Mike Huckabee, Kim Davis and Mat Staver (Fox News)
The lawyer who represented Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis after she refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses told CBS News that his group was also behind anti-LGBT legislation being pushed in at least 20 states.
After governors in North Carolina and Mississippi recently signed laws limiting the rights of LGBT people, CBS News began investigating why so many anti-LGBT bills were cropping up in state legislatures around the country.
The network found that the conservative group Liberty Counsel had placed lawyers in all 50 states to draft legislation and advise lawmakers on how to rein in the rights of LGBT people in response to a Supreme Court ruling which legalized same-sex marriage in 2015.
CBS determined that bills tied to Liberty Counsel have been filed in at least 20 states so far.
“Well I certainly want to push back against that [same-sex marriage] ruling,” Liberty Counsel founder Matt Staver told CBS News. “It was a wrong ruling. It has no basis in the constitution.”
Just found out about this less than an hour ago. Why am I not fucking surprised that the hate group who has volunteered to defend— for free-- HB2 is responsible for drafting and pushing this bill and bills like this through across almost half the US.
Onamission5, I’m with you. Not fucking surprised at all. Damn assholes, intent on pushing their fear and hate into law everywhere. Unfortunately, the current political climate is seriously ripe for this shit. I’m so thankful for every little bit of pushback these ass pimples get.
It gripes my ass all the time that these theocrats think they have a right or a duty to prevent anything that someone else is doing that has NO EFFECT on their life at all. At times, I wish I was an omnipotent being myself so that I could appear to them as “god” and inform them of the error of their bigoted ways and tell them to leave everyone else alone. Pick that speck out of your own eye, dammit!
Johnson catman:
I know. It’s has zero relevance in their individual lives, it’s all about controlling others. I’m pretty fucking tired of the constant reiteration of “won’t someone think of the children” too.
It is entirely possible the nutter organisation I was trying to recall in The Bathroom Predator Myth — the ones behind a lot of the anti-SSM and now “bathroom” / anti-LGBT silliness — is, as per this post, Liberty Counsel.
There’s more on Liberty Counsel here. They are conveniently tax-exempt, and affiliated with Falwell’s Liberty University. SLPC has them listed as a hate group.
Liberty Council? Did the Ministry of Truth make up that name?
rietpluim:
Tempting to think so. Scary, too.