Organizers for the Rainbow Families Conference in Minneapolis on Saturday say they sent an invite to Rep. Michele Bachmann to “meet the families she is demonizing.” It was Bachmann’s statements comparing LGBT people to pedophiles that prompted the group to invite her.

“Considering what the congresswoman has said about LGBT people and their children, I call on her, from one mother to another, to show up at our conference tomorrow and meet the people she is demonizing,” said Jennifer Chrisler, Family Equality Council executive director in a statement on Friday. “The congresswoman says she’s about family values – yet she clearly doesn’t value all families. She says she’s about Christian values, but she doesn’t act like a Christian towards families like mine.”

The statement the group takes issue with is her is Bachmann’s testimony on the House floor on the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act that became law last year.

“[A]pparently people who are practicing pedophiles would be considered protected under this legislation, but not, I understand, veterans, not, I understand, pregnant women, not, I understand, 85-year-old grandmothers would be protected under this law,” she said. “But who would be protected? A pedophile, someone who considers themselves gay, someone who considers themselves transgender, someone who considers themselves a cross-dresser? That is who is protected.”

The group is also urging LGBT families to show up at Bachmann’s district office on Monday following the conference.

“Rep. Bachmann should meet LGBT parents and their kids who reside in Minnesota and across the country,” said Chrisler. “She would see there are a whole lot of qualified loving parents ready, willing, and able to adopt many of the 500,000 kids currently in foster care in the United States. If the congresswoman can’t make it Saturday, we urge conference attendees– LGBT parents– to show up at her district office on Monday morning.”