Reacting to the legal challenge of Michigan’s marriage equality ban, American Decency Association head Bill Johnson last week told the ABC affiliate WZZM that there will be divine repercussions for legalizing same-sex marriage and blamed the “mainstream media” for its “relentless” promotion of “this alternative lifestyle.”

He added: “I believe that as we turn our back upon God and upon his standard, it opens this culture, it opens our families, it opens each of us as individuals to increasing lawlessness, chaos and dysfunction.”

The ADA also said that gay “special rights” will lead to “despotism” and the end of freedom: