When not fighting the “war on Christmas,” Mat Staver and Matt Barber continue to fight the California law that bans the use of sexual orientation conversion therapy on minors, which they have now taken to calling “Jerry Sandusky laws” on the grounds that children who are sexually abused will now become gay because they will not be allowed to get therapy to help them deal with the abuse.
In fact, Barber falsely claimed that almost half of all gay men “were sexually assaulted by a homosexual pedophile” and that abuse is what pushed them into a lifestyle filled with disease, depression, and alcoholism.
For Staver, the basic goal of laws seeking to ban the use of conversion therapy is simply to force people to accept homosexuality “as good and normal, when it is not”:
