Matt Barber of the Christian
conservative group Liberty Counsel believes Chick-Fil-A's opposition
to gay marriage represents the GOP base.
Appearing Friday on The Janet
Mefferd Show radio show, Barber criticized gay GOP groups GOProud
and Log Cabin Republicans and Republicans who support gay nuptials,
saying they have “poisoned” the party and must be “rooted out.”
“You know, that's all we need is the
Republican Party looking more and more like the Democratic Party,”
said Barber. “What the Log Cabin Republicans are doing here –
and let's be very clear here; groups like GOProud and the Log Cabin
Republicans who call themselves Republican or conservative, they're
just a bunch of radical homosexual activists in conservative or
Republican clothing. These guys know exactly what they're doing,
they're trying to undermine the Republican Party from within, I
believe intentionally. I believe it's covert and they know what
they're doing.”
“So this does not bode well, the fact
that the Republican Party is even entertaining these radical
activists here and they're looking at essentially spending a dollar
to save a dime – I mean, imagine alienating the entire base of the
Republican Party in order to appease a few radical homosexual
activists; it's counter-intuitive, it's thick-headed, and this is the
most important election, I think, in history that we have coming up
right now, and now is not the time for the GOP to be alienating the
base of the party,” he
added.
The base of the GOP, Barber added, on
the issue of marriage equality was aligned with fast-food chain
Chick-Fil-A, which has been criticized for supporting groups opposed
to gay rights.
“You know, we saw what the base of
the Republican Party believes with the overwhelming outpouring for
Chick-fil-A, for natural marriage, for traditional values. And for
the Republican Party to even entertain the idea because a few of
these donors have deep pockets of running afoul of these traditional
values that the Republican Party platform has been based on for
years, it's just a stupid idea.”
(Related: Chick-Fil-A
Wednesdays support Dan Cathy's gay marriage opposition.)