Tag Archives: Liberty Counsel

Liberty Counsel’s list of “big wins” in 2019 is laughable: Unprecedented threats are coming against your freedom. This attack is coercive, unyielding and highly aggressive. You and your family will not be exempt! Because religious liberty is precious, we are resolved to meet the escalating challenges in the nation’s courtrooms, in the legislative chambers and in every realm of public …

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: Liberty Counsel has filed the Opening Brief asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the district judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction against Maryland’s harmful counseling ban. In Doyle v. Hogan, Liberty Counsel represents Christopher Doyle [photo], a licensed professional counselor in Virginia …

Courthouse News reports: A federal jury found an anti-abortion cohort led by David Daleiden caused substantial harm to Planned Parenthood by infiltrating abortion industry conferences to secretly tape abortion doctors and staff, and awarded punitive damages of $870,000. Daleiden, who heads the Center for Medical Progress, and his co-defendant Sandra Merritt, posed as human tissue procurers for a fake company …

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will introduce a new federal rule that would allow faith-based adoption and foster care providers to receive federal money without compromising their sincerely held religious beliefs on marriage by forcing them to place foster children with same-sex or unmarried couples. The new federal …

Via press release from the Liberty Counsel: Mat Staver joined Timothy Plan President and Founder Art Ally in the privilege of ringing the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) this morning. Since its inception in 1994, Staver has served on the board of Timothy Plan, a family of mutual funds and Exchange Traded Funds (ETF). Timothy Plan …

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: Liberty Counsel was in federal court today seeking to permanently block a city of Tampa ordinance which defies the Constitution, violates the First Amendment, and barges into the sacred trust between counselor and client. The Tampa ordinance intervenes between counselor and client. It prohibits licensed counselors from giving talk therapy to …

Via press release from the Liberty Counsel: U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasanow ignored binding Supreme Court precedent and issued an opinion dismissing Liberty Counsel’s lawsuit seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction against Maryland’s law prohibiting minors from receiving voluntary counseling from licensed professionals to reduce or eliminate unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion. Liberty Counsel will immediately appeal this decision …

Via email from hate group leader Mat Staver: On Friday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued two opinions in the cases of Ermold v. Davis, Yates v. Davis, and Miller v. Davis. These cases center on whether the plaintiffs are entitled to attorney fees and/or damages, and, if so, whether the Commonwealth, Rowan County, or Kim Davis is liable …

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: The Trump administration has proposed a rule which protects organizations that contract with the federal government by allowing them to make employment decisions consistent with their sincerely held religious beliefs. The proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ensures that conscience and religious freedom …

“He’s fortunately facing criminal charges, and he should go away to jail for some time for his actions, if in fact these are proven true. And it looks like the evidence is, at least from what’s out there publicly, overwhelming. But in his case, if this [Equality Act] became law, how could that be criminalized? It couldn’t. “Because they are …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver appeared on conservative Christian radio show Crosstalk last week to continue the Religious Right’s dishonest drumbeat against a non-binding resolution passed by the California General Assembly that calls on religious and other leaders to promote equitable and compassionate treatment of LGBTQ people in the state. But Staver went even …

This, of course, is “literally” a ridiculous lie. Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: It’s “Pride Month” and LGBT forces are waging an all-out fight to pass the misnamed “Equality Act.” Pop sensation Taylor Swift has already gathered 220,000 signatures to push this dangerous bill through the Senate. We must respond. This bill literally sets the stage …

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: Pop sensation Taylor Swift is all-in for the so-called “Equality Act.” This dangerous measure, which has already passed the House, would impose the LGBT agenda on every American, even those with conscience-based religious objections to LGBT conduct. But Swift either doesn’t know or doesn’t care. The singer/songwriter launched a nationwide petition …

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver:  Today Liberty Counsel, along with its sister organization Liberty Counsel Action, is delivering more than 48,000 petitions to the U.S. Senate in opposition to the dangerous and deceptively misnamed “Equality Act.” And it’s not too late for you to sign, too! We’ll continue to fight the intentionally misnamed “Equality Act” until …

From Liberty Counsel radio host Matt Barber’s BarbWire: No, the birther issue was NEVER settled [sic] Obama’s ‘official’ birth certificate was proven to be a fraud. Furthermore, the people in a small Kenyan village still claim that their hamlet is what [sic] Barack Hussein Obama was born. Even though Obama did more than just support gay marriage and gay sex, …

Today’s money beg from hate group leader Mat Staver: Sec. Pompeo plans to increase his department’s promotion of LGBT goals this month. A memo is being drafted for Sec. Pompeo to push all U.S. embassies to lobby for new privileges for LGBT activists. Sec. Pompeo has already threatened any country hesitating to accept his LGBT agenda with facing visa restrictions, …

“If the so-called H.R. 5 Equality Act is passed, it will open the door to pedophilia. That’s right. There’s a huge danger in so many areas, but this is also one. We’re going to be talking about it on Faith and Freedom. I’m Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. Joining me is Holly Meade, the director of communications …

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: Liberty Counsel will refile King v. Murphy in the New Jersey lower court and work this case back up to the U.S. Supreme Court. The New Jersey law was the second state in the nation to ban licensed mental health professionals from providing counseling and for clients from receiving any counsel …

Just in from hate group leader Mat Staver: The fix is in. The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing Tuesday on the badly misnamed “Equality Act.” But don’t expect dispassionate analysis at the hearing. That’s not its purpose. Instead, House Democrats will parade alleged victims of discrimination before the cameras in an attempt to manipulate public opinion. This bill literally …

“The Equality Act is not about equality. This bill eviscerated religious freedom and targets churches with an LGBT wrecking ball. This bill pushes the LGBT agenda on all people and targets Christianity in every area of life—including the church. There also will be an increase of sexual assaults when males ‘identifying as females’ are allowed to use girls and women’s …