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		<title>AFTAH&#8217;s LaBarbera &#8216;Bullied,&#8217; Kicked out of Dan Savage Speech at Elmhurst College</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angry Savage supporter tosses LaBarbera&#8217;s belongings into aisle of chapel after he asks a critical question during Q&#38;A &#8211; then the lies begin AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera calls Dan Savage (shown above making his perverted and crass speech in Elmhurst College&#8217;s historic chapel) the &#8220;Face of Progressive Hate.&#8221; WARNING: Offensive Language AFTAH Exclusive video, &#8220;Savaging the Pope!&#8221;: same video on YouTube (please [...]]]></description>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd">AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera calls Dan Savage (shown above making his perverted and crass speech in Elmhurst College&#8217;s historic chapel) the &#8220;Face of Progressive Hate.&#8221;</dd>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">WARNING: Offensive Language</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong>AFTAH Exclusive video, <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/05/01/dan-savage-crudely-assails-pope-on-gay-marriage-at-elmhurst-college/" target="_blank">&#8220;Savaging the Pope!&#8221;:</a></strong> same video on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chco0JkpL_A" target="_blank">YouTube</a> (please &#8220;like&#8221; it)</p>
<p><strong><em>Chicago Tribune</em> coverage of Savage and AFTAH:</strong> <a href="http://triblocal.com/elmhurst/2012/05/01/anti-gay-activist-takes-issue-with-speech-at-elmhurst-college/" target="_blank">&#8220;Anti-gay activists takes issue with Elmhurst speech&#8221;</a></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;The Blaze&#8221; website article on growing Savage controversy:</strong> <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/face-of-progressive-hate-gay-rights-activist-dan-savage-goes-on-graphic-rant-about-homosexuality-the-pope/" target="_blank">&#8220;Face of &#8216;Progressive Hate&#8217;&#8230;</a></p>
<p><strong>Catholic League release</strong>: <a href="http://www.catholicleague.org/elmhurst-college-welcomes-bigot/" target="_blank">&#8220;Elmhurst College Welcomes Bigot,&#8221;</a> based on AFTAH video</p>
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<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p><strong>Dear AFTAH Supporter,</strong></p>
<p>The lies from the homosexual activist movement keep coming, and naturally <strong>Americans For Truth</strong> is a target of them because we&#8217;re helping to peel away the &#8220;rainbow&#8221; veneer to show the ugly reality of homosexual activism.</p>
<p>On Sunday evening (April 29, 2012), I attended the <strong>Dan Savage</strong> speech at <strong>Elmhurst College</strong> with <strong><a href="http://gracebeliever.com/" target="_blank">Grace Gospel Fellowship</a></strong> pastor <strong>John Kirkwood</strong> and a few other hardy Christians. (The chapel was packed, mostly with Savage supporters, many of them students.) What ensued was shocking, unless you are familiar with the hard-cored homosexual activism. Needless to say, Savage gave the type of profane, Christianity-bashing speech for which he has become notorious &#8212; in a chapel, no less. [Please watch our video excerpt, <strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/05/01/dan-savage-crudely-assails-pope-on-gay-marriage-at-elmhurst-college/" target="_blank">"Savaging the Pope!"</a></strong> and then "Like" it on the <strong>AFTAH YouTube page</strong>. AFTAH will be releasing further video excerpts of the talk.]</p>
<p>I was prepared for the foul-mouthed, anti-Christian barbs (e.g., “What the pope is saying [regarding the threat of "gay marriage"] is that the only thing that stands between my [d**k] and Brad Pitt’s mouth is a piece of paper”&#8230;), but not for what happened next: after I asked Savage a critical question in the Q&amp;A (about his nasty hate-site, <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/05/labarbera-asks-homosexual-activist-dan-savage-to-take-down-cyber-bullying-site-santorum-com/" target="_blank">&#8220;Santorum[dot]com&#8221;</a>), I was kicked out of the event by Elmhurst College security. This happened after the woman sitting next to me committed an act that can fairly be described as the sort of thing that, well&#8230; that a bully would do. Read on after the jump in this version of a note I sent to pro-family leaders explaining the incident.<br />
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<h4><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>&#8216;Gay&#8217; Bullies Spread Lies</strong></span></h4>
<p>Here is a excellent illustration of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Lobby&#8217;s tendency to lie and &#8220;project&#8221; their misdeeds on to their critics &#8211; from Dan Savage&#8217;s Elmhurst College talk Sunday evening [see AFTAH video, <strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/05/01/dan-savage-crudely-assails-pope-on-gay-marriage-at-elmhurst-college/" target="_blank">"Savaging the Pope,"</a></strong> from a portion of Dan's crude and deceitful speech]. During the Q&amp;A, I challenged Savage about his vile creation, &#8220;Santorum.com,&#8221; targeting Rick Santorum. (He said intolerance of intolerance is tolerable and that he will never take it down.)</p>
<p>Then, after trying to defend Family Research Council President Tony Perkins (and all of us) against the wicked charge by Savage that we WANT &#8220;gay&#8221; kids harmed, I walked back to my pew seat &#8212; with some in the overwhelmingly pro-Savage crowd at Elmhurst College&#8217;s Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel jeering at me. As I walked back, I saw my coat and papers in the aisle across from where I&#8217;d been sitting. Turns out that the woman who was sitting next to me &#8212; to whom I had not uttered a single word &#8212; had thrown my coat and notebook into the aisle of the chapel! Tolerance? Bullying?&#8230;</p>
<p>When I picked up my belongings, I elected to go back to my pew seat rather than just leave &#8212; <em>Why reward her hateful act?</em> I thought; besides, I wanted to hear the rest of the Q&amp;A with Savage. At that point, an Elmhurst security official approached me and said I could not sit down and he escorted me out of the building under the threat of force. I tried to appeal to him that I only wanted to hear the Q&amp;A, and that it was the woman who should be punished, not me. He was unmoved and said he would deal with her next.</p>
<p>Then a new lie began: that I somehow disrupted the presentation and harassed the woman! Here is a <a href="http://www.back2stonewall.com/2012/04/aftahs-porno-pete-labarbera-kicked-dan-savage-event-harassing-audience-member.html" target="_blank">homosexual website</a> (Back2Stonewall) spreading that same misinformation. Note that this homosexual writer left out my tweets answering Savage&#8217;s misinformation about ME being &#8220;belligerent&#8221; (he cited a conversation with a security cop, who, in all fairness to Savage, may have just lied about what transpired to cover his tracks).</p>
<p>The bottom line is we do not expect Truth from a movement that is built upon lies. This mini smear is a side-story; the far more important falsehoods are the ones promoted by Savage and others like him:</p>
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<li><strong>that kids need to embrace homosexuality; that &#8220;being gay&#8221; is &#8220;who they are&#8221;;</strong></li>
<li><strong>that Christianity&#8217;s and the Bible&#8217;s counsel against homosexual sin should be ignored;</strong></li>
<li><strong>that efforts to help people overcome homosexual temptation are harmful, and that homosexuals cannot change;</strong></li>
<li><strong>that homosexual activists like Savage know what&#8217;s best for &#8220;LGBT&#8221; youth more than their parents;</strong></li>
<li><strong>and that pro-family advocates like Tony Perkins and myself want to harm children.</strong></li>
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<p>If only we could get the average American to understand the falsehoods, dirty tricks, and viciousness of the homosexual militants. At least Savage is helping with that&#8230;. &#8212; <strong>Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></strong></p>
<p>P.S. Life does have surprises. Just before publishing this article, I checked out the aforementioned &#8220;gay&#8221; Back2Stonewall site and noticed that a homosexual advocate is confirming my side of the story. And even though &#8220;Lee&#8221; continues to refer to me by the hateful nickname created by homosexual militants (&#8220;Porno Pete&#8221;), I am gratified that he chose to nip this particular lie in the bud. Lee writes:</p>
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		<title>Dan Savage Challenges Peter LaBarbera to Identify his &#8216;Hate Speech,&#8217; but Key Nasty Video Remains Spiked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atheist homosexual sex columnist errs in referring to wrong video in challenge to AFTAH president Tweets by homosexual activist Dan Savage accuse AFTAH founder Peter LaBarbera of lying after LaBarbera accused Savage of &#8220;scubbing&#8221; hateful videos, including one bashing pro-family leader Tony Perkins and evangelicals as &#8220;asshol*e douchebags.&#8221; That video remains taken down as of [...]]]></description>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd">Tweets by homosexual activist Dan Savage accuse AFTAH founder Peter LaBarbera of lying after LaBarbera accused Savage of &#8220;scubbing&#8221; hateful videos, including one bashing pro-family leader Tony Perkins and evangelicals as &#8220;asshol*e douchebags.&#8221; That video remains taken down as of April 29, 2012, despite LaBarbera&#8217;s request to Savage to re-post it.</dd>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">BREAKING:</span> View the video of Dan Savage that is going viral &#8212; as Savage attacks the Bible and refers to the &#8220;pansy ass&#8221; attitude of Christian high school students who walked out in protest. Go <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0k9qDsOvs&amp;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</strong></p>
<p>_____________________________</p>
<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p>Talk about chutzpah: homosexual militant <strong>Dan Savage &#8212; </strong>creator of the despicable hate-site &#8220;Santorum.com&#8221; &#8212; has issued a public challenge to document his &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, you read that correctly: only in the upside-down world of &#8220;gay&#8221; activism would a man who notoriously and proudly &#8221;re-defined&#8221; Rick Santorum&#8217;s last name as <strong>&#8220;The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex&#8221;</strong> &#8212; issue a challenge to find the hatred in his recorded words.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s the kicker: at least one of the videos containing some of Savage&#8217;s rancorous attacks on Christians was taken down a few days ago, and remains down today (April 26, 2012).</p>
<p>Increasingly, conservatives (like <a href="http://www.americanclarion.com/6257/2012/04/25/homosexual-radical-dan-savage-bullies-high-schoolers/" target="_blank">Gina Miller</a>) are paying attention to Savage, who despite his cruel antics and anti-Christian barbs continues to be lauded in media and academic circles. He even has his own, brand new show on <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/03/22/aftah-calls-on-viacom-to-cancel-savage-u-mtv-show-featuring-perverted-cyber-bully-dan-savage/" target="_blank">MTV</a>, about sex on college campuses. If there is anything that testifies to the sham of the liberal crusade against (ostensibly right-wing Christian) &#8220;hate&#8221; and &#8220;bullying,&#8221; it is the media&#8217;s, academia&#8217;s and pop culture&#8217;s rewarding of cyber-bully Savage.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Hiding his hate?</strong></span></p>
<p>When my friend and Illinois Family Institute writer <strong>Laurie Higgins</strong> wrote a piece about Savage&#8217;s upcoming <a href="http://illinoisfamily.org/education/homosexual-sex-columnist-dan-savage-and-elmhurst-college/" target="_blank">speeech at <strong>Elmurst College</strong></a> (Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 7:00; contact Elmhurst <a href="http://public.elmhurst.edu/president/103594084.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>), it appeared to <a href="http://illinoisfamily.org/education/dan-savage-elmhurst-college-update/" target="_blank">Laurie</a> (and to me) that Savage had responded to her article by removing one of more of his anti-evangelical-Christian videos from YouTube. Caught up in a moment of &#8220;gotcha,&#8221; on Thursday I tweeted Savage about allegedly &#8220;scrubbing&#8221; his videos. <strong>&#8220;Who&#8217;s the &#8216;pansy&#8217; now, Dan?&#8221;</strong> I asked, referencing his taunt against offended Christian students who walked out on a recent Bible-bashing talk by Savage in Seattle. (And in deference to Savage, I&#8217;d have been fairer by simply asking him if he spiked the videos.)</p>
<p><span id="more-11472"></span>On Thursday, Savage responded on his <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/mobile/2012/04/26/anti-christian-hate-speech-restored-to-interwebs-thanks-to-efforts-of-anti-gay-hate-groups" target="_blank">The Stranger blog</a> that he did not take down any of his videos. Rather, his video production company, Hypomania, did, and not to hide any of Savage&#8217;s hateful comments but for &#8220;quality control reasons&#8221; (e.g, bad lighting). As he did on Twitter (see graphic above), Savage accused me of lying. amidst other silly charges (e.g., &#8220;fantasizing&#8221; about his <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/01/18/clarification-homosexual-activist-dan-savages-three-way-sex-partners-were-not-strangers/" target="_blank">perverted sex life</a> when all I did was expose his admitted &#8220;three ways&#8221;). And he challenged me and others to point out the &#8220;hate speech&#8221; in his videos.</p>
<p>Savage writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>The titles of some of the other videos that Hypomania pulled down in the last couple of days: &#8220;Dan Savage on Getting Your Partner in the Mood,&#8221; &#8220;Dan Savage on Whether to Stop Cheating if Your Spouse Doesn’t Know,&#8221; &#8220;Dan Savage at Manitoba: Is It Normal for a Girl Not to Bleed the First Time,&#8221; &#8220;Dan Savage at Rhodes: When Will CNN and MSNBC Stop Giving Air Time to Anti-gay Bigots,&#8221; &#8220;Dan Savage on the Elasticity of Vaginas.&#8221; Search for any of these videos and you&#8217;ll get the same &#8220;removed by user&#8221; message the haters were getting when they went looking for “How to Come Out to Your Evangelical Family.&#8221; Clearly Hypomania wasn&#8217;t removing videos that took on anti-gay &#8220;Christian&#8221; haters and leaving up the perverted stuff. They were weeding out videos that of poor quality (bad lighting, bad sound), not &#8220;scrubbing&#8221; the Interwebs.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here&#8217;s the problem: Savage identifies the WRONG video (&#8220;How to Come Out to your Evangelical Family&#8221;) as the source of his hateful remarks against Family Research Council president Tony Perkins and evangelicals who oppose homosexulity.<!--more--></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Did Savage or his video company scrub his site?</span></strong><br />
Higgins provided AFTAH with the following statement, in response to Savage&#8217;s claim that he is not trying to hide his hateful videos:</p>
<blockquote><p>With Bill Clinton-esque rhetorical slipperiness, Dan Savage responds to my criticism of his anti-Christian hate speech by citing a video from which I did not quote and to which I did not provide a link in either of my two articles this week. About that video, he asks the following: &#8220;[S]ee if you can detect hate speech, ‘virulent anti-Christian bigotry,’ or ‘language so hateful’ that I make ‘Reverend Fred Phelps look like a choir boy’ in my advice to gay kids with evangelical Christian parents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dan Savage claims that the video I was referring to when providing evidence that he exhibits virulent anti-Christian bigotry using hateful language was the video about homosexuals <a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/09RMqWo6br0?rel=0" target="_blank">coming out to their Evangelical families</a>. Of course, that is an offensive video, but it isn’t the one from which I quoted.</p>
<p>The video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrEsHtSSWfs&amp;feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrEsHtSSWfs&amp;feature=related</a> (now removed) from which I quoted and to which I provided a link was a video from a speaking engagement at Rhodes College.</p>
<p>By directing attention to a video that I did not quote from or link to in either of this week’s articles, Savage maladroitly attempts to divert attention away from the adjectives he used to describe orthodox Christians and which I quoted several times in this week’s articles.</p>
<p>The question Savage needs to answer is: Did he describe orthodox Christians (those who hold traditional, historical biblical views on the nature and morality of homosexuality) as “bat shit,” “asshole,” “douchebags” while speaking at Rhodes College?</p>
<p>Savage reports that the video production service he uses, Hypomania Content, removed six of his videos purportedly due to their &#8220;poor quality&#8221; rather than their “content.” It’s completely understandable that Hypomania Content would want only &#8220;high quality&#8221; obscene and perverse videos from Dan Savage gamboling about the Internet.</p></blockquote>
<p>Common sense dictates that Savage put up <em>all</em> the videos Higgins and others have referenced that were taken down &#8212; especially his Rhodes College talk (which at press time Sunday was still down) &#8212; so we can evaluate Higgins&#8217; assertion that he called Perkins and other evangelicals &#8220;douchbags,&#8221; etc.</p>
<p>I will take Savage at his word that he is not running from his open (very public) record, which includes an abundant supply of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao0k9qDsOvs&amp;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">malicious attacks</a> against people of faith. Now let&#8217;s see the proof by restoring the blocked videos so we can accurately answer his challenge.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, here is an excerpt from an excellent <a href="http://www.americanclarion.com/6257/2012/04/25/homosexual-radical-dan-savage-bullies-high-schoolers/" target="_blank">American Centurion column</a> by Gina Miller &#8212; who is a MUST READ for anyone concerned about the future of America. God bless. &#8212; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></p>
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<p><strong>Gina Miller writes in <a href="http://www.americanclarion.com/6257/2012/04/25/homosexual-radical-dan-savage-bullies-high-schoolers/" target="_blank">The American Clarion</a> (excepts follow):</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Homosexual Radical Dan Savage Bullies High Schoolers&#8221;</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%203:16-21&amp;version=KJV">The Word of God has warned us</a>, so we are not surprised when people inspired by the forces of darkness screech and wail against God’s Truth.  Some of the most vicious, anti-Christian, anti-truth people in the world are the radical, homosexual activists, and among them, not many are as vile as Dan Savage.</p>
<p>Savage is a twisted, sex columnist who started the “It Gets Better Project,” a propaganda tool targeting kids, which pushes the homosexual lifestyle on them under the guise of an “anti-bullying” campaign.</p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.itgetsbetter.org/pages/about-it-gets-better-project">their website</a> is this description,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The It Gets Better Project was created to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach – if they can just get through their teen years. The It Gets Better Project wants to remind teenagers in the LGBT community that they are not alone — and it WILL get better.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>That is a damnable lie.  Numerous studies have shown that depression, drug abuse and suicide rates for homosexuals are much higher than among the normal population—yes, I said “normal”!  It is detestable to lie to young people, encouraging them to embrace homosexuality, claiming it will make them happy in the long run.</p>
<p>At the <a href="http://depression.about.com/b/2008/09/23/homosexuality-strongly-linked-to-depression-and-suicide.htm">About.com</a> website is a report from 2008 which states, in part,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“According to a new study, which analyzed 25 earlier studies regarding sexual orientation and mental health, homosexuals and bisexuals are about 50% more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to suffer from depression and abuse drugs.</em></p>
<p><em>The researchers also found that the risk of suicide jumped over 200% for those who had engaged in a homosexual lifestyle.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>The column goes on to quote the lead researcher on the study who blames bullying and lack of social acceptance for those increased problems among the homosexual population.</p>
<p>That is not the real reason.  When a person violates God’s natural order for human behavior, whether it is through sexual deviancy or any other sinful behavior which runs counter to God’s natural law, that person will invariably be miserable.  All manner of sinful behavior leaves the person who engages in it unhappy and unfulfilled—at the very least.  This is especially true of homosexuality, which God has described as abominable and detestable to Him.</p>
<p>Dan Savage, the vicious homosexual radical who has said the most despicable things about those who disagree with him, was giving a speech last Friday in Seattle.</p>
<p>As reported by <a href="http://www.citizenlink.com/2012/04/18/students-walk-out-on-dan-savage" target="_blank">Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“A group of high school journalism students attending a conference called ‘Journalism on the Edge’ in Seattle over the weekend felt they were pushed over the edge by syndicated sex advice columnist Dan Savage.</em></p>
<p><em>Savage, the creator of the two-year-old It Gets Better Project, which encourages teens struggling with same-sex attractions to embrace homosexuality, was invited to give a keynote address last Friday at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention.</em></p>
<p><em>Students were expecting him to talk about bullying. But they also got an earful about birth control, sex, and Savage’s opinions on the Bible.</em></p>
<p><em>A 17-year-old from California who was attending with half a dozen other students from her high school yearbook staff, was one of several students to walk out in the middle of Savage’s speech.</em></p>
<p><em>‘The first thing he told the audience was, ‘I hope you’re all using birth control!’’ she recalled. Then ‘he said there are people using the Bible as an excuse for gay bullying, because it says in Leviticus and Romans that being gay is wrong. Right after that, he said we can ignore all the ‘B.S.’ in the Bible.’</em></p>
<p><em>‘I was thinking, ‘This is not going a good direction at all,’ Then he started going off about the Bible. He said somehow the Bible was pro-slavery. I’m really shy. I’m not really someone to, like, stir up anything. But all of a sudden I just blurted out, ‘That’s bull!’</em></p>
<p><em>As she and several other students walked out of the auditorium, Savage noticed them leaving and called them ‘pansies.’”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>This freak is speaking to <em>high school kids!</em>  This man who is supposedly an anti-bullying crusader is perhaps the biggest bully out there.  For him to go before these kids and say these kinds of things, to call Bible-believing high school students “pansies” is sickening, but I suppose that is his goal—to sicken those who oppose his hellish message.</p>
<p>Savage certainly <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/erin-r-brown/2011/10/21/anti-bullying-bully-dan-savage-invites-herman-cain-suck-his-dk">has a record of saying things</a> that would make the ancient, smoking-grease-spot-residents of Sodom and Gomorrah proud.  Savage has invited former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain to perform oral sex on him.  He has wished all Republicans were “f-ing dead.”  He has said things about Rick Santorum that I cannot easily describe, because they are so heinous, and through all of it, Savage is lauded and uplifted by Hollywood celebrities and media minions of Hell.  Even Barack Obama (or whatever his name is) has <a href="http://www.itgetsbetter.org/video/entry/geyafbsdpvk">lent his support</a> for Savage’s “It Gets Better Project.”</p>
<p>Of all the reprehensible things Dan Savage says and does, the most sinister part of his sodomite crusade is his targeting of children.  Jesus has very strong words for those who would hurt children and cause them to stumble.</p>
<p>As Peter LaBarbera, President of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/03/28/why-we-expose-dan-savage">points out</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Savage is probably the leading activist today working to normalize homosexuality to children and young people – one of the most evil things any person can do (because sexual sin is destructive and our Creator calls homosexual behavior ‘detestable’).  Jesus hates the corruption of youth: ‘Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him [if] a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.’ (Mark 9:42).  Now Savage has his own show on MTV (‘Savage U,’ beginning April 3), which could become another huge platform to degrade kids’ morals.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>People who peddle perversion to our kids will one day pay a terrible, unimaginable price if they do not turn from their wicked ways and embrace the free gift of salvation offered by Jesus.</p>
<p>By preying on children, people like Dan Savage become the most despicable among us.  He offers children and young adults lies from Hell when he encourages them to embark on a homosexual lifestyle that he assures will make them happy.  He lies when he says that people who speak out against homosexuality are “bullies” and “bigots.”  <a href="http://www.dakotavoice.com/2011/09/america%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-real-bullies-show-true-homosexual-colors/">As I have pointed out before</a>, the “anti-bullying” campaign is nothing more than the latest platform of the radical homosexual Left to indoctrinate our school kids with their perverse agenda and to gain more young recruits into their dead-end, homosexual club.</p>
<p>People like Dan Savage are only offering Hell on a silver platter to vulnerable, impressionable kids, and one day he will be sorry for doing so.  But, thankfully there are many Jewish and Christian warriors who offer real help and real hope to people of all ages who may be dealing with unwanted same-sex attraction.  Groups like <a href="http://www.jonahweb.org/index.php">Jonah International</a>, <a href="http://www.pathinfo.org/index2.htm">Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality (P.A.T.H)</a>, <a href="http://exodusinternational.org/">Exodus International</a> and others provide truthful answers and support for those desiring to fight and overcome same-sex attraction. &#8230;. <strong>[to read the entire Gina Miller column, go <a href="http://www.americanclarion.com/6257/2012/04/25/homosexual-radical-dan-savage-bullies-high-schoolers/" target="_blank">HERE</a>]</strong></p>
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<p>I am in North Carolina to give a speech tomorrow evening in Raleigh at a banquet for the <strong>NC Family Policy Council</strong>, a fine organization that defends marriage and family in this beautiful state.  Thanks to the Republicans taking control of the NC legislature, on May 8th, North Carolina&#8217;s voters will finally get an opportunity to affirm real marriage (one man, one woman) at the ballot box.  I predict they will do so, but the &#8220;Gay&#8221;  Lobby &#8212; intent on pushing for sodomy-based &#8220;marriage&#8221; &#8212; is raising tons of money to defeat the amendment.  So please help by contacting your North Carolina friends and family members!</p>
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<div><strong>Here is a <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/03/27/unc-chapel-hill-publicly-disassociates-from-rush-limbaugh-but-pays-18500-in-speaker-fees-to-hateful-homosexual-cyber-bully-dan-savage/" target="_blank">link to another release</a> in our ongoing campaign to expose one of the most dangerous and hateful Sex Radicals on the planet: Dan Savage</strong>.  You may ask: why can&#8217;t you let go of Dan Savage already?!  Because Savage is the personification of all that&#8217;s wrong with the Homosexual Lobby:</div>
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<li><strong>Savage is probably the leading activist today working to normalize homosexuality to children and young people</strong> &#8211; one of the most evil things any person can do (because sexual sin is destructive and our Creator calls homosexual behavior &#8220;detestable&#8221;).  Jesus hates the corruption of youth: <em>&#8220;Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him it a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.&#8221; (Mark 9:42)</em>.  Now Savage has his own show on MTV (<a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/03/22/aftah-calls-on-viacom-to-cancel-savage-u-mtv-show-featuring-perverted-cyber-bully-dan-savage/" target="_blank">&#8220;Savage U,&#8221;</a> beginning April 3), which could become another huge platform to degrade kids&#8217; morals.  <strong>[<span style="color: #ff0000;">TAKE ACTION:</span> Go <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/03/23/unc-chapel-hill-distances-itself-from-rush-but-paid-anti-santorum-gay-cyber-bully-dan-savage-18500/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to contact Viacom Inc. (MTV's parent company).  Also, don't let up on Elmhurst College (Savage speaks there April 29) and UNC-Chapel Hill (contact info for both <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/03/23/unc-chapel-hill-distances-itself-from-rush-but-paid-anti-santorum-gay-cyber-bully-dan-savage-18500/" target="_blank">HERE</a>)]</strong>;</li>
<li><strong>Savage avidly promotes radical homosexual patterns of immorality &#8212; like &#8220;outside&#8221; sex &#8212; to &#8220;straight&#8221; married couples</strong>.  You would expect this from perversion defenders, but he takes it to new extremes, aggressively touting adulterous &#8220;monogamish&#8221; relationships that mock the age-old ideal of lifelong fidelity in marriage. Of course, secular media types help advance Savage&#8217;s wicked ideas (see this <em>NY Tiimes</em> piece on the supposed <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/infidelity-will-keep-us-together.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all" target="_blank">&#8220;Virtues of Infidelity&#8221;</a>);</li>
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<li><strong>Savage is an aggressively anti-Christian activist who uses cyber-hate to demonize people of faith like Rick Santorum as hateful &#8220;bigots.</strong>&#8221;  Who could even make up something as perverse and evil as &#8220;Santorum[dot]com&#8221;?   Nobody.  Again, Savage takes his pathological anti-conservative-Christian bigotry to new lows with such vile campaigns.  We can&#8217;t let him get away with it;</li>
<li><strong>Better than most on the Left, Savage illustrates the grand hypocrisy and mocking spirit of Libertine Leftists.</strong>  They smear moral-minded Americans as prudish &#8220;haters&#8221; when NOBODY is as hateful and mean-spirited as they are.  Moreover, like so many on the Left, Savage mocks biblical morality and sneers at its defenders &#8212; with a snarky arrogance that will do him no good when he meets his Maker.  <strong>This is the zeitgeist of our age: understand Savage and you understand &#8220;post-Christian&#8221; America&#8217;s deep moral and spiritual crisis</strong>;</li>
<li><strong>Lastly, the liberal media and Hollywood are setting themselves up by REWARDING Savage despite his malicious activism.</strong>  Modern liberals love anyone who promotes homosexuality to young people, which Savage does through his media-celebrated &#8220;It Gets Better&#8221; campaign.  So these <em>social regressives</em> ignore, tolerate or giggle at Savage&#8217;s shockingly twisted antics while giving legitimacy to his fringe sexual ideas.  (Then the same Cultural Elites thrash Rush Limbaugh whenever he makes a mistake!)  We at AFTAH are not going to let cynical, secular opinion-makers forget their double-standard and their awful hypocrisy.</li>
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<p>It seems almost everyone in America is afraid of homosexual militants and unwilling to tell the truth about the role that &#8220;proud homosexuality&#8221; is playing in our dying culture.  AFTAH is not.  <strong>We go toe-to-toe with these outrageous ideological thugs and their enablers because if they win, America loses.</strong>  The Dan Savage&#8217;s of this world are putting confused and impressionable youth on the path to hell, literally.  We must do more than wring our hands about it!  <strong>Thank you for standing with us! &#8212; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org/" target="_blank">www.aftah.org</a> </strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">AFTAH&#8217;s Latest Christian Newswire Release:</span></strong></p>
<div><strong>Read it at ChristianNewswire:  </strong><a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/7143419305.html" target="_blank">http://www.christiannewswire.<wbr>com/news/7143419305.html</wbr></a><strong> </strong></div>
<p><strong>Read this release at AFTAH: </strong> <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/03/27/unc-chapel-hill-publicly-disassociates-from-rush-limbaugh-but-pays-18500-in-speaker-fees-to-hateful-homosexual-cyber-bully-dan-savage/" target="_blank">http://americansfortruth.com/<wbr>2012/03/27/unc-chapel-hill-<wbr>publicly-disassociates-from-<wbr>rush-limbaugh-but-pays-18500-<wbr>in-speaker-fees-to-hateful-<wbr>homosexual-cyber-bully-dan-<wbr>savage/</wbr></wbr></wbr></wbr></wbr></wbr></a></p>
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		<title>AFTAH Calls on Viacom Inc. to Cancel &#8216;Savage U,&#8217; New MTV Show Featuring Perverted Cyber-Bully Dan Savage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans For Truth About Homosexuality press releasel March 22, 2012 Contact: Peter LaBarbera: americansfortruth@gmail.com AFTAH Calls on Viacom Inc. to Cancel ‘Savage U,’ New MTV Show Featuring Perverted Cyber-Bully Dan Savage CHICAGO – MTV – owned by Viacom Inc. – should cancel its upcoming TV show “Savage U,” featuring homosexual activist and raunchy sex-advice columnist [...]]]></description>
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<p>March 22, 2012</p>
<p>Contact: Peter LaBarbera: <a href="mailto:americansfortruth@gmail.com"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">americansfortruth@gmail.com</span></strong></a><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>AFTAH Calls on Viacom Inc. to Cancel ‘Savage U,’ New MTV Show Featuring Perverted Cyber-Bully Dan Savage</strong></p>
<p>CHICAGO – MTV – owned by Viacom Inc. – should cancel its upcoming TV show “Savage U,” featuring homosexual activist and raunchy sex-advice columnist <strong>Dan Savage</strong> &#8212; in part because it rewards the cyber-bully Savage for his notorious and vile internet smear-campaign against <strong>Rick Santorum</strong>, said <strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong>, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality.</p>
<p>“Savage U” is scheduled to debut Tuesday, April 3. MTV describes the show: “Dan Savage and his producer travel around the country to give advice about sex, relationships and romance with college students.” The <a href="http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/743593/savage-u-trailer.jhtml#id=1679855">trailer</a> reveals a program as crude, vulgar and perverted as the host’s weekly sex-advice column, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=11986457#thisweek">“Savage Love.”</a></p>
<p>Said LaBarbera: “There are two main reasons why MTV and its parent company Viacom should cancel Dan Savage’s new show about sex on college campuses: <strong>Number One</strong>: Dan Savage is a radical and raunchy homosexual activist who gives unhealthy and reckless sex advice. He aggressively works to undermine the historic ethic of marital fidelity by championing the twisted notion that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/infidelity-will-keep-us-together.html?pagewanted=all">married couples should allow outside sex</a> – like so many ‘monogamish’ <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/01/18/clarification-homosexual-activist-dan-savages-three-way-sex-partners-were-not-strangers/">homosexual male couples</a> do. Incredibly, Savage argues that this would lower the divorce rate.”</p>
<p>“<strong>Number Two: </strong>Savage is an unrepentant cyber-bully who has led a worldwide internet campaign to demonize and destroy Rick Santorum’s name &#8212; creating <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/05/labarbera-asks-homosexual-activist-dan-savage-to-take-down-cyber-bullying-site-santorum-com/">‘Santorum[dot]com’</a> to ‘re-define’ it as the revolting by-product of anal sex. He should NOT be rewarded for this evil crusade, nor held up as a role-model for young people.</p>
<p><span id="more-11246"></span>When LaBarbera asked Savage to take down his hate-site targeting the former Pennsylvania senator, he <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/10/dan-savage-angrily-rejects-aftahs-appeal-to-take-down-santorum-com-hate-site/">responded on Twitter</a>: “I’m asking Peter LaBarbera to go [f- -k] himself.”</p>
<p>LaBarbera is asking concerned Americans to <a href="http://www.viacom.com/Contact/Pages/default.aspx">contact Viacom Inc.</a> and urge it to cancel “Savage U” for the sake of not corrupting young people’s morals, and because the show rewards a bully.</p>
<p>In addition, AFTAH will expose colleges like <a href="http://reesenews.org/2012/01/30/it-gets-better-founder-dan-savage-to-speak-at-unc-feb-2/30550/"><strong>UNC-Chapel Hill</strong></a> and <a href="http://public.elmhurst.edu/calendar?eventID=126141598"><strong>Elmhurst College</strong></a> that are paying Savage to be a guest speaker ($18,500 at UNC).</p>
<p><strong>“Liberals evidently have a double-standard on hate,”</strong> LaBarbera said. “On the one hand, they rightfully condemn those who bully homosexual youth, while on the other hand the creator of a malicious hate-site – “Santorum[dot]com” – gets rewarded with his own MTV show and lucrative speaking engagements on college campuses.”</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[GLAAD smears pro-family leaders while honoring homosexual activist hatemongers WARNING: Story includes uncensored, obscene tweet by hateful homosexual activist awarded by GLAAD The homosexual pressure group GLAAD (Gay &#38; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has named AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH Board Member Matt Barber and 34 other American pro-family opponents of homosexual activism to a list of [...]]]></description>
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<h4><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><span style="color: #333333;">WARNING:</span> Story includes uncensored, obscene tweet by hateful homosexual activist awarded by GLAAD</em></span></h4>
<div id="attachment_11149" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 380px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2012/03/GLAAD_Honors_Joe_Jervis_2011.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-11149" style="margin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;" title="GLAAD_Honors_Homosexual_Hatemonger_Joe_Jervis_2011" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2012/03/GLAAD_Honors_Joe_Jervis_2011.png" alt="" width="370" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">While smearing pro-family leaders who oppose homosexuality as &quot;haters,&quot; GLAAD honors hateful, anti-Christian homosexual activists like blogger Joe Jervis -- who blames the VICTIMS of pro-homosexual violence for &quot;hate crimes&quot; against them. Above is a 2011 GLAAD web item celebrating Jervis for his GLAAD &quot;Outstanding Blog&quot; award. See bottom of article for an example of Jervis&#39; viciousness. Click on image to enlarge.</p></div>
<p>The homosexual pressure group <strong><a href="http://www.glaad.org" target="_blank">GLAAD</a> (Gay &amp; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)</strong> has named AFTAH President <strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong>, AFTAH Board Member <strong>Matt Barber</strong> and 34 other American pro-family opponents of homosexual activism to a list of targeted commentators whom it aims to discredit by lobbying the media.</p>
<p>GLAAD’s new <strong><a href="http://www.glaad.org/cap" target="_blank">“Commentator Accountability Project” (CAP)</a></strong> focuses on “our nation’s most frequently quoted anti-gay activists,” according to the power homosexual pressure organization. GLAAD says CAP “is designed to shine a big, bright light on the extreme views of the vast majority of prominent anti-LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender"]talkers.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Hate is not an expert opinion,&#8221; GLAAD spokesman <strong>Herndon Graddick</strong> told the <em>Denver Post</em>, employing the same demonizing rhetoric used by the <strong>Southern Poverty Law Center</strong> &#8212; which labels mainstream pro-family organizations opposed to homosexuality like Americans For Truth, American Family Association and Family Research Council as “hate groups.”</p>
<p>GLAAD is asking its followers to provide critical information back to them against the 36 pro-family advocates &#8211; which GLAAD will then relay to “reporter, editors, show runners, and guest bookers [who] need to know about the violently anti-LGBT rhetoric that many of their guests regularly use.”</p>
<p>The following pro-family leaders are listed in <a href="http://www.glaad.org/cap" target="_blank">GLAAD&#8217;s CAP list</a>: Campaign for Working Familes&#8217; <strong>Gary Bauer</strong>, historian <strong>David Barton</strong>, NOM&#8217;s <strong>Brian Brown</strong>, Liberty Council Action&#8217;s <strong>Matt Barber</strong>, <strong>Dr. Michael Brown</strong>, Exodus International&#8217;s <strong>Alan Chambers</strong>, Mass Resistance&#8217;s <strong>Brian Camenker</strong>, Prison Fellowship&#8217;s <strong>Chuck Colson</strong>, Focus on the Family&#8217;s <strong>Jim Daly</strong>, Catholic League&#8217;s <strong>Bill Donohue</strong>, Christian Civic League of Maine&#8217;s <strong>Bob Emrich</strong>, <strong>Lou Engle</strong>, WND.com&#8217;s <strong>Joseph Farah</strong>, AFA&#8217;s <strong>Bryan Fischer</strong>, NOM founder <strong>Maggie Gallagher</strong>, California Prop 8 leader and pastor <strong>Jim Garlow</strong>, Princeton Prof. <strong>Robert George</strong>, Antioch Bible Church pastor <strong>Ken Hutcherson</strong>, pastor <strong>Harry Jackson</strong>, AFTAH&#8217;s <strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong>, Defend the Family International&#8217;s <strong>Scott Lively</strong>, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President <strong>Albert Mohler</strong>, radio host <strong>Kevin McCullough</strong>, Ruth Institute&#8217;s <strong>Jennifer Roback Morse</strong>, CWA&#8217;s <strong>Penny Nance</strong>, <strong>Christopher Plante</strong>, Focus on the Family&#8217;s <strong>Glenn Stanton</strong>, Liberty Counsel&#8217;s <strong>Mat Staver</strong>, FRC&#8217;s <strong>Peter Sprigg</strong>, Vision America&#8217;s <strong>Rick Scarborough</strong>, author <strong>Frank Turek</strong>, <strong>Bob Vander Plaats</strong>, and <strong>Don Wildmon</strong> and his son, <strong>Tim Wildmon</strong>, of AFA.</p>
<p><span id="more-11146"></span>GLAAD’s information denigrating pro-family leaders comes mainly from other biased, pro-homosexual sources like People for the American Way’s “Right Wing Watch.” These sites often take quotations from pro-family leaders out of context to make them appear as “hateful” as possible. (Some of the cited quotations come from snippets of their interviews with LaBarbera on AFTAH’s weekly radio show.)</p>
<p><strong>Critics cite GLAAD intimidation</strong></p>
