BarbWire senior editor Jeff Allen hopes that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejects the arguments of marriage equality supporters in its upcoming marriage rulings, writing in his column today that gay people are preying on children in order to advance their agenda and “self-serving desires.”

“America’s most vulnerable among us have tragically become the helpless guinea pigs,” he writes.

Allen also warns that marriage equality is leading to a “ghoulish ‘gay’ adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau gone horribly awry,” referring to the H.G. Wells novel about a scientist who tried to turn animals into humans.

He cited a brief submitted by anti-LGBT activists Robert Oscar Lopez, Dawn Stefanowicz, Katy Faust and Rivka Edelman, who goes by B.N. Klein, who claim that they were harmed by being raised by same-sex parents.