When HGTV cancelled the planned reality show featuring David and Jason Benham after we wrote a post exposing their anti-gay, anti-choice, and anti-Islam activism, right-wing radio host Janet Mefferd was absolutely furious, calling us a “nasty, vicious, Christian-hating hack site” that lied about the Benhams and “needs to be sued for libel, defamation.”
While Mefferd was fuming that our post was just the latest example of the “out-of-control power of the LGBT agenda to smear and marginalize decent Christians and force them out of their jobs,” Matt Barber was engaged in a campaign (with the support of Mefferd, no less) against the Christian publishing company WaterBrook Multnomah over a book entitled “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships” by Matthew Vines that was published by a sister imprint.
As we noted last week, as a result of this book, Waterbrook Multnomah has now been forced to resign from the National Religious Broadcasters and so, of course, Mefferd had Barber on her radio show yesterday where she congratulated him on his success:
Mefferd: I’m going to go a little off the reservation for a second here and congratulate you because, last week, the National Religious Broadcasters decided that it would pressure Waterbrook Multnomah to put up or leave the organization over this issue of “God and the Gay Christian” and they ended up resigning from the NRB and I give you credit because you broke that story.
Barber: Well thanks Janet and that is good news. And I’m glad that Waterbrook Multnomah at least is stepping back. At least they’ve done what they needed to do here and they resigned from an organization that recognizes Biblical truth and intends to remain faithful to Biblical truth. And since Waterbrook Multnomah has kind of, you talked about going off the reservation, since they’ve gone completely off the Biblical reservation on the issue of sexual morality, it’s good that they’re at least stepping out and they can be a liberal, pro-homosexual, pseudo-Christian organization to their hearts content.
Mefferd: Yep, that’s right. So anyway, you were the man so I wanted to give you the credit for having a big impact. That was awesome.
To recap: when Barber broke a story that ended up getting Waterbrook Multnomah forced out of the NRB for being too pro-gay, “that was awesome” … but when we broke a story that resulted in two anti-gay activists losing their television show, that was part of a “nasty, vicious” agenda that seeks to destroy anyone who dares to disagree.
