Earlier this week, David Barton appeared on Missions Radio, where he doubled down on his false claim that the Supreme Court ruling striking down gay marriage bans has now legalized pedophilia, asserting that churches will be forced to hire child molesters to run their day care centers.

After repeating his false warning that gay marriage will lead to the elimination of gender-specific bathrooms and locker rooms, Barton claimed that the ruling, along with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which he wrongly asserted was passed into law in 2006, will now also force churches to hire pedophiles.

“The Supreme Court said gender cannot be used as a basis of why you do things,” Barton said, “What you use is sexual identity. At this point, there are 82 distinct sexual identities…so whatever I identify myself as this morning, you now have legal standing for that. So what you’ve seen is, we used to have bathrooms based on gender, but you can’t identify gender so now you have to do no genders. So we’ve already seen in Utah that a number of guys have signed up and moved into the girls’ dorms and you can’t stop that because you can’t base it on gender any more. Well, guess what that’s going to mean for sports teams, guess what that’s going to mean for bathrooms all across the country, guess what that’s going to mean for all sorts of stuff.”

“And then, Congress has passed what’s called ENDA, Employment Non-Discrimination Act,” he continued, “Passed it in ’06 under [Nancy] Pelosi and [Harry] Reid and at that point in time, it says you cannot discriminate on the basis of hiring. As a result, the president has now announced that faith-based groups have to hire homosexuals; not an option, you have to because federal law says you cannot discriminate on the basis of identity. So if a pedophile comes to the church and says, ‘I want to run your nursery,’ you can’t say no because that’s discriminating on the basis of identity. If a homosexual comes and says, ‘I want to be your youth director,’ and you say no, you can’t do that, you can’t distinguish on the basis of gender.”