On today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, as Mat Staver and Matt Barber discussed Liberty Counsel’s effort to defend Puerto Rico’s ban on gay marriage, Barber once again shared his view that the push for marriage equality is literally satanic.

“From the spiritual level,” Barber asked, “who is the Lawless One? Who is the Great Deceiver referred to in Scripture? The Lawless One is the Father of Lies himself and so this kind lawlessness, we know who is behind it. We know who is behind this push to redefine marriage, from a spiritual standpoint. If God designed human sexuality and designed them male and female, we know who is attacking God’s design for human sexuality, God’s design for the differences between the sexes and coming together in the institution of marriage as one as one flesh. And it also is a representation of the church, of Christ’s relationship with the church, the bride of Christ. And so that is something that Satan hates, it is something that he wants to attack and undermine, so from a spiritual standpoint, isn’t it what this all kind of derives from?”