Stellar Culture War Writer Laurie Higgins Exposes LGBTQ+ Agendas

November 4th, 2025

The following is a sample of articles by cultural warrior Laurie Higgins, one of my favorite conservative writers, who has done yeoman’s work over many years exposing the LGBTQ+ agenda. Higgins always deserved a greater national following than she got as a writer for Illinois Family Institute (where I was once employed). This makes it all the more astonishing that Higgins was effectively pushed out in 2023 as IFI’s main writer and researcher by executive director Dave Smith, for reasons that had nothing to do with the exemplary quality of her work. Smith’s rageful mistreatment of Higgins makes for an infuriating story [see her Facebook page for more details]. He will have to answer to God for his abuse of power and cruelty toward Laurie, even as he knew she was a soon-to-be widow with her husband of nearly 50 years dying of cancer. But that’s another story.

The good news is that Smith’s and IFI’s loss is American Greatness’ and Breakthrough Ideas’ (Jeannie Ives’) gain, as Higgins’ articles seem to be gaining more national attention than ever before. To reach Laurie, send an email to laurie@breakthrough-ideas.com. –Peter LaBarbera, President, Center For Morality/AmericansForTruth.com:

Intolerant Trans Cultists and Collaborators Swamp Deerfield, Illinois School Board Meeting (American Greatness, 4/13/25)

The Harris Campaign’s Moral Contradictions and Strategic Missteps (American Greatness, 11/1/24)

Cross-dressing Illinois Man Defies Florida Bathroom Law (American Greatness, 4/9/25)

Chicago: Lurie Children’s Hospital Leftists Increase Stress for Parents (Breakthrough Ideas, 6/17/25)

Microaggressing Tranny ‘Lilly’ Contino Invades Multiple Women’s Bathrooms at Disneyworld (Breakthrough Ideas, 6/24/25)

Are Progressives Allies of Women or Misogynists? (Illinois Family Institute, 1/4/22)

It’s All Downhill When Fetish Becomes Identity (IFI, 5/5/22)

How to Make Immorality Unjudgeable: Redefine Identity (IFI, 9/15/22)

Illinois Buzzards Want Your Kids (IFI, 1/11/23)

A True Story about the Southern Poverty Law Center (IFI, 3/23/17)

Does the Bible Mandate Nice Language When Condemning Wickedness (IFI, 9/6/22)

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Victim of Homosexualism: Jennifer Coutlee’s Husband of 17 Years Embraces Homosexual Lifestyle – She Fights to Protect Children

October 21st, 2025

“I will not stand by and let my children be pawns in this game,” says Christian mom

“On November 16, 2014, my husband of almost 17 years woke me up early in the morning to tell me some devastating news. For the past number of months he had been having adulterous affairs with numerous men.”…

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“[A judge’s order allows Wyatt] to take our children into a home he shares with his homosexual lover. Our 12-year-old son has repeatedly said he feels uncomfortable being in that house with Wyatt and his boyfriend….”–Jennifer Coutlee

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TAKE ACTION: Go to Jennifer Coutlee’s crowdfunding website HERE and make a donation to help her protect her children! Pray for her and share this story in any way that you can.

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Dear AFTAH Supporter,

The following is an appeal for funds and prayers by Jennifer Coutlee–an Indiana woman and Christian mother of three who is living the ultimate marital nightmare: her husband of 17 years, Wyatt, engaged in secret, adulterous sodomies with other men before finally announcing his homosexuality to her under compulsion of his male lover. Now she has to endure a situation in which her 12-year-old Autistic son is forced to spend time in his dad’s household with the homosexual male lover present. Jennifer has created an online “crowdfunding” site to help her in her legal battles ahead to protect her children.

If your heart is not moved by this tragedy, check your pulse. Let’s band together to raise a few thousand dollars–or many thousands of dollars!–to help this brave and determined woman protect the safety and innocence of her children. Please read this letter and go to Jennifer’s funding site and give what you can. If you cannot donate, pray for her. This is a side of the “gay” activist movement that the media rarely report on honestly–how the pursuit of sexual perversion and immoral relationships breaks up families and puts children at risk.

The media love “gay” victims, but the victims of selfish homosexuals?–not so much. And we all know that a sizable portion of people who read Jennifer’s letter will make some sort of excuse for Wyatt, the homosexually adulterous husband, on the grounds that he “discovered his gay self” …”who he really is,” or some pathetic variation of these. (Remember homosexual adulterer and New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey’s self-serving “I am a gay American” speech?) In the end, homosexualism is merely another indulgence of sinful self over God–and it is at war with the natural family. You can reach Jennifer through the email that follows her appeal letter below.  — Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH.org; americansfortruth@gmail.com; @PeterLaBarbera

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Jennifer Coutlee writes:

October 15, 2015

Dear Fellow Christian Warriors:

My name is Jennifer Coutlee, and I have been thrust into a battle that I never thought I would ever have to fight, and I am praying that you will join in this fight with me. Here is my story.

It began in the winter of 2008, when I found my husband, Wyatt, in an online affair, posing as a bisexual man. After confronting him with this, he denounced bisexuality and said he was committed to our marriage. We solidified our commitment, and our daughter, Nora, was born in June of 2009. For the next number of years, I believed things were going well between us. However, I was dreadfully wrong. On November 16, 2014, my husband of almost 17 years woke me up early in the morning to tell me some devastating news. For the past number of months he had been having adulterous affairs with numerous men. Some just one night affairs with men he met on Craigslist, and one ongoing affair with a young man he met while at work. The reason for this news now: His “boyfriend” was already in a relationship. His boyfriend had followed Wyatt the night before to a “hook-up” where he confronted Wyatt, letting him know if Wyatt didn’t tell me what was going on, he most certainly would. This, of course, forced Wyatt to tell me. But he didn’t just tell me, he then told our then 15-year-old daughter without me present.

As devastating as this news was, it didn’t stop there. While I was hurt, I still wanted to fight for my marriage and had begun putting the pieces in place to begin counseling. Unfortunately, on November 20, 2014, things came crashing down again. Early in the morning, I began getting myself and the kids ready for the day. I woke Wyatt up so he could help me finish getting our youngest ready, but after hearing him with our daughter, I became very emotional, and I decided I could not go into work. Wyatt took the kids to school. I locked the front door behind them, because it was windy that day and our door blew open when not dead-bolted.  I returned to my bedroom where I began reading the Bible and the book, Power of the Praying Wife. Around 10am, I laid down for a nap, feeling calm and hopeful after spending time with the Lord. Unfortunately, the next thing I knew, it was sometime after 10pm! I was in the hospital, and I had no memory of what went on after my nap.  Wyatt was nowhere to be found. My friend Diana was by my bedside, and the doctors were telling me that I attempted suicide by ingesting a month worth of Zoloft and various narcotic pain killers. After the doctors interviewed Wyatt and me (since he would not leave work to be with me in the hospital, his interview was by phone), they transferred me to a psychiatric hospital and kept me on a 72 hour hold. While I was in the hospital, Wyatt was very hostile and cold and uncaring toward me. He told the nurses that I needed to be held until I took responsibility for my actions, and I believe he only visited me because I asked him to visit. He did not call my closest friends to let them know I was in the hospital, even though he knew I had been in close contact with them prior to this event.

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Conservatives Have a ‘PHAT’ Problem: Pro-Homosexuality, Anti-Trans

October 6th, 2025

Hey all, I published a version of this piece September 29 on X (@PeterLaBarbera) and my Facebook account. — Peter LaBarbera, president, Americans For Truth/Center For Morality

Many conservatives and MAGA advocates have a ‘PHAT’ problem (Pro-Homosexuality/Anti-Trans). Stop promoting one form of sexual deviance (sin) while fighting another. You cannot serve Truth while promoting a Lie, nor serve God while defying His perfect moral Law. You cannot erase this:

The modern Gay Revolution:

• redefined Normal;
• defied Nature to countenance its high-risk sodomies (receptive anal s-x and gay male promiscuity fueled the deadly AIDS pandemic);
• violated children’s innocence either through direct predation or by injecting its perverse ideology into K-12 schools–thus imprinting sexual aberrance on very young, impressionable minds; see 1990 picture book “Daddy’s Roommate” below);
• promoted cross-dressing, “gender” propaganda aimed at youth, and other forms of trans activism;
• “queered” the sacred institution of marriage through relentless activism;
• led to vicious and even violent attacks on Christians who defended historic biblical truth on homosexuality (e.g., San Francisco Presbyterian pastor Chuck McIlhenny’s church and home were firebombed in 1983). Meanwhile, Christians and religious traditionalists were regularly smeared as “haters,” bigots and “phobes”; and
• reimagined the natural “family” to celebrate homosexual (gay and lesbian) households that intentionally deny children a mom or a dad.

Along the way, self-absorbed “gay” ideologues grotesquely smeared our biblical and national heroes, claiming, for example, that David and Jonathan in the Old Testament were “gay lovers,” and that Abraham Lincoln was likely “bisexual” and a “Lover of Men” (see twisted graphic below).

Most ominously, from the beginning, “gay”/”queer” militants have for DECADES worked to reinterpret the Bible’s crystal clear teaching against homosexual acts as sinful (Romans 1:26-7, Leviticus 18:22, Jude 7, 1 Corinthians 6:9, etc.) “Queer theology” revisionists are literally re-writing the history of Christianity to promote sodomitic unions as somehow pleasing to God. Yes, the same holy God who unequivocally condemns homosexual acts (see the works of late Yale gay-activist scholar John Boswell).

This is a time for Truth and moral clarity: Do not help mainstream what God calls an “abomination” (detestable behavior; Lev. 18:22), even if it makes you feel better about opposing trans lunacy.

P.S. The great news is that many men and women have “come out” of homosexuality (and “trans” delusions), most through Jesus Christ. EX-“gay” men like Becket Cook (@BecketCook), Stephen Black, Daren Mehl and Stephen Bennett; EX-lesbian women like Janet Boynes, Rosaria Butterfield and Charlene Cothran; and EX-trans people like Walt Heyer and Laura (Perry) Smalts. Praise God!

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New Campaign Urges Prayer/Action Against ‘LGBTQ History Month’ in Schools in October

September 14th, 2025

Center For Morality/Americans For Truth is proud to join this campaign by Linda Harvey, my friend and president of the Ohio-based group Mission America, to pray and work against the activist “LGBTQ History Month” in schools. Decades of homosexual (“gay”), transgender and “queer” propaganda directed at children has endangered and corrupted the most vulnerable Americans and wreaked havoc on our culture. –Peter LaBarbera, CFM/Americans For Truth.

Below is Harvey’s full news release:

September 10, 2025

Press Release

Contact: lpharvey@missionamerica.com

(Columbus, OH, September 10, 2025) Today, a nationwide call went out for prayer and action during the month of October, as many American public schools observe “LGBTQ History Month.”

Mission America, an Ohio-based Christian organization, is leading a coalition asking parents, students and teachers as well as churches to commit to a month of prayer during October as reckless, deceptive events roll out in many schools featuring rainbow radicalism,  obscene library selections,  “drag” queens as special speakers/assemblies, in-class lessons, and more.

The American Family Association and many other groups have joined this effort. A statement from AFA said the following:  “American Family Association supports Mission America’s call to prayer for students in October. We urge believers to ask God to shield children from deceptive LGBTQ+ messages in schools and turn hearts toward His truth about sexuality, marriage, and identity.”

“We implore Almighty God to intervene and protect children at school from systematic sexual corruption they’re often forced to endure during October,” said Linda Harvey, president of Mission America. “Students may be taught that ‘queer’ behaviors and identities have been an admirable part of human history; that they are inborn and unchangeable; and that all objections are hateful bigotry akin to racism. These are reckless and harmful lies that encourage children to embrace gravely sinful conduct.”

Each fall, Mission America publishes the widely-consulted “School Corruption and Propaganda Calendar” to alert parents about the dates when they can expect organized, well-publicized grooming events at some schools and how to prepare their children accordingly.

From lessons training students to become “LGBTQ” activists, to  “Coming Out Day” and “International Pronouns Day,” the entire month of October is often devoted to the worst immoral elements of ‘woke’ indoctrination. And with the move this year of the American Library Association’s “Banned Books Week” from September to October (coordinating with these other events), students are likely to be assaulted with non-stop pro-homosexual, pro-transgender indoctrination.

Parents are encouraged to combine prayer with action in their own communities, requesting school boards to drop these high-risk messages, urging state lawmakers to prohibit reckless school lessons and events, and even participating in peaceful demonstrations.

“We must be on our knees and appeal to the Lord, in the name of Jesus, to change the minds of school boards, administrators, and teachers to end manipulative, often pornographic messages that are poisoning the school climate,” said Harvey. “It’s time to embrace wholesome, uplifting themes of courage and morality instead, and we know that God is fully able to change even the most hardened hearts.”

Mission America is joined by other organizations in supporting the Prayer /Action for October Project, including:

American Association of Evangelicals

American Family Association

American Family Association of Pennsylvania

Awake America—Ohio

Center for Morality/Americans for Truth

Constitution Party National Committee

Amy Contrada, Author/Activist

Don’t Mess With Our Kids (DMWOK)

Don’t Mess With Our Kids—Ohio Chapter

EarstoHear.net

Her Moment Women’s Ministry

Mary S McLellan, MS, SRAS, Sexual Risk Avoidance Specialist

Moms for America, Butler County (OH)

Natural Family Strong

Ohio Christian Alliance

Olive Tree Ministries

Ohio Political News

Ohio Value Voters

Parents on the Level

Protect Ohio Children Coalition

Salem Media- Columbus

Richland Community Prayer Network

The What’s UP Radio Program, Terry Lowry

Here’s a suggested prayer:

“Heavenly Father, we ask You to go before us, to go before our precious children as they attend school in October, and remove these messages of corruption by peaceful and civil means. We know that You care tenderly for each of these young people. Please protect their minds, hearts and spirits from the delusion of accepting homosexuality as normal and safe; of believing that any human should attempt to change Your creation of them as male or female; and of believing that Your Word is deficient. We ask that You would change the minds and hearts of the adults in charge who are attempting to influence children toward depravity and darkness. Create in those in authority respect for the rights of parents and for the freedom of conscience of all families to be able to object to homosexual and transgendered behavior without hateful labels. Open the eyes of teachers and administrators. Bring them to repentance and end this month-long attempt to revise human history, and revive a recognition of the truth instead. In the name of Jesus our Savior we pray, Amen.”

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The Tragic Apostasy of Chip and Joanna Gaines

July 31st, 2025

By Laurie Higgins, July 15, 2025; this article first appeared in Breakthrough Ideas

By now, most conservatives have heard about Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new streaming series on their Magnolia Network titled Back to the Frontier. It imitates the PBS reality series Frontier House in structure and title, choosing three families to live for a period of time without modern conveniences. While the PBS series had families live as frontierspeople for five months, the Gaines’ carefully selected families will suffer for only eight weeks. The other major difference is the Gaineses decided that one third of the families needed to be headed by homosexuals. In fact, according to the homosexual men chosen, Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs, flyers for series applicants featured homosexuals.

In an interview with Queerty, the website whose motto is “Free of an Agenda (except that gay one),” these homosexual men made clear their motivation for applying to be on the series. Hanna said,

When I first saw the flyer on social media, there was a gay couple on the flyer, and so that initially sparked my interest. … When our boys were born—our twin boys were born via surrogacy in 2014—we faced some legal challenges, and so we’ve always felt it to be important that we try to be an example for same-sex couples. … And so it was this amazing opportunity to [continue to] normalize same-sex couples and same-sex families.

Hanna’s “spouse” Joe Riggs echoed those unhealthy, unholy sentiments: “[O]f course I was on board with the whole concept of continuing to normalize same-sex families.”

The self-identifying Christians Chip and Joanna Gaines, whose net worth is estimated to be $50 million, promoted the pernicious cultural goals of two men who embrace sodomy as identity, used surrogacy to create motherless children (while likely destroying unwanted embryos), and objectified women by purchasing their eggs and renting their wombs. The Gaineses sold their faith for a mess of potage and a pile of filthy lucre.

Billy Graham’s son Franklin posted a tepid criticism of the Gaineses’ “Gay Little House on the Prairie,” but even that was too much for the prickly man-boy Chip.

Grahams posted,

I hope this isn’t true, but I read today that Chip and Joanna Gaines are featuring a gay couple in their new series. If It is true, it is very disappointing. While we are to love people, we should love them enough to tell them the truth of God’s Word. His Word is absolute truth. God loves us, and His design for marriage is between one man and one woman. Promoting something that God defines as sin is in itself sin.

In response, Chip Gaines responded,

Talk, ask qustns, listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never

It’s a sad sunday when “non believers” have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian

It’s a sad day when self-identifying Christ-followers castigate their brothers and sisters in Christ for holding fast to truth.

It’s a sad day when self-identifying Christians accuse their fellow Christians of being hateful and vitriolic for condemning actions of celebrities who use their influence to normalize sexual perversion and family structures that God abhors.

It’s a sad day when Christians who could use their celebrity to call their fans to repentance or could at least refuse to participate in any way with egregious sin, instead acquiesce to modern God-hating secular culture.

It was a sad day when Chip Gaines lumped all criticism of his and his wife’s actions together as hateful and vitriolic.

It’s tragic that Chip and Joanna Gaines chose to promote that which Scripture says will cost Hanna and Riggs eternal life:

“Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral … nor men who practice homosexuality … will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6: 9-10).

It’s a sad day when Christians with influential platforms refuse to live in accordance with Scripture that says,

“Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them” (Ephesians 5:11).

“It would be better for that person if a millstone would be hung around his neck and he would be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin” (Luke 17:2).

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2).

“But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’” (Mark 10:6-8).

“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).

One would hope all Christians understand that marriage has an ontology—that is, marriage has an immutable, objective nature—that modern American lawmaking cannot change. Central to marriage is sexual complementarity, without which a relationship cannot in reality be a marriage. In other words, marriage is something. The law can no more change an intrinsically non-marital relationship into a marriage than it can change a man into a woman.

Maybe on their next soulless money-making venture, the Gaineses will feature a polycule.

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36)

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Mahmoud v. Taylor Is Latest Salvo in Cultural Pushback Against Radical LGBTQ+ Agenda

June 30th, 2025

By Peter LaBarbera; first published on X June 30, 2025

On Fox News Friday, Jonathan Turley called SCOTUS’ decision on Mahmoud v. Taylor–letting parents opt *their own kids* out of public school lessons with propagandistic LGBTQ+ books–“an extraordinary victory for parental rights” [see books below]. The Sexual Left is fanatically pro-homosexuality, and thus at war with Judeo-Christian (biblical) morality (see Romans 1, Jude 7, Leviticus 20:13).

For decades, LGBTQ militants have been in the vanguard of stealing children’s innocence and corrupting their souls by injecting pro-homosexuality and pro-“transgender” ideas into their forming, impressionable minds. It began 35 years ago with a revolutionary so-called “children’s” book, “Daddy’s Roommate,” which indoctrinates innocent toddlers into accepting proud homosexuality as normal and good. Its grossly simplistic and manipulative message–to kiddos who have no idea what sex is, much less sexual deviancy: “Being gay is just one more kind of love.”

As Gay Power grew, so did the push to indoctrinate students into embracing sexual immorality as “who they are” (often using the now-discredited “born that way” myth to “jam” and silence moral critics). After pushing SCOTUS in 2015 to destroy the age-old legal definition of marriage as one-man/one-woman, the LGBTQ+ lobby moved on aggressively to their next Deviant Frontier: imprinting “trans” lunacy on the minds of the very young boys and girls, to the point of insisting that a child’s biological sex is not determinative but is merely their “gender” “assigned at birth.” (This directly conflicts with God’s Word, the Bible: in Mark 10:6, Jesus Christ echoes Genesis 1:27 in declaring: “But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.”)

In schools, leftist educational “change agents” have long held that captive students–your kids and grandkids –are *their* children to mold and manipulate, effectively making parents the enemy. The same LGBTQ movement that groomed children into embracing “gay” as some kind of inherent (innate) “sexual orientation” now grooms them into embracing “trans,” “non-binary,” “genderqueer,” and other “gender identities” as “who they are.” Deviance begets deviance; the movement that “normalized” homosexual sodomy and idolizes “diversity & inclusion” has zero standing to judge other perversions, recast as oppressed “sexual and gender minorities.”

The pro-LGBTQ “change agents” sell their warped ideology as “science” and *fact* to gullible media and intimidated parents, while brainwashed “experts,” including teachers, school counselors and doctors, push confused kids into medically “blocking” their puberty–and even horrific “gender transition” “surgeries” (read: mutilations). Thankfully, this abuse of minors can now be banned, per SCOTUS in Skrmetti v. U.S. Yet schools across the USA still have official policies helping transgender-identified students hide their “gender transition” from their own parents! Unthinkably nefarious, but true.

The great news is that everyday Americans, led by brave parents, are waking up and fighting back. Fear of Big LGBTQ+ is dissipating, as corporate media credibility plummets. The tide continues to turn against radical “queer” activists and their “woke” allies– who callously sexualize and radicalize children using a host of self-serving euphemisms: “inclusion,” “sexual orientation,” “love is love,” “equality,” be your “authentic self” (read: the opposite sex), calling opponents “haters” & “phobes,” etc. The Democrats and their LGBTQ-activist base overreached, and now they are paying the price. We must continue to ignore the Sexual Left’s lies, hysteria and rank anti-Christian bigotry and roll back the Gay/Trans (aka “Queer”) Revolution–to protect children and secure our God-given liberties.

P.S. As I exposed 32 years ago, Alyson Wonderland, an imprint of Alyson Publications, the same “gay” publishing house that put out “Daddy’s Roommate,” also published pro-pedophile books. More on that later….[to be continued]

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VCY America Interviews LaBarbera on Americans’ ‘Pushback’ Against Radical LGBTQ Agendas

June 11th, 2025

Play audio here:

Center For Morality/AmericansForTruth.com president Peter LaBarbera was a guest Monday, June 9 on VCY America’s “Crosstalk” program with host Jim Schneider. You can listen to the interview above, or on Crosstalk’s website, or on Sermon Audio’s site. Here is Crosstalk’s summary of the program.

Peter LaBarbera is the founder and president of Center for Morality and Americans for Truth.  He’s a former reporter for the Washington Times, LifeSiteNews.com, WND.com and a former contributing editor for Human Events.

Interestingly, some are turning away from the moniker of June as “Pride Month” and instead, some are pushing “Fidelity Month,” “Life Month,” as well as “Family Month.”  Peter believes this is happening because the homosexual activist movement won numerous victories, including imposing so-called, same-sex marriage on America.  Then they went “full-bore” on the trans issue.  This invited considerable push-back, including from the feminists who didn’t want men invading female spaces such as sports.  Then there was the gender reassignment surgeries for children.  The result is that they’ve reached so far that they’ve hit a breaking point as all of this is turning a lot of people off. 

Nonetheless, the homosexual activist movement continues to make headlines in various ways.  For example: A Navy ship named after a gay rights icon is to be renamed.  A girls high school softball team wins a championship via the arm of a male born pitcher.  The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) doubles down on their pro LGBTQ stance.  Get the details on these news items and more including what’s up with Target stores, Sesame Street and dangerous libraries.

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The GOP Chooses the ‘Gay’ Agenda to its Peril: Linda Harvey

June 7th, 2025

By Linda Harvey; this article was originally published 6/2/25 on MissionAmerica.com.

Despite the policy triumphs showered on America by Donald Trump, there remains a blind spot in his administration. And in the view of many of his supporters, it’s a big one.

I remain a cheerleader of so much of what the Trump people are accomplishing as they try to restore order and sanity to our nation. So it’s agonizing to witness a grotesquely disordered policy gain muscle on his watch.

The GOP under Trump’s influence is embracing open homosexuality and same sex “marriage” and expecting that his base will not notice. Guess what? Plenty of us are noticing, especially when it comes down to this: faithful Christians who support authentic marriage are being fired by open homosexuals appointed by Trump.

Ric Grenell, named by Trump to lead the Kennedy Center, apparently just fired the Center’s vice president Floyd Brown over past comments Brown made supporting traditional marriage. Grenell is openly “gay” with a male “husband.” Brown, who is pro-Trump, refused when asked to recant past comments of support for biblical sexual morality and traditional marriage, revealed in a CNN post. So he was shown the door.

At the very least, where’s the religious liberty Trump promises? And would it be too much trouble for Republicans to ditch the love fest with allegedly “conservative gays”? It was not hard to predict that eventually there would be a showdown of values.

And here it is. The Ric Grenells, Scott Bessents, Tammy Bruces are ultimately going to choose their aberrant desires over religious liberty for traditional Christians. Homosexuals are too committed to the road they have chosen, which is living a life that gives a big middle finger to God’s design for healthy sexual function and marriage.

But until they are overcomers, these are public figures who can mislead a lot of people as they stab faithful Christians in the back.

And as such, these folks are a danger to conscience freedoms and school policy initiatives rooting out pro-“LGBTQ” lessons and programs. They can stand up against gender distortion all they want—and that’s a good thing. But they and their GOP allies seem to draw a hard line at fighting the companion perversion of sodomy.

It’s highly likely the “gay-cons” look wistfully at today’s school climate where homosexuality is often openly affirmed. “If only…” they muse about their own adolescent years.

Media homosexuals like Dave Rubin and Guy Benson are similarly double-minded. Benson sent numerous scathing looks my way when I was interviewed in studio by evangelical Christian radio host Sandy Rios years ago, when he was her producer. I couldn’t figure out why this person I had never met was so rude until many years later when he announced his open homosexual identity.

My hope for all these people is that they grow up emotionally and spiritually,  realize they were not “born this way” and embrace the bodies God gave them (and their best functions) as they reconcile with their Creator.

Grenell and Benson profess to be Christians, but I am very skeptical that anyone so openly committed to sin and so ready to ditch the clear instructions of Scripture is a true believer. For a refresher on what Scripture says, go HERE.

In another jaw-dropper, the GOP in Virginia is standing behind its lieutenant governor candidate, John Reid, a homosexual who also professes Christian faith. Trump expressed his support for Reid in 2024 at a rally in Virginia and even posed for a photo [see above] standing between Reid and his male lover, who regularly campaigns with him.

But would a true believer tuck dollar bills into the clothing of a drag queen performer, and smile for the camera, as Reid was pictured doing on an Internet site? Or allow himself to be photographed with a whole group of female impersonators? Reid, a former Richmond radio talk show host, has a much younger male lover to whom he is “engaged.”

His candidacy could spell doom for the GOP ticket in a state where Democrats are proposing a state constitutional amendment enshrining same sex “marriage” and Reid’s own position seems squishy at best.

Some are predicting a solid GOP loss. Here’s what Virginia Christian Action reported:

“A 2021 study by political scientists Gabriele Magni and Andrew Reynolds found that Republican candidates perceived as LGBTQ+ suffer an electoral penalty of up to 14.8 percentage points among GOP voters and over 17% among conservatives overall. This so-called ‘identity penalty’ could drag not just Reid down, but any Republican linked to him by proximity on the ballot.”

And a 2025 Gallup poll tells the promising truth, that support for same sex “marriage” among Republicans has dropped 14 points in the last three years.

Even Melania, a practicing Catholic, has expressed support for those who claim a “gay” identity, and has held fundraisers for the ‘gay’ Log Cabin Republicans, one at Mar-a-Lago. Log Cabin members regularly and proudly join debauched “pride” celebrations.

To be fair,  this coziness by the GOP leadership with open homosexuals predates Trump. CPAC extended an invitation to the Log Cabin Republicans to exhibit in 2018, while denying an exhibit to pro-family Mass Resistance.

Let’s not forget former U.S. Senator Rob Portman from my state of Ohio, and his backing of same sex “marriage.”  

Here’s what I wrote in 2021 about broadening Republican support for homosexuality:

“Mitt Romney. Marco Rubio, whose campaign was heavily backed by pro-homosexual billionaire Paul Singer and who famously said he believes homosexuality is not a choice. Lisa Murkowski. Susan Collins. The congressional representatives who voted for the ‘Equality Act’– John Katko and Tom Reed of New York, and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.

“Ric Grenell. CPAC. American Opportunity Alliance. Catalyst PAC. American Unity PAC. Big Tent Republicans. Log Cabin Republicans. The once-conservative Chamber of Commerce, now fully transitioned into a shill for the homosexual/ transgender agenda….

“In Ohio, we have our own troubling history on this. Former Republican Governor John Kasich surrounded himself with homosexual advisors and evolved into an open ‘LGBTQ’ advocate. Current Governor Mike DeWine has a checkered record that includes sporadic support for homosexual demands. Our current Secretary of State, Republican Frank LaRose, is a backer of Ohio’s version of the ‘Equality Act.’ Open homosexuals have served in key Ohio GOP party positions.”

And in 2022, four Republican Ohio congressmen—Mike Carey, Anthony Gonzalez, Dave Joyce and Mike Turner—supported the pro-homosexual “Respect for Marriage” Act.

Friends, this needs to change, because we see where it leads. We look like the hypocritical fools we are when party leaders wail about the 13- year- old boy secretly counseled to become “trans,” but apparently have no problem with a 13- year-old boy being instructed in “safe” anal sex for his “dates” with another male, as “LGBTQ- inclusive” comprehensive sex ed encourages.

It’s all perversion—we all know it — and stop pretending otherwise, even if there are seemingly well-spoken people in the “gay” camp. Until God gets a grip on their hearts, their venom and claws will emerge if they have authority over faithful Christians.

America is doomed if the most otherwise sane among us join hands with this movement. God is not mocked.

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Cliff Kincaid Interviews Peter LaBarbera on Ric Grenell’s Firing of Floyd Brown

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Cliff Kincaid Interviews Peter LaBarbera on Ric Grenell’s Firing of Floyd Brown

June 4th, 2025

Published June 4, 2025

Dear Readers,

Below is an interview with my good friend Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival, who has done tremendous work over many years exposing Communists and other destructive leftist forces in America. We discuss openly homosexual Trump advisor Ric Grenell’s firing of longtime conservative activist Floyd Brown as a Trump appointee charged with cleaning up the “woke” Kennedy Center–because CNN dug up an old tape of Floyd criticizing homosexual activist GOP staff on Capitol Hill undermining the Party’s pro-family platform. So, ironically, the conservative Christian, Brown, was “canceled” by the gay guy ostensibly on his own MAGA team! (Sounds pretty “woke” to me; does President Trump approve?)

Incidentally, Grenell, sounding a lot like leftist “gay” theological revisionists, claims he was born gay and therefore was created that way by God. “So the fact of the matter is I fully embrace that I was made this way in the image of God and you can be gay and be a Christian. And there’s no problem with it,” Grenell told another “Homo Con,” Dave Rubin, in 2020.

We also discuss the candidacy of open homosexual Republican John Reid for Lt. Gov in Virginia, its implications for the GOP, as well as the leak of an uber-twisted perversion tape involving leftist journalist (and free speech advocate) Glenn Greenwald. The latter is a pro-homosexuality activist, a “gay parent,” a devotee of sadomasochism, and a favorite of conservatives (for defending Trump).

All of these stories are receiving little or NO coverage in the leading “conservative” media. That’s a problem. — Peter LaBarbera, Center For Morality; AmericansForTruth.news; X: @PeterLaBarbera

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Homosexual Republican Candidate John Reid in Virginia Pushes GOP Further Away from Social Conservatives

June 3rd, 2025

Trump embraces proudly ‘gay’ Lt. Gov. candidate and his male partner on the trail

Note: A version of this article first appeared in LifeSiteNews, published May 6,2025

By Peter LaBarbera, Center For Morality; AmericansForTruth.news

Has the Republican Party after a decade of Trump dominance and years of “homosexual conservative” advocacy been “flipped” to become a “gay-friendly” party? A party that no longer stands for preserving marriage as between a man and a woman?

It apears so, if the candidacy of John Reid, an out-and-proud homosexual and MAGA Republican running for lieutenant governor in Virginia (alongside his much younger boyfriend)—and its apparent widespread acceptance among the state’s Republicans—are any indication.

But the secular transformation of the GOP on this once-taboo issue will likely come at the expense of alienating and losing the votes of religious conservatives (socialcons) who for decades have been the backbone of the party. The few Virginia Christians who have spoken out publicly against Reid’s candidacy have been maligned—by fellow Republicans—as hateful, judgmental bigots, similar to how pro-LGBT leftists have savaged the “religious Right” ever since out-and-proud homosexuality was pushed into the mainstream of American politics more than half a century ago.

Reid, a pro-Trump former Richmond radio talk show host who favors repealing Virginia’s constitutional amendment banning “gay marriage” and hopes to “marry” his male partner of eight years, Alonzo Mable, became the VA-GOP’s candidate for lieutenant governor as the last man standing in the GOP primary, after a more prominent GOP candidate, Fairfax County Supervisor Pat Herrity, dropped out of the race due to illness.

Reid clearly is benefiting from Trump’s 2016 capitulation on “gay marriage” and his full, public embrace of homosexual couples, an entirely new twist in GOP cultural politics. It wasn’t too long ago, in 1995, when pro-family conservatives held enough sway in the Republican Party to pressure GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole to return a paltry $1,000 donation from the (homosexual) Log Cabin Republicans.

Flip ahead almost three decades and a video at the top of Reid’s campaign website shows Trump calling out his support of not just Reid, but also his male partner Mable, during a Trump MAGA rally in Richmond, Virginia in March 2024. Trump says, “And radio host John Reid and Alonzo. [Pointing to them in the cheering crowd:] They like you guys, wow!…”

Afterward, a beaming Trump posed for an official photo in between Reid and Mable (shown above), who is two decades younger than his aspiring politician boyfriend.

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Key Trump aide, Ric Grenell, says ‘anti-gay’ Republicans now so unpopular they should be ‘run out’ of the GOP

June 1st, 2025

By Peter LaBarbera, June 1, 2025

Dear Reader: As Center For Morality/AmericansForTruth.news resumes publishing after a long hiatus, we visit a little-noticed Rumble interview between Don Trump, Jr. and Ric Grenell, a longtime Trump loyalist who has become one of the most influential open homosexuals in President Trump’s political and governing sphere. This interview was posted more than a year ago, on May 2, 2024, but it is highly relevant to a new controversy involving Grenell: the firing last week of longtime conservative Christian activist Floyd Brown from a Trump-appointed position designed to reform the “woke” Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C. In a May 29 X post, Brown claims that Grenell fired him as VP of the Kennedy Center for not renouncing his past strong opposition to homosexual “marriage,” and for criticizing “gay Republicans” for undermining the GOP’s socially conservative Platform. (We will have more on the Floyd Brown firing, which has outraged many Christian Trump supporters, in future posts).–Peter LaBarbera, publisher; on X @PeterLaBarbera

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A key Trump aide, former Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell, says Republicans’ opposition to homosexuality has softened so much in recent years that “there’s no debate about [gay] “equality” in the GOP and being “anti-gay” could lead to people being “run out” of the party.

“I’ve watched how [conservatives have] changed on gay issues. … at this point, there’s no debate about [gay] equality,” the openly gay Grenell told former President Donald Trump’s son, Don Trump, Jr., in a May 2, 2024 interview on the latter’s show, “Triggered. ” “And now I really believe that you can’t be anti-gay in the Republican Party and not be run out of the party.”

“It’s really important for people to understand … that the [pro-gay] growth in the Republican Party has been enormous. Donald Trump has blown the doors off this process to really welcome gay conservatives in,” Grenell said excitedly, before tearing into the “gay Left.”

Grenell was appointed by then-President Trump (45) as U.S. Ambassador to Germany, before rising to Acting Director of National Intelligence, a cabinet-level position, in 2020. He is widely popular in MAGA world for his Trump loyalty and his strong defense of Trump’s “America First” foreign policy. In the current administration, Trump appointed Grenell as Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions of the United States. 

Grenell’s cocksure assertion about the unpopularity of Republicans who oppose homosexuality—in line with pro-homosexual-“marriage” and pro-“gay parenting” statements by other leading homosexual conservatives (also called “HomoCons” or “GayCons”) like Dave Rubin—signals a growing confidence, bordering on arrogance, among this tiny portion of the Republican “big tent.”

With a shared self-interest in rationalizing their disordered sexual lifestyle, the GayCons have skillfully exploited Trump’s social liberalism and apathy toward GOP “culture war” politics. Trump’s nonchalance toward homosexuality goes way back; in fact, he was “introduced to conservatives at the annual CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) conference in D.C. in 2011 by activists with GOProud, a splinter group for homosexual Republicans that is now defunct.

Most Republicans probably are unaware that Trump as a New York City businessman once strongly advocated for “gay rights,” as he did most emphatically in a 2000 interview with the homosexual magazine The Advocate, in which he proposed making homosexuality part of U.S. civil rights law.

“I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward. We don’t need to rewrite the laws currently on the books,” Trump told the Advocate, responding to the question: “What would you do to combat antigay prejudice?”

“But amending the Civil Rights Act would grant the same protection to gay people that we give to other Americans—it’s only fair,” he said. “I actually suggested this first, and now I see [then-Democrat presidential candidate Senator] Bill Bradley has jumped on the bandwagon and is claiming the idea as his own.”

Twenty-five years later, with their legion of conservative media followers and allies, the GayCons make up a powerful force that could propel the Trump-dominated GOP to permanently abandon its longstanding Platform defending traditional marriage and opposing legal “rights” based on sex-and-gender aberrance.

If Grenell, other prominent homosexual conservatives and their libertarian allies succeed, they would effectively chop off one leg of Ronald Reagan’s cherished “three-legged stool” formula for electoral success in the Republican Party: 1) fiscally conservative tax-and-spending policies; 2) strong national defense and “peace through strength” foreign policy; and 3) traditional, pro-family and pro-life policies.

Surely, changing social attitudes, especially among Millennials and younger voters, are also driving the change in Republican approaches toward “gay” issues. But principled social conservatives and pro-lifers, mostly the biblically faithful evangelicals, traditional Catholics and religious voters who have long been considered the GOP’s voting base, find themselves increasingly alienated and ostracized by the gay-allied power-brokers in the GOP and conservative media.

Will the GOP go officially ‘gay’?

As a clearer picture emerges of Team Trump’s (including First Lady Melania’s) pro-homosexual-rights bent, and how unencumbered the President is by potential resistance from “the evangelicals,” as he calls them, it is time for principled social conservatives to come to grips with the real possibility that a President Trump 2.0 could transform the GOP into an officially pro-same-sex-“marriage” party.

A similar sea-change in core values occurred in the U.K.’s Conservative Party more than a dozen years ago under then-Prime Minister David Cameron, who bucked Tory social conservatives by advocating for legalizing “gay marriage” in the U.K., becoming an unlikely crusader for homosexual “rights.” The first legal homosexual “marriages” occurred in England in 2014.

In this scenario, a “modernized” GOP could officially sanction “gay marriage” (and gay adoption, etc.)—and even help deliver another public policy prize long coveted by LGBTQ+ activists (the “Equality Act”): making homosexuality, transsexuality and other “queer” lifestyles and identities the basis for federal “civil right” law, just like race.

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EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris LGBTQ ‘Pride’ Video Features Cropped Photo from Pro-NAMBLA Event

November 4th, 2024

Original “WE MARCH WITH NAMBLA” slogan from same pro-“Man/Boy Love” press conference cut out of Harris video

By Peter LaBarbera, Nov.4, 2024

AmericansForTruth.news/Center For Morality exclusive

A 2022 “LGBTQ rights” video on Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ YouTube channel features a photo from a 1994 pro-NAMBLA press conference in which leftist “gay liberation” activists proclaimed the message: “We March with NAMBLA.”

NAMBLA is the acronym for the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a much-despised group that advocates for sex between men and underage boys. In the early days of “gay liberation,” some prominent homosexual activists fought, ultimately without success, to include NAMBLA in the emerging “gay” coalition. The “Spirit of Stonewall” press event was called to condemn New York City’s homosexual “gay pride” parade organizers for banning the notorious pederasty group from their parade on the 25th anniversary of the “birth” of the modern, out-and-proud “gay liberation” movement.

NAMBLA’s website, in 2010, described “man/boy love” — its euphemism for (predatory) sexual “relationships” between men and boys — as follows: “It’s the love of a man for a boy, and of a boy for a man. Enjoyable, consensual, beautiful.” NAMBLA was allowed to march in early American “gay pride” parades before it was expelled.

The 1994 documentary “Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys” exposed NAMBLA by showing “the pedophiles discuss sexual relationships between men and boys below the age of consent,” according to a description on Vimeo of the film, which “has been screened for the FBI, university criminology departments and other law enforcement agencies.”

Kamala Harris, a longtime, ardent advocate of LGBTQ agendas, routinely touts her experience as a prosecutor prosecuting sex traffickers.

The photo included in the Kamala Harris video (see video at bottom starting at the 1:04 mark) shows pro-NAMBLA advocate Harry Hay and other gay activists speaking in front of a “Spirit of Stonewall (SOS)” banner. Two “Spirit of Stonewall” placards are shown in the photo, but the full images of the signs are not visible. What’s missing are the words, all capitalized: “WE MARCH WITH NAMBLA,” at the bottom of the signs. This is proved by an archived photo of the same “SOS” press event found in the San Francisco Public Library.

The SFPL photo, titled, “Spirit of Stonewall (S.O.S.) Press Conference at Stonewall Inn,” shows five “SOS” placards at the same event with the identical message, “WE MARCH WITH NAMBLA,” at the bottom. The digitally-archived photo documents the same event as the photo in the Kamala Harris “Pride Month” video, as evidenced by the identical clothing of the participants and other elements shared by both photos.

Left-wing “gay liberationists” including homosexual-rights icon Harry Hay held their own “Spirit of Stonewall” counter-rally and press conference to defend NAMBLA against what they perceived as the increasing assimilationist tendencies of gay activist leaders. In New York City and other major American cities, and across the Western world, gay/LGBTQ “pride” parades are held in June to commemorate the anti-police riots at a Mafia-run Greenwich Village homosexual bar called the Stonewall Inn, beginning in late June of 1969. LGBTQ historians have cast the anti-cop riots as a heroic “rebellion” and heralded them as launching the modern “gay liberation” movement.

Below is a larger copy of the San Francisco Public Library image of the “Spirit of Stonewall” press conference with its defiant “WE MARCH WITH NAMBLA” slogan:

Ironically, in the section of the Kamala Harris video showing the gay activists speaking at their pro-NAMBLA event, the Vice-President is heard saying a line from her speech to a major LGBTQ lobby group: “We are a nation that was founded on noble ideals.”

Below is a transcript of Kamala Harris’ narration of the portion of the video containing the “Spirit of Stonewall” photo:

:56 The fight for LGBTQ rights is a fight for civil rights.

And until all of us are equal, none of us are equal, and none of us will receive justice.

1:04 We are a nation that was founded on noble ideals. We’ve not yet met those ideals. We’ve not yet reached them.

1:11: But the strength of who we are is we will fight to get there, based on knowing that when we are in a fight born out of optimism, we win.

Harry Hay’s pro-NAMBLA advocacy

NAMBLA proudly documents the pro-“man/boy love” advocacy of “gay rights” icon Harry Hay, who died in 2002. Hay was the first American to envision homosexuals collectively as a “minority” deserving “rights.” He founded the Mattachine Society, the first successful “national” homosexual activist group, in 1950, when homosexuality was taboo. 

The left-leaning, pro-LGBTQ Wikipedia, in a lengthy entry on Hay, quotes Hay biographer Stuart Timmons, who describes Hay as the “Founder of the Modern Gay Movement,” and another source, the Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, describing him as the “father of gay liberation.” 

On its website, NAMBLA gives the following as a transcription from a videotape of Hay’s remarks at the 1994 “Spirit of Stonewall” (SOS) press conference. Note how Hay, a former Communist Party USA member, recasts “child molestation” away from homosexual man-on-boy predation to the “outrageous coercion of gay kids into hetero identities and behaviors against their wills.” This is the same self-serving rhetorical tactic that would later be used by San Francisco “gay” activist Harvey Milk, who himself was victimized as a 14-year-old boy by homosexual predators, and who would go on to enter into a live-in homosexual “marriage” with a teenage boy when he was in his thirties. Hay said at the “SOS” event:

Sir Julian Huxley, the great English biologist, said, at the beginning of this century, no negative trait—and, as you know, a negative trait is one that does not reproduce itself—no negative trait ever appears, and reappears, millennia after millennia after millennia, unless it in some way serves the survival of that species. We gays and lesbians may embody, or have discovered, some things that you folks desperately need to know about.

I’m here today as a survivor, as well as the founder of the first ongoing gay organization in the United States, the Mattachine Society, first formed in 1950 in Los Angeles, and now, naturally, a member of SOS, the Spirit of Stonewall, because things we discovered about ourselves and principles we developed in 1950 to ‘53 are now being trashed by queers who don’t know their own history, all over the place.

We decided from the beginning that, first, because we were still discovering our parameters, we wouldn’t censure each other. If people like NAMBLA self-identify themselves to me as gays and lesbians, I accept them as brothers and sisters with love.

Second, when we decided to rejoin the social or political mainstream again, we would integrate as the group we saw ourselves to be, complete with our own set of values, or we would not integrate at all.

And third, we would no longer permit any heteros—nationally or internationally, individually or collectively—to tell us who we are, what persons our groups should or should not consist of. We assert our right to self-determination, we assert our right to collective self-definition. We queers will decide for ourselves who our members should be.

Members of SOS, notably NAMBLA, have been accused of child molestation. Insofar as child molestation is concerned, the most common form is the sexual coercion by which gay and lesbian children are bedeviled into hetero identities and behaviors. And this is practiced daily by the whole national and international hetero community—parents, family, teachers, preachers, doctors, lawyers, and Indian chiefs, not to overlook U.S. senators and pooh-bah media.

This outrageous coercion of gay kids into hetero identities and behaviors against their wills is not only sexually abusive, it is spiritually devastating rape, because the child unbeknowingly is being led into developing self-loathing at the same time. For this gigantic criminal trespass against not only today’s children but against all of us also—all of us—since childhood, from the queers my age of 82 down through all the generations of queers assembled here in New York, to the gay kids still being bedeviled by sexual coercion against their wills, we the international gay and lesbian people here this week should unite to sue the whole guilty heterosexual community lock, stock, and barrel to within an inch of their lives, and for every nickel they’ve got, as a beginning of compensation. And while we’re at it, we should request our first-class citizenship as well. This could be the class-action suit of the century.

Go to the 1:04 mark to view the cropped photo of the “WE MARCH WITH NAMBLA” “Spirit of Stonewall” (SOS) 1994 press event used in this 2022 Kamala Harris YouTube video:

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AUDIO: LaBarbera Explains to ‘Crosstalk’ Radio Why Most ‘Queer’ Activists Cannot Say NO to LGBTQ+ Perversions

April 15th, 2024

‘Polyamory’ — multiple-partner ‘non-monogamous relationships’ — latest sexual deviancy to receive media promotion

Note to AmericansForTruth.news Readers:

The Christian radio network Milwaukee-based VCY America and especially its daily “Crosstalk” program, hosted by Jim Schneider, has been one of the most faithful ministries in the USA exposing radical “Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer-Plus” (LGBTQ+) agendas. It has been my privilege to have appeared on Crosstalk many times in the last couple of decades to disseminate truth, first with VCY founder Vic Eliason and then Jim. In my most recent appearance, January 31, 2024, Jim and and I discussed the further explosion of perversion under the Homosexual-Bisexual-Transgender (aka “Queer”) umbrella. — Peter LaBarbera, AmericansForTruth.news; X (formerly Twitter): @PeterLaBarbera

You can listen to the program on SermonAudio HERE or by clicking on the play button below:

The following is Crosstalk’s description of the program:

Increasingly, the push for full acceptance and promotion of the LGBTQ+ agenda is advancing.  In fact, According to one poll, 28% of Gen-Z adults are identifying as LGBTQ.  

The result?  Women’s sports are being decimated and dominated by men who are identifying as women.  Leading up to the Super Bowl, the NFL is committed to bowing to the diversity, equity and inclusion movement as it will be hosting the third annual, “A Night of Pride” with GLAAD during Super Bowl Week.  Politically, additional LGBTQ+ appointments to the federal bench are being made by the Biden administration, while polyamory is on the increase.

Are we fast approaching the days of Lot?  That’s a question to ponder as Crosstalk welcomed Peter LaBarbera back to Crosstalk.  Peter is the founder and president of Americans for Truth.  He’s a former reporter for the Washington Times and LifeSiteNews.com and a former contributing editor for Human Events.

The Public Religion Research Institute is the organization making the claim that 28% of Gen-Z adults (ages 18-25) are identifying as LGBTQ.  Peter doesn’t completely believe that figure because he contends that the PRRI is a liberal polling group and that it’s in their interest to promote progressive ideas in religion and Christianity.  Nonetheless, he found out from Gallop in early 2022 that based upon polling from the previous year, 20.8% of Gen-Z’ers were identifying as LGBT.  

Peter believes this crisis is the result of the “mainstreaming” of perversion toward young people and that this activity expands the list of perversions.  This broadcast demonstrates what recent history has shown us in this regard and that since homosexuality was normalized, in the name of diversity, you can’t say “no” to other perverse lifestyles such as transgenderism or polyamory.  

Peter’s concern is that the only way out of this cascading deviance is revival because we’re at the stage where young people simply see homosexuality as normal. In fact, they almost see it as “square.”  Instead the cutting edge thing is to be non-binary or gender fluid.  

From the LGBTQ perspective, mainstreaming through indoctrination is working and it’s hitting America like a flood because like an open dam, the boundaries have been removed.  The flood is hitting everyone, especially young people, and they’re being offered numerous identity options, all based upon subjective feelings, that go beyond the letters, LGBTQ.  

Get the latest news on this advancement, and what it means for you, when you review this vital edition of Crosstalk.

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LaBarbera Joins WND as Editor, Reporter

February 28th, 2023

Peter LaBarbera, founder of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), has joined WND.com (formerly WorldNetDaily.com) as an editor and reporter. You can find links to all of LaBarbera’s articles at his WND author’s page: https://www.wnd.com/author/plabarbera/. (Also, LaBarbera’s Twitter page is found HERE.)

The following WND articles by LaBarbera deal with LGBTQ+ issues (we will periodically update this page to make it easier to access the articles):

• Family of ‘non-binary’ ex-Biden official Sam Brinton: Torture ‘never happened’ (2/22/23): [click here]
• Virginia Dems unite against bill requiring schools to inform parents about ‘transgender’ kids (2/9/23): [click here]
• Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt pledges ban on mutilations for kids (2/7/23): [click here]
• Trump on kids’ transgender surgeries: ‘Under my leadership this madness will end’ (2/2/23): [click here]
• Day-care training video uses ‘non-binary’ doll to pervert minds of 4-year-old kids (1/25/23): [click here]
• United States leads world in allowing puberty blockers and extreme ‘gender transitions’ for children: report (1/16/23): [click here]
• Harvard Medical School course says infants can be ‘queer,’ ‘asexual’ (1/11/23): [click here]
• ‘I hate wearing a strap-on’: Principal defends profane ‘sex advice’ book, ‘This Book Is Gay’ (1/10/23): [click here]
• Taxpayers subsidize ‘LGBTQ Museum,’ forced to spend millions on gay, trans projects via $1.7 trillion omnibus bill (1/3/23) [click here]
• Ending her anonymity, Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik slams trans grooming of kids (12/29/22): [click here]
• Biden appointee Dr. Rachel Levine says ‘gender-affirming care’ — mutiliating trans ‘surgeries,’ ‘puberty blockers’ — ‘not in scientific dispute’ (1/28/23): [click here]

WND was founded by former Sacramento Union editor Joseph Farah and his wife, Elizabeth Farah, in 1997. Then-WorldNetDaily.com was the first major conservative online news publication. In recent years, it was devastated by Big Tech censorship and punitive actions, such as being de-monetized by Facebook. WND publishes a monthly print magazine, Whistleblower, edited by WND vice-president and managing editor David Kupelian, the bestselling author of “The Marketing of Evil,” “How Evil Works” and “The Snapping of

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NYC Taxpayers Paid for Perverted Film that Fondly Recalls Homosexual Orgies in Public Restrooms in World Trade Center Towers Before 9/11 Terror Attack

November 16th, 2022

Short gay ‘cruising’ documentary funded by ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio arts grant celebrates “meaningful public sex encounters” in WTC bathrooms, stairwell

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WARNING: Contains graphic, offensive and crude descriptions of male-on-male sodomitic acts.

By Peter LaBarbera, AmericansForTruth.News exclusive, November 16, 2022 [reprint information at bottom]

STORY ESSENTIALS (full story is after jump):

• A New York City government arts program launched in 2021 by former Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a $5,000 grant to a homosexual filmmaker for a salacious short film, “Trade Center.” The film [see full transcript below] fondly reminisces about secret gay men’s orgy spaces in the World Trade Center, e.g., public restrooms and staircases before the twin towers were destroyed by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001.

• The eight-minute “documentary” by homosexual filmmaker and pornography site writer Adam Baran gives an oral history “sex tour” of the pre-9/11 WTC complex. It fondly remembers gay “cruising” sites at the twin towers where men would meet furtively to engage in deviant sex acts with other men. Creator Adam Baran writes: “our five subjects describe their memories of meaningful public sex encounters in each [orgy] location.” The film’s narrator speculates that men who were “cruising” for anonymous sex in the buildings perished when the towers were hit.

• The taxpayer-funded “Trade Center” was released on Vimeo September 7, 2021, coinciding with the 20^th anniversary of the Al-Qaeda terror attack targeting the twin towers that took nearly 3,000 innocent lives in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.

• “Cruising” for homosexual, impersonal “public sex” in restrooms, parks, etc., predates the modern, post-Stonewall-riots, political gay-rights era. It is less common nowadays with the rise of digital phone apps like the GPS-assisted Grindr that efficiently cater to horny homosexual men seeking instant, anonymous, sodomitic hook-ups with other men nearby.

• This libidinous, hyper-promiscuous side of male homosexual sub-culture is rarely covered by the dominant, “mainstream” media, which focuses primarily on the cultural visibility and political “rights” aspects of the LGBTQ+ movement. Historically, high-risk, anonymous sex has been downplayed by “gay” activists trying to mainstream homosexuality. Nevertheless, it is linked to rampant STDs and health maladies among “men who have sex with men” (MSM). For example, the recent monkeypox viral outbreak, which overwhelmingly affected gay and bisexual men, is specifically linked to men who had “multiple sex partners” with other men, often at orgiastic gay sex parties accompanying LGBTQ “pride” festivals. 

• The pro-pornography Baran views “Trade Center” as an important historical work covering a segment of “gay” life. What he calls “meaningful public sex” is part of the Left’s “sex-positive” agenda, which eschews any moral limits to sexual behavior. The film’s raunchy subject matter did not stop it from receiving plaudits from “woke” film groups and the video streaming company Vimeo, which bans Christian ministry’s and church videos that oppose homosexuality. Another short film by Baran features a 14-year-old boy who is spurred on by a gay porn star in his quest to secure homosexual pornographic magazines.

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Dr. Michael Brown: Don’t Forget the LGB (Homosexuality) When Pushing Back Against the T (Trans Agenda)

October 31st, 2022

Folks, this is an important piece by my friend, Dr. Michael Brown, who has been one of America’s most fearless “Culture War” defenders of biblical sexual morality in the last few decades. Mike is right on here. It saddens me that so many conservatives have become “moral relativists” of sorts who, even as they push back strongly against the radical “trans” agenda, have largely gone silent against what most on the Right used to call “the gay agenda.” (Conservatives love patriotic God-talk but it seems many would follow a “GOP” version of the Bible, which, if it existed, would give a pass on the Sin of Sodom to Republicans and Libertarians.)

The emergence of “gay”-affirming “conservatism” is intellectually dishonest and morally/spiritually craven. The truth is: the Bible unequivocally proscribes homosexuality as sinful. Moreover, deviance begets deviance, and there would be no Big Trans and Big LGBTQ+ (beware the “+”!) agendas without the media-driven triumph of the “Gay” revolution. Stay principled, even if that means defying the present zeitgeist, because ultimately it’s God’s Truth, not ours. — Peter LaBarbera, AmericansForTruth.news; Twitter: @PeterLaBarbera (PS. Sign up for Dr. Brown’s weekly updates HERE; you won’t regret it!)

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Let’s Not Forget the LGB When Pushing Back Against the T

By Dr. Michael Brown

Reprinted from the Ask Dr. Brown website, Sept. 19, 2022

It is not just Christian conservatives who are pushing backing against transgender activism these days.

Prominent liberals, along with well-known gay and lesbian activists, have also been raising their voices, especially when it comes to transitioning Schildren. Together with conservatives, they are protesting the insanity of biological males competing against biological females or against putting young children on puberty blockers and performing sex-change surgery on minors.

But that is only one side of the coin.

The flip side of all this is that homosexual practice has become more and more accepted to the point that fewer and fewer conservatives will tackle it head on. 

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VIDEO: ‘Detransitioner’ Chloe Cole’s Nashville Speech: Calls Pro-Trans-Surgery Doctors and Therapists ‘Butchers and Liars’

October 24th, 2022

“I fell victim to the idea that I was actually a boy trapped within a girl’s body.”

The following is “detransitioner” Chloe Cole’s speech at the Daily Wire-sponsored ““Rally to End Child Mutilation” rally in Nashville October 21, 2022. I was deeply moved by this speech, and which everyone could hear it. As if this young woman wasn’t already brave enough, as she spoke she was heckled by crazed, pro-trans protesters trying to drown out her and other speakers by yelling things like “[F–k] you, Fascist.” (Like fascists and communists everywhere throughout history, American leftists routinely try to shout down, or shut down, speech they do not like.) This rally at the state capitol was part of a GOP-led effort in Tennessee to ban so-called “gender affirming transition care”–mutilations masquerading as trans “surgeries” and cross-sex “hormone therapy”–for minors. You can donate to Chloe Cole HERE. Many thanks to culture warrior Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire for organizing this event. — Peter LaBarbera, AmericansForTruth.news; Twitter: @Peter LaBarbera

[A full transcript of Chloe Cole’s speech is beneath the video, after the page jump.]

 

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Video: Ex-‘Gay’ Doug Mainwaring on the Quiet Rise of LGBTQ Influence in Christian and Conservative Circles

October 21st, 2022

Folks, this is an important presentation by my good friend Doug Mainwaring, who is as brave and principled a pro-family advocate as I’ve ever known. Doug, who is ex-“gay” and writes for LifeSiteNews (where I once worked), has been a leading, albeit lonely, voice in urging the Right not to abandon the traditional, age-old conservative defense of Judeo-Christian morality. In this case, that means NOT latching on to a newfangled, libertarian brand of “conservatism” that not only tolerates, but celebrates homosexual unions–you know, the Republican ones (think Dave Rubin, Rick Grenell, Guy Benson, etc.)–ostensibly for political gain.

Last I checked, there was no “GOP exception” in Romans 1 and other passages of the Bible proscribing homosexual behavior as sinful. Moreover, among the many reasons to oppose legalized same-sex “marriage” (no matter what the courts rule) is that it provides a launching pad for the inevitable pleas to recognize “gay unions” in the Christian Church, always in the name of compassion. Normalizing sexual perversion is not and never will be a “conservative” value, nor a compassionate one. 

You can find links to many of Doug’s excellent LSN articles on his bio page, and the LifeSiteNews description of this video is at bottom. We’ll have much more to report on this issue.–Peter LaBarbera, AmericansForTruth.news; Twitter: @PeterLaBarbera 

LifeSiteNews description of video:

The ascendancy of LGBT values into mainstream conservatism and Christian beliefs did not occur overnight. In his talk given at the Henkel Conference held in Nashville, TN from August 22-23, LifeSiteNews U.S. Bureau Chief Doug Mainwaring, a formerly pro-gay libertarian, talks about his personal conversion, the way the LGBT agenda has gained a strong foothold in politically-right communities, and the threats to children and families posed by this dynamic.

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AUDIO: VCY America Interview with LaBarbera: An Avalanche of LGBTQ Activism, including Scooby-Doo’s Velma as Lesbian

October 20th, 2022

Google helps celebrate “official” homosexual “coming out” of cartoon character, which Fox News reports on uncritically like the rest of the LGBTQueer-cheerleading media.

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Folks, this is my most recent interview with VCY America’s “Crosstalk” host Jim Schneider. Click HERE or the link below to play. The graphic above is an Oct. 7 screenshot showing Google’s celebration of the “official coming out” of Scooby-Doo character Velma as a lesbian: various LGBTQ “pride” (perversion) flags cascaded down the screen with a search of the word “Velma.”

See also this pro-homosexual Fox News web report on the now “officially gay” Velma. How sad that even Fox News is OK with the corruption of children’s moral innocence by the literal “programming” of kids’ minds to accept sexual immorality as normal and good. VCY’s description of the show is beneath the audio link.–Peter LaBarbera, AmericansForTruth.News; Twitter: @PeterLaBarbera

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Date: October 11, 2022
Host: Jim Schneider
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VCY’s Crosstalk show description:

Under the guise of LGBTQ+ activism, the calendar is being exploited again.  We’ve been through pride month, now it’s LGBTQ history month, while today has been declared National Coming Out Day.  With these days of recognition comes an avalanche of behaviors, legislation and other societal changes that are clearly unscriptural.   

Returning to Crosstalk for the latest news concerning LGBTQ activism was Peter LaBarbera.  Peter is the founder and president of Americans for Truth.  Jim had Peter comment on the following news items.

• National “Coming Out” Day.  Originally this was about simply coming out as homosexual.  According to Peter, the significance is that this was a strategy.  Homosexual activists knew that the effect would be to reduce the opposition by making people less likely to speak out against homosexuality as well as redefining what’s considered normal.  The result is that all these years later it’s metastasized to include those “coming out” and identifying as being one of the many other perverse identities society now recognizes.

• An adult drag queen is identifying as a child.  So how can you prosecute someone who identifies as an 8 year old if they molest another 8 year old? 

• Congressman Mark Pocan of Wisconsin has introduced 2 pieces of legislation. One is H.R.9070.  This would establish within the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of American LGBTQ+ History and Culture.  It already has 64 co-sponsors.  He’s also introduced H.R.9071 that would establish a commission to study the potential creation of a national museum of LGBTQ+  history and culture.

• A homosexual couple in New York is suing the city government because under the city’s current insurance policy they don’t qualify for fertility treatments, yet they claim they have a right to parenthood even though their biology doesn’t allow for it.  As a result, they’ve filed a class action complaint against the city.  They claim that since both of them are male and biologically incapable of naturally procreating, that they meet the medical definition of being infertile and thus they’re entitled to insurance that will cover the cost of using a woman to have a baby for them.

• A judge has ruled that those in polyamorous relationships are entitled to the same legal protections as married couples. 

• The Scooby-Doo cartoon now presents Velma as a lesbian.

This is just a brief summary of points discussed during the early portion of the program.  There’s much more that’s examined, and as you’ll see, it’s all about normalizing perversion.  Jim and Peter present the evidence that proves why, on this Crosstalk broadcast.

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Here Are the 47 House Republicans Who Joined 220 Unanimous Democrats to Vote for Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Bill H.B. 8404

August 30th, 2022

Below are the 45 House Republicans who joined 220 Democrats in voting for the pro-homosexual “marriage” bill, named the “Respect for Marriage Act,” H.B. 8404, which passed the House July 19, 2022. Not a single Democrat voted against the bill, which pro-natural-marriage critics have dubbed the “Disrespect for Marriage Act.”

Here is the official bill summary; note how the sponsors added interracial marriage to the language, a not-too-subtle dig at social conservatives who overwhelmingly support marriages between man and woman, of any color or ethnicity, but who reject the modern LGBTQ/”progressive” notion that two people of the same sex can truly be “married.’ We will continue to add additional information about these lawmakers. — Peter LaBarbera, Americans For Truth; Twitter: @PeterLaBarbera; Gettr: @PeterLaBarbera / @Americans4Truth; TruthSocial: @PeterLaBarbera; AFTAH Facebook page: [click HERE]

Respect for Marriage Act

This bill provides statutory authority for same-sex and interracial marriages.

Specifically, the bill repeals and replaces provisions that define, for purposes of federal law, marriage as between a man and a woman and spouse as a person of the opposite sex with provisions that recognize any marriage that is valid under state law. (The Supreme Court held that the current provisions were unconstitutional in United States v. Windsor in 2013.)

The bill also repeals and replaces provisions that do not require states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full faith and credit or any right or claim relating to out-of-state marriages on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin. (The Supreme Court held that state laws barring same-sex marriages were unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015; the Court held that state laws barring interracial marriages were unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia in 1967.) The bill allows the Department of Justice to bring a civil action and establishes a private right of action for violations.

Armstrong		North Dakota	YEA
Bacon		Nebraska	YEA
Bentz		Oregon	YEA
Calvert		California	YEA
Cammack		Florida	YEA
Carey		Ohio	YEA
Cheney [voted for Trump impeachment; hand-picked by Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be on biased January 6 investigation committee. Cheney lost her Republican primary race and will be leaving Congress.]		Wyoming	YEA
Curtis		Utah	YEA
Davis, Rodney		Illinois	YEA
Diaz-Balart		Florida	YEA
Emmer		Minnesota	YEA
Fitzpatrick		Pennsylvania	YEA
Garbarino		New York	YEA
Garcia (CA)		California	YEA
Gimenez		Florida	YEA
Gonzales, Tony		Texas	YEA
Gonzalez (OH)  [voted for Trump impeachment; announced in 2021 he would not seek reelection]		Ohio	YEA
Hinson		Iowa	YEA
Issa		California	YEA
Jacobs (NY)		New York	YEA
Joyce (OH)		Ohio	YEA
Katko   [voted for Trump impeachment; announced in January 2022 that he would not seek reelection]		New York	YEA
Kinzinger  [voted for Trump impeachment; hand-picked by Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be on biased January 6 investigation committee]		Illinois	YEA
Mace		South Carolina	YEA
Malliotakis		New York	YEA
Mast		Florida	YEA
Meijer  [voted for Trump impeachment; lost Republican primary race in 2022.]		Michigan	YEA
Meuser		Pennsylvania	YEA
Miller-Meeks		Iowa	YEA
Moore (UT)		Utah	YEA
Newhouse   [voted for Trump impeachment]		Washington	YEA
Obernolte		California	YEA
Owens		Utah	YEA
Perry		Pennsylvania	YEA
Rice (SC)  [voted to impeach Trump]		South Carolina	YEA
Salazar		Florida	YEA
Simpson		Idaho	YEA
Stefanik		New York	YEA
Steil		Wisconsin	YEA
Stewart		Utah	YEA
Turner		Ohio	YEA
Upton   [voted for Trump impeachment]		Michigan	YEA
Valadao [voted for Trump impeachment]		California	YEA
Van Drew		New Jersey	YEA
Wagner		Missouri	YEA
Waltz		Florida	YEA
Zeldin  [GOP candidate for Governor of New York 2022]

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