​Matt Barber

Matt Barber is ​Associate Dean at Liberty University School of Law and Spokesperson for Liberty Counsel. The Liberty Counsel was founded by conservative activists Mathew (“Mat”) Staver – an attorney and former dean at Liberty University School of Law – and his wife Anita. The Counsel bills itself as a non-profit litigation, education and policy organization that provides legal counsel and pro bono assistance in cases dealing with religious liberty, “the sanctity of human life" and the family. Mat Staver chairs the Counsel; his wife Anita is the president. The Liberty Counsel shares a close affiliation with Liberty University (founded by the late Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Va.) , especially the university’s school of law. The partnership includes the Washington, D.C.-based Liberty Center for Law and Policy, which conducts legal research and writes about current legislation and policies. Liberty Counsel produces a daily radio program where Staver and fellow Liberty University dean Matt Barber routinely rail against reproductive choice, LGBT equality and Islam and organizes a yearly "Awakening" conference that promotes other Religious Right activists who share such views. In 2015, Staver and Liberty Counsel rocketed to fame for providing legal representation to Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who went to jail rather than refuse to allow her office to issue marriage licenses in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage.

​RFK Jr celebrates an infamous Dem gay rights leader Harvey Milk who was accused of grooming minors
​Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel previously profiled Milk, based on what the civil rights icon’s own biographers admitted regarding his behavior and accounts from his victims. He said that one of Milk’s victims was a 16-year-old runaway from Maryland named Jack Galen McKinley and cited Randy Shilts, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter, a friend of Milk’s and his biographer who wrote in the book  “The Mayor of Castro Street,” about Milk’s “relationship’ with the McKinley boy: ‘… Sixteen-year-old McKinley was looking for some kind of father figure. … At 33, Milk was launching a new life, though he could hardly have imagined the unlikely direction toward which his new lover would pull him.” Child advocate and founder of 
​SaveCalifornia.com Randy Thomasson noted regarding the Shilts biography, “Explaining Milk’s many flings and affairs with teenagers and young men, Randy Shilts writes how Milk told one ‘lover’ why it was OK for him to also have multiple relationships simultaneously: ‘As homosexuals, we can’t depend on the heterosexual model. … We grow up with the heterosexual model, but we don’t have to follow it. We should be developing our own lifestyle. There’s no reason why you can’t love more than one person at a time.’” (P.M. 5/23/24) READMORE>>>>>

Dec 14, 2014: Yonkers Tribune: ​BarbWIRE®: Muslim go BOOM! By J. MATT BARBER
​“Progressives” are crafty little buggers. One of their favorite sleights of hand is to disingenuously brand as “phobic” anyone with reasoned moral disapproval of their very unreasonable and immoral social deconstructionism.
It works like this: Take any objective evil, say, homosexual sin. State its prefix, “homo.” Just add “phobia,” and voila! The person who holds to the millennia-old precepts of authentic biblical sexual morality is no longer a “Christian,” but, rather, is magically transformed into that mythical creature called “The Homophobe.”
Cute.

Sept 22, 2014: News Busters: Gay Group List of ‘Extremist’ Christians Leads to Death Threats
Among those on the list were Independent candidate for governor of Massachusetts Pastor Scott Lively, Christian radio host and Townhall columnist Michael Brown,  Liberty University Law School dean and talk radio host Mat Staver, Christian conservative blogger Matt Barber, National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown,

Aug 13, 2014: Huffington Post: Matt Barber Calls For 'Civil Disobedience' To Stop Gay Marriage, Says Christians Are Being 'Persecuted'
Matt Barber has sparked the ire of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates after firing off against same-sex marriage in a REEL Talk interview.
June 25, 2014: Right Wing Watch: BarbWire: Boy Scouts In Pride Parade 'Being Used As Little Tools By An Evil Movement Of Sexual Degenerates'
Barbwire columnist Gina Miller is reacting reasonably to the announcement that some Boy Scout troops will march in New York’s LGBT pride parade this weekend

​May 6, 2014: Right Wing Watch: BarbWire Warns LGBTQ Abbreviation Will Soon Include A 'Z' For 'Zoophilia'
John Biver, the political editor of Matt Barber’s BarbWire website , warns in a column today that marriage equality will lead to legal protections for bestiality and the letter Z (for “zoophilia”) being “added to the LGBTQIA (etc.) abbreviation.”Tweets by @jmattbarber
Apr 17, 2014: Right Wing Watch: BarbWire Defends Brutal Anti-Gay Laws In Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia -
Jeff Allen, senior editor of Matt Barber’s BarbWire website, today defends harsh anti-gay laws in Uganda, Nigeria and Ethiopia, which he calls “maliciously mischaracterized” and “a matter of national survival.”
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Apr 17, 2014: Matt Barber: The Blaze: Deception: Christian Publisher Sells Soul for Mammon
Apr 16, 2014: Wonkette: Wingnut Blogs Freak Out: Jay Carney’s Kitchen Is Breeding Bolsheviks!
Jeff Allen at Matt Barber’s BarbWire asks, Might these be collectivist subliminal messages? Or maybe it confirms President Barack Obama’s socialist/communist leanings as demonstrated in the selection of the members of his administration?
Apr 16, 2014: Joe My God: Barbwire Has The Gene Robinson Sadz
Details.
Apr 14, 2014: Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: How Matt Barber's anti-gay BarbWire is proving the case for lgbt equality, acceptance
Barber, who no doubt considers himself as Barbara Streisand of the anti-gay industry in that he writes columns, is a dean at the extremely conservative Liberty Counsel university,  and published one ridiculous book on his anti-gay activism, seems to have outdone himself with the founding of online publication, Barbwire.
Apr 13, 2014: Liberal Planet: Matt Barber Starts New Website To Begin Spiritual Warfare And Fight Satan (VIDEO)
Certified Right Wing Nut Job (RWNJ), homophobe extraordinaire, and World Net Daily writer Matt Barber has created a new website.
Apr 12, 2014: Joe My.God: Matt Barber: Homosexuality 101
Homosexuality 101: The central, defining feature of homosexuality is same-sex sodomy, a filthy practice – both from a moral and biological standpoint – that spreads disease, ruins lives and mocks both God and nature.
Apr 11, 2014: Raw Story: Anti-gay crusader Peter LaBarbara detained in Canada under ‘hate propaganda’ law
According to BarbWire.com, the country blocked LaBarbera at the border under its “hate propaganda” law, which forbids the spread of misinformation and hate speech about protected groups, the type of defamatory speech that the Southern Poverty Law Center says is LaBarbera’s stock in trade.
Apr 11, 2014: Examiner: Matt Barber started Barbwire because 'we are at war' with Satan
Since Matt Barber started his new website, BarbWire, it has become most predominantly represented on this column, not by Barber himself, but by Gina Miller, a woman marred with severe mental instability and a habit of responding to literally everything by screaming her head off about Satanism.
Apr 11, 2014: Princess Sparkle Ponys Photo Blog: Most/Least Favorite New Websites
Let's turn to the infinitely more fun Barbwire.com. Are you familiar with Matt Barber? He literally makes his living denouncing the hairdressers, and this is his new website devoted mostly to doing just that. It is amazing. You will think it is a brilliant satire. Almost every article is about the homo menace, and while some "conservative" sites have learned to cool it with the Nazi comparisons, Barbwire embraces them with such frequency and enthusiasm that it's almost like a verbal tic
Apr 7, 2014: Dispatches from the Culture War: Bryan Fischer Award Nominee: Matt Barber
The Bryan Fischer award is given to those who display a staggering lack of self-awareness, accusing their opponents of their own worst sins. I’m pretty sure Matt Barber has won this one before but he deserves it again for this column explaining why he calls gay rights activists “homofascists.”

May 5, 2015: Right Wing Watch reported: ​Sometimes Matt Barber’s anti-gay diatribes are so over the top,  you have to wonder if he’s just trolling for a reaction.  His latest, titled “A Prayer for Marriage,” is a mean-spirited doozy.  Barber slams loving gay couples and parents in the most dismissive terms he can muster, imploring, “Lord have mercy on those precious babes, acquired like so much chattel, as selfish adults set up to play house.” He decries marriage equality as a “sterile, shameful, feculent mockery of Your masterful design for our fruitful multiplication.” He says anti-gay activists “battle the powers and principalities who pull temporal puppets by marionette strings aflame from the pits of hell.” Like many anti-gay rants from Religious Right leaders, Barber’s “prayer” reeks with shirt-rending shame for America and American Christians for not having done enough to stop the advance of LGBT equality

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April 4, 2014:  Barber: Many Christians have been warning for years that the radical homosexual activist lobby is made up of Christian-hating fascists who are in rebellion against both God and nature, who are hell-bent on criminalizing Christianity and pushing to the fringes anyone who publicly acknowledges natural human sexuality and the age-old, immutable institution of legitimate marriage as created by God.Sadly, many people, even many Christians, think that I and others are using hyperbole when we refer to this sexual anarchist “LGBT” movement as “homofascist” or the “Gaystapo.” I hope you’ll think again. It’s time to wake up and smell the impending anti-Christian persecution. It’s fully at hand.

December 18, 2014:  Human Rights Campaign reported: Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber attacked U.S. Sen. Rob Portman’s son for living an “abhorrent lifestyle” (being gay). Liberty Counsel’s Mat Saver referred to Portman as being one of “the cockroaches within the Republican Party” for standing with his son and supporting marriage equality. 
​Liberty Counsel Response: No one associated with Liberty Counsel made those statements. Matt Barber is not employed by Liberty Counsel; nor does he speak for Liberty Counsel. Matt Barber own website describes himself as “founder and editor-in chief of BarbWire.com. He is an author, columnist, cultural analyst and an attorney concentrating in constitutional law.”​

April 22, 2012: Down With Tyranny reported: If you want to keep an eye on what the most dangerous far right elements in public life-- the David Bartons, Pat Robertsons, Matt Barbers, Cindy Jacobs, Glenn Becks, Bryan Fischers, Ted Nugents, the Phyllis Schlaflys-- are up to when they think no one is looking... well People For the American Way's Right Wing Watch is looking.

