Anti-Gay Activist Launches Low-Budget Facebook Alternative: ReaganBook

One of America’s most virulently anti-gay activists just launched ReaganBook, the “Facebook for Patriots,” so all her anti-gay friends can post messages of hate without getting the boot.

Janet Porter‘s anti-gay activism has always been low-brow, low-budget, and low on creativity. Take her 2013 anti-gay video, “Heather Has Two Cigarettes,” a parody of “Heather Has Two Mommies.” Porter made it because, she claimed, “gay behavior” is more dangerous than smoking. YouTube removed it for violating its hate speech rules. Porter, furious, called YouTube’s action “censoring scientific evidence as ‘hate speech,’” and said, “if [homosexuals] can silence the truth, they will silence the Gospel.”

That “We built it” quote from Reagan you see above?

It was actually, ”We bought it. We built it. It’s ours and we are going to keep it.” He said it in the 1976 presidential race about the Panama Canal. Carter won, and honored the treaty giving the Panama Canal to Panama.

Porter does not like anyone from the religious anti-gay right being “censored,” so she created ReaganBook, a “Facebook for Patriots.” 

Facebook, Porter says, is too “liberal,” and supposedly censored her partner in anti-gay hate, Peter LaBarbera, who runs a Southern Poverty Law Center-certified anti-gay hate group.

ReaganBook is a copyright lawsuit waiting to happen. Porter’s designers seem to have have copied Facebook’s font, mimicked its name, and can expect Zuckerberg’s lawyers to knock on her door soon. And that Ronald Reagan logo? Looks like a knockoff of the Obama Hope and Change image, and it looks like it was copied from here. 

On the site, Porter says privacy is paramount on ReaganBook. 

“We stand by what Ronald Reagan said, ‘Government has no power except those voluntarily granted to it by we the people,'” the site’s front page reads. “The same holds true for your social media: don’t grant your social media any power to collect, sell, exploit, and divulge your private information.”

Here’s a screenshot of ReaganBook’s privacy policy:

And if you’re worried that ReaganBook will restrict membership to verifiable, real people with real names, don’t be.

Here are a few members who recently joined:

“We’re tearing down walls of tyranny and censorship,” Porter said in this video from Right Wing Watch: