The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Liberty Counsel among its anti-gay hate groups for spreading false information.
The day before the meeting with the pope, Mat Staver, the group's founder, showed a full auditorium a photo of a packed Peruvian stadium and said 100,000 gathered there to pray for Davis, the defiant clerk who spent five days in jail for defying a court order and refusing to license same-sex marriages. Online sleuths quickly debunked the story.
The Liberty Counsel claims the pope thanked Davis for her courage.