June 24, 2005: WND reported "A former manager with Allstate (Matt Barber) has sued the insurance giant, alleging the company, which financially supports homosexual advocacy groups, fired him solely because he wrote a column posted on several websites that was critical of same-sex marriage and espoused his Christian beliefs." Barber: "I explained to Allstate that the article was a reflection of my personal Christian beliefs, and that I had every right to both write it and to have it published. I further explained that I had written the article while at home on my own time, that I never mentioned Allstate's name and that I neither directly nor indirectly suggested that Allstate shared my Christian beliefs or my views on same-sex marriage."
Wrote Barber: "Marriage between one man and one woman, and the nuclear family have forever been cornerstones of civilized society. Regrettably, there are at present, many within the militant homosexual lobby who wish to take a sledge hammer to those cornerstones – many who hope to undermine both the historical and contemporary reality of marriage and family – many who, through judicial fiat, aim to circumvent the Constitution, the legislative process, and the overwhelming will of the people in an effort to redefine marriage. Accordingly, the unsolicited, oxymoronic and spurious expression 'same-sex marriage' has been forced into popular lexicon."

Mar 31, 2014: CNS News: We Have Become the Communist States of America
Mar 28, 2014: Good as You: Video: Matt Barber's website backs 'blasphemy laws' against @BillMaher
I swear Liberty Counsel's most anti-LGBT voice (and that's saying something), Matt Barber, launched his new website, Barbwire.com, as a stealth effort to drain the far-right conservatives of political pragmatism. Latest example: an exclusive video where a contributor advocates for laws that would imprison Bill Maher for voicing skepticism toward the Noah story:
Mar 25, 2014: One News Now: Reaction: World Vision's credibility gone 'with one fell swoop
Matt Barber, a regular columnist for OneNewsNow, vice president of Liberty Counsel Action, and founder of BarbWire.com, doesn’t expect organizations that adhere to biblical truth to follow suit.

Mar 20, 2014: Peacock Penache: Matt Barber's BarbWire Calls LGBT People "Hijackers" On A "Hostage-Taking Enterprise"
Writing for BarbWire (Matt Barber's new conservative enterprise), senior editor Jeff Allen argued that "militant homosexual activists" engaging in a "hostage-taking enterprise" are seeking to "hijack" the country.

Feb 20, 2014: Spirit Newspapers: Cutting Free the Totalitarian Left’s ‘BarbWire’
This past week I, along with a group of fellow Christians, embarked on a new venture. In partnership with Liberty Alliance, LLC – the No. 1 ranked conservative media conglomerate, according to Inc. Magazine – launched BarbWire.com.
Feb 15, 2014: WN: Cutting free the totalitarian left's 'BarbWire'
I will, of course, continue my regular weekly exclusive column at WND, but I’m pretty excited about this new endeavor as well. BarbWire’s “about” page explains our mission: BarbWire.com is a motley mix of breaking news, intelligent cultural analysis, political pontification and cutting-edge opinion – all fueled by the Word of Life.
Feb 11, 2014: Waking Up Now: Matt Barber's Offensive
Uber anti-gay Matt Barber has gone on the offensive with his own website called BARBWIRE. Whether that moniker’s another sad attempt to bolster his tough masculine toughness, or just his drag name, I can’t say.
Jan 23, 2014: Huffington Post: Russia's Gay Law Defended By Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver And Matt Barber
Russia's "gay propaganda" legislation has sparked outrage from international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates, but a pair of conservative pundits say they wouldn't mind if the U.S. would embrace similar laws at the domestic level.
July 1, 2013: Wonkette: Wingnut Matt Barber Vows He Will Not Get Gay Married, Even If It Means Death Camps And Jail
It’s Monday, which means it’s time to open up the old email inbox and muck out all the Nazi analogies that have piled up over the weekend. Today brings us a generous offer from wingnut Matt Barber: “Attached is a column submission for your consideration.
Dec 10, 2012: Friendly Atheist: Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber: The FFRF Needs to Be Punched in the Mouth (Metaphorically, Of Course)
Matt Barber of the conservative Christian group Liberty Counsel knows exactly how to defeat the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a group he think functions like a grade school bully: Punch them in the mouth.
Dec 1, 2012: LGBTQ Nation: Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber: AIDS a metaphor of ‘God’s love for gays’
Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs for the anti-gay organization Liberty Counsel, marked World AIDS Day with a tweet on Friday declaring that AIDS is a metaphor of “God’s love for gays,” with a link to a photograph of a young AIDS victim on his deathbed.
June 4, 2012: Queerty: Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber: My Gay Relative Deserves To Die From AIDS
Right-wing activist Matt Barber, speaking about an unnamed family member, at the Calvary Assembly’s Awakening 2012.