ for LGBT minors

The Liberty Counsel filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday challenging a new California law that prohibits mental health providers in the state from attempting to change the sexual orientation of minors. S.B. 1172, which takes effect at the beginning of 2013, violates constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and religious…

Radio host: Contraception mandate like Muslims forcing you to ‘kill your family’

Conservative radio host Matt Barber say that the federal government’s requirement that all health insurance cover contraception for women is comparable to Muslim terrorists forcing you to “kill your family.” During a Monday segment on Liberty Counsel’s Faith and Freedom radio program, Barber hailed Catholic bishops for taking on President…

Professional fundies officially circle the wagons around McCain

“We are committed to a transgenerational, multiethnic and multiracial conservative movement.” – a laughably bold Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, to a gathering of 90+ fundies who are hand-wringing about the decline of their movement and what they need to do to revitalize it — in other words, Obama envy.…