Social conservatives listed in a
just-launched online repository of anti-gay rhetoric have condemned
the project.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation's (GLAAD) Commentator
Accountability Project (CAP) highlights the anti-gay rhetoric of
frequent media commentators.
“The Commentator Accountability
Project is bringing all of these statements to light, while calling
attention to the sentiments behind them,” the project's description
reads. “We will show that the commentators who are most often
asked to opine on issues like marriage equality or non-discrimination
protections do not accurately represent the 'other side' of those
issues. They represent nothing but extreme animus toward the entire
LGBT community.”
The project currently lists 36
conservatives who have railed against gay rights. Many of those
listed are frequent guests on cable and network news programs and are
often quoted in the mainstream media.
Radio talk show Kevin McCullough, who
is listed on CAP as saying, “Being gay kills people,” warned that
GLAAD is a pawn of the devil that wants him dead.
“Someone asked me before I went on
the show today, 'What do you think their end goal in developing this
list is? Is it just to get you blackballed off media?'” McCullough
told listeners. “I said, no, they want me dead. They are not
going to be happy until my voice goes dark.”
The Liberty Counsel's Matt
Barber called it an “Orwellian blacklist” created by
“homo-fascists” trying to “silence Christian warriors.”
Quoted on the project's site are Tony
Perkins, Bob Vander Plaats, Brian Brown, Candi Cushman, Bryan
Fischer, Maggie Gallagher, Ken Hutcherson, Peter LaBarbera, Scott
Lively, Alan Chambers, Albert Mohler, Bill Donohue, Bob Emrich, Brian
Camenker, Christopher Plante, Chuck Colson, David Barton, Don
Wildmon, Frank Turek, Gary Bauer, Glenn Stanton, Harry Jackson,
Jennifer Roback Morse, Jim Daly, Jim Garlow, Joseph Farah, Kevin
McCullough, Lou Engle, Mat Staver, Matt Barber, Michael Brown, Penny
Nance, Peter Sprigg, Rick Scarborough, Robert George and Tim Wildmon.