On yesterday’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, Mat Staver and Matt Barber urged activists to sign on to the statement released several weeks ago by dozens of anti-gay activists who vowed never to accept any Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality.
And now that the Supreme Court has done just that, the strength of this vow will be tested, but Barber insisted that “we will not cross this line.”
“Come what may,” Barber proclaimed, “come the persecution, come the penalties, come what may, the full weight of government, we will not pretend that a man can marry a man or a woman can marry a women under any circumstances, in any context whatsoever.”
Barber insisted that “the persecution is already starting to happen” and now “the court has opened the floodgates for persecution to occur,” so anti-gay activists must be willing to rise up in resistance because “the line in the sand is drawn”:
