On a ridiculously beautiful Tuesday morning, anti-gay activists gathered outside the Human Rights Campaign in Northwest D.C. to proclaim the evils of homosexuality.

The press conference was held to coincide with Capital Pride in the District and LGBT Pride Month, which President Obama issues a proclamation about today. Speakers included Peter LaBarbera, founder and president of American for Truth About Homosexuality, which the Southern Poverty Law Center designated as a hate group, and Mission America founder Linda Harvey.

There was a small press presence and an even smaller contingent of anti-gay activists in attendance. All of the rhetoric was familiar: LaBarbera spoke of how homosexuality is against “God’s” will; others complained about laws that ban young people from attending so-called conversion therapy.

While everyone was respectful, the press conference was not without its uncomfortable moments. After Matt Barber, vice president of Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian law group, made a comment about “setting them straight, so to speak,” people on both side of the issue laughed, presumably, for very different reasons.

HRC media relations director Michael Cole-Schwartz came outside to watch the press conference. “It’s always nice to see what your opponents like to say about you,” he said. “Obviously, we disagree vehemently with them.”

To greet LaBarbera, the HRC’s communications department made a sign reading “Welcome Peter” and hung it behind where the group held their press conference.

“They are our guests for the day and we want them to feel they have a platform to speak,” Cole-Schwartz said. The speakers were standing on a mainly grassy area outside the HRC building, which Cole-Schwartz said they claimed was public land because of the grates. “We don’t have a problem with them being here,” he added.

When asked about the small turnout for the press conference, Cole-Schwartz replied, “They bring this roadshow around to a lot of different places and it doesn’t attract that much attention.”