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Their message? LGBT people are 鈥渉ijacking鈥� the civil rights movement.

, the Rev. William Avon Keen of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) of Virginia told reporters that the civil rights movement鈥檚 efforts to gain equal facilities for health care and education are not equivalent to a gay couple鈥檚 wedding cake request and that 鈥淐hristians should not be forced to support sin.鈥�

Keen was referring to the case , which is scheduled to be heard before the Supreme Court December 5.

Colorado baker , who has become a cause c茅l猫bre for the Christian Right, refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple, citing his Christian religious beliefs. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission determined in 2013 that Phillips鈥� refusal to sell the gay couple a wedding cake constituted discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, a violation of Colorado law.

Phillips鈥� attorneys are with the anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, which is arguing that Phillips鈥� 鈥渞eligious liberty鈥� and free speech rights are violated by Colorado鈥檚 anti-discrimination ordinance.

ADF has supported the and also intervened to defend state-enforced聽sterilization of trans people abroad. ADF has also linked homosexuality to pedophilia and to legalize discrimination against LGBT people.

A meme created for the campaign.

This campaign in support of Phillips includes a website (wegotyourbackjack.com) and a Twitter hashtag of the same name. The website includes videos that attempt to draw distinctions between the struggle for African American civil rights in the 1960s and LGBT rights today, and accuses LGBT people of comparing themselves to African Americans as they work for equality.

Rev. Dean Nelson, chairman of the conservative Frederick Douglass Foundation (which the press conference) said in the Deseret News that the purpose of the campaign is to support Jack Phillips 鈥渁nd all people of faith and conscience who simply want to live their lives, who simply want the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.鈥�

Nelson is also a senior fellow at the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council, who advertised the press conference on their website, noting that in addition to Nelson, FRCAction鈥檚 Patrina Mosley spoke.

In January, Nelson with black pastors through FRC in support of President Trump鈥檚 nominee for attorney general, former Alabama senator Jeff Sessions. Allegations of racism have trailed Sessions throughout his career. He was denied an appointment as a federal judge in 1986 on the basis of racially charged comments, though Sessions himself .

Tony Perkins, FRC鈥檚 president, also Council of Conservative Citizens in 2001 when he was a Louisiana state representative, two years after and then-national RNC chairman Jim Nicholson urged all Republicans belonging to the group to quit.

Perkins also managed the 1996 U.S. senate campaign of Woody Jenkins, and was involved in the purchase of robocall services through Klansman David Duke鈥檚 Impact Mail & Printing. The Federal Election Commission for fraud because Jenkins ordered Perkins to pay Duke through his campaign鈥檚 media firm in an attempt to avoid being associated with Duke鈥檚 company.

FRC claimed in its announcement of the press conference that Nelson had said that if anyone could understand what African Americans went through during the Civil Rights era, it鈥檚 Jack Phillips (who is white). Nelson was then quoted as saying

To be honest, if I think about it deeply, he is probably a modern representation of someone who went through what African-Americans actually went through. He simply wants to live his life peaceably, to conduct himself and run his business without being bothered. But yet, he is subjugated and ostracized simply because of what he believes. If [more people] knew his story, [they] would understand that he is the furthest thing [from prejudiced].

Both Deseret News and the noted that the clergy launching the anti-LGBT campaign were joined by staffers from ADF and FRC as well as anti-LGBT and ex-gay activist Janet Boynes, who founded an ex-gay ministry in Minneapolis. Boynes stated that, 鈥淚 resent having my race compared to what other people do in bed. There is no comparison. It only trivializes racial discrimination.鈥�

Boynes that homosexuality is destructive, likened it to drug addiction and believes it鈥檚 caused by domineering mothers or hanging around with gay people.

The We Got Your Back Jack campaign website is sponsored by conservative anti-LGBT African American organizations the Frederick Douglass Foundation, the Radiance Foundation, and Urban Cure (), which is helmed by conservative pundit Star Parker. CURE pushes Christian Right and Libertarian messaging, claiming that its objective is to build awareness of a conservative agenda of 鈥渢raditional values, limited government and free markets鈥� which is, according to CURE, 鈥渙f the greatest marginal benefit to low-income Americans.鈥�

Parker has of marriage equality in Washington, D.C., as 鈥淪odom in the nation鈥檚 capital,鈥� saying it is our nation鈥檚 鈥渟ickest place,鈥� and that acceptance of LGBT people of society.

The , founded by anti-abortion activists Ryan and Bethany聽 Bomberger, bills itself as a 鈥渓ife-affirming organization to help people understand and embrace their God-given Purpose.鈥� The organization is staunchly anti-Planned Parenthood, accusing that group of killing more black people than police. RF was sued by the NAACP for possible trademark violation after the RF referred to the NAACP as the 鈥淣ational Association for the Abortion of Colored People鈥� in a headline. The Fourth Circuit Court .

Last year, about National Coming Out Day, the RF cited anti-LGBT junk science and such anti-LGBT pseudoscientific organizations as NARTH to claim that people can 鈥渓eave鈥� homosexuality and that 鈥渢ransgenderism鈥� is a myth.

This campaign isn鈥檛 the first time that Christian Right groups have attempted to drive a wedge between African Americans and LGBT people, somehow ignoring the fact that there are African Americans and many other people of color who identify as LGBT.

In 2012, of the anti-LGBT group National Organization for Marriage were released that called for the use of . 鈥淭he strategic goal of this project,鈥� NOM said in the confidential memo, 鈥渋s to drive a wedge between gays and blacks鈥攖wo key Democratic constituencies.鈥�

The memo continued that the project would 鈥渇ind, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage鈥� and would develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right, hopefully provoking the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing the African American spokespeople as bigots.

Blogger Alvin McEwan , noting that the website 鈥渆xploits the history of African-Americans struggling for equality to diminish the fact that LGBTQs are doing the same thing鈥� and states that it鈥檚 an attempt to 鈥減ush the phony idea that the gay community is attempting to 鈥榚quate their struggle to black people.鈥欌��

A Supreme Court ruling in favor of Phillips will have huge ramifications for LGBT people in the U.S. and may set precedent to allow business owners to use religion to discriminate and deny goods and services not only to LGBT people, but anyone with whom the owner took exception.