SOTU Speech Over – My Thoughts and Ramblings

President Obama’s speech is over and before the overpaid pundits tell us why we should love or hate it, let me give a few thoughts.

I liked it. It was on point but now it’s time for him to push action.

And yes, I noticed what he said about DADT. And I know that others noticed his mention of the commitment to overturn the policy.

Now before some of us start ruminating in that particular way which we do, I would ask that you remember the faces of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They weren’t exactly looking all that happy.

Maybe I am misinterpreting their desire not to show emotion, but then again, maybe I’m not.

Overturning DADT should happen and it will. But it won’t be easy. We should remember that. Instead of directing venom at Obama’s way because he “isn’t moving fast enough,” I would suggest that we continue to do what we do – and that is to exert pressure on the President. Remind him that we helped to get him elected and we lgbts as Americans deserve our rights.

But let’s not get caught away with the hyperbole. Yes, we are all tired of being second class citizens but talking about how sick and tired you are may make you feel good via facebook or the blogs, but it entails more than that.

To tell the truth though, I have been very disturbed by some folks’ overeagerness to paint the President as a “bigot.” He is pragmatic to the point of annoyance at times, but to call him names reveals a haste that’s not conducive to the community.

And if I may take it further, I especially hate how these discussions over Obama’s commitment to the lgbt community have made us snipe at each other. I have different opinions about Obama’s commitment to the lgbt community. I don’t like some of the things he has done, but I am willing to give him credit on other things.

But sometimes I don’t want to mention how I feel because I don’t want to be sniped at by some (pardon the expression) self-satisfied, “righteously indignant” individual who seems to be so obsessed with his/her opinion of lgbt rights that an understanding of other opinions seems to be out of his/her mindset.

I don’t think it’s right that someone who doesn’t know me all of the sudden feels justified to trivialize my life simply because I don’t share that person’s opinion.

We may disagree but no one likes being called names or having their commitment to lgbt equality minimized simply because they take different views of President Obama. Regardless of how you feel about the President, you shouldn’t feel that you will be attacked by your own people.

But it’s happening all of the time. And it reveals an inability to understand that while we are all lgbt, we come from different environments and different opinions on how we should take steps to get what we need in terms of equality.

We don’t all come from the Castro, or any other big city metropolis. We don’t all listen to Lady GaGa (until last month, I have never heard of Lady GaGa). And some of us don’t follow the struggle for lgbt equality as much as others.

But at the very least, lgbts owe each other basic respect.

If we don’t, then we are no better than Peter LaBarbera and the rest of the religious right.

The above can be found on Alvin McEwen’s blog, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters. Typically we won’t reprint an entire post in our “voices from the blogosphere” section, however…Very well put Mr. McEwen. Thank you for the reminder…we are one people, we are one world!

Liberty Counsel Accuses Porno Pete LaBarbera of Lying

Porno Pete LaBarbera is the voyeuristic anti-gay “activist” who clownishly videotapes gay leather events and bathhouses year-after-year as part of his hands on research. His ostensible goal is to “expose” the real gay agenda. Although, his bizarre obsession with entering this arena reveals more about his own sexual repression that the GLBT community. I mean, what kind of straight dude needs to repeatedly take the same photos each year?

Memo to Porno Pete: Assless chaps look the same in 1993 as they do in 2009. So, there is really no excuse why you return to these events so often unless you are deriving some form of titillating pleasure from the manufactured situation.

Porno Pete’s latest issue is ensuring a gay conservative group, GOProud can’t sponsor the annual CPAC conference. In his opposition, LaBarbera attributed a quote to Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber:

“What is conservatism?” asks Porno Pete.

It boils down to this: there is nothing “conservative” about — as Barber inimitably puts it — “one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it ‘love.’” Or two women awkwardly mimicking natural procreative relations or raising a child together in an intentionally fatherless home. This does not mean that people practicing those and other immoral (andchangeable) behaviors cannot think and act conservatively on other issues like lowering taxes, cutting government spending, ending abortion, etc. But let’s be honest: the “proud” in GOProud is not about pride in opposing the death tax, or defending the right to bear arms; it’s about proudly embracing sinful homosexual behavior – and that is hardly a conservative value.

Yesterday, Liberty Counsel called LaBarbera a liar and claimed Barber never said such a detestible thing.

More at: Truth Wins Out!

LaBarbera’s “AFTAH” Is Anything But

From Focus On The Rainbow:

To show regular readers and passersby, regardless of sexual orientation, some of what is on the Internet which vilifies the LGBT community, below is the current offering at the anti-gay website “Americans For Truth About Homosexuality” which is written by Peter LaBarbera.

While many of the more popular LGBT bloggers make fun of LaBarbera about his website and writings, and in full disclosure so has this writer on a couple of occasions on two of my blogs where that is more appropriate, that is not the intent here.

It is for you, the reader to decide if what LaBarbera writes is correct or nothing more than scandalizing an entire segment of society with hate. Below is in it’s entirety the portion of the posting which LaBarbera writes his opin in a post titled, “Bill Keller Is Right: America Is Deeply Offended … by the Bible“. The caption in the photo is also the writing of LaBarbera (Note – the “emphasis” in LaBarbera’s writing is his).

Bill Keller Is Right: America Is Deeply Offended … by the Bible

I urge you to support Bill Keller and his daily “Live Prayer” programming this holiday season. This man of God has a heart for people and for this nation — which truly is in “full rebellion to God and His Truth” — like few others. I have been a guest on Keller’s show and know that he lovingly ministers to all sinners, including people caught up in homosexuality. Some one-time “gays” and “lesbians” have abandoned these disordered lifestyles through his ministry — surely lifted up by the heavenly petitions of LivePrayer viewers.

Who can deny that America needs prayer as the battle of good versus evil rages between our coasts? The other day I happened upon an old (2004) episode of the ABC comedy show Will & Grace that contained a subplot about a young woman who disappoints her male fiancé because it turns out she’s really a lesbian who has a crush on Grace, the show’s co-lead character (see photo). At a Thanksgiving meal at the dysfunctional home of the parents of homosexual co-lead character Will’s boyfriend, the newbie lesbian gets lost under the table so she can go “up the skirt” of a shocked Grace, who is sitting across from her — apparently to fondle Grace’s private parts!

Ha ha. Real funny. I’ll bet the writer was proud of himself for that classy bit of “gay humor.” Strategically-placed perverts who hate God are destroying this nation’s soul.

Who can deny that the Sexual Revolution — ushering in rampant promiscuity, the trivialization of the sacred, abortion-on-demand, the celebration of homosexuality and other perversions, and contempt for marriage — has warred against God and goodness in America? And why are we shocked that generations of American youth — influenced by a debased culture and those highly-placed pervs — are confused about biblical Truth on homosexuality, sex and marriage?

And yet I am struck by the faithful warriors like Keller, who labor well outside the politically-correct limelight, and who represent that old-fashioned force for greatness — godly virtue — that made America a unique nation. (Bill is not perfect: thankfully he got it wrong about George Bush not being reelected in 2004.)  “Tolerance” and worse, celebration, of any sin — fornication, homosexuality, pornography, abortion, etc. — brings down a civilization; it is hardly some sort of “all American” thing about which we should collectively boast. (This is the travesty of man-centered libertarianism.) In fact, America’s exportation to more innocent cultures abroad of immoral “entertainment” like Will & Grace only adds to our shame.

But as in Hollywood, shame seems to be in short supply in these United States. (Although we have plenty of pride, including the “queer” variety.) Against all odds, we need to humble ourselves, repent for our excessive tolerance (including for our own private, indulged sins), and pray for God to hold back his judgment and heal our land. America can only move back toward virtue if we return to the God and start becoming more offended by sin, and less offended by biblical Truth.

God bless you. — Peter LaBarbera, Americans For Truth

The above article was written by Lyndon Evans, and originally posted on his blog: Focus On The Rainbow.

Lyndon Evans will be joining gayagenda.com tonight on our Blog Talk Radio show, which airs live from 8-9 pm EST!

Stop the Madness: Barber Worried About “Gay Jihad”

This is becoming relentlessly hilarious…The anti-gay rhetoric that is.  People like Barber, Mutty, Labarbera, Maggie Gallagher, Sally Kern, et. al. have so desperately thrown themsleves so far into the lives of others they can’t focus on anything else.  If you look at this from a psychological aspect, there does become a point, when someone tells the same lie over and over, where they simply aren’t able to distinguish between the lies and what the truth really is.  In other words, after repeating the same lie over enough, the lie becomes the persons own truth.  Pity isn’t it!

So I ran across this post by Ed Brayton, titled, Barber Worried About “Gay Jihad”, were he talks about Matt Barber’s typical hysteria “about how evil those infernal gays are and how Christians are truly the persecuted minority in this country.”

I really like how Brayton concludes his post:

Now, let’s be clear: Any death threats made to anyone for any reason should be investigated and, where appropriate, prosecuted. Death threats are not protected speech, nor should they be. But let’s also keep this in a little historical perspective.

If you made a list of all the gay people who had been beaten, maimