This weekend, the tenth annual Values Voter Summit (VVS) will take place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The event, put on by a number of anti-LGBT hate groups features anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT activists prominently this year.
The anti-Muslim media group known as Christian Reporter News hosted a “Homeland Terrorism Conference” in San Angelo, Texas, on Saturday that was attended by around 50 people.
This past weekend, the annual Western Conservative Summit in Denver, Colo., brought a number of the 2016 GOP presidential hopefuls to the battleground state, as well as a number of extremists and members of hate groups. Some of the major themes of the gathering included attacking the Supreme Court for its ruling on marriage equality and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Reaction from anti-LGBT extremists to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling today that the Constitution guarantees the right to same-sex marriage was fast and furious, defiant and hysterical.
In the weeks following the terrorist attacks in France, major players in the American anti-Muslim movement have unleashed a tirade of bigotry and renewed their energies in attacking the federal government. But not to be left out, prominent anti-immigrant figures and politicians have also joined the show.
The head of the GOP surprisingly invoked the names of anti-LGBT extremists as he defended his party’s opposition to same-sex marriage.
The SPLC and a coalition of civil rights groups today published an open letter asking the GOP to take a stand against the anti-LGBT bigotry of groups sponsoring this week’s Values Voter Summit.
