If there is a battle somewhere to restrict protections for gay men, lesbians or transgender people, chances are the alliance is there fighting it. “They’ve got some very big, very clear goals,” said Mr. Montgomery, who has studied Alliance Defending Freedom since the group’s founding in 1994. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyOne of those goals was to defend laws that criminalized gay and lesbian sexual conduct. In a brief the alliance filed urging the Supreme Court not to overturn a Texas law that made homosexual activity illegal, its lawyers described gay men as diseased and as public health risks. Gone are the fiery denunciations of gay men and lesbians as sinners and reprobates.

Source: New York Times November 22, 2017 17:07 UTC