Social conservative Matt Barber has
defended his claims that LGBT teens kill themselves because they know
“what they are doing is unnatural, is wrong, is immoral,”
RightWingWatch.org
reported.
On Monday, Barber, an associate dean at
the Christian conservative Liberty University School of Law, told
Peter LaBarbera, president of the anti-gay group Americans For Truth
About Homosexuality, that activists use anti-bullying programs to
further a “radical pro-homosexual, anti-Christian agenda.”
“Kids who are engaging in homosexual
behavior I think often look inward and know that what they are doing
is unnatural, is wrong, is immoral,” Barber said on the radio
program. “And so they become depressed and the instances of
suicide can rise there as well.” (The video is embedded in the
right panel of this page.)
On Wednesday, Barber returned to defend
his remarks.
“You know, scripture says 'woe to
those who call evil good and good evil.' When homosexual activists
and other progressives in the pro-sin movement are exposed to
biblical truth, their reaction is invariably visceral and loud,” he
said.
“There's 'nothing new under the sun.'
This 'kill the messenger' strategy is age-old and knee-jerk. These
folks, as a matter of course, call evil good and good evil. Of
course their gripe isn't with me. I'm nothing. I'm nobody. Their
problem is with their creator, the natural order and the fallen state
of mankind.”
“They're just lost,” he added.