October 30 is “Mix It Up at Lunch Day” which encourages students to “move out of their comfort zones and connect with someone new over lunch.” The point of the effort is to break up cliques and get students to spend time with different groups of people, but because it is a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Religious Right vehemently opposes it, falsely claiming that “it’s just another thinly veiled attempt to promote the homosexual agenda.”
Today, Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber and Steve Crampton weighed in to warn about the dangers of “Mix It Up” day … despite obviously having absolutely no idea what it is actually about, as Crampton bizarrely asserted that it was a day “where boys can wear girls clothes [or] pretend to be homosexual” or even dress up like an uptight, judgmental Christian who tells everyone they are going to Hell in order to “make fun of Christianity by mocking it”:
