It Reads Like One Giant Anti-LGBT Yearbook Page...

It should come as no surprise that the folks who will be speaking at this year's Value Voters Summit (sponsored by the Family Research Council) have a track record of anti-LGBT statements.  From Ken Blackwell to Phyllis Schlafly to Tony Perkins to Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint, the scorecard for this line-up might just mean a hotel conference center chock full of anti-LGBT ire.  Here's just a few of the people who will be participating in the Value Voters Summit, as well as some of their more infamous statements when it comes to the subject of civil rights.  Just remember that when these people refer to 'value voting,' they really mean 'only vote for candidates who will take away civil rights for LGBT people, and foster homophobia and intolerance.'  But I guess that's too long a title to put in a conference header :)

Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minnesota): "If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement."  (Let's also not forget that Bachmann said that gay marriage was the biggest threat our country has seen in the past thirty years.  You know, because terrorism, the economy, and global warming were so 1960s...)

Gary Bauer (commenting on Vermont simply recognizing civil unions, way back in 1999): "I think what the Vermont Supreme Court did last week was the worst form of terrorism."  (So civil unions equal a form of terrorism?)

Conservative Radio Host Kevin McCullough: "...a woman who engages in lesbianism will never know the joy of lovemaking that creates within her the product of that union – an actual human life. She will never know the security of a true man protecting her from the dragons of the world and providing for her an environment where she can nurture and give love to that little life once it arrives, or the stamp of approval that God puts on such an experience. And because she and her partner know this, they must defy reason, biology and sexual function to create children and experiences that serve as faulty substitutes for that God-ordained picture. Likewise, a man who seeks his perverse kicks by depositing the seed of life in, shall we say, non-life-giving cavities, may know orgasm, but never complete union, as he uses anatomy in ways for which the Creator did not create it."  (obsessed with gay sex a little too much?)

Sen. Tom Coburn: "The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power ... That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today. Why do you think we see the rationalization for abortion and multiple sexual partners? That's a gay agenda."

There's many more anti-LGBT folks making the annual pilgrimage to the Family Research Council's conference.  Mitt Romney, Gov. Bobby Jindal, the entire staff of Fox News (seriously - Glenn Beck, Brit Hume, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity will all be there), Jeb Bush, Rep. Roy Blunt...even newly-minted GOP recruiter (and former Miss California) Carrie Prejean will be there.

Let's just remember that this values summit ain't so much about values, as much as it is bitching and moaning about homosexuals, and providing a place for radical right activists to gather.  Which is why it's so interesting that a number of potential GOP 2012 Presidential candidates are making an appearance.  Romney, check.  Palin, check.  Huckabee, check.  Gov. Tim Pawlenty, check.  Do these folks also believe that homosexuality is as big a threat as terrorism?

On second thought, I'm not sure I want to hear the answer to that question.