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Antigay Hate Group VP to Fox's Laura Ingraham: We're the Victims

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Jeremy Tedesco of the Alliance Defending Freedom painted his group as oppressed, even though they've worked for decades to strip women and LGBTQ people of their rights.

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Leave it to right-wing Fox News talking head Laura Ingraham to host the vice president of the anti-LGBTQ group Alliance Defending Freedom and present him and his organization as victims.

The impetus for the Friday interview was an electronic billboard recently beamed into Times Square that read, "No Gays Allowed. STOP Alliance Defending Freedom. Learn more at NoGays.org."

The people behind NoGays.org were trying to bring attention to ADF, which has bankrolled multiple lawsuits that attempt to undermine marriage equality, promote religious discrimination against LGBTQ people, and even defend laws that call for the sterilization of transgender people. ADF's most recent victory was the Colorado Cakeshop case, where the Supreme Court allowed a baker to refuse service to a same-sex couple.

(RELATED: Meet the Hate Group Using Cake to Push Gay Discrimination, Trans Sterilization)

The Southern Poverty Law Center named ADF a "hate group," which both Ingraham and ADF VP Jeremy Tedesco bristled at in the interview. Tedesco claimed his group only promotes First Amendment rights and would even take the cases of gay plaintiffs (sure). Watch the outrageous interview below.

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Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.
Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.