<p>Pro-family advocates say the GLAAD project is merely the latest attempt to discredit and silence pro-family views, which already are rarely included to balance &#8221;mainstream&#8221; media stories related to homosexuality.</p>
<p>“McCarthyism is alive and well within the ranks of the homo-fascist political lobby. Since liberals can’t win the debate, all they have left is to silence dissent,” said Barber, AFTAH board member and Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action. “As we’ve seen evidenced by the recent [Sandra] Fluke flap involving <strong>Rush Limbaugh</strong>, left-wing extremists have ramped-up their Orwellian efforts to silence those who pose a threat to their radical secular-socialist agenda.</p>
<p>“I count it an honor to be included among such a distinguished list of pro-family warriors,” Barber said.  “As Christ followers, we will never stop speaking God’s truth in love. These homosexualist hatemongers have exposed who they truly are. They will never silence us.”</p>
<p>Said AFTAH&#8217;s LaBarbera: &#8220;This is all about silencing, discrediting and demonizing pro-family voices. I guess GLAAD is so afraid that the truth about homosexuality will be heard that it will go to the extreme of creating a &#8216;blacklist&#8217; against moral leaders &#8212; for a media already disinclined to be fair on this politically correct issue.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Ironically, while GLAAD calls these pro-family advocates &#8216;hateful&#8217; and &#8216;extreme,&#8217; it champions the work of the real hatemongers on the homosexual side &#8212; people like blogger <strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/04/22/matt-barber-on-glaad-award-to-anti-christian-bigot-joe-jervis-of-joe-my-god-blog/" target="_blank">Joe Jervis</a></strong> (of the &#8216;Joe.My.God.&#8217; blog), who blames the Christian VICTIMS of pro-homosexual violence for attacks against them; and cyber-bully <strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/05/labarbera-asks-homosexual-activist-dan-savage-to-take-down-cyber-bullying-site-santorum-com/" target="_blank">Dan Savage</a></strong>, who created the hate-site, &#8216;Santorum[dot]com,&#8217; which re-defines Rick Santorum&#8217;s name as the vile by-product of homosexual sodomy,&#8221; LaBarbera said.</p>
<p><strong>Focus on the Family</strong> spokesman <strong>Gary Schneeberger</strong> – reacting to Focus CEO <strong>Jim Daly’s</strong> inclusion on the list of 36 – told the <em><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_20176559/glaad-targets-focus-family-list-inappropriate-conservative-commentators" target="_blank">Denver Post</a></em> that GLAAD project is an attempt &#8220;to stifle freedom of speech and freedom of religion by trying to intimidate the media.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Michael Brown</strong>, author of “<strong>A Queer Thing Happened to America</strong>,” told AFTAH: &#8220;It&#8217;s always an honor to be vilified for the truth and for biblical values. At the same time we need to recognize GLAAD for what it is: an intolerant group devoted to censoring dissenting views.”</p>
<p>Brown, who hosts the “Line of Fire” radio show, writes in his book that GLAAD’s habit of trying to squelch opponents’ views – e.g., GLAAD crusaded against CNN because it included former homosexual Richard Cohen in a TV debate segment – shows that its acronym should really stand for the <strong>“Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against DISAGREEMENT.”</strong> [See Mike Brown’s radio interview with AFTAH <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/05/02/aftah-interview-with-dr-michael-brown-part-one/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.]</p>
<p><strong>Media balance is “imbalance”?</strong></p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/bias-is-not-balance-glaad-pushes-for-more-transparent-punditry/" target="_blank">GLAAD’s original online article</a> explaining the “Commentator Accountability Project,” <strong>Aaron McQuade</strong>, the group’s Director of News and Field Media, writes that “’accountability’ does not necessarily mean keeping these people out of the media,” but rather educating them on their “completely out of touch” views.</p>
<p>Curiously, McQuade posits that adding the perspective of an anti-“gay”-agenda critic to a news story (opposite a pro-homosexuality advocate) does not add balance to the story, but rather the opposite:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong> “Most of the voices the mainstream media turns to for stories about LGBT issues are so completely out of touch with the way everyday Americans view their LGBT friends, family members, neighbors and co-workers that all they could possibly add is imbalance.”</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Such a position jibes with GLAAD’s and other homosexual lobby groups’ penchant for classifying mainstream pro-family conservative critics of homosexuality (and homosexual “marriage”) as “extremists” who are morally equivalent to racists who fought against black civil rights. However, most African Americans who oppose the pro-homosexual agenda deeply resent the racism analogy.</p>
<div id="attachment_11169" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2012/03/Joe-Jervis-hate-tweet-PL-male-goats.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-11169" title="Joe-Jervis-hate-tweet-PL-male-goats" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2012/03/Joe-Jervis-hate-tweet-PL-male-goats-300x151.png" alt="" width="300" height="151" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">REAL HATE: toxic tweet against AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera, by homosexual blogger Joe Jervis -- creator of the &quot;Joe.My.God.&quot; blog awarded by GLAAD in 2011 for &quot;Outstanding Blog.&quot; Click on graphic to enlarge: WARNING: obscene language.</p></div>
<p>One such black pro-family leader is <strong>Ken Hutcherson</strong>, a Washington State pastor and one of two black leaders included in GLAAD’s targeted list of 36 pro-family advocates. Hutcherson coined the phrase: <strong>“Don’t compare your sin to my skin.”</strong> He has argued forcefully – including in an <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2010/10/12/part-one-aftah-interview-with-dr-ken-hutcherson-aftah-banquet-speaker/" target="_blank">AFTAH radio interview</a> – that all attempts to equate opposition to the sin of homosexuality with racism are fraudulent.</p>
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<p><strong>Related Articles:</strong></p>
<p>GLAAD &#8220;CAP&#8221; Project web page containing short descriptions of Peter LaBarbera, Matt Barber, and other targeted pro-family leaders: <a href="http://www.GLAAD.org/cap">www.GLAAD.org/cap</a></p>
<p>GLAAD&#8217;s original article explaining &#8220;Commentators Accountability Project&#8221;: <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/bias-is-not-balance-glaad-pushes-for-more-transparent-punditry/" target="_blank">Bias Is Not Balance: GLAAD Pushes For More Transparent Punditry</a></p>
<p><em>World Net Daily</em> articles: <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/gay-hate-list-farah-perkins-colson-more/" target="_blank">&#8220;Gay hate list: Farah, Perkins, Colson, more&#8221;</a></p>
<p>AFTAH Press Conference against SPLC&#8217;s (similar) &#8220;hate&#8221; politics: <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/23/splc-press-conference-audio-montgomery-al-january-17-2012/">http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/23/splc-press-conference-audio-montgomery-al-january-17-2012/</a></p>
<p>AFTAH: <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2011/04/22/matt-barber-on-glaad-award-to-anti-christian-bigot-joe-jervis-of-joe-my-god-blog/" target="_blank">&#8220;Matt Barber on GLAAD Award to Anti-Christian Bigot Joe Jervis of &#8216;Joe.My.God.&#8217; Blog&#8221;</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: Graphic language Folks, homosexual activist and sex columnist Dan Savage is not taking kindly to AFTAH&#8217;s attempt to call him out on his vicious hate-site, Santorum.com [see our story HERE]. Here is Savage&#8217;s response on Twitter to my request to him that he take down the site that &#8220;redefines&#8221; GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum&#8217;s last [...]]]></description>
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<p>Folks, homosexual activist and sex columnist <strong><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=11412386" target="_blank">Dan Savage</a></strong> is not taking kindly to AFTAH&#8217;s attempt to call him out on his vicious hate-site, Santorum.com [see our story <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2012/01/05/labarbera-asks-homosexual-activist-dan-savage-to-take-down-cyber-bullying-site-santorum-com/" target="_blank">HERE</a>]. Here is Savage&#8217;s response on Twitter to my request to him that he take down the site that &#8220;redefines&#8221; GOP Presidential candidate <strong>Rick Santorum&#8217;s</strong> last name as &#8220;The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.” [See my Twitter page <a href="http://twitter.com/peterlabarbera" target="_blank">HERE</a>] &#8211; Peter LaBarbera, www.aftah.org :</p>
<div id="attachment_10628" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 317px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2012/01/Dan_Savage_Responds_F-word.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-10628" title="Dan_Savage_Responds_F-word" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2012/01/Dan_Savage_Responds_F-word.png" alt="" width="307" height="294" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Homosexual activist Dan Savage&#39;s obscene response on Twitter to AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera&#39;s request that Savage shut down his vile website, &quot;Santorum.com.&quot;</p></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted this comment today on the homosexual website &#8220;Truth Wins Out,&#8221; in response to an article they posted about a nasty video targeting yours truly as &#8220;Porno Pete&#8221;: Wayne, you are a hater and hypocrite of the highest order, though you do a good con-job on TV playing a respectable, decent gay activist. (I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_10271" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/11/wayne_besen_poses1.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-10271" title="wayne_besen_poses" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/11/wayne_besen_poses1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Wayne Besen, homosexual propagandist.</p></div>
<p>I posted this comment today on the homosexual website &#8220;Truth Wins Out,&#8221; in response to an <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressreleases/2011/11/19788/comment-page-1/#comment-52239" target="_blank">article</a> they posted about a nasty video targeting yours truly as &#8220;Porno Pete&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>Wayne, you are a hater and hypocrite of the highest order, though you do a good con-job on TV playing a respectable, decent gay activist. (I still remember the days debating you back in DC before you left HRC &#8212; how you would obnoxiously talk over your opponents whenever they brought up inconvenient truths like the disproportionate rates of sexual disease for Men Who Have Sex with Men.)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s too bad now, as one who should be a mature man, that you have to resort to such crude demonizations, sophomoric slanders and character assassination to advance your dubious cause. What a waste of writing talent, but Saul Alinsky would be proud.</p>
<p>The jig is up: despite the Gay Left&#8217;s campaign to smear Christian, pro-family opponents as &#8220;haters,&#8221; more and more everyday people are recognizing that the nastiest, cruelest and most intolerant activists in America are homosexual militants like you, Dan Savage, Evan Hurst and the comically-named &#8220;Truth&#8221; Wins Out. All of you would be exposed as phonies if the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media were anything close to impartial.</p>
<p>As for me, I wear Truth Wins Out&#8217;s hatred and very &#8220;queer&#8221; putdowns like this as a Badge of Honor.</p>
<p>Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p><strong>Founder and President<br />
Americans For Truth About Homosexuality</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.aftah.org/">www.aftah.org</a></p></blockquote>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter LaBarbera Below is a longer version of an article I posted in Facebook responding to homosexual activist Alvin McEwen, who repeated an oft-used bit of &#8220;gay&#8221; misinformation about Allstate&#8217;s 2005 firing of pro-family advocate Matt Barber. (Barber sits on the Americans For Truth Board, is Associate Dean at Liberty University School of Law, and is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_9905" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Barber-firing-Allstate-IL-Dept-Employment-Security.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9905" title="Barber-firing-Allstate-IL-Dept-Employment-Security" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Barber-firing-Allstate-IL-Dept-Employment-Security-300x238.png" alt="" width="300" height="238" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Illinois Department of Employment Security document affirming that Matt Barber was NOT fired for misconduct at Allstate Insurance Co. It states that Allstate fired Barber &quot;because AN OUTSIDE ORGANIZATION HAD COMPLAINED ABOUT AN ARTICLE HE HAD WRITTEN WHILE ON HIS OWN TIME.&quot; Click on graphic to enlarge.</p></div>
<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p>Below is a longer version of an article I posted in Facebook responding to homosexual activist <strong>Alvin McEwen</strong>, who repeated an oft-used bit of &#8220;gay&#8221; misinformation about Allstate&#8217;s 2005 firing of pro-family advocate <strong>Matt Barber</strong>. (Barber sits on the Americans For Truth Board, is Associate Dean at Liberty University School of Law, and is Director of Cultural Affairs for the <a href="http://www.lc.org" target="_blank">Liberty Counsel</a>.) Alvin is a bitter fellow who &#8212; although purporting to factually correct alleged pro-family falsehoods &#8212; regularly dishes them out himself (go <a href="http://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/2011/08/porno-pete-labarbera-tries-to-correct.html#links" target="_blank">HERE</a> to see him viciously slander me as &#8220;Porno Pete&#8221;). In posting a response to an <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1418648" target="_blank">AFA column</a> by pro-family writer <strong>Jerry Newcombe</strong> (reprinted at bottom), McEwen writes:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Sorry but Mr. Newcombe is inaccurate about one part. Matt Barber used his company&#8217;s computer AND identified himself as an employee of the company [Allstate] in his column. That&#8217;s why he was fired.</strong></span></p></blockquote>
<p>Funny how I heard these same spurious &#8220;talking points&#8221; about Matt Barber&#8217;s firing from the mouth of <strong>Rick Garcia</strong> &#8212; formerly Illinois&#8217; top homosexual activist before he was ousted by Equality Illinois. We were on a Chicago TV news program together and I was making the point that conservative Christians are now more likely to lose their jobs or face punishment on the job than homosexuals.</p>
<p>Of course, had Matt been a homosexual activist who was abruptly terminated after writing a column <em>on his own time</em> about &#8220;gay pride,&#8221; the liberal/&#8221;gay&#8221; outrage would have been through the roof &#8211; and Alvin would not be repeating Allstate&#8217;s misleading corporate &#8220;spin&#8221; as he does above.</p>
<p>Following is my correction of Alvin McEwen&#8217;s erroneous and tendentious &#8220;correction&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Matt Barber is a good friend of mine, a Christian man of high integrity, and a Board Member for my organization, Americans For Truth. As one living in Illinois who was intricately familiar with Matt’s case, I want to set the record “straight” here and correct the lies that homosexual activists like Alvin McEwen repeatedly spew about his unjust firing.</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_9929" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Alvin_McEwen.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-9929" title="Alvin_McEwen" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/08/Alvin_McEwen-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Homosexual activist Alvin McEwen pushes a lie about the abrupt firing of Matt Barber by Allstate.</p></div>
<p><strong>Barber was fired after writing a <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/2009/10/09/the-article-that-got-matt-barber-fired-by-allstate/">column</a> (which was published by conservative websites) against the homosexual agenda &#8212; on his home computer, on a Saturday. He did NOT identify himself as an employee of Allstate, but a third-party blog publisher did so by mistake. A staffer with the homosexual lobby group <a href="http://www.hrc.org/" target="_blank">Human Rights Campaign</a> then “reported” Barber’s web article to Allstate’s HR depart, and Matt immediately was called in on a Friday afternoon. Ironically, he was told that Allstate “celebrates diversity,” and that his (traditional) values did not reflect those of Allstate. Barber was suspended and informed that he likely would be fired for writing the column. He was then escorted by Allstate security guards off the corporate grounds. Monday morning, Barber was canned over the telephone.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Illinois Department of Employment Security [see graphic above] investigated the firing and found Barber innocent of misconduct; IDES made this judgment (emphasis theirs): “The claimant was discharged from ALLSTATE INS. CO. because AN OUTSIDE ORGANIZATION HAD COMPLAINED ABOUT AN ARTICLE HE HAD WRITTEN WHILE ON HIS OWN TIME.”</strong></p>
<p><span id="more-9896"></span><strong>Furthermore, even if Barber had used his company laptop for personal use (which he did not), Allstate policy allowed such personal use &#8212; especially for employees who traveled frequently, as did Barber. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Barber sued Allstate and as the trial date approached, Allstate frantically contacted Matt’s attorneys and begged for a cash settlement so that the details of his discriminatory firing would not become public.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Needless to say, Allstate had to pay Barber a very significant sum of money to make the embarrassing scandal go away. Had the case gone forward, Allstate’s blatantly anti-Christian (and anti-conservative, anti-family) employment policies would have been exposed. This would have included Allstate’s self-serving lies designed to discredit Barber, which were disseminated to the media &#8212; and which Alvin McEwen cynically regurgitates here. &#8212; Peter LaBarbera, Americans For Truth.</strong></p></blockquote>
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<p>Column by Dr. Jerry Newcombe in <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1418648" target="_blank">AFA &#8220;One News Now&#8221;</a>:</p>
<h4>Must All Our Opinions Be Politically Correct?</h4>
<p>By Dr. Jerry Newcombe,<br />
Reprinted from OneNewsNow, 8/25/11</p>
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<p>I know a man (<strong>Matt Barber</strong>) who was fired from a job with a Fortune 500 company a few years ago because on his own time, on his own computer, at his own home, he posted a blog expressing his own opinion, opposing same-sex &#8220;marriage.&#8221; He was confronted by his boss at the office and asked if he was the same Matt Barber as on the blog. He was.</p>
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<p>Those were his opinions, although they were not politically correct, and for expressing them, <a href="http://www.afajournal.org/2005/september/905cover.asp" target="_blank">he was canned</a> from the Fortune 500 company.</p>
<p>Thankfully, today, he works as an attorney fighting for religious liberties with the Orlando-based <a href="http://www,lc.org" target="_blank">Liberty Counsel</a>.</p>
<p>Liberty Counsel has now defended someone else, who got in trouble for expressing his own opinion, on his own time, with his own computer.</p>
<p>Last year&#8217;s &#8220;Teacher of the Year&#8221; at Mount Dora High School in central Florida (<strong>Jerry Buell</strong>) <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=1413842" target="_blank">was suspended</a> as a teacher because on his Facebook page, he expressed his disapproval of New York&#8217;s adoption of same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>Buell has for 22 years had a spotless record. But <strong>Chris Patton</strong> of Lake County Schools said, &#8220;We took the allegations seriously.&#8221;</p>
<p>Apparently, the allegations are that Buell is unfit to serve as a teacher in that he doesn&#8217;t agree with same-sex &#8220;marriage&#8221; about which he says (correctly), that it contradicts what the Bible says about marriage.</p>
<p>Patton went on to say, &#8220;All teachers are bound by a code of special ethics (and) this is a code ethics violation investigation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Buell was amazed at the charges: &#8220;It was my own personal comment on my own personal time on my own personal computer in my own personal house, exercising what I believed as a social studies teacher to be my First Amendment rights.&#8221;</p>
<p>I guess the First Amendment only applies these days to expressing politically correct opinions. Especially on an issue like same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>Remember Miss California in 2009?</p>
<p><strong>Carrie Prejean</strong> appeared on her way to possibly winning the Miss USA pageant, until she made the fateful mistake of expressing a politically incorrect view on same-sex &#8220;marriage.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked her views on same-sex marriage, she replied: &#8220;Well, I think it&#8217;s great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And, you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that, I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that&#8217;s how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman.&#8221;</p>
