A visual approximation of the Liberty Counsel offices.

A visual approximation of the Liberty Counsel offices.



@libertycounsel Will it soon be taboo to be heterosexual in America? Vote for #promarriage http://t.co/...

And then they came for the heterosexuals, and it was like Sharia and stuff except the opposite, and they put us all into gay indoctrination camps and made us marry each other and stuff.

'Liberty Counsel' would be Matt Barber's place—connoisseurs of crazy will recognize the name. The proximate cause of his bug-eyed terror this time around is that Illinois Republicans on the party's central committee who wanted to oust Illinois Chairman Pat Brady for insufficient hatred of homosexuals mostly lost their re-election races. This is because, apparently, The Gays have taken over the Illinois Republican Party, bringing Matt Barber one step closer to his imaginations of forced gay marriages and prison camps for straight people.

Or it could just have been because Illinois Republicans were generally cleaning house; only seven of 18 committee members were re-elected, so it wasn't just the half-dozen anti-Bradyers who got the boot. While we can look forward to the day when being a crackpot bigot with delusions of heterosexual persecution is an unpopular thing to be, we ain't there yet, so I think your everyday straight person is probably even more safe. So no, Matt Barber, I don't think this is a case of the "gay jihad" claiming another American state for the cause of righteous homosexualisms. Jeebus, guy, get a grip.

We really should pay more attention to these Liberty Counsel nuts. They've generally stayed off the radar because there's only so many hours in the day, but they are just so, so easy to mess with. Matt Barber is one armored-vehicle-flying-the rainbow-flag away from locking himself away in an underground bunker for the next 10 years, and we could totally arrange for one of those to drive down his street one fine spring morning.