The American Family Association (AFA) is a fundamentalist extremist hate group, and one that we have had ample opportunity to cover in-depth on several occasions already. Micah Clark is Executive Director of the Indiana chapter of the group, and a representative specimen.
Clark is, predictably, most famous for his hatred of gay people, opposition to gay marriage and promotion of conversion therapy, and he has done much to oppose equality and decency in Indiana, sometimes with fellow anti-gay activists Curt “homosexuality = bestiality” Smith (president of the Indiana Family Institute), Eric “marriage equality is oppression of me” Miller (Director of Advance America) and Mike Pence. According to Clark, homosexuality “has no societal benefit” – which is a surprising criterion on which to base rights – and is “individually destructive and dangerous.” He has also suggested that employee benefit plans recognizing same-sex couples are “subsidizing homosexual sex”, which provides an interesting perspective on what Clark thinks his own benefit plans are doing. He was not particularly happy with the Boy Scouts ending its ban on gay youth members, either.
And of course there is a nefarious conspiracy (demons) afoot: LGBT groups are actively attempting to groom children, and “recruit[s] teens into the homosexual lifestyle”. And the target for the agenda is obvious: “the victim today is not the homosexual activists. Hollywood and everybody in society upholds homosexuality. It’s Christianity that is the target.”
In 2016, Ted Cruz was unsurprisingly happy to receive Clark’s endorsement for his presidential campaign.
Diagnosis: We can’t be bothered to go into too much detail. For the most part, Clark is a drone repeating predictable hate group talking points, and has claimed nothing we haven’t seen a thousand times before from such groups. But he does have some serious political influence.
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