Will PETA Respond to Frank Kameny’s Endorsement of Sex with Animals?

AFTAH’s story on “gay” icon Frank Kameny and his belief that bestiality is a “constitutional right” (“as long as the animal doesn’t mind”) is making the rounds. Funny how our “queer” blog critics — even the fanatical AFTAH-haters at Box TURTLE Bulletin — don’t want to talk about it. The following story appeared in the conservative Canadian web newsite Canada Free Press:

Pro-family crusader looks to PETA to take a stand against bestiality promoter

Homosexual activist Frank Kameny says that bestiality is OK

By Judi McLeod Wednesday, June 4, 2008, Canada Free Press

Ingrid Newkirk, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Editor’s note: Some Canada Free Press readers may find the subject in this story objectionable.)

It seems that just about everyone has weighed in for his or her say now that homosexual activist Frank Kameny says that bestiality is OK if the animal approves.

Everyone that is other than the Ingrid Newkirk-led People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

In Kameny’s book bestiality is termed as “a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So as long as the animal doesn’t mind, I don’t mind, and I don’t see why anyone else should.”

Peter LaBarbera, of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), who wants PETA to live up to the promise in its name, “the ethical treatment of animals”, has e-mailed the animal rights group for its opinion on bestiality being “OK if the animal approves.”

“They’re the people who stand for the ethical treatment of animals,” LaBarbera told Canada Free Press in a telephone interview last night. “I am hoping for a response to my e-mail, and hoping that they take a public stand against bestiality.”

Click HERE to read the rest of the story, “Pro-family crusader looks to PETA to take a stand against bestiality promoter” in Canada Free Press