<p>For that, it would appear she lost out on <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=499580" target="_blank">any chance of winning</a>.</p>
<p>The moral of the story?</p>
<p>If your opinion is politically incorrect &#8212; especially on an issue like same-sex &#8220;marriage&#8221; &#8212; you&#8217;re best off keeping it to yourself. So much for the sacred right of conscience.</p>
<p>But this is America, and the sacred right of conscience is &#8230; well, just that, sacred.</p>
<p><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong> declared, &#8220;Almighty God has created the mind free.&#8221; Any attempt to force people into opinions they don&#8217;t share is wrong. Especially in America. Not that we&#8217;ve always gotten it right. But the ideal is great, and we seem to be losing that in our time.</p>
<p>The settlers of this country and the founders highly valued the sacred right of conscience. British North America was first settled by Christian dissidents seeking to worship Christ according to the dictates of conscience.</p>
<p>Dissident Puritan leader, <strong>Rev. Roger Williams</strong>, who out-Puritaned the Puritans in his goal to be a purist, founded Rhode Island on the premise that it would be a haven for people with various opinions: &#8220;I desired &#8230; it might be for a shelter for persons distressed for conscience.&#8221;</p>
<p>Williams stated, &#8220;the doctrine of persecution for cause of conscience, is most evidently and lamentably contrary to the doctrine of Christ Jesus the Prince of Peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 1648, in their document<em> The American Church Manual</em>, the Puritans wrote, &#8220;God alone is Lord of the conscience.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 1701, when <strong>William Penn</strong> founded the colony named in honor of his father (Pennsylvania), he declared in the charter, &#8220;Almighty God being the only Lord of Conscience,&#8221; therefore, the right of conscience was to be protected.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s still protected. You don&#8217;t see the Amish being drafted into our military.</p>
<p>In 1776, when Pennsylvania became a state, they stated in A DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OR STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, that &#8220;no authority&#8221; was in any way to interfere with &#8220;the right of conscience in the free exercise of religious worship.&#8221;</p>
<p>Examples like this from our history abound.</p>
<p>Perhaps some of the greatest affirmations of the sacred right of conscience come from <strong>George Washington</strong> himself. In 1789, President Washington said to a group representing the United Baptist Churches of Virginia:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If I could now conceive that the general Government might ever be so administered as to render liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution&#8230;.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Why? Because Washington believed &#8220;that any man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.&#8221;</p>
<p>George Washington and other founders said we must never violate the sacred right of conscience &#8212; certainly not for merely holding and stating unpopular opinions.</p>
<p>Thankfully, a positive outcome took place in Florida on the case of the Teacher of the Year on the very day of this writing. He prevailed, as did common sense. But why did he go through the whole ordeal in the first place?</p>
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<p><em>Dr. Jerry Newcombe is the senior producer and host of the television program, &#8220;Truth That Transforms with Dr. D. James Kennedy&#8221; (formerly &#8220;The Coral Ridge Hour&#8221;). He has also written or co-written 21 books, including &#8220;The Book That Made America: How the Bible Formed Our Nation.&#8221; Jerry co-wrote (with Dr. Peter Lillback) the bestselling, &#8220;George Washington&#8217;s Sacred Fire.&#8221;</em></p>
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		<title>LISTEN: AFTAH Interview with John Biver &amp; Matt Barber &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This AFTAH interview [Click HERE] with Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs for the Liberty Counsel, and John Biver, editor at www.ChampionNews.net, aired New Years Day 2011. They discuss with Americans For Truth President Peter LaBarbera &#8212; among other issues &#8212; the Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s politicized classification of AFTAH and other pro-family groups as &#8220;hate [...]]]></description>
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<p>This AFTAH interview [Click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/01/1-1-11-John-Biver-Matt-Barber-All.mp3" target="_blank">HERE</a>] with <strong>Matt Barber</strong>, Director of Cultural Affairs for the <a href="http://www.lc.org" target="_blank">Liberty Counsel</a>, and <strong>John Biver</strong>, editor at <a href="http://www.ChampionNews.net">www.ChampionNews.net</a>, aired New Years Day 2011. They discuss with Americans For Truth President <strong>Peter LaBarbera</strong> &#8212; among other issues &#8212; the Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s politicized classification of AFTAH and other pro-family groups as &#8220;hate groups.&#8221; In the first part of the interview, LaBarbera discusses how homosexual activists manipulated a photo of Matt taken at a pro-family protest to try and make him look &#8220;limp-wristed.&#8221; (Barber, a former heavyweight boxer, ably describes the &#8220;queer&#8221; activists&#8217; penchant for putting down their foes by calling them &#8230;. homosexuals.) See the hateful <strong>Joe Jervis&#8217;</strong> embarrassingly sophomoric use of the trick Barber photo <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2008/11/matt-barber-at-prop-8-protest.html">HERE</a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_8554" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/01/Greg_Gutfeld_Red-Eye.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-8554   " title="Greg_Gutfeld_Red-Eye" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2011/01/Greg_Gutfeld_Red-Eye-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">FOX News &quot;Red Eye&quot; host Greg Gutfeld joked that AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera and other pro-family advocates are secret homosexuals (our meetings are &quot;shirtless&quot;...) because they oppose homosexual activism as immoral. Gutfeld called AFTAH and other pro-family groups &quot;gay-haters.&quot;</p></div>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">TAKE ACTION: </span></strong></p>
<p><strong></strong><strong>1) Please contact FOX&#8217;s &#8220;Red Eye&#8221; and Greg Gutfeld and challenge them for their &#8220;hit piece&#8221; ridiculing Americans For Truth and moral opponents of the pro-homosexuality agenda. Red Eye&#8217;s e-mail is <a href="mailto:redeye@foxnews.com"><strong>redeye@foxnews.com</strong></a><strong>, and their phone is 212-462-5050. Ask</strong> Red Eye to stay true to the FOX network&#8217;s &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; slogan rather than belittle pro-family advocates using liberal, mocking talking points. Suggest that they allow an AFTAH representative on the show to defend against Gutfeld&#8217;s cheap shots against AFTAH and pro-family organizations.  </strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>2) Please also contact Fox News (general) <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> or by phone at 888-369-4762. This <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html" target="_blank">contact page</a> contains e-mail addresses for all the FOX programs. Urge FOX hosts NOT to abandon opposition to homosexuality as a conservative issue (FOX hosts were largely AWOL in the recent debate over lifting the ban on open homosexuals in the military).</strong></p>
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<p>Folks, you know it&#8217;s a bad sign for the future of a &#8220;conservative&#8221; network like FOX News when a homosexual atheist and anti-Christian bigot like <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2011/01/13845/" target="_blank">Evan Hurst joyously circulates a Fox News program</a> segment &#8212; as AFTAH-hating Hurst did in highlighting <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html" target="_blank">FOX News&#8217; <em>Red Eye&#8217;</em>s</a> recent hit-piece against AFTAH.</p>
<p>Yes, I said FOX News. In the YouTube below, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html">Greg Gutfeld, host of the late-night show &#8221;Red Eye,&#8217;&#8221;</a> tees off on <strong>Americans For Truth</strong> (and <strong>Family Research Council</strong> and <strong>Concerned Women for America</strong>) as &#8220;gay haters&#8221; using all the liberal, elitist talking points on homosexuality (including that yours truly and other opponents of the pro-homosexuality movement are secret homosexuals ourselves).</p>
<p>Note how <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Guilfoyle" target="_blank">FOX analyst-lawyer-babe Kimberly Guilfoyle</a> &#8212; ex-wife of San Francisco mayor <strong>Gavin Newsom</strong> &#8212; joins the fray, laughing at and agreeing with Gutfeld&#8217;s putdowns, and arrogantly dismissing the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/cpacs-goproud-controversy-continues-frc-cwa-pull-out.html">pro-family boycott of CPAC</a> (the Conservative Political Action Conference). I would have hoped that Guilfoyle, with all her legal training and Catholic schooling, would have at least challenged Gutfeld&#8217;s sophomoric thesis of Moral-Opposition-to-Homosexuality = &#8220;Hate&#8221; &#8212; even if only as a sop to FOX&#8217;s millions of faith-based viewers &#8212; but apparently that&#8217;s too much to ask. Please take the time to contact FOX about not selling out on homosexuality.  &#8211; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has always been a &#8220;disproportionate overlap between homosexuality and fascism,&#8221; writes Hari By Peter LaBarbera Warning: offensive language To nobody&#8217;s surprise, homosexual activist Evan Hurst of &#8216;Truth&#8217; Wins Out supported fellow &#8220;gay&#8221; blogger Joe Jervis&#8217; sophomoric hit-piece against AFTAH &#8211; which draws a crude link between this writer and the KKK. Jervis was just &#8220;stating fact,&#8221; protests Hurst, in writing that since the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>There has always been a &#8220;disproportionate overlap between homosexuality and fascism,&#8221; writes Hari</em></span></h4>
<div id="attachment_7718" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 230px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Nazi-Gay-Nick-Crane.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-7718   " title="Nazi-Gay-Nick-Crane" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Nazi-Gay-Nick-Crane.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="251" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The late British neo-Nazi skinhead Nicky Crane was just one of many fascists in Europe who lead a secret double life as a practicing homosexual. Click to enlarge.</p></div>
<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Warning: offensive language</span></strong></p>
<p>To nobody&#8217;s surprise, homosexual activist <strong>Evan Hurst</strong> of <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2010/10/11952/" target="_blank">&#8216;Truth&#8217; Wins Out</a> supported fellow &#8220;gay&#8221; blogger <strong><a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/10/south-carolina-ku-klux-klan-to-rally-in.html" target="_blank">Joe Jervis&#8217;</a></strong> sophomoric <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/pathetic-joe-jervis-tries-to-link-labarbera-to-kkk.html">hit-piece against AFTAH</a> &#8211; which draws a crude link between this writer and the KKK.</p>
<p>Jervis was just &#8220;stating fact,&#8221; protests Hurst, in writing that since the Klan opposed discrimination against a Christian student at Augusta State, and AFTAH also opposes this injustice, then the KKK and I are &#8221;on the same side.&#8221; (Juvenile, I know&#8230;.). <strong>[Click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/augusta-state-to-christian-jennifer-keeton-re-educate-yourself.html">HERE</a> to read AFTAH's story on Jennifer Keeton, a victim of homosexualist anti-Christian discrimination.]</strong></p>
<p>OK, Evan, here&#8217;s another fact: Jervis, <a href="http://www.lambdalegal.org" target="_blank">Lambda Legal</a>, you and practically the entire &#8220;gay&#8221; activist movement are on the same side as <a href="http://www.nambla.org/" target="_blank"><strong>NAMBLA</strong>, the North American Man/Boy Love Association</a>, with regard to the <strong>Boy Scouts of America&#8217;s</strong> ban on homosexual scoutmasters. (NAMBLA opposes the ban &#8212; for obvious reasons.) To <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2010/10/11952/" target="_blank">paraphrase Hurst</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Eh, again, Evan, all I said was that you, Joe Jervis and NAMBLA (which advocates legalizing man-boy sex) are on the same hateful and child-endangering side.  This is true.</p>
<p>Perhaps this would be a good time for you and Joe, writers for two homosexual hate websites, to reflect on why you find yourselves in such strong agreement with the most notorious pedophile group in American history.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obviously, such argumentation says nothing about Jervis&#8217; and Hurst&#8217;s real attitudes toward NAMBLA (I&#8217;m assuming they both oppose the vile outfit), so pointing out that Evan, Joe and NAMBLA are on the same side on the Boy Scouts would be a cheap shot. But since these two homosexual writers attempted to make a connection between AFTAH and odious racists, perhaps they can help us understand why so many homosexuals <em>actually have found their home in the fascist movement</em>. British homosexual writer <strong>Johann Hari&#8217;s</strong> 2008 piece, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-strange-strange-story_b_136697.html" target="_blank">&#8220;The Strange, Strange Story of the Gay Fascists&#8221;</a> in the liberal <em>Huffington Post</em> is quite an eye-opener in that regard.</p>
<p><span id="more-7717"></span>As Hari writes (emphasis added):</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>This is a taboo topic for a gay left-wing man like me to touch, but there has always been a weird, disproportionate overlap between homosexuality and fascism&#8230;.</strong></p>
<p>[T]he idea of a gay fascist seems ridiculous. Yet when the British National Party &#8211; our own home-grown Holocaust-denying bigots &#8211; announced it was fielding an openly gay candidate in the European elections this June, dedicated followers of fascism didn&#8217;t blink. <strong>The twisted truth is that gay men have been at the heart of every major fascist movement that ever was &#8212; including the gay-gassing, homo-cidal Third Reich. With the exception of Jean-Marie Le Pen, all the most high-profile fascists in Europe in the past thirty years have been gay.</strong> It&#8217;s time to admit something. Fascism isn&#8217;t something that happens out there, a nasty habit acquired by the straight boys. It is &#8212; in part, at least &#8212; a gay thing, and it&#8217;s time for non-fascist gay people to wake up and face the marching music.</p>
<p>Just look at our own continent over the past decade. Dutch fascist Pim Fortuyn ran on blatantly racist anti-immigrant platform, describing Islam as &#8220;a cancer&#8221; and &#8220;the biggest threat to Western civilisation today.&#8221; Yet with two little fluffy dogs and a Mamma complex, he was openly, flamboyantly gay. When accused by a political opponent of hating Arabs, he replied, &#8220;How can I hate Arabs? I sucked one off last night.&#8221; &#8230;</p></blockquote>
<div id="attachment_7762" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 166px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Ernst_Rohm1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-7762 " style="margin: 10px;" title="Ernst_Rohm" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Ernst_Rohm1-198x300.jpg" alt="" width="156" height="244" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Flagrant homosexual Ernst Rohm discovered Adolf Hitler.</p></div>
<p>Hari doesn&#8217;t ask but we must: what kind of politician engages in such vulgar and perverse speech? Answer: a sexually deviant one contemptuous of societal norms; yet Fortuyn, who was assassinated in 2002, considered himself a Catholic.</p>
<p>Hari cannot avoid the case of the notorious homosexual Nazi <strong>Ernst Rohm</strong>, a flagrant homosexual and head of the Nazi storm-troopers who actually &#8220;discovered&#8221; Hitler (years later, after gaining power, Hitler would have Rohm assassinated). I doubt many American schoolchildren will learn this in their World War II lessons (emphasis and link added):</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Along with Adolf Hitler, Rohm was the founding father of Nazism.</strong> Born to conservative Bavarian civil servants in 1887, Ernst Rohm&#8217;s life began &#8211; in his view &#8211; in the &#8220;heroic&#8221; trenches of the First World War. <strong>Like so many of the generation who formed the Nazi Party, he was nurtured by and obsessed with the homoerotic myth of the trenches &#8211; heroic, beautiful boys prepared to die for their brothers and their country&#8230;.</strong></p>
<p><strong>It was Rohm who first spotted the potential of a soap-box ranter called Adolf Hitler.</strong> He saw him as the demagogue he needed to mobilize support for his plan to overthrow democracy and establish a &#8220;soldier&#8217;s state&#8221; where the army ruled untrammelled. He introduced the young fascist to local politicians and military leaders; <strong>they knew him for many years as &#8220;Rohm&#8217;s boy.&#8221; Gay historian Frank Rector notes, &#8220;Hitler was, to a substantial extent, Rohm&#8217;s protégé.&#8221;</strong> Rohm integrated Hitler into his underground movement to overthrow the Weimar Republic.</p>
<p>Rohm&#8217;s blatant, out homosexuality seems bizarre now, given the gay genocide that was to follow. He talked openly about his fondness for gay bars and Turkish baths, and was known for his virility. He believed that gay people were superior to straights, and saw homosexuality as a key principle of his proposed Brave New Fascist Order. As historian Louis Snyder explains, <strong>Rohm &#8220;projected a social order in which homosexuality would be regarded as a human behaviour pattern of high repute&#8230; He flaunted his homosexuality in public and insisted his cronies do the same.</strong> <strong>He believed straight people weren&#8217;t as adept at bullying and aggression as homosexuals, so homosexuality was given a high premium in the SA [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung" target="_blank"><em>Sturmabteilung</em> (Nazi Stormtroopers)</a>]&#8220;</strong> They promoted an aggressive, hypermasculine form of homosexuality, condemning &#8220;hysterical women of both sexes,&#8221; in reference to feminine gay men.</p>
<p><strong>This belief in the superiority of homosexuality had a strong German tradition that grew up at the turn of the twentieth century</strong> around Adolf Brand, publisher of the country&#8217;s first gay magazine. You could call it &#8216;Queer as Volk&#8217;: they preached that gay men were the foundation of all nation-states and represented an elite, warrior caste that should rule. They venerated the ancient warrior cults of Sparta, Thebes and Athens.</p>
<p>Rohm often referred to the ancient Greek tradition of sending gay solider couples into battle, because they were believed to be the most ferocious fighters. The famous pass of Thermopylae, for example was held by 300 soldiers &#8211; who consisted of 150 gay couples. In its early years, the SA - Hitler and Rohm&#8217;s underground army &#8211; was seen as predominantly gay. Rohm assigned prominent posts to his lovers, making Edmund Heines his deputy and Karl Ernst the SA commander in Berlin. The organisation would sometimes meet in gay bars. The gay art historian Christian Isermayer said in an interview, &#8220;I got to know people in the SA. They used to throw riotous parties even in 1933&#8230; I once attended one. <strong>It was quite well-behaved but thoroughly gay. But then, in those days, the SA was ultra-gay.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Gay Nazis Missing from &#8216;Gay History Month&#8217;?</span></strong></p>
<p>This is not new information. Long before Christian pro-family advocate <strong>Scott Lively</strong> wrote about it in his book <a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/" target="_blank">The Pink Swastika</a>, the late historian and former war correspondent <strong>William Shirer</strong>, in his book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/0671728687" target="_blank">The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich</a></em>, documented that &#8220;sexual perverts&#8221; flocked to the National Socialist Party. Hitler himself was potentially a sexual deviant (see Shirer, p. 132, and Lothar Machten&#8217;s book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Hitler-Lothar-Machtan/dp/0465043089" target="_blank">Hidden Hitler</a></em>) &#8211; but you won&#8217;t see der Führer (or Ernst Rohm) listed in the annual <a href="http://www.glbthistorymonth.com/glbthistorymonth/2010/" target="_blank">Gay History Month</a> listings of famous homosexuals. Nevertheless, the same outfit that publishes this dubious homosexual list lays claim to others like <strong><a href="http://www.glbthistorymonth.com/glbthistorymonth/2007/icon.cfm?LeaderID=20&amp;tab=bio" target="_blank">Cary Grant</a></strong> and <a href="http://www.glbthistorymonth.com/glbthistorymonth/2010/icon.cfm?id=66" target="_blank"><strong>George Washington Carver</strong></a> (a committed Christian) &#8212; asserting <a href="http://www.glbthistorymonth.com/glbthistorymonth/2007/icon.cfm?LeaderID=20&amp;tab=bio" target="_blank">rumor as fact</a> without offering definitive proof that they were practicing homosexuals.</p>
<p>(Grant was married five times and denied the homosexual rumors, which rehash the standard &#8220;gay&#8221; conflation of male friendship with homoeroticism; former wife <strong>Dyan Cannon</strong> condemns the gay rumors <a href="http://www.carygrant.net/faq.html#homosexual" target="_blank">HERE</a>, saying, &#8220;I can tell you there isn&#8217;t an iota of truth to those ugly rumors&#8230;They would never have written that drivel when Cary was alive. He&#8217;d have sued the pants off those cowards&#8230;Cary can&#8217;t defend himself from the grave but I will go to mine insisting he was every ounce a straight man.&#8221; <em>Moral of the story:</em> don&#8217;t trust pro-homosexual historians with an agenda.)</p>
<p>One thing I&#8217;ve noticed about British homosexual activists: they are more willing to write honestly about homosexuality, including its downsides, than their American counterparts. Hari even alludes to the fascist roots of the pseudo-masculine, homosexual sadomasochistic (&#8220;leather&#8221;) subculture (the same subculture that <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/listen-online-hyatt-regency-chicago-hosts-international-mr-leather-perversion.html">rears its hideous head in major cities </a>across the country):</p>
<blockquote><p>So it&#8217;s fairly easy to establish that <strong>gay people are not inoculated from fascism. They have often been at its heart</strong>. This begs the bigger question: why? How did gay people &#8212; so often victims of oppression and hate &#8212; become integral to the most hateful and evil political movement of all? &#8230;</p>
<p>Gay pornographer and film-maker Bruce LaBruce has one explanation. He claims that &#8220;all gay porn today is implicitly fascist. Fascism is in our bones, because it&#8217;s all about glorifying white male supremacy and fetishizing domination, cruelty, power and monstrous authority figures.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Hari takes an obligatory shot at Lively as a &#8220;homophobe&#8221; &#8212; but Lively merely has sought to educate Americans on this same Nazi-homosexuality factor that remains buried in Politically Correct history. It also should be noted that there are plenty of attempts to blame the Nazi-homosexual link &#8212; and some male homosexuals&#8217; distorted and exaggerated attempts to act &#8220;masculine&#8221; &#8212; on their repressed, &#8220;internalized homophobia.&#8221; The implicit, and sometimes explicit, message: like every other &#8220;gay&#8221; problem, it&#8217;s OUR fault.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Extremism and &#8216;gay&#8217; politics go hand-in-hand</span></strong></p>
<p>Homosexual radicals&#8217; deranged attempts to link pro-family conservatives to racist fringe groups are part of their larger goal of demonizing and marginalizing &#8220;homophobic&#8221; Christians and social conservatives. This begs the question: <em>where does extremism find its natural home</em>? In America, sexual extremism and its accompanying intolerance of moral dissent is found mainly on the Left &#8212; not the Right &#8212; especially in <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/tolerance-gone-wild-in-san-francisco-as-cops-stand-by-amidst-folsom-street-fairs-public-perversions-and-widespread-nudity.html">urban, homosexual bastions like San Francisco</a>, and on college campuses, where &#8220;hate speech codes&#8221; proliferate.</p>
<p>(Moreover, on the racial front, African-American pro-family Christians like <strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/part-two-interview-with-pastor-ken-hutcherson.html">Pastor Ken Hutcherson</a></strong> have been the target of racist epithets by (white) homosexual activists &#8212; and there has been much discussion of racism within the LGBT movement and efforts to eradicate it. Of course, racism also exists in all other sectors of U.S. society.)</p>
<p>There is something profoundly &#8220;queer&#8221; about a social movement rooted in an ancient vice attempting to paint defenders of Judeo-Christian civilization and normalcy &#8211; marriage, the natural family, and religion &#8212; as extreme and hateful. Or even worse, as <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/hrc/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=951" target="_blank">causing violence against homosexuals, and &#8220;gay&#8221; suicides</a>. Yet this is the <em>modus operandi</em> of homosexual activists and powerful &#8220;gay&#8221; lobby groups &#8212; who have gone so far as to equate pro-family Christian organizations with the Klan, <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/diversityinc-mag-publisher-compares-labarbera-to-slavery-advocate.html">slavery advocates</a> and the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/media-condemn-hardaway-but-ignore-gay-activists-anti-christian-hate.html">Taliban</a>. The LGBT lobby&#8217;s ambitious smear campaign painting Christians and historic Bible passages proscribing same-sex behavior as extreme comes at a cost: it exposes homosexualists&#8217; out-of-the-closet hatred for religious expression.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, there is the factor of the &#8220;gay&#8221; movement&#8217;s tolerance and promotion of an ever-expanding array of perversions and a &#8220;sexual freedom&#8221; agenda that borders on sexual anarchy. (The <a href="https://www.ncsfreedom.org/" target="_blank">National Coalition for Sexual Freedom</a> &#8212; an ally of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force &#8212; &#8220;aims to advance the rights of, and advocate for consenting adults in the BDSM-Leather-Fetish, Swing, and Polyamory Communities.&#8221;) If the media were even close to being impartial on this issue, Americans would have a much clearer picture of the radicalism of homosexual and transsexual activists working to use laws to legitimize their lifestyles and oppress religious critics.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Tolerating homosexual pedophilia advocacy?</span></strong></p>
<p>Perhaps most observers will agree that it doesn&#8217;t get more extreme than pedophile advocacy &#8212; yet even ideologues in favor of adult-child sex find a voice on the &#8220;gay&#8221;-affirming Left. Witness the book review in the Marxist publication <a href="http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/thorstad220210.html" target="_blank">Monthly Review</a> by <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thorstad" target="_blank">David Thorstad</a></strong>, founding member of NAMBLA and former president of the Gay Activist Alliance in New York. In his review of <em>Sexual and Socialism: History, Politics and Theory of LGBT Liberation</em>, by Sherry Wolf, Thorstad complains that Wolf is too tough on adult-child sex:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>But by inserting &#8220;seduction&#8221; into her novel definition of pederasty (a sexual relationship between a man and an adolescent youth), [Wolf] repeats the foolish notion that a boy under the magical age of consent (whatever it happens to be) is by definition incapable of consenting to sex with a man.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>How instructive that despite the best efforts of LGBT activists to shed their past tolerance for pedophilia (<a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/homosexuality-and-man-boy-love-gay-pioneer-harry-hay-defended-nambla-to-the-end.html">NAMBLA used to march in &#8220;gay pride&#8221; parades</a>), pro-pederasty and truly extreme sexual activists and professors &#8212; like radical pro-abortion zealots &#8212; continue to have intellectual sway with the Left. The same cannot be said of the KKK and neo-Nazis (or sexual perversion activists) vis-a-vis religious conservatives.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Radical Gay &#8216;Founding Fathers&#8217;</span></strong></p>
<p>Then there are those extremist &#8221;gay&#8221; &#8221;founding fathers,&#8221; among them:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/homosexuality-and-man-boy-love-gay-pioneer-harry-hay-defended-nambla-to-the-end.html">Harry Hay</a></strong>, one-time Communist and then &#8220;Radical Faerie,&#8221; who defended NAMBLA until his dying day (see Thorstad: <a href="http://www.nambla.org/hayonmanboylove.htm" target="_blank">&#8220;Harry Hay on Man/Boy Love&#8221;</a>);</li>
<li><strong>Frank Kameny</strong>, a professed atheist who nevertheless claims &#8220;gay is godly,&#8221; evidently <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/frank-kameny-responds-to-aftah-report-that-he-spoke-at-nambla-event-in-1981.html">spoke at a NAMBLA meeting</a> (but can&#8217;t remember what he said), rails against <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/gay-hero-frank-kameny-calls-believers-christianofascists-says-gay-is-moral-and-virtuous-at-task-force-conference.html">&#8220;Christianofascists&#8221;</a> and opines that <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/gay-icon-kameny-says-bestiality-ok-as-long-as-the-animal-doesnt-mind.html">bestiality is OK</a> &#8220;as long as the animal doesn&#8217;t mind&#8221;; and</li>
<li><strong>Larry Kramer,</strong> founder of the militant protest group ACT UP, who labeled the U.S. Government&#8217;s response to AIDS a &#8220;Holocaust,&#8221; called <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09d/kevin_jennings/act_up/index.html" target="_blank">Ronald Reagan “a monster&#8221;</a> who &#8220;was responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler,&#8221; and says he has the proof that Abraham Lincoln was a <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/it/1999/04/30/lincoln" target="_blank">&#8220;totally gay man.&#8221;</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Reading &#8220;gay&#8221; iconic history is like reading a (pre-Political Correctness) psychological textbook on the outworking of dysfunction &#8212; mixed with a peculiar form of hatred derived from rebelling against God and the Church. Throw in a nearly pathological quest to justify the unjustifiable (embracing deviance and sin as the basis for one&#8217;s identity) and what emerges is a powerful personal motive to both hate religious opponents of homosexuality and (for those who do not reject the Creator altogether) to posit that <em>God created and accepts homosexuals</em> <em>as &#8220;gays.&#8221; </em></p>
<p>(The resentment toward God and religion theme is pervasive in homosexual writings: see Page 2 of <a href="http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF09F60.pdf" target="_blank">Peter Sprigg&#8217;s Family Research Council paper</a> on homosexual activist and Obama Education Department appointee <strong>Kevin Jennings</strong>, who is &#8220;viciously hostile to religion,&#8221; writes Sprigg. He quotes Jennings, writing in his autobiography <em>Mama&#8217;s Boy, Preacher&#8217;s Son,</em> recollecting his thoughts as a younger man: &#8220;God . . . had done nothing but cause me pain and anguish through His inaction and malevolence throughout my childhood&#8230; What <em>had</em> he done for me, other than make me feel shame and guilt?&#8221; Jennings told God: &#8220;Screw you, buddy.&#8221;)</p>
<p>Pity the poor schoolchildren who one day could be forced to study sanitized versions of these men&#8217;s lives during school-sanctioned &#8221;<strong>Gay History Month</strong>,&#8221; if current trends continue. (Note regarding American icons who practiced or struggled with homosexuality: there is a big difference between recognizing them for their accomplishments and contributions to American culture &#8212; and politicizing their contribution by making it part of an official celebration of homosexuality. We can appreciate Martina Navratilova&#8217;s skill on the tennis court without celebrating her lesbian lifestyle choice.)</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Deviance begets deviance</span></strong></p>
<p>The Sexual Left continues to push the envelope in the name of aberrant &#8220;rights&#8221; and <a href="https://www.ncsfreedom.org/" target="_blank">&#8220;sexual freedom&#8221;</a> &#8212; demonstrating precisely where &#8220;gay&#8221; tolerance leads. Just last week the <a href="http://www.thetaskforce.org" target="_blank">National Gay and Lesbian Task Force</a> sponsored a <a href="http://www.poly-nyc.com/pride.html" target="_blank">&#8220;Poly Pride&#8221; conference</a> in New York City. (&#8220;Polyamory&#8221; is defined by <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=polyamory" target="_blank">Urban Dictionary</a> as: &#8220;The practice, state or ability of having more than one sexual loving relationship at the same time, with the full knowledge and consent of all partners involved.&#8221;) A &#8220;Queer Sexual Liberation&#8221; workshop at the conference was set to &#8220;explore many aspects of sexual liberation including: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM" target="_blank">BDSM</a> [bondage &amp; discisplne, dominance &amp; submission, sadism &amp; masochism], Leather, Polyamory, Non-monogomy, sex work [prostitution], and more.&#8221;</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.thetaskforce.org" target="_blank">Task Force</a>, founded in 1973, is hardly a &#8220;fringe&#8221; homosexual group but the &#8220;oldest national LGBT rights organization in the United States,&#8221; according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gay_and_Lesbian_Task_Force" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>. It is involved in politics and legislative lobbying across the country. The same dominant media that monitored the Christian Coalition has little interest in the actual record of LGBT groups like the Task Force.</p>
<div id="attachment_7799" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 180px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Fists_Over_Folsom20102.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-7799" title="Fists_Over_Folsom2010" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Fists_Over_Folsom20102-195x300.jpg" alt="" width="170" height="230" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;Fisting Parties&quot; were part of recent &quot;Leather Week&quot; celebrations in San Franciso. Extreme and dangerous practices are not just tolerated under the LGBT umbrella, they are celebrated. Deviance finds its home in Left-dominated urban enclaves.</p></div>
<p>Deviance begets deviance. Just as the sadistic Nazi Party was a magnet for sexual perverts &#8211; wherever government-protected homosexuality flourishes, political and culural radicalism follows. That includes: forcing businesses to subsidize homosexual unions; radicalizing schools to promote &#8220;gay&#8221; ideology and gender confusion; making ever-increasingly extreme political demands such as taxpayer- and corporate-funded transsexual &#8220;sex change&#8221; operations; &#8220;tolerance&#8221; of <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/tolerance-gone-wild-in-san-francisco-as-cops-stand-by-amidst-folsom-street-fairs-public-perversions-and-widespread-nudity.html">public nudity (San Francisco)</a> and &#8221;multi-partner unions&#8221;; allowing anonymous sex clubs and <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/il-gay-activist-rick-garcia-calls-bathhouse-a-health-club-and-warns-of-judgment-day-for-labarbera.html">gay bathhouses</a> catering to the hyper-promiscuous; and government <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/boston-gay-youth-pride-day-includes-hardcore-anti-religious-homosexual-prop.html">promotion of homosexuality as normal to youth</a>. And let&#8217;s not forget the growth of official anti-Christian intolerance &#8212; criminalizing Christianity as applied to the issue of homosexuality. Each finds its place under the LGBT umbrella, because revolutionaries bent on destroying and redefining social norms hard a hard time saying no to the latest &#8220;progressive&#8221; social experiment.</p>
<p>Perhaps the extremism that comes naturally to homosexual militants explains their presence on both the hard, Marxist left and fascist right of the political spectrum. Where they come together is in their abiding contempt for biblical morality and America&#8217;s God-fearing, Judeo-Christian heritage &#8212; which laid the foundation for our liberties.</p>
<p>To be sure, liberterians of all stripes, sexualities and ideologies often cheer on the &#8221;gays&#8221; in supporting a live-and-let-live attitude toward sex, and marriage- and family structures. Libertarians abhor the use of government and laws to uphold &#8220;traditional moral values.&#8221; However, it is strident pro-homosexual organizations and activists &#8212; not libertarians &#8212; who are in the vanguard of mobilizing toward a new secular ideology that grants <em>superior legal rights</em>, as it were, to homosexuals. The homosexual legal agenda criminalizes the expression of biblical morality &#8211; e.g., a Christian professional photographer&#8217;s right <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=75547" target="_blank"><em>not</em> to take pictures at a lesbian commitment ceremony</a> &#8211; as merely another form of &#8220;anti-gay discrimination&#8221; that must be eradicated. Few in the secular media have seriously examined this very real, <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/children-and-religious-freedom-lose-as-%E2%80%9Cgay-equality%E2%80%9D-wins-in-britain.html">zero-sum conflict</a> between homosexual activism and religious freedom &#8212; and the trampling of Christians&#8217; freedom of conscience and Americans&#8217; civil rights in the name of &#8216;Gay Tolerance.&#8217;</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;"><em>Homo-fascism</em> through the law?</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Could the American State become a national, <em>homo-fascist</em> agent?</strong> America is not Europe. Due to our much larger population of committed Christians and religious people &#8212; and our stronger, First Amendment commitment to individual religious freedom &#8212; it is hard to see America going down the road of Canada or Great Britain. These are emerging pro-homosexual, quasi-&#8221;police states&#8221; where Christians can be arrested (Britain) or sued in rigged state &#8221;human rights tribunals&#8221; (Canada) merely for speaking against homosexuality.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, factoring in today&#8217;s secular environment and the escalating and extraordinary attacks by U.S. &#8220;gay&#8221; militants against churches, historic biblical morality and people of faith &#8211; including the vilification of Christians [see comments on <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/10/south-carolina-ku-klux-klan-to-rally-in.html" target="_blank">Jervis' über-hate site HERE</a>] &#8212; and it becomes clearer each day that fanatical homosexual militants are serious about creating a government tyranny that enforces their egalitarian agenda of treating homosexuality like normalcy in all spheres of life.  (Legalized homosexual &#8220;marriage&#8221; accomplishes much of this agenda: e.g., in a &#8220;gay marriage&#8221; state like Massachusetts, privately-owned businesses and institutions are not allowed to treat homosexual &#8220;marrieds&#8221; any differently than normal marrieds. This <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp" target="_blank">forced Catholic Charities out of the adoption business</a> because church officials could not countenance placing children in homosexual-led households.)</p>
<p>Much as they talk a good game about &#8220;respecting&#8221; religion, homosexual activists are working towards a government and legal paradigm that crushes religious and moral dissent &#8211; all in the name of tolerance, equality, and anti-discrimination. (All oppressive agendas use soft, innocuous-sounding euphemisms.) Their task will become much easier if acceptance of homosexuality becomes widespread in society &#8212; even among <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/grove-city-prof-warren-throckmorton-admits-support-for-homosexual-civil-unions.html">self-professed biblical Christians</a> &#8212; leaving a smaller number of principled, counter-cultural &#8221;holdouts&#8221; to target for persecution.</p>
<p>Where will pursuit of this homosexual activist vision lead? Will the courts codify a &#8220;soft tyranny&#8221; (isn&#8217;t that an oxymoron?) in which rights based on homosexuality (&#8220;sexual orientation&#8221;) &#8212; with some religious exemptions &#8211; negate Americans&#8217; freedom to live out their faith in their everday lives? Who can know? But we do know that few Germans in the 20&#8242;s and 30&#8242;s could have envisioned the oppression and evil that was to come only a few years later. We must remain true to the Bible &#8212; and vigilant to preserve our genuine God-given freedoms at all costs.</p>
<p><strong>For more on the European homosexual-fascism link, go to Hari&#8217;s piece, </strong><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-strange-strange-story_b_136697.html" target="_blank"><strong>&#8220;The Strange Story of the Gay Fascists.&#8221;</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Pathetic: Joe Jervis Tries to Link LaBarbera to KKK</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter LaBarbera, www.aftah.org Wow. The analytical powers of atheist, homosexual perversion-defender Joe Jervis&#8217; (of the Joe. My. God. blog)  are in full display as he exposes the sinister, long-concealed &#8221;truth&#8221; that AFTAH has been trying to hide for decades &#8212; that we are aligned with the &#8230; KKK &#8230; yeah, that&#8217;s it &#8230; the KKK! Joe alone had the analytical [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_7669" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 164px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Joe_Jervis_JMG.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-7669 " style="margin: 5px 10px;" title="Joe_Jervis_JMG" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Joe_Jervis_JMG-154x300.jpg" alt="" width="154" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">GLBT-award-winning homosexual blogger Joe Jervis.</p></div>
<p>By Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></p>
<p>Wow. The analytical powers of atheist, homosexual perversion-defender Joe Jervis&#8217; (of the <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/10/south-carolina-ku-klux-klan-to-rally-in.html" target="_blank">Joe. My. God. blog</a>)  are in full display as he exposes the sinister, long-concealed &#8221;truth&#8221; that AFTAH has been trying to hide for decades &#8212; that we are aligned with the &#8230; KKK &#8230; yeah, that&#8217;s it &#8230; the KKK! Joe alone had the analytical skills to pull together the story: AFTAH (and by extension FRC, AFA, Liberty Counsel, ADF, PFOX, etc.) have partered with the Klan to stop gay equality!!</p>
<p>I jest, of course. But Joe is serious&#8211;that&#8217;s the sad part. (Apparently he didn&#8217;t get the memo that the first one to call the other guy a &#8220;Nazi&#8221; in a debate is the automatic loser &#8212; that is, unless your opponent, like <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org" target="_blank">Wayne Besen</a>, is actually <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09b/ParkStreetChurch_0428/index2.html" target="_blank">behaving like a Nazi</a>.) Try to focus so you can comprehend at least a portion of GLBT-award-winning Jervis&#8217; sophisticated political equation:</p>
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<li><strong>Peter LaBarbera opposes the un-American idea that committed Christian students like <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/augusta-state-to-christian-jennifer-keeton-re-educate-yourself.html">Jennifer Keeton</a> would become ineligible to get a college degree in counseling because they refuse to deny their faith by affirming homosexuality.</strong></li>
<li><strong>The Ku Klux Klan &#8212; hateful racists that they are &#8212; rallies against the same misguided idea.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Ergo, Peter LaBarbera and the KKK are comrades-in-arms.</strong></li>
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<p>Jervis ends his piece: <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;Peter LaBarbera and the KKK, both on the same side of hate. Feels like a perfect match.&#8221; </span></strong></p>
<p>Such finely-honed logic. Such depth of reasoning and discernment. The nuances alone are worth pondering and studying for years to come. Joe, here&#8217;s the deal: your hatred of Americans For Truth and this writer (but more important, for the God who lovingly created you) is getting the best of you. Next time you set out to discredit AFTAH, try using a line of argumentation that wouldn&#8217;t embarrass a smart 5th-grader if he or she tried it.</p>
<p><span id="more-7663"></span>Here&#8217;s Jervis&#8217; post (beware: Joe&#8217;s web-groupies evince a level of hatred for Christians that almost makes Joe appear reasonable by comparison): <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/10/south-carolina-ku-klux-klan-to-rally-in.html">http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/10/south-carolina-ku-klux-klan-to-rally-in.html</a></p>
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		<title>Fresh from HomoCon, Ann Coulter Comes to Chicago for Culture Campaign Event Oct. 7th</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative pundit angers liberal &#8220;gay&#8221; activists by telling GOProud that there is no gay &#8220;civil right&#8221; to marry; criticizes homosexual propaganda in schools WARNING: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS [CORRECTION: we received a note from homosexual blogger Joe Jervis (Joe.My.God.) pointing us to a Human Events article by Lisa De Pasquale that clarifies some careless reporting by Politico of Ann Coulter's GOProud [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Conservative pundit angers liberal &#8220;gay&#8221; activists by telling GOProud that there is no gay &#8220;civil right&#8221; to marry; criticizes homosexual propaganda in schools</em></span></h4>
<div id="attachment_7569" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 195px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Ann_Coulter_thumbnail.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-7569 " title="Ann_Coulter_thumbnail" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Ann_Coulter_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="185" height="272" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ann Coullter comes to Chicagoland Thursday, Oct. 7th. Coulter outraged &quot;queer&quot; liberals like Perez Hilton when she told &#39;conservative&#39; homosexuals at GOProud&#39;s &quot;Homocon&quot; event that same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; &quot;is not a civil right -- you&#39;re not black!&quot;</p></div>
<p><strong>WARNING: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS</strong></p>
<p><strong>[<span style="color: #0000ff;">CORRECTION</span>: we received a note from homosexual blogger <a href="http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Joe Jervis (Joe.My.God.)</a> pointing us to a <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39195" target="_blank"><em>Human Events</em> article</a> by Lisa De Pasquale that clarifies some careless reporting by <em>Politico</em> of Ann Coulter's GOProud speech: it was not a GOProud member (as I reported, relying on <em>Politico</em>) but rather a joking Greg Gutfeld of the latenight FOX show "Red Eye" who "heckled" Coulter, blurting out, "What's wrong with fisting?" after she -- using her patented comic hyperbole -- accused liberals of wanting to teach kindergartners about "fisting." Coulter and Gutfeld are friends. (Her point of reference was surely the infamous <a href="http://www.massresistance.org/docs/issues/fistgate/index.html" target="_blank">2000 Boston "Fistgate" incident</a>, in which middle- high school kids actually WERE instructed verbally about "fisting" -- at a Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Netword (GLSEN)-sponsored conference. ("Fisting" is a <a href="http://www.narth.com/docs/healthrisks.html" target="_blank">dangerous</a> homosexual sadomasochistic perversion in which a man inserts his arm up another man's rectum.)  </strong></p>
<p><strong>[We have removed the portion of this article in which we speculated that it was a GOPround member or supporter who asked, "What's wrong with fisting?" Also, it also should be noted that, despite the value of correcting the record on Coulter's speech, <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39195" target="_blank">De Pasquale</a> works for <a href="http://www.conservative.org/" target="_blank">American Conservative Union</a>, which supports GOProud and defended the homosexual group's sponsorship of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) -- <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/liberty-counsel-may-lead-pullout-of-cpac-if-homosexual-group-goproud-remains-as-co-sponsor.html">against complaints by conservative Christian groups</a> who accused CPAC of promoting the acceptance of homosexuality. AFTAH opposed GOProud's sponsorship of CPAC.  -- Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.AmericansForTruth.org">www.AmericansForTruth.org</a>]</strong></p>
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<p><strong>By Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Dear AFTAH Readers,</strong></p>
<p>If you are near Chicago, I&#8217;d like you to consider attending an <strong><a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/" target="_blank">Ann Coulter</a></strong> speaking event a week from today &#8212; put on by my good friend <strong>Sandy Rios</strong>, president of <a href="http://www.culturecampaign.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Culture Campaign</strong></a>, a pro-family action group based in Illinois. Sandy, a FOX News contributor, is a brave truth-teller who surely would have gone farther in the media had she not stayed true to her Christian principles; please support her by coming out this Thursday night!</p>
<p>I know that&#8217;s sort of an odd request given the swirl of controversy and debate surrounding Coulter&#8217;s recent speech at &#8216;HomoCon,&#8217; an event put on by the <strong>homosexual Republican group <a href="http://www.goproud.org/" target="_blank">&#8216;GOProud.</a>&#8216;</strong> But trust me, you will be blessed by this event &#8212; and you&#8217;ll be helping out a solid organization, <strong>Culture Campaign</strong>, that has stood strongly against the homosexualist agenda.</p>
<p>First, here are the details:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>WHEN:</strong> <strong>Thursday, Oct. 7, 7:30 PM</strong> &#8212; less than a week away</p>
<p><strong>WHERE: The Meadows Club, 2950 W. Golf Rd., Rolling Meadows, IL 60008</strong> (suburb north of Chicago). Online map here: <a href="http://www.themeadowsclub.com/location.htm">http://www.themeadowsclub.com/location.htm</a></p>
<p><strong>WHO:</strong> <strong>Ann Coulter</strong>, feisty conservative pundit and author of &#8220;Godless: The Church of Liberalism,&#8221; &#8220;Guilty: Liberal &#8216;Victims&#8217; and their Assault on America,&#8221; and other books.</p>
<p><strong>COST:</strong> $50; $35 for students; tickes will NOT BE SOLD AT THE DOOR</p>
<p><strong>HOW TO ORDER TICKETS:</strong> Go online to Culture Campaign&#8217;s online order form: <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/747925064">http://www.eventbrite.com/event/747925064</a>. Tickets can be ordered up to 3 hours before the event&#8217;s start time (7:30 PM, Oct. 7th).</p>
<p><strong>SPECIAL VIP DINNER OPPORTUNITY:</strong> Before the main event you can be a part of an exclusive VIP Reception &amp; Dinner that includes a photo with Ann along with a personally signed book. For more information on this limited seating function contact <strong>Michael Glenn</strong>, Executive Director of Culture Campaign, at <a href="mailto:mglenn@culturecampaign.com">mglenn@culturecampaign.com</a>.  </p></blockquote>
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<p>If you come, I will see you there. Here&#8217;s why I&#8217;m going &#8211; even after my disappointment with Ann Coulter for lending legitimacy to a Republican upstart &#8220;gay&#8221; group (GOProud) that talks a good game about being conservative but really isn&#8217;t. As <strong>GOProud Chairman Chris Barron</strong> said in an August 4 Twitter post: <strong>&#8220;We are a gay organization, we only work on gay issues, we have never claimed otherwise. My God people.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>(The core purpose of GOProud is to promote the acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex relationships. Promoting &#8221;pride&#8221; in a sin, supporting a judge who imposes &#8221;gay marriage&#8221; against the expressed will of millions of California voters, and backing governmental/taxpayer recognition of aberrant sexual relationships is not <em>conservative</em> &#8212; period. However, GOProud does take conservative positions on issues like gun control and lower taxes &#8211; and it has even endorsed the Republican opponent of homosexual<strong> Barney Frank (D-MA)</strong>, for which they were pilloried by liberal activist homosexuals.)</p>
<p>All that said, I agree pretty much with <strong>Bryan Fischer</strong> of AFA below (writing for <a href="http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/100927" target="_blank">Renew America</a>) that Coulter redeemed her much-discussed GOProud booking to defend truth, including the idea that &#8220;same-sex marriage&#8221; has nothing to do with civil rights. <strong>Joseph Farah</strong> of <em>WorldNetDaily</em> went further in his <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=204941" target="_blank">recent debate</a> with GOProud founder <strong>Christopher Barron</strong> in Miami &#8212; exposing GOProud&#8217;s hypocrisy in claiming to be for &#8220;limited government&#8221; while failing to condemn a federal judge (reported homosexual Vaughn Walker) for invalidating the people&#8217;s vote in California in favor of traditional marriage. After Walker&#8217;s ruling, GOProud&#8217;s <strong>Jimmy LaSalvia</strong> made these comments &#8212; perfectly reflecting GOProud&#8217;s desire to have it both ways on &#8221;conservatism&#8221; and &#8220;gay marriage.&#8221; The <a href="http://www.frumforum.com/conservatives-split-on-prop-8-ruling#comments" target="_blank">FrumForum blog quotes LaSalvia</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;As long as the government is in the marriage business it should treat gay couples as equal to their straight counterparts.  Accordingly, we are pleased with the outcome of the Prop 8 case.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p><strong>That said, LaSalvia qualified his satisfaction by noting that, “As conservatives, however, we continue to have reservations about using the courts to achieve these ends.”</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">GOProud&#8217;s Barron debates WND&#8217;s Farah</span></strong></p>
<div id="attachment_7584" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 276px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Farah-Barron-debate.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-7584" title="Farah-Barron debate" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/10/Farah-Barron-debate-300x233.jpg" alt="" width="266" height="207" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Christopher Barron of GOProud (left) debates WND&#39;s Joseph Farah. Photo: WND.com</p></div>
<p>It took some guts for Barron to come to the <strong>WND &#8220;Take America Back&#8221; conference</strong> and <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=204941" target="_blank">debate Joseph Farah</a> (see photo) &#8212; although it also fits Barron&#8217;s masterful PR strategy of using controversy to stay in the news. I attended the event, and it was fascinating as much for what was <em>not</em> debated as for what was. (For example, when questioned from the floor, Barron acknowledged that rights come from God but he was never asked whether and on what basis he defends homosexual practice itself as moral and &#8220;conservative.&#8221;) </p>
<p>Suffice it to say that Barron played a good game of dodging and weaving regarding his promotion of homosexual activist goals &#8211; even stating that GOProud did not &#8220;celebrate&#8221; the recent court ruling invalidating Prop 8 in California when clearly &#8211; like all other homosexualist groups &#8212; GOProud cheered the radical decision. I would welcome a debate with Barron that is less restrictive and more free-wheeling than the WND event, with more opportunity for follow-up questions.</p>
<p><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>Some gays don&#8217;t want &#8221;gay rights&#8221; laws</strong></span></p>
<p>Despite his and GOProud&#8217;s <a href="http://www.gaypatriot.net/2010/08/12/methinks-peter-labarbera-doth-protest-too-much/" target="_blank">previous cheap shot at me</a> after I <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/labarbera-to-ann-coulter-reconsider-goproud-appearance.html">challenged Coulter on the GOProud speech</a>, I could sit down over a cup of coffee and discuss issues with Barron and we&#8217;d probably agree on as much as we disagree on. (When I met Barron at the debate and challenged him on his attack on me, he responded that I specialize in cheap shots.) The fact is, there are many homosexuals who disagree with the demands of the largely liberal-Democratic Homosexual Lobby &#8211; and who also disagree with its anti-religious stridency. Many don&#8217;t want &#8220;special rights,&#8221; as conservatives once widely called &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; laws. And while GOProud equivocates and tries to ride the fence by claiming neutrality on dangerous big-government-gay bills like <strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/13-good-reasons-to-oppose-hr-3685-the-enda-our-freedom-bill-bush-staffers-helped-craft-enda-exemption.html" target="_blank">ENDA (Employment Nondiscrimination Act</a>)</strong>, some homosexuals completely reject the &#8220;gay rights&#8221; political agenda and just want to be left alone. (Barron says he does support Americans&#8217; First Amendment and religious right to disagree with homosexual practice, but by advocating for federal Domestic Partner legislation, he would essentially force all citizens to subsidize it with their tax dollars.)</p>
<p>Like Farah, I will grant Barron this: you can hold conservative positions on a number of issues like guns and taxes yet have a homosexuality problem (or a theological one: Barron considers himself a Catholic yet says he is &#8220;married&#8221; to another man). But if you form an organization dedicated philosophically to advancing homosexuality &#8211; thereby undermining the historic, biblically-based moral/religious basis for American freedoms and prosperity &#8211; that ain&#8217;t &#8220;conservative&#8221; because you are working to reconfigure &#8212; not &#8220;conserve&#8221; &#8212; marriage and family as God designed them.</p>
<p>As Farah said at the debate: <strong>&#8220;Chris, your argument is not with me. It is with God. It&#8217;s with 6,000 years of Judeo-Christian history and the founding principles of this country.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>The same could be said of anyone &#8212; straight or &#8220;gay,&#8221; conservative or liberal, socialist or libertarian, religious or secular &#8212; who advocates for &#8220;same-sex marriage&#8221; and/or state and corporate recognition of homosexual relationships as a social good &#8211; or of homosexuality as the basis for civil rights.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Coulter&#8217;s GOProud Gold</span></strong></p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t see a full text of Ann Coulter&#8217;s GOProud speech, but good for her for nailing the fraudulent case for oxymoronic &#8220;gay marriage&#8221; and homosexuality as a &#8220;civil right&#8221; with a couple of catchy one-liners. From <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42711.html" target="_blank">Politico&#8217;s Ben Smith</a>, who attended the event:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Coulter’s jokes Saturday riffed on the theme that GOProud doesn’t make same-sex marriage central to its appeal; it considers, Barron says, national security and the economy more important.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Marriage “is not a civil right – you’re not black,” Coulter said to nervous laughter. She went on to note that gays are among the wealthiest demographic groups in the country.</strong></p>
<p><strong>“Blacks must be looking at the gays saying, ‘Why can’t we be oppressed like that?’”</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Hello, Republicans&#8230; Want to get more black votes? Then don&#8217;t abandon the fight against homosexual &#8220;marriage&#8221;!</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">GOProud member to Coulter: &#8216;What&#8217;s wrong with fisting?&#8217;</span></strong></p>
<p>I read this liberal homosexual account of Coulter&#8217;s GOProud appearance on the website of homosexual Hollywood gossip writer <strong>Perez Hilton</strong>, who titled his piece, <a href="http://perezhilton.com/2010-09-28-ann_coulter_denies_gay_marriage_is_a_civil_right_at_homocon" target="_blank">&#8220;Ann Coulter Sinks to New Lows of Vileness!&#8221;</a> (emphasis added):</p>
<blockquote><p>According to <em>Talking Points</em> Memo&#8217;s Megan Carpentier:</p>
<p>In fact, despite opening her speech with a joke about the difficulty of &#8220;coming out&#8221; as a fiscal conservative to one&#8217;s parents — something she congratulated the attendees on — Coulter&#8217;s speech to GOProud mystifyingly focused on social issues and not the fiscal and foreign policy issues that brought most of the attendees there. For instance, she told GOProud that the conservative gay rights movement ought to make common cause with the anti-abortion movement because, she said, &#8220;as soon as they find the gay gene, you know who&#8217;s getting aborted.&#8221; Coulter also made a forceful case against sex education in schools, accusing liberals of attempting to teach kindergartners about &#8220;fisting&#8221; (which garnered her a heckler, who shouted out &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with fisting?&#8221;) <strong>[Editor's Note: see clarification at top: the <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39195" target="_blank">heckler was Coulter's friend</a> and FOX "Red Eye" host Greg Gutfeld--making a joke</strong>] and told the crowd that most parents didn&#8217;t want their children learning about the &#8220;homosexual lifestyle&#8221; instead of reading and writing.</p></blockquote>
<p>As for Coulter being accused of &#8220;vileness&#8221; by the intolerant, vulgar and über-obnoxious Hilton (the guy who <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/perez-hilton-the-foul-face-of-gay-activism.html">trashed Carrie Prejean</a> with his gay-potty mouth running wild), that definitely commends Coulter. (Hilton, ever the sophisticated critic, completed his attack on Coulter with one of his patented mark-ups of her web photo with horns and something white scribbled on her mouth (don&#8217;t ask).</p>
<p>Homosexual activist blogger <strong>Jeremy Hooper</strong> (<a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2010/09/ann-does-what-ann-does-jeremy-opens-mouth-wide-raises-fists-and-lets-out-a-big-yawn.html" target="_blank">&#8220;Good As You&#8221;</a>) cited this remark by Coulter as evidence that she&#8217;s a B-A-A-A-D person:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Coulter: the gays &#8220;ought to start being antiabortion because &#8220;once they find the gay gene, guess who&#8217;s getting aborted&#8221; </strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Hooper is probably too young to know that Coulter was merely parroting the line of a homosexual group called <strong><a href="http://www.plagal.org/geninfo.html" target="_blank">PLAGAL (Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians)</a></strong>, which &#8212; at the height of the media&#8217;s hype of over the supposed genetic basis for homosexuality &#8211; made news by arguing that homosexuals should be pro-life because most parents would abort their unborn child if he or she was discoverd <em>in utero</em> to possess the postulated &#8221;gay gene.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Gay Porn Kings for the GOP!</span></strong></p>
<p>Somehow I doubt that homosexual porn magnates make up an important voting bloc for the GOP, but with GOProud&#8217;s help, the Republicans could make a dent in that slimy constituency. Check out this from <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42711_Page2.html" target="_blank">Politico&#8217;s coverage </a>of Coulter&#8217;s speech (emphasis added):</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Coulter’s talk drew a mixed response, but her presence marked the increasingly mainstream Republican embrace of gay rights. Coulter had a falling out with a conservative website that has published her, WorldNetDaily, over her attendance. “She’s doing something important – she’s showing her base that it’s OK,” said one attendee, Michael Lucas. <span style="color: #ff0000;">(Lucas also confided to a reporter, “I wonder what Ann will think about the fact that I am the biggest producer of gay porn on the East Coast and probably in the whole U.S.&#8221;)</span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Perhaps <a href="http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/03/20/michael-lucas-gay-pornographer-who-faults-islamofascism/" target="_blank">Lucas</a> could form another gay offshoot: <strong>GOPorn</strong>, for Republicans, gay and straight, who proudly produce and use pornography &#8212; but who also favor low taxes and smaller government. Traditional morality-hating Libertarians would surely jump on board in solidarity.</p>
<p>In his extremism, Lucas illustrates our basic point: you can support the Republican Party for (most of) its conservative platform &#8211; even if, in other areas of your life, you are the farthest thing from &#8220;conservative&#8221; imaginable. But don&#8217;t pretend that forming an organization that will help to mainstream your particular immoral behavior is &#8220;conservative.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll see you at the Coulter event Thursday. She won&#8217;t get any questions from pornographers, to be sure. But this will be our opportunity to solicit her views in a friendly setting on the Republican Party, conservatives, and homosexual-agenda politics. We have so few friends in the pundit world &#8230; let&#8217;s see where Ann really stands on this issue.</p>
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<p>Below is a <a href="http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/100927" target="_blank">Renew America</a> column by <strong>Bryan Fischer</strong> of <a href="http://www.afa.net" target="_blank">American Family Association</a> expressing satisfaction with Coulter&#8217;s GOProud speech:</p>
<p>September 27, 2010</p>
<h4>Ann Coulter gets her &#8220;Warrior Princess&#8221; badge back</h4>
<p>By Bryan Fischer</p>
<p>I criticized Ann Coulter last month when news surfaced that she had accepted an invitation to speak at HomoCon 2010, a gathering of so-called conservative homosexuals. (They can&#8217;t call themselves conservatives, for the simple reason that using the anal cavity for sex is not a conservative value.)</p>
<p>You also will notice that they have no hesitation calling themselves &#8220;homos,&#8221; as in &#8220;HomoCon,&#8221; but take umbrage if anybody else uses their own chosen moniker.</p>
<p>I did say that Ann might surprise us all and take the homosexuals straight on, but guessed that a desire not to upset her hosts, who surely paid a princessly sum to entice her into speaking and appearing on all their promotional posters, would likely prevent her from getting up in their business.</p>
<p>Well, I was wrong.</p>
<p>Ann took them straight on and gave them some straight talk I doubt they were ready for. There is no amount of sugar that will help this medicine go down.</p>
<p>According to the leftwing website Politico.com, she complimented the Christian audiences before whom she speaks by telling these homosexuals that the people who get her &#8220;gay jokes are gays.&#8221; Christians get them, she hinted, but &#8220;out of sweetness they don&#8217;t laugh at the gay jokes.&#8221; Alas, she was suggesting, if only Christians were as mean-spirited as everyone says they are! I have to leave my gay jokes in the green room because those Christians are just too darned civil and courteous and kind!</p>
<p>Then she let the air out of the tires on the tired argument that homosexual marriage is the civil rights issue of our day. Reminding them that blackness is an innate characteristic but sexual behavior is a choice, same-sex marriage, she said pointedly, &#8220;is not a civil right — you&#8217;re not black.&#8221;</p>
<p>As Gen. Colin Powell himself said, the comparison between homosexual behavior and race is &#8220;convenient but invalid.&#8221; People are born black, but they are not born gay. And many people who enter the homosexual lifestyle later leave it. So there are plenty of ex-gays, but you will never meet an ex-black.</p>
<p>Then she punctured a hole in the entire oppressed-minority argument by pointing out that homosexuals are among the wealthiest demographic groups in the nation, again making the civil rights argument utterly invalid.</p>
<p>Survey after survey has revealed that homosexuals tend to be more highly educated than their straight counterparts and have higher levels of income.</p>
<p>&#8220;Blacks must be looking at the gays, saying, &#8216;Why can&#8217;t we be oppressed like that?&#8217;&#8221; said Coulter.</p>
<p>So Christians are too tolerant to make fun of gays, homosexuals have no civil right to marry, and homosexuals can&#8217;t claim oppressed minority status. This from the keynote speaker at HomoCon, who got at least five figures to get right in the grill of her hosts.</p>
<p>Anybody at HomoCon want their money back?</p>
<p>And Ann, all is forgiven. Humble pie has never tasted so sweet. You are no longer the &#8220;Joan of Arc of homosexuality,&#8221; as I described you last month, you are now Daniella of the Lion&#8217;s Den. Good on ya, lass.</p>
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		<title>LISTEN: Part Three &#8211; AFTAH Interview with Prof. Rob Gagnon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 3 of our interview with Prof. Rob Gagnon (www.robgagnon.net) of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary [click HERE to play]. This aired Sept. 18, 2010. Gagnon calls various &#8220;gay theological&#8221; attempts to homosexualize loving, platonic same-sex biblical relationships such as David&#8217;s and Jonathan&#8217;s in the Old Testament as desperate &#8220;Hail Mary&#8221; passes that have no basis in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_7461" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 204px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/09/Rob_Gagnon_Truth-Acad-small-new.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-7461" title="Rob_Gagnon_Truth Acad-small-new" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/09/Rob_Gagnon_Truth-Acad-small-new.jpg" alt="" width="194" height="261" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Prof. Rob Gagnon at AFTAH Truth Academy.</p></div>
<p>Part 3 of our interview with <strong>Prof. Rob Gagnon</strong> (<a href="http://www.robgagnon.net">www.robgagnon.net</a>) of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary [click <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/09/9-18-10-Robert-Gagnon-All.mp3">HERE</a> to play]. This aired Sept. 18, 2010. Gagnon calls various &#8220;gay theological&#8221; attempts to homosexualize loving, platonic same-sex biblical relationships such as David&#8217;s and Jonathan&#8217;s in the Old Testament as desperate &#8220;Hail Mary&#8221; passes that have no basis in Scripture (see this post on the <a href="http://www.gaychristian101.com/David-and-Jonathan.html" target="_blank">website &#8220;GayChristian101&#8243;</a>). He debunks the claim that biblical prohibitions against same-sex erotic love are as trivial as those against the Jews wearing certain types of clothing (the &#8220;polyester&#8221; argument). And Gagnon addresses those &#8212; like Grove City College professor (and <em>de facto</em> &#8220;gay&#8221; activist) <strong><a href="http://wthrockmorton.com/" target="_blank">Warren Throckmorton</a></strong> &#8212; who profess biblical orthodoxy on homosexuality yet support pro-homosexual public policy goals such as &#8220;civil unions.&#8221; Gagnon spoke at the <a href="http://www.aftah.org/news/aftah-launches-truth-academy-to-train-youth-on-how-to-fight-gay-agenda.html">AFTAH Truth Academy</a> in August. Go <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/aftah-interview-with-professor-rob-gagnon.html">HERE for Part 2</a> of the Gagnon interview and <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/aftah-interview-with-professor-rob-gagnon-part-one.html">HERE for Part 1</a>.</p>
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		<title>Gay Activist Joe Jervis Smears AFTAH Academy as &#8216;Fostering Violence&#8217; Against Homosexuals</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: Offensive Language Jervis wildly claims that the Americans For Truth Academy &#8220;will train young people how to properly hate faggots and dykes and foster violent crimes against them.&#8221; Folks, it didn&#8217;t take too long for homosexual activists to smear the Americans For Truth Academy, which will be held in Carol Stream, Illinois, August 5-7. [...]]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_6386" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 336px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/06/Joe_Jervis_Prop_8_Sign.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-6386" title="Joe_Jervis_Prop_8_Sign" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/06/Joe_Jervis_Prop_8_Sign.jpg" alt="" width="326" height="245" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">New York City homosexual activist Joe Jervis recklessly claims that the Americans For Truth Academy &quot;will train young people how to properly hate faggots and dykes and  foster violent crimes against them.&quot; Jervis, here protesting California&#39;s pro-traditional-marriage amendment, routinely conflates moral opposition to homosexuality with hatred.</p></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong><strong>Jervis wildly claims that the Americans For Truth Academy &#8220;will train young people how to  properly hate faggots and dykes and foster violent crimes against them.&#8221;</strong></strong></span></p>
<p>Folks, it didn&#8217;t take too long for homosexual activists to smear the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/aftah-launches-truth-academy-to-train-youth-on-how-to-fight-gay-agenda.html"><strong>Americans For Truth Academy</strong></a>, which will be held in Carol Stream, Illinois, August 5-7. Here is one particularly inane and mean-spirited post by atheist &#8220;gay&#8221; leatherman <strong>Joe Jervis</strong>, who runs the <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/06/porno-pete-labarbera-announces-training.html" target="_blank">blog &#8220;Joe.My.God.&#8221;</a> With clockwork-like regularity, homosexual activists resort to their favorite lie: that civil speech opposing homosexuality in the public square leads to violence against homosexuals. (Such claims form the basis for demands to banish said speech; of course, vicious and nasty attacks on Christians somehow do not qualify as &#8220;hate&#8221; nor lead to violence against people of faith&#8230;.)</p>
<p>Experienced pro-family followers of AFTAH who have read <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/06/porno-pete-labarbera-announces-training.html" target="_blank">Jervis&#8217; J.M.G. blog</a> know that if there were such a thing as a <em>Hate-O-Meter</em> scale, few could hope to score as high as Joe and his perverted friends (see some examples of their bigoted bile below). Even so, after AFTAH&#8217;s website was labeled a <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/aftahs-labarbera-challenges-splcs-potok-to-a-debate-on-hate.html">&#8220;hate site&#8221; by the Southern Poverty Law Center</a> &#8212; on the recommendation of the Marxist, cop-hating, <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/gay-liberation-network-leader-pronounces-catholic-church-haters.html">Christian-bashers</a> over at Chicago&#8217;s <a href="http://www.gayliberation.net/home.html" target="_blank">Gay Liberation Network</a> &#8212; Jervis and pals dutifully took up our challenge and <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/03/2010-peter-labarbera-hate-challenge.html" target="_blank">labeled every pro-family group they could think of as also being a &#8220;hate&#8221; group</a>. Get the message? Oppose homosexuality (publicly) and you are automatically a &#8220;hater.&#8221;</p>
<p>Per Jervis&#8217; piece below, &#8220;Porno Pete&#8221; is a smear term against yours truly invented by another hypocritical homosexual militant, <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org" target="_blank">Wayne Besen</a>, and circulated by <a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/04/29/22133" target="_blank">fellow &#8220;gay&#8221; activists</a> (who simultaneously <a href="http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/28/8390" target="_blank">condemn name-calling against homosexuals</a> &#8212; go figure). One of the things we will teach at the ongoing AFTAH Academy is that while homosexual activists demand respect and tolerance from others, they consistently dish out vitriol and invective against their opponents &#8212; all the while cynically equating historic, Judeo-Christian moral truths with hate, bigotry and &#8220;homophobia.&#8221;</p>
<p><span id="more-6370"></span>I challenge readers to get a sampling of the demented, <em>ad hominem</em> attacks that proliferate on <a href="http://www.joemygod.com" target="_blank">Jervis&#8217; homosexualist site</a> and see if there is anything comparable on AFTAH&#8217;s website or that of any other mainstream, pro-family organization, such as <a href="http://www.frc.org" target="_blank">Family Research Council</a>. Go <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/aftah-launches-truth-academy-to-train-youth-on-how-to-fight-gay-agenda.html">HERE</a> for more info on the Academy. <strong>&#8211; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></strong></p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/06/porno-pete-labarbera-announces-training.html" target="_blank">Jervis&#8217; twisted entry on the AFTAH Academy</a>, followed by some hateful, perverted and intolerant comments responding to his item:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Porno Pete LaBarbera has just announced the formation of the &#8220;Americans For Truth Academy,&#8221; which will train young people how to properly hate faggots and dykes and foster violent crimes against them. For a mere $99 donation, you can buy a budding young bigot a Scholarship In Hate™.</strong></p>
<p><strong>&#8230; The usual cast of knuckle-dragging douchenozzles have signed on to be LaBarbera&#8217;s Professors of Hate: Robert Knight (Coral Ridge Ministries), Matt Barber (Liberty Counsel), Laurie Higgins (Illinois Family Institute), Greg Quinlan (PFOX), etc. The first Three Day Hate™ will take place August 5th-7th in Porno Pete&#8217;s luxuriously appointed basement dungeon headquarters outside of Chicago.</strong></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>Comments on Jervis&#8217; site following article:</strong></p>
<p><strong>ANLAGUY:</strong></p>
<p>How can that [the AFTAH Academy] be a tax deductable [sic] function? or is that just another lie they tell them so they will sign up? How can they have a seminar on [teaching] hate to people and the government NOT get involved.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><strong>INKKY JET:</strong></p>
<p>HEIL!</p>
<p>I want to attend and watch the live demo with Porno Pete and Bam bam Barber [Matt Barber, an AFTAH Board Member and AFTAH Academy speaker] when they demonstrate sodomy and fisting; their two most favourite [sic] activities.</p>
<p>HEIL!</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><strong>LYMIS:</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;Okay, boys, pay attention. When someone touches you like THIS it&#8217;s really bad. Who needs to see that again?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><strong>RICK CABRAL:</strong></p>
<p>The important questions have yet to be asked!  Will the pornmaster be sharing his rich cache of porno material?  Will there be &#8220;helping hand&#8221;  beat-off sessions during and afterwards?  Are there shower facilities or must participants bring wetwipes and sanitizing lotion?  How are attendees supposed to prepare properly without these clarifications?</p>
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		<title>Asylum for Brazilian Homosexual Perverts U.S. policy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the United States become a magnet for foreign homosexuals? By Peter LaBarbera Homosexual websites are celebrating that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has granted asylum to 27-year-old Brazilian homosexual Augusto Pereira de Souza, who claims he would face torment and violent attacks if forced to return to his country. I wonder what would [...]]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_5188" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/04/Julio_Severo.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-5188" title="Julio_Severo" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/04/Julio_Severo-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pro-family Christian Julio Severo fled his home country of Brazil to avoid state prosecution and harassment on &quot;homophobia&quot; charges. Would Severo be granted U.S. asylum like Brazilian homosexual Augusto Pereira de Souza?</p></div>
<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p>Homosexual websites are celebrating that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has granted asylum to 27-year-old <a href="http://www.queerty.com/why-this-brazilian-mans-asylum-claim-is-great-news-for-ugandas-soon-to-be-gay-refugees-20100210/" target="_blank">Brazilian homosexual Augusto Pereira de Souza</a>, who claims he would face torment and violent attacks if forced to return to his country.</p>
<p>I wonder what would happen if <a href="http://lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com/2010/04/asylum-for-homosexual-perverts-us.html" target="_blank"><strong>Julio Severo</strong></a> (right), the outspoken Brazilian Christian advocate who <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09040914.html" target="_blank">fled his country due to escalating oppression</a> against critics of homosexuality, were to apply for applied for U.S. asylum. An article in the <a href="http://www.queerty.com/why-this-brazilian-mans-asylum-claim-is-great-news-for-ugandas-soon-to-be-gay-refugees-20100210/" target="_blank">&#8220;Queerty&#8221; blog</a> claims that Brazil is &#8220;one of the world&#8217;s most violently anti-gay countries &#8230; with 180 reported LGBT murders in 2008 alone.&#8221; I do not know the accuracy of this information. But here is the problem: already Queerty and other pro-homosexuality activists are citing the case of Souza (whose asylum claim was secured by three students at Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic,&#8221; Queerty reports) as good news for Ugandan homosexuals who might want to make similar claims.</p>
<p>Is the United States of America under President Obama going to become the magnet for foreign homosexuals and &#8220;queer&#8221; activists the world over? AFTAH has condemned draconian punishments against homosexuals (such as &#8220;solutions&#8221; prescribed by <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/stoning-homosexuals-which-is-the-real-voice-of-hatred.html">radical Islamists</a>). However, America and the West have no right to impose their decadent, perversion-celebrating values on the rest of the world, and other countries certainly have the right to criminalize homosexual behavior just as it was criminalized in the United States prior to the Supreme Court&#8217;s activist <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-102.ZS.html" target="_blank">Lawrence v. Texas</a> decision. (Anti-sodomy laws remain on the books in many states and laws that do not solely ban homosexual sodomy have NOT been struck down; here is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_law" target="_blank">Wikipedia article</a> which &#8212; despite that website&#8217;s strong pro-homosexual bias &#8212; describes the sodomy law situation in all 50 states.)</p>
<p><span id="more-5187"></span>Here in America, we realize that sodomy may never be criminalized in San Francisco, where men are allowed to <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/tolerance-gone-wild-in-san-francisco-as-cops-stand-by-amidst-folsom-street-fairs-public-perversions-and-widespread-nudity.html">walk the streets fully naked</a>. But if more conservative locales or states choose to do so according to their local community standards, that SHOULD be their prerogative (ditto for legislative attempts to <a href="http://www.midlandsconnect.com/news/story.aspx?id=420584" target="_blank">ban abortion</a> or &#8220;partial-birth&#8221; infanticide). And if liberals are concerned about the death penalty being imposed against homosexuals, and rightly so, they should also be concerned about <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/pro-homosexual-websites-slam-aftah-for-call-to-investigate-health-risks-of-gay-sex.html">public policy that promotes homosexual behavior</a> with all its attendant, <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/americans-for-truth-ends-support-for-dr-holsinger-nations-top-doctor-must-tell-the-truth-about-homosexual-health-risks.html">even life-threatening, consequences</a>.</p>
<p>A good place for America to start &#8220;re-criminalizing&#8221; would be to ban all bathhouses and sex clubs were sex is allowed to go on in a commercial establishment. &#8220;Gay&#8221; and straight. See this AFTAH article about ex-&#8221;gay&#8221; Christian advocate James Hartline&#8217;s successful campaign in San Diego to <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/excellent-news-from-james-hartline-san-diego-bathhouse-to-close-down.html">close down a local homosexual bathhouse</a>.</p>
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<div id="attachment_5192" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><strong><strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/04/Brazil-Augusto-Pereira-de-Souza.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-5192" title="Brazil-Augusto Pereira de Souza" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/04/Brazil-Augusto-Pereira-de-Souza-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Augusto Pereira de Souza (center)</p></div>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>For more on Brazil:</strong> go <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09043008.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> to read a LifeSite article about the socialist Brazilian President&#8217;s <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09043008.html" target="_blank">&#8220;hate speech&#8221; plans</a>. And go <a href="http://lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to read Julio Severo&#8217;s blog. To subscribe to LifeSiteNews&#8217; daily news feed, go <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/subscribe/index.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>, and to subscribe to OneNewsNow&#8217;s daily news brief, go <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/newsbrief.aspx" target="_blank">HERE</a>. &#8212; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.americansfortruth.org ">www.americansfortruth.org </a></p>
<p><strong>One News Now reports:</strong></p>
<p>__________________________________________</p>
<p><strong>Asylum for Homosexual Perverts U.S. policy</strong><br />
By Charlie Butts &#8211; <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=961792">OneNewsNow</a> &#8211; 4/6/2010</p>
<p>A homosexual from Brazil has been granted asylum in the United States because he fears mistreatment in his home country over his sexual orientation.</p>
<p>According to LifeSiteNews.com, 28-year-old <strong>Augusto Pereira de Souza</strong> &#8212; as a result of the ruling &#8212; will be allowed to work and receive Social Security benefits in the U.S., and eventually will be permitted to apply for permanent residency. De Souza had submitted testimony that he had been verbally harassed by a policeman and, on a separate occasion, been chased by &#8220;skinheads&#8221; who were armed with baseball bats.</p>
<p><strong>Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality</strong> finds the case astounding because Brazil, he notes, is one of the most pro-homosexual countries on the map. He says Christians are the target of animosity in Brazil if they speak out against homosexuality.</p>
<p>Peter LaBarbera&#8221;I happen to have a friend, Julio Severo, who left Brazil in fear for being prosecuted as a Christian under the anti-homophobia mechanisms that are being set up in that country,&#8221; he explains.</p>
<p>The Americans for Truth spokesman admits he finds it hard to believe that de Souza had anything to fear in Brazil over his choice in favor of homosexuality.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not becoming a friendly place for people who believe homosexuality is wrong,&#8221; he says, &#8220;and so this is just preposterous that the United States is accepting a Brazilian homosexual on that basis.&#8221;</p>
<p>LaBarbera adds that since Brazil is becoming &#8220;a homosexual dream country,&#8221; it is a perversion of U.S. asylum policies to grant Brazilian homosexuals the privilege of coming to America over fears of persecution for their lifestyle.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Evan Hurst of Truth Wins Out has issued a clarification in which he says he was mistaken to use the word &#8220;all&#8221; in his online statement: &#8220;Then again, all fundamentalist Christians are anti-semitic at their core, considering the fact that they actually believe their apocalyptical horseshit.&#8221; Try as I might, I don&#8217;t think I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_5007" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/03/Linda_Harvey_small1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-5007" title="Linda_Harvey_small" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/03/Linda_Harvey_small1.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="187" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Anything it takes: Truth Wins Out writer Evan Hurst slanders Mission America&#39;s Linda Harvey (above) -- and ALL Bible-believing Christians -- as &quot;anti-Semitic at their core.&quot;</p></div>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>UPDATE:</strong></span> <strong>Evan Hurst</strong> of <strong>Truth Wins Out</strong> has issued a <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2010/03/7955/">clarification</a> in which he says he was mistaken to use the word &#8220;all&#8221; in his online statement: &#8220;<strong>Then again, all fundamentalist Christians are anti-semitic at their  core, considering the fact that they actually believe their  apocalyptical horseshit.&#8221;<br />
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<p>Try as I might, I don&#8217;t think I could ever match the hatred that flows so naturally from the fingertips of <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2010/03/7801/">&#8220;Truth Wins Out&#8221; (TWO) writer <strong>Evan Hurst</strong></a>. Granted, Hurst has a tall order rising to the Hate Quotient set by his boss and all-around Bad Boy of Buggery, <strong>Wayne Besen</strong>, but he&#8217;s really working hard to match Besen&#8217;s bluster. (By the way, Besen, who founded TWO, was an easy winner of AFTAH&#8217;s debut, <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/competition-tough-for-aftahs-first-annual-gay-grinch-of-the-year-award.html"><strong>2009 &#8220;Gay Grinch of the Year&#8221; contes</strong>t</a> but due to unresolved copyright issues we never announced the winner; belated congrats, Wayne.)</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s Hurst turning a <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressreleases/2010/03/7850/comment-page-1/#comment-19455">rant against my friend and Mission America founder Linda Harvey</a> (and pro-family veteran <strong>Scott Lively</strong>) into a general attack on ALL Bible-believing Christians as &#8220;anti-Semitic.&#8221; Note the bold portion (our emphasis) in this comment found in the post, <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressreleases/2010/03/7850/comment-page-1/#comment-19455">&#8220;TWO Exclusive: Linda Harvey’s Extremism On Display In Michigan&#8221;</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>[Comment] # 14. Oh, and Linda, “Holocaust revisionism” does not only apply to direct anti-semitism. Of course, it could be argued that Scott Lively is anti-semitic since he co-opts the Holocaust in order to lie about gay people, to satisfy whatever mental illness he suffers from. In fact, yes, now that I think of it, his work IS anti-semitism, because it belittles the reality of the Holocaust in order to score points. And by supporting him, you are supporting that strain of anti-semitism.</p>
<p><strong>(Then again, all fundamentalist Christians are anti-semitic at their core, considering the fact that they actually believe their apocalyptical horseshit.)</strong></p>
<p>And you just parrot right along with it, because you’re too virulent to see that if your Jesus was here, he’d probably lay you out like the Pharisee you are.</p>
<p>Comment by Evan Hurst — March 29, 2010 @ 11:35 pm</p></blockquote>
<p>My first impulse is to report Hurst and Truth Wins Out at once to the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/aftahs-labarbera-challenges-splcs-potok-to-a-debate-on-hate.html">SPLC as <em>bona fide </em>haters</a> for propounding such an obvious falsehood, but something tells me my complaint might get lost in the bureaucracy over there.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to blame nasty and intolerant blog comments on crazed readers; after all, it&#8217;s soooo hard to keep track of each and every reader comment, we are told. But it&#8217;s much harder to explain away  &#8220;virulent&#8221; irrationality when the author is &#8230; one of your own writers! Surely Hurst is not unaware of the fact that the &#8220;fundamentalist&#8221; Christians he so obviously despises are historically a bastion of support for the State of Israel. (Probably just a cover for their <em>internalized anti-Semitism</em>, just as Christian conservatives&#8217; opposition to homosexuality is a cover for their <em>internalized homophobia</em>.) Oh well. Something&#8217;s winning out over at TWO, but it&#8217;s not the &#8220;truth.&#8221; &#8212; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When you say that your organization is no more hateful than the Catholic church, we have a rare point of agreement. You are both haters.&#8221; &#8212; Bob Schwartz, Gay Liberation Network Bob Schwartz, a leader of the Gay Liberation Network, a Marxist &#8220;direct action&#8221; group that reportedly lobbied the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>&#8220;When you say that your organization is no more hateful than the Catholic church, we have a rare point of agreement.  You are both haters.&#8221;</strong></span><strong> &#8212; <em>Bob Schwartz, Gay Liberation Network</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<div id="attachment_4995" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 191px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/03/Bob_Scharz_solo.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-4995 " title="Bob_Scharz_solo" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/03/Bob_Scharz_solo.jpg" alt="" width="181" height="172" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Catholic Church should also be on the &quot;hate&quot; list, says Bob Schwartz of the Gay Liberation Network.</p></div>
<p><strong>Bob Schwartz</strong>, a leader of the <a href="http://www.gayliberation.net"><strong>Gay Liberation Network</strong></a>, a Marxist &#8220;direct action&#8221; group that reportedly lobbied the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/aftahs-labarbera-challenges-splcs-potok-to-a-debate-on-hate.html">Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to mislabel Americans For Truth as a &#8220;hate&#8221; website</a>, sent the e-mail below to AFTAH through our website. Schwartz describes himself as a Trotskyist (after Bolshevik <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a>, who advocated worldwide communist revolution before being assassinated by a Soviet agent in Mexico in 1940). Communists have such a <a href="http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/history_communism.php">long and storied history defending human rights</a> and <a href="http://www.osaarchivum.org/gulag/txt1.htm">individual rights and dignity</a>, you know.</p>
<p>Note that you don&#8217;t have to agree with the Catholic Church&#8217;s handing of its <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032603454.html">homosexual/pedophile crisis</a> (most Catholics I know do not) to see the absurdity of labeling the church a &#8220;hater&#8221; because it defends traditional sexual morality and natural marriage between a man and a woman. The folly of the SPLC&#8217;s expanding &#8220;hate&#8221; dragnet is that it threatens to engulf all religious/moral opposition to homosexuality. Indeed, it would be revealing to query the top 25 &#8220;GLBT&#8221; activist across the nation and ask them if they would also label, as Matt Barber pokes fun <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/barber-southern-poverty-law-center-officially-declared-left-wing-hate-group.html">HERE</a>, the following as &#8220;hate groups&#8221;: Family Research Council, AFA, the Roman Catholic Church, Focus on the Family, the Southern Baptist Convention and ADF. (I posed the question to one young &#8220;gay&#8221; activist, Alex Blaze, <a href="http://www.bilerico.com/2010/03/you_said_it_not_me.php">HERE</a>, and received no response.)</p>
<p>[Homosexual activists] <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org">Wayne Besen/Evan Hurst</a>/<a href="http://www.joemygod.com">Joe Jervis</a>/<a href="http://www.goodasyou.org">Jeremy Hooper</a>/<a href="http://thetaskforce.org">Rea Carey</a>/[<strong>insert GLBT activist here</strong>]: take up the challenge!</p>
<p>Yes, we&#8217;re all &#8220;haters&#8221; now (except the likes of Schwartz, despite his <a href="http://www.illinoisfamily.org/informed/contentview.asp?c=24893">bully tactics</a> and GLN&#8217;s <a href="http://www.illinoisfamily.org/news/contentview.asp?c=22904">ugly, anti-Christian bigotry</a>). And just like ObamaCare is padding the rolls of the IRS to keep Americans in &#8220;compliance&#8221; with government &#8220;health&#8221; mandates, perhaps the SPLC needs an infusion of Obama stimulus funds to expand its <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/who-we-are/leadership">already large staff</a> and <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/who-we-are/financial-information">huge budget</a> to accommodate its &#8220;reporting&#8221; on the ever-expanding &#8220;hate&#8221; network.</p>
<p><span id="more-4991"></span>Note Schwartz&#8217;s reference to an article in the <em>Naperville (Ill.) Sun</em>, reprinted below.  The headline for the print edition of this story was changed from <strong>&#8220;Local anti-gay group rejects &#8216;hate site&#8217; tag&#8221; </strong>to <strong>&#8220;Web site called hateful by civil rights group.&#8221; </strong>The task ahead, to demonstrate that the SPLC is more of a pro-homosexual, left-wing advocacy group than an honest &#8220;civil rights&#8221; organization, is a necessary but difficult one. &#8212; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.aftah.org">www.aftah.org</a></p>
<p><strong>GLN&#8217;s Schwartz writes:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>______________________________________________<br />
From: [Bob Schwartz, <a href="http://www.gayliberation.net">Gay Liberation Network</a>]<br />
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 1:26 PM<br />
To: <a href="mailto:americansfortruth@comcast.net">americansfortruth@comcast.net</a><br />
Subject: Fwd: [GLN Organizers] LaBarbera Says Group &#8220;No More Hateful Than the Catholic Church&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>When you say that your organization is no more hateful than the Catholic church, we have a rare point of agreement.  You are both haters.  Hopefully, Ratzinger&#8217;s cover-ups of criminal pedophiles will result in more people leaving the gay- and woman-hating Church of Rome.</strong></p>
<p>Bob Schwartz</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/2125076,Local-anti-gay-group-hate-tag_NA032610.article">Naperville Sun article</a>:</strong></p>
<h4><strong>Local anti-gay group rejects &#8216;hate site&#8217; tag</strong></h4>
<p>March 27, 2010</p>
<p>By JENETTE STURGES  jsturges@stmedianetwork.com</p>
<p>Naperville-based Americans for Truth About Homosexuality describes itself as &#8220;dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda.&#8221;</p>
<p>Others just describe the group as &#8220;hateful.&#8221;</p>
<p>The anti-gay group was called out by civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center for operating a &#8220;hate site,&#8221; one of 670 identified by the SPLC in its latest issue of their publication, Intelligence Report.</p>
<p>President of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality Peter LaBarbera says he has &#8220;taken issue&#8221; with that, and is asking for a public apology from the organization and a debate with its president, Mark Potok. His organization, he says, while against homosexuality, is not a hate group. &#8220;You can disagree without being hateful,&#8221; LaBarbera said.</p>
<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center did not add Americans for Truth About Homosexuality to its yearly listing of hate groups, which this year includes 932 groups including the anti-gay Family Research Institute, chapters of the Ku Klux Klan and the Nation of Islam. Also included on this year&#8217;s list of hate groups is Downers Grove-based anti-gay Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment.</p>
<p>But the content of AFTAH&#8217;s Web site did warrant the listing, according to Booth Gunther, public affairs coordinator at SPLC.</p>
<p>The AFTAH Web site, www.americansfortruth.com, is largely a collection of articles from across the Web focused on homosexuality that &#8220;defend historic Judeo-Christian moral norms,&#8221; according to the site.</p>
<p>The Chicago-based Gay Liberation Network, which contacted SPLC to have Americans for Truth About Sexuality added to the list, however, contends that the site, the group and its president spread inciting misinformation about homosexuality.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mr. LaBarbera has not only opposed marriage rights, he&#8217;s opposed equal employment and equal access. If that criterion were ever applied to other groups, the would be called a hate group,&#8221; said Andy Thayer, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network.</p>
<p>Those who label the site as a &#8220;hate site&#8221; point to the repeated inclusion of research by Paul Cameron, psychologist at the Family Research Institute whose writings have claimed gays and lesbians are more likely to be child molesters and criminals, as well as the site&#8217;s association of homosexuality to everything from crystal meth to the North American Man/Boy Love Association.</p>
<p>Still, LaBarbera contends that his organization and its Web site are no more hateful than the Catholic Church.</p>
<p>As for a public apology or debate, the SPLC says there&#8217;s none coming.</p>
<p>&#8220;He can debate all he wants,&#8221; said Gunther. &#8220;We stand by our designation.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/2125076,Local-anti-gay-group-hate-tag_NA032610.article">http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/2125076,Local-anti-gay-group-hate-tag_NA032610.article</a></p></blockquote>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click HERE to listen to an interview by Concerned Women for America&#8217;s Martha Kleder with Matt Barber, a Board Member of AFTAH and Liberty Council&#8217;s Director of Cultural Affairs. CWA writes (links added): Reports surfaced this week about Democrat lawmakers receiving threatening phone calls following the vote on health care reform. Interestingly, those news reports [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_4951" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 162px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/03/Morris_Dees.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-4951  " style="margin: 5px 10px;" title="Morris_Dees" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/03/Morris_Dees.jpg" alt="" width="152" height="218" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">SPLC co-founder Morris Dees once fought the Klan. Now his group targets pro-family Christians opposed to homosexual activism. The SPLC, lobbied by a pro-Communist homosexual organization, labeled AFTAH a &quot;hate site.&quot;</p></div>
<p>Click <a href="http://www.cwfa.org/play2.asp?id=cw20100325a">HERE</a> to listen to an interview by Concerned Women for America&#8217;s <strong>Martha Kleder</strong> with <strong>Matt Barber</strong>, a Board Member of AFTAH and Liberty Council&#8217;s Director of Cultural Affairs. <a href="http://www.cwfa.org/articles/18659/CFI/freedom/index.htm">CWA writes</a> (links added):</p>
<blockquote><p>Reports surfaced this week about Democrat lawmakers receiving threatening phone calls following the vote on health care reform. Interestingly, those news reports mentioned the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/contact-us">Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)</a>, which is noted for &#8220;tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups.&#8221; Also this week the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/barber-southern-poverty-law-center-officially-declared-left-wing-hate-group.html">SPLC named Americans for Truth about Homosexuality a hate group</a>. With more on this overstep by SPLC and the wanton use of the term &#8220;hate&#8221; is Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs for both the <a href="http://www.lc.org">Liberty Counsel</a> and Liberty Alliance Action.  <a href="http://www.cwfa.org/play2.asp?id=cw20100325a">Listen</a> | <a href="http://www.cwfamedia.org/media/cw20100325a.mp3">Download</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>AFTAH and Hackers: Account Suspended over Extra High Web Usage Resulting from Previous Sabotage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January hack-attack infected AFTAH&#8217;s search engine Americans For Truth About Homosexuality&#8217;s website was suspended earlier today &#8212; due to our exceeding server usage limits, apparently as a result of a hack-attack against AFTAH back in January. The January cyber-sabotage infected our Search engine, which went haywire and which has now been disabled until we find [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>January hack-attack infected AFTAH&#8217;s search engine</em></span></h4>
<div id="attachment_4536" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 365px"><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/02/AFTAH-website-suspension_2-24-10.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-4536" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;" title="AFTAH-website-suspension_2-24-10" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2010/02/AFTAH-website-suspension_2-24-10.jpg" alt="" width="355" height="102" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Server notice announcing suspension of AFTAH&#39;s website Wed. morning; a previous hack-attack appears to have caused the problem.</p></div>
<p><strong>Americans For Truth About Homosexuality&#8217;s</strong> website was suspended earlier today &#8212; due to our exceeding server usage limits, apparently as a result of a hack-attack against AFTAH back in January. The January cyber-sabotage infected our Search engine, which went haywire and which has now been disabled until we find a solution.</p>
<p>It appears that today&#8217;s stoppage was not directly caused by a new round of hacking, but that possibility still exists. AFTAH is opposed daily by some of the <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org">most hateful and extremist &#8220;gay&#8221; websites</a> on the planet (all in the name of &#8220;tolerance,&#8221; mind you), so there are plenty of militants who would love to shut us down. And we believe that &#8212; God help us &#8212; if they ever got the power, many self-avowed &#8220;queer&#8221; activists would support using the Government to do so.</p>
<p><span id="more-4533"></span>Having said that, there are also other homosexual bloggers and advocates who are committed to free speech and would oppose any and all attempts to hack into or censor AFTAH&#8217;s site. We similarly condemn dirty tricks against homosexual and left-wing sites with which we strongly disagree, e.g., atheist homosexual and avid AFTAH-basher Joe Jervis and his <a href="http://www.joemygod.com">&#8220;Joe.My.God&#8221; blog</a>.</p>
<p>This is a battle of ideas, not cyber-vandals.</p>
<p>We will keep you informed of developments on this matter, but rest assured that our long-term plan is to keep the AFTAH website up and running &#8212; and responding to &#8220;GLBT&#8221; lies and misinformation &#8212; well past 2050. That is, unless the sexual-perversion/gender-confusion movement (<em>aka</em> &#8220;gay/transgender pride&#8221;) withers away and dies by then, making us obsolete. Thanks for your ongoing support. <strong>&#8211; Peter LaBarbera, <a href="http://www.americansfortruth.com">www.americansfortruth.com</a></strong></p>
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