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This weekend, Tony Perkins and his gay-bashing Family Research Council (FRC) are hosting the annual Values Voter Summit, a Washington, D.C., gathering of right-wing religious activists that typically attracts a number of high-ranking, conservative public officials.

Among those scheduled to speak this year are House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.

They and other public officials will be rubbing shoulders with a host of virulently anti-LGBT activists. The 澳彩开奖 and a coalition of human rights groups has at the summit because their appearance legitimizes the lies and demonizing propaganda spread by groups like the FRC and the American Family Association, a co-sponsor.

Here鈥檚 a quick rundown of the anti-LGBT activists scheduled to speak at the summit, which begins Friday.

Gary Bauer, former official in the Reagan administration and former president of the FRC, is currently president of American Values. Last May, he that allowing men to marry other men would only exacerbate the problems faced by African-American families and would remove more men from black households. He has that same-sex marriage would lead to polygamy, that to religious freedom, it鈥檚 鈥渁n incredible risk to our country and faith.鈥�

Michael Farris, founder of the ultra-conservative Home School Legal Defense Initiative and Patrick Henry College, is based in Loudoun County, Va. He that Democrats in his home county are trying to use hate crimes laws to 鈥渟tifle religious freedom.鈥� that same-sex marriage 鈥渦ndermines the integrity of a nation鈥� and is a behavior that God calls 鈥渁n abomination.鈥�

John Helmberger is CEO of the Minnesota Family Council. On the organization鈥檚 website is 鈥�,鈥� which claims that 鈥淗omosexual unions include inherently unhealthy behaviors, e.g. oral and anal sex鈥� and that 鈥淗omosexual unions can鈥檛 replicate the benefits provided to society鈥� by heterosexual marriage.

Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, in which she worried that anti-bullying policies were just a way for groups like the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network to 鈥済ain access to our public schools鈥� and that anti-bullying educational materials are 鈥渁genda-driven propaganda鈥� designed to 鈥渞edefine marriage and to force cultural acceptance and affirmation of homosexual lifestyles.鈥� , Herrod was instrumental in lobbying the Arizona legislature to kill an anti-bullying law that would have strengthened existing laws.

Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Maryland, has a history of anti-gay statements and has been active most recently in his home state鈥檚 battle over marriage equality. Popular with groups like the FRC and the National Organization for Marriage, Jackson that LGBT people are trying to 鈥渞ecruit children鈥� because they can鈥檛 reproduce and that 鈥渄emonic forces鈥� are behind the gay rights movement. In 2011, , 鈥淚鈥檓 African American, and I especially believe that what we鈥檙e dealing with [gay marriage] is a satanic plot to destroy our seed.鈥�

Rick Scarborough is the founder of Vision America, an organization that seeks to inform and mobilize pastors to 鈥渞estore Judeo-Christian values.鈥� Scarborough AIDS is God鈥檚 judgment for an immoral act 鈥淪exual anarchy led by Sodomites who will not stop demanding more until they have destroyed every semblance of public morality鈥� is one of the evils the country faces. He has to know what LGBT people have to be proud of, since they鈥檙e 鈥渄efined exclusively by their aberrant sexual behavior鈥� and have more than a thousand sexual partners in their lifetimes.

Mathew Staver, president of the Liberty Counsel and dean of the Liberty University Law School, that the homosexual agenda undermines family and is a direct assault on religious freedom and freedom of speech. Earlier this year, (a day in which students don鈥檛 speak in an effort to call attention to anti-gay bullying) is 鈥渢o disrupt the classroom learning environment in order to send a message in favor of the radical homosexual agenda鈥� and that it鈥檚 part of 鈥渁 concerted effort to force society to accept the practice of homosexuality and other deviant lifestyles.鈥� Staver went on to warn that homosexual behavior raises 鈥渟erious public health concerns.鈥