Anti-Gay Group Immediately Celebrates Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court Success
by Colin Kalmbacher | 6:48 pm, October 6th, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh‘s nomination to the Supreme Court was approved by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 50-48 late afternoon on Saturday. One of the first organizations to congratulate him was the American Family Association (AFA), an anti-gay and fundamentalist Christian organization founded in 1978.
The AFA has long opposed what it terms the “homosexual agenda.”
The organization distinguished itself by attacking gay journalists in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, the AFA unsuccessfully argued in favor of keeping Texas’ anti-sodomy laws intact and later mounted a press campaign against the children’s film, A Shark Tale, because it allegedly promoted the acceptance of gay rights.
Aside from legal activism and advocacy against homosexuality, the AFA also supplied a series of “In God We Trust” posters to several public schools across the country in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The AFA is also sort of opposed to trans fats. In 2015, the organization repudiated the views of a former director by noting, “AFA rejects the idea…that ‘Free exercise of religion’ only applies to Christians.”
In a press release issued moments after Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, the AFA noted:
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