Christian conservatives Matt Barber and Peter LaBarbera on
Thursday criticized a video project spotlighting LGBT-affirming
Christians.
Author-activist Dan Savage helped inaugurate the Not
All Like That (NALT) project, which is based on the It Gets
Better project co-founded by Savage and his husband Terry Miller in
2010.
“The NALT Christians project is Christians – and hopefully no
small number of straight Christians – talking to LGBT people and to
other Christians, LGBT and straight,” Savage explained in a nearly
3-minute video posted at the nascent group's website. “NALT stands
for Not All Like That. It's a term I came up with because at my
talks Christians were forever coming up to me and saying, 'We're not
all like that. We don't all hate and condemn gay people.'”
“If you're a Christian who believes that God cares no more about
a person's sexual orientation or gender identity than God cares about
the color of a person's hair or eyes, make a Not All Like That
video,” Savage added. “If you don't take that step, if you don't
speak up, then know that your silence allows the Tony Perkins and Pat
Robertsons of this world to speak for you.”
NALT Christians was co-founded by Christian author John Shore and
Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out, which confronts
the “ex-gay” movement.
In a Liberty Counsel video posted online, Barber called Savage
“one of the most hateful and vile human beings on the planet.”
“This is comical,” Barber
continued. “This is laughable. To have vile, anti-Christian
bigots who are pushing a radical, dangerous sexual anarchist agenda
presuming to lecture Christians and have people – self-identified
Christians, liberal so-called Christians – upload videos about how
they support something that God calls an abomination, there's no
other word for it, it's apostasy when you have self-described
Christians do it. It is par for the course when you have those who
hate God, people like Dan Savage doing it.” (The video is embedded
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