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July 11th, 2007
Remember those all those rampaging Lesbian gangs that Fox News discovered? Rod Wheeler told Bill O’Reilly that the nation’s capital was being overrun by lesbian gangs. Wheeler has now spun down his rhetoric from the no-spin zone:
During the O’Reilly Factor segment on June 21st, while engaged in a discussion on Lesbian gangs, I inadvertently stated that gang members carry pistols that are painted pink and call themselves the “Pink Pistol Packing Group.” I was not referring to the gay rights group “Pink Pistols” who advocates for the lawful rights of gays to carry weapons for protection. Further, I mentioned that there are “over 150 of these gangs” in the greater Washington DC area. What I actually meant is that there are over 150 gangs in the Washington DC area, some of which are in fact lesbian gangs. Lastly, I mentioned in the segment that there is this “national epidemic” of lesbian gangs. A better choice of words would have been to say that there is a growing concern nationally, and especially in major urban areas, of increased gang activity, which includes some lesbian gang activity.
I apologize for any misunderstanding this may have caused.
July 10th, 2007
For a good healthy dose of crazy, it’s hard to beat the ex-gays. But when you combine an ex-gay, World Net Daily, and Peter LaBarbera, you get enough crazy for a three ring circus full of clowns in big shoes and little cars.
Take, for example, the report by he-of-no-spin, Bill O’Reilly, about a national network of lesbian gangs (150 in DC alone) who were raping schoolgirls. In addition to being a national crime cartel, Bill’s reporter, Rod Wheeler, breathlessly tells him that a lot of their viewers will want to know that some of these lesbian gangs call themselves Pink Pistol Carriers.
Which would, no doubt, be quite a surprise to the actual Pink Pistols, a national gay and lesbian gun-enthusists group that is friendly with the NRA.
GLAAD took a little look-see and found that the report was, well, spinning faster than a tornado in a trailer park:
Gaithersburg, Md., Detective Patrick Word is President of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Gang Investigators Network, an intelligence-sharing organization of 400 criminal justice professionals in Maryland; Washington, D.C.; and Virginia. He told the Intelligence Report, “there is no evidence whatsoever of a lesbian gang epidemic in this region…our membership reports only one lesbian gang.”
When confronted by the facts, Bill O’Reilly apologized because his reporter “got carried away” and had a follow-up segment in which he backed away from the earlier claims and allowed a representative from GLAAD to provide facts that shed a different light on the story.
But anti-gay gadfly LaBarbera knows things that the Gang Investigators Network and The O’Reilly Factor are afraid to tell. LaBarbera has access to (breathless pause) an ex-lesbian:
Having heard over the years of the fast-growing influence of lesbian gangs and their tactics of intimidation, LaBarbera said the reports, including an estimate of 150 attack squads in the Washington, D.C., region alone, were no surprise.
LaBarbera told WND he heard about the “lesbian bullying phenomenon” from former lesbian-turned-Christian evangelist Linda Jernigan, who was contacted by a teacher about speaking at a suburban Chicago where “this sick behavior was occurring.”
“Jernigan said she was told that lesbian girl gangs would drag a targeted female into the school restroom, hold her down, and perform oral sex on her to ‘turn her out’ – i.e., forcible ‘seduce’ the poor girl through lesbian rape,” he said.
And the only reason we don’t all quiver in our boots that marauding gangs of lesbians will attack us and subject us all to hours of lesbian sex is because of the evil homosexual lobby that controls all of the media. And though O’Reilly admitted that he isn’t afraid of being attacked by lesbians on the loose on the way to his car, he should be!!
“All they wanted to do was shut down the story,” LaBarbera told WND. “This epitomizes the selfishness of the gay activists.”
Now I don’t want to diminish any harm anyone has experienced as the victim of a lesbian gang. Any violence, bullying, or harassment should be immediately met with a concerted effort to see that the guilty parties are swiftly brought to justice. If there is a gang of lesbians that is harming schoolgirls, I encourage authorities to allocate resources to ending this swiftly.
But until such allegations are substantiated, sometimes you just have to sit back and laugh at the clowns.
Update: Rod Wheeler, Bill O’Reilly’s “Lesbian Gangs!!!” expert recants.
Culture wars are hell.
June 20th, 2007
Battle lines are being drawn in the ex-gay cat fight. In one corner, we have Exodus International president Alan Chambers, who questioned the ex-gay party line when he said, “By no means would we ever say change can be sudden or complete.”
In the other corner, we have Stephen Bennett, who demands that Alan Chambers clarify his remarks.. Bennett is now joined by Peter LaBarbera, who calls Alan to task for straying from doctrinal purity [Emphasis LaBarbera’s]:
There are many people – perhaps due to the “weirdness” of homosexuality (after all, this is a lifestyle whose advocates now proudly embrace the moniker “queer”) – who would have us focus incessantly on the “cause” of homosexuality and the “feelings” of homosexuals. They have come to sympathize with people caught up in homosexuality’s embrace in a way that drives them to become de facto apologists for “gayness” – more suspicious of pro-family groups engaged in the uphill fight against homosexual activism than they are of the homosexual activists themselves. (I would put Grove City College psychology professor Dr. Warren Throckmorton, who has emerged as a “Switzerland” of sorts in the culture war over homosexuality, in that camp.)
…But the far more important issue for people trapped in this sin, and especially for our nation’s youth, is that this destructive sinful behavior can be changed and must never be defended by anyone who claims allegiance to a holy, Almighty God. We know Alan Chambers would never do that, but by stepping into this semantic morass and publicly denying “complete change” for practicing homosexuals – in the face of wonderful Christian testimonies like Steve Bennett’s and Dennis Jernigan’s – he inadvertently helped a “gay” lobby that is obsessed with defending the indefensible.
Truth is, despite his good intentions, the “gay” activists will never be Alan’s friend unless he abandons God’s moral law and throws up a rainbow flag in complete surrender.
LaBarbera is being his usual hyperventilating self. I don’t expect Alan to throw up a rainbow flag anytime soon. But this does go to show how quickly some anti-gay extremists will turn and eat their own whenever they see their unquestionable assumptions challenged.
As Alan is finding out, culture wars demand absolute fealty to the party line. Anything less, and you risk lending comfort to a “decidedly evil movement.” Either that, or you become Switzerland, which I hear is quite lovely this time of year.
Stephen Bennett: Say It Isn’t So!
Stephen Bennett: Alan Chamber’s Got Some Explainin’ To Do
Peter LaBarbera Joins Stephen Bennett In Ex-Gay Cat Fight
The man they call "Porno Pete" is a little chafed.
June 4th, 2007
Peter LaBarbera doesn’t like his nickname.
For several years now, it’s been reported that Peter LaBarbera has made it his quest to attend various leather and S&M events, report on what he sees, and claim that it somehow is representative — or even relevant — to the gay community at large. Whenever he goes to events like these, he takes several salacious photos and posts them on his website. Then he exhorts his readers to “take action” of some sort (which usually involves harassing the hosting venues) and demands that everyone in the gay community condemn the event.
He takes this work very seriously. He even compares his mission to those of Simon Wiesenthal and Mother Theresa. That’s pretty serious.
It’s been reported that Peter LaBarbera has a collection of leather outfits to wear to these events. It’s also been reported that he likes to go undercover to gay bathhouses — Chicago’s Steamworks seems to be a favorite. And it’s been reported that LaBarbera maintains an impressive collection of gay porn — for research purposes, of course. In fact, LaBarbera’s storied reputation for being inordinately fascinated by all things pornographic — well, not all things, just gay male things — has led to his being dubbed with the well-earned moniker of “Porno Pete.”
LaBarbera credits Wayne Besen for the nickname, one that has spread LaBarbera’s fame far and wide. When I mentioned Peter LaBarbera to my partner over the weekend, he didn’t know who I was talking about. As soon as I said “Porno Pete” though, he knew instantly. “Oh, that guy.” It has now reached the point where you have to refer to his nickname at least once just so everyone will know who you’re talking about.
But Porno Pete doesn’t like his nickname. He calls it a smear. He brought his objections up in a comment on this web site, and he repeats his objections on his own site.
By the way, he also generously mentions this humble web site on his blog, describing us as alternating “between high-minded critiques of pro-family research and mean-spirited name-calling.” The “high-minded” part is quite a compliment. Thanks. We do try. Sorry about the name calling though. We try to be high-minded, but it’s hard to stay focused when dealing with low-minded people, particularly those who go through more exclamation marks in a single post than normal people do in a lifetime. But I’ll give it my best shot.
At any rate, Porno Pete, err… Mr. LaBarbera attended an “International Mr. Leather” event in Chicago recently, and he’s all up in arms because of how awful the whole thing was. If I had gone, I might have agreed with him. That’s probably why I didn’t go. I have no interest in these things whatsoever. What’s more, none of my friends went. I don’t think they were interested either.
Now that I think of it, if someone were to point a gun to my head and demand I give the names of all the people who went, the only name I could give would be Mr. LaBarbera’s, and I’d have to pray that that would be enough to save my life. Otherwise, I’m doomed.
Several years ago, I did happen to attend an event where public nudity was on display everywhere I turned. It wasn’t pretty. I had gone along with some (straight) friends and rented a sailboat to cruise around the British Virgin Islands. We anchored one afternoon off of the tiny island of Sandy Cay for a day of hiking and just generally hanging around the pristine beach. We had been on that island for no more than an hour when we saw a Windjammer-style sailing vessel on one of those “barefoot cruises.” It dropped anchor and began to discharge its passengers onto the beach. Except this was no mere barefoot cruise. This was a “bare all” cruise of mostly retired Minnesotan nudists — heterosexuals all. On our beach. In public. In blindingly broad daylight.
They were very nice and friendly. I talked to one kind lady who reminded me of my grandmother, except of course for the no-clothes thing. They invited us to join them, but we decided to leave when we saw them organizing what looked to be a game of nudist leapfrog. We didn’t stay around long enough to learn the rules.
I don’t know what horrors Mr. LaBarbera saw at International Mr. Leather that weekend, but I would have dared him to take pictures of these pasty-skinned, gray-haired (yes, even there!) naked Minnesotan retirees. I doubt he would have made it off that island alive.
I bring this up because I think there’s a simple lesson to be learned. If you don’t like something, don’t go. Or if you’re there by accident, leave.
Mr. LaBarbera doesn’t like International Mr. Leather, which I totally get because neither would I. So next time it comes to town, he should do what I did. Or didn’t do — whatever. Don’t go. I mean really — they had a sign at the door saying the event was closed to the general public, didn’t they? Mr. LaBarbera even took a picture of it. I wish there had been a sign on Sandy Cay, but there wasn’t. Mr. LaBarbera should consider himself lucky to have been forewarned.
But no, he barreled right past that sign (after pausing to take a picture of it first) and went right in. And then he took lots more pictures. He even took pictures that he said he couldn’t post on his web site. I’m not sure why he took those pictures — but hey, different strokes, right?
And now that he’s posted his “report,” he wants the rest of us homosexuals to condemn the event. Well heck, I didn’t even know about it, and I don’t know what responsibility I have for it. Why should he call me out on it? I don’t hold Mr. LaBarbera — or even heterosexuals in general — responsible for spoiling my afternoon in the Virgin Islands. Why should I be tied (get it? That’s a joke!) to that thing in Chicago?
But okay. I’ll set aside that complete breakdown in logic and offer my condemnation for something I have nothing to do with:
I don’t think I’d like it. I don’t like any public display of fetishes, even though this wasn’t entirely public. Next year, I will be sure to boycott it.
(Can you boycott something if you don’t know about it? Do I have to join the International Mr. Leather mailing list just so I’ll know what not to go to? I’ll have to think about that one.)
But as long as we’re on the topic of demanding that people condemn things that have nothing to do with them, I’d like to point out to Mr. LaBarbera that this year’s Fetish Con will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Tampa this coming August. Even though this is a heterosexual event, this should be right up Mr. LaBarbera’s alley. There’s even bondage among the plethora of commodified sexual pleasures. He can take pictures and describe everything he sees. (He can even take some more of those pictures he can’t put on his web site.) And he can preface his report with a warning:
WARNING: *** NOT FOR CHILDREN ***
Graphic photos below with offensive depictions of real-life heterosexual depravities
And he can demand that all heterosexuals “condemn the perversion.”
If past performance gives us any indication of future behavior, we won’t see anything like this. Americans for Truth never comes close to being “high-minded.” I’m sorry I can’t return the compliment. The only thing Mr. LaBarbera is interested in is finding weaponry he can use against every LGBT person on the planet, and he doesn’t care where he finds it.
I doubt we’ll see Porno Pete in Tampa, and that’s a terrible shame. I think Mother Teresa would be very disappointed in him.
May 31st, 2007
I have to say opening up my email and seeing that Peter “Porno Pete” LaBarbera attended this year’s “Mr. Leather” near his home in Chicago brought a smile to my face. Seeing Pete’s (now annual) report makes me feel all is right in the world.
Pete’s photo of supposedly offensive paddles made me question, if a little spanking is off limits in the bedroom then what exactly is allowed by AFT’s standards?
May 14th, 2007
Dr. Warren Throckmorton has also posted about Paul Cameron’s disturbing views expressed in Cameron’s article, “Gays in Nazi Germany.” Dr. Throckmorton concludes:
Suffice to say that Dr. Cameron is not simply ideologically opposed to homosexuality, he is fixated on “solutions” that I find abhorrent. I call on fellow social conservatives who still refer to the Camerons’ work to take a hard look at these posts and reflect on whether someone with such extreme animosity could possibly approach social science data with sufficient objectivity to be trusted.
When Ex-Gay Watch pointed out that Exodus was using Cameron’s research, Exodus finally responded by removing those web pages from their web site. On the other hand, NARTH has so far failed to act.
I wonder how many of these individuals, organizations and publishers agree with Paul Cameron’s Solution for those who live “parasitic lives”?
E-mail me or leave a comment if you find someone who is using Cameron’s “science” and I’ll add them to the list.
Let me know if you find any others.
That represents the latest scare tactic from the anti-gay lobby.
January 18th, 2007
Did all the anti-gay extremists skip class on the day they were to learn about the First Amendment? It’s beginning to look that way.
We’ve seen Focus and other anti-gay special interest groups falsely claim that passing hate crime laws to protect gays and lesbians would infringe on their religious freedoms. This, of course, is utter nonsense. The proposed hate crime laws covers only violent crimes, not speech or beliefs. And for good reason — any attempts to curb speech would quickly run afoul of the First Amendment. Anyone who passed high school civics can understand that.
They have also opposed gay marriage while claiming that pastors would be “forced” to conduct wedding ceremonies for gay couples. This, too, is nonsense. There has never been an instance in all of American history in which the government compelled a minister to perform a religious service. That would strike at the very heart of the anti-establishment clause of the First Amendment. But as ludicrous as that idea may be, anti-gay lobbyists continue to sound that drumbeat.
Now, in a move that advances that argument to the surreal, Focus on the Family has distributed a story in which Peter LaBarbera, of the terribly misnamed and fraudulently-classified “Americans for Truth” is joined by several other extremists to perpetuate the myth that New Jersey’s civil unions law (and gay marriage in general) might have forced ministers to perform civil unions against their will:
Gay couples in New Jersey will be allowed to apply for civil unions starting in February, but Attorney General Stuart Rabner has announced that clergy members are not required to perform such unions.
Len Deo, president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council, said the decision was a relief for ministers who feared being charged with hate crimes for refusing to perform the ceremonies. …
But Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth, said pastors are not yet in the clear.
“To me, what’s shaping up is, yes, they are not forced to by the law,” he said, “but we will see the other side start to demonize and ostracize pastors that do not bless homosexual unions.”
C.J. Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League, said the weight of the law will likely eventually come to bear.
“The whole tendency is once something is legalized, it moves from being simply a liberty or a right, so-called, to something that is required,” he said. “This is something that is very dangerous.”
This is preposterous. One reason states like Vermont and New Jersey opted for civil unions was to avoid the religious connotation of the word “marriage.” While every religious tradition recognizes marriage, there is no such thing as a “civil union” in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or any other religious tradition. The very word “civil” in civil union should be the clue here. There is no religious ceremony that corresponds to a civil union because a “religious” civil union would be an oxymoron. This whole argument is beyond ridiculous.
But what if New Jersey had followed Massachusetts’ lead and enacted marriage instead of civil unions? Again, pastors are in the clear. There is nothing in the Constitution that empowers a government to force churches to accept beliefs they don’t want to accept. That’s the whole reason the anti-establishment clause of the First Amendment exists in the first place. And there is no hate crime law anywhere in the land that can force pastors to perform a wedding. Hate crimes address acts of violence, not thoughts, beliefs, speech or religious practices.
C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League should know this better than anyone. The Catholic Church defends its teachings against divorce by refusing to marry divorced persons whose previous marriage hasn’t been annulled by the Church. Any couple who shows up with a marriage license from the state won’t get very far with the parish priest if one of them were divorced and doesn’t have an annulment. As far as that priest is concerned, that civil marriage license is meaningless. In fact, that couple won’t get very far if they haven’t completed Pre-Cana counseling to the pastor’s satisfaction. Marriage license or no, a wedding ceremony won’t go forward unless that couple complies with the teachings of the Church to that pastor’s satisfaction. This has been common practice for practically forever, and the Church has the full backing of the First Amendment in doing so.
The very idea that the state of New Jersey — or anyone else — can require a minister to perform a religious ceremony is preposterous. But when it comes to scaring ordinary Americans, nothing is beyond the pale for LaBarbera, Focus, or anyone else in the anti-gay lobby.
UPDATE: Yes they did!
January 12th, 2007
Dr. Kevin Kaatz noticed something interesting about Peter LaBarbara’s so-called “Americans For Truth’s” 501(c)(3) tax-exempt designation:
I didn’t realize that the actual name for Americans for Truth is Americans for Truth about Homosexuality… When I looked this organization up in GuideStar (a source of information about non-profit organizations), their ‘National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities,’ code is R26–Lesbian/Gay Rights. These NTEE codes are used to help people search for non-profit organizations. And get this–this code of R26 is used for “R20 Civil Rights, Advocacy for Specific Groups”! So Americans for Truth about Homosexuality claim to be a civil rights group for lesbians and gays!
The section for R26 is reserved for: “Organizations that support the passage and enforcement of laws and other social measures that protect and promote the rights and interests of individuals who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered.”
Dr. Kaatz observes that this places the so-called “Americans For Truth About Homosexuality” alongside Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, as a group that defends gay and lesbian rights. When in fact, it doesn’t.
How did this happen? According to an update on the same post, Dr. Kaatz received emails from both Guidestar and Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, indicating that the codes are selected by either the organizations themselves or by the IRS.
Update: The codes come from the organizations themselves. They didn’t come from the IRS:
Go to http://www.guidestar.org/npo/index.jsp. At the bottom, in the section called “More Info”, click on eDoc–try the demo. This will bring up a demonstration for how people fill out their non-profit reports. Go to slide 12. It is here where organizations ADD THEIR OWN NTEE CODES. The directions clearly state that if you aren’t sure of which codes to enter, then then give a link to the NTEE code lists. Clearly LaBarbera added the code of R26. His name is on the form. If he didn’t do it, then who did?
And looses.
January 10th, 2007
Ah, youth! A time of incredible optimism and idealism. A new Zogby poll of how young people view their lives, futures and politics (PDF: 892KB/45 pages) shows an encouraging outlook on homosexuality. While the 18-25 year old set (dubbed the “Gen Nexters” by Zogby) is nearly evenly split on the subject of gay marriage (47% favor, 46% oppose, 7% don’t know. Margin of error: 5%), they clearly don’t see gays and lesbians as a threat to society. Fifty-eight percent see homosexuality as a way of life that should be accepted by society, and 61% are in favor of allowing gays and lesbians to adopt.
Gen Nexters are also very likely to use a social networking website such as Facebook or Myspace — 44% have created a personal profile. These websites have become a forum where teens can begin to flesh out how they see the world and their place in it. Naturally, teenagers being who they are, are eager to share their thoughts, no matter whether they be misguided or profound. Take, for example, this Myspace blog by a 16-year-old student who goes by the moniker, “Doc Holidâ™ y“:
There simply is no respect anymore. No respect for beliefs, no respects for individualism, no respect for humanity. I just read my friend Emily’s note about a group called ‘Americans For Truth’ and I visited their website. It made me want to vomit and cry. …
Doc, I know the feeling. A cursory look around the so-called “Americans for Truth” website reveals an immaturity that would make any decent high school sophomore question the supposed wisdom of their elders. Doc may not have all his facts straight (what teenager does?), but his heart and passion are in the right place (and what teenager’s isn’t?).
But me, I’m not one to go looking around on Myspace for perspectives on gay and lesbian issues. Teens’ observations may be of tremendous interest to their peers, but they’re usually not something an adult would find worthy of comment. Unless that “adult” happens to be one Sonja Dalton, of Peter LaBarbara’s misnamed website “Americans for Truth”. She ran across Doc’s posting and became completely unglued:
I ran across this MySpace blog a few days ago. It merits note. I have sat in a number of school meetings where board members, administrators, and teachers insist that 15-16 -17 year old high school students are “mature” and “wise.” This teenager’s post will henceforth suffice as my response to that claim. It is full of typos, misspellings, incorrect punctuation, and (most importantly) misplaced emotion, arrogance, ignorance, poor logic, misinformation, and lies.
Now, mind you, I dedicated this website to the task of correcting the misplaced emotion, arrogance, ignorance, poor logic, misinformation, and lies of supposedly mature and professional adults who malign gays and lesbians. I’ll not invest my limited time and energy in monitoring teen websites. Besides, I find the thought of trolling through Myspace just a little bit creepy. But I’ll leave Sonja to it — maybe somewhere on Myspace she’ll find her intellectual equal. But she’ll evidently have to aim lower than a high school sophomore to find it.
Hat tip: Jody Wheeler
October 24th, 2006
A disturbingly virulent new website by Peter LaBarbara has appeared on the web with a laughably ill-considered title, “Americans for Truth.” The web site however, contains nothing but outrageous distortions of the truth. It would be a full-time job to keep up with them.
One great example is a recent post in which they regurgitate this from World Net Daily:
English professor Karla Jay, Ph.D., and well-educated journalist Allen Young, both homosexual activists, conducted the first major survey on homosexuality in America in 1979. Their work is still cited in academic studies and involved over 5,000 homosexuals from all walks of life. Titled “The Gay Report,” the study published data on underage sex, disease, gross promiscuity, suicidal tendencies and more.
One cannot help but applaud the honesty of these two homosexuals in publishing the results of their study, which documented that “23 percent of respondents admitted to having had sex with youths aged 13-15, while 19 percent felt positive about sexual activity within this age group.”
The Gay Report is one of the far-right’s favorite sources for “what homosexuals do”. That report however, suffers from several massive flaws which prevent it from being representative. These flaws are reflective in the fact that the response rate was less than 1%, far too low to be even minimally usable. With a response rate so low, it is fair to wonder why 99% of those who recieved the survey simply threw it away. And its fair to ask about the motivations of the tiny few who invested the hours it took to complete it and turn it in.
You can read our recently updated review of The Gay Report. And the next time you see anti-gay extremists trot it out, you’ll know exactly how unreliable their charges are — and how desperate they are to denigrate their fellow neighbors and citizens.
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