Contact: Peter LaBarbera, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, 312-324-3787, americansfortruth@gmail.com

NAPERVILLE, Ill., Sept. 24, 2014 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Peter LaBarbera:

The notion of what constitutes "hate" has become highly politicized. Case in point: the Human Rights Campaign's deceitful and comically over-the-top new report, "The Export of Hate," which prominently features yours truly–complete with an ominous-looking, blackened graphic of my face designed to cast me as a callous and shadowy figure. [Click HERE to see the nasty HRC caricature.]

One could barely recognize me in HRC's preposterous, darkened graphic. Apparently the powerful LGBT lobby organization is reduced to exaggerating and contorting its opposition to further its jaundiced redefinition of "hate." Anyone who knows me wouldn't recognize me from that drawing–and while I'm a lot of things, a sinister hatemonger isn't one of them. I am generally an upbeat, affable guy. I love God and I love people, and I want them to come to the knowledge of my Savior, Jesus Christ, so they can find forgiveness and draw close to God.

I'm tempted to laugh off HRC's shenanigans, but in the post-Floyd Corkins world–Corkins was thwarted in a potentially murderous 2012 attack on the Family Research Council–the ongoing effort to paint pro-family advocates like me as horrible haters on par with the KKK could incite a violent and even deadly attack against us by a homosexual zealot.

For the record, I enthusiastically stand behind my quotation–on the Alan Colmes Show Jan. 7 of this year–provided by the HRC report as evidence of my supposed "hate." Colmes had pressed me on whether children were better off in single-parent households or homosexual-led households to which I responded:

"Kids would 'be better off in a single-parent household…because you're not modeling homosexual behavior. When you have two men raising a young child, that child grows up learning, basically, dysfunction and a sexual perversion as normality.'"

If criticizing intentionally motherless and intentionally fatherless homosexual-led households is hateful, then surely most of the world is hateful! The LGBT Lobby's campaign to portray the fervent defense of historic, Judeo-Christian teachings on sex and marriage as Hate, Bigotry & Homophobia–Big Gay Inc.'s top three slanders against people of faith and morals–is itself profoundly hateful and bigoted. But we should expect such calculated smears from a Sin Movement that essentially is engaged in a political and cultural war against Nature and Nature's God.

Casting aside the lies and daily slanders, we will not be deterred in our defense of Truth.

Peter LaBarbera is president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH.org), a group devoted to exposing and opposing the LGBT Lobby. To arrange for LaBarbera to speak at your church or group on "Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty" -- or an array of topics related to the aggressive "gay" agenda -- call AFTAH at 312-324-3787; or email Brad Wallace at connops@yahoo.com. Go HERE to learn about AFTAH's Oct. 25 dinner-banquet featuring Dr. Michael Brown on the topic: "Can You Be 'Gay' and Christian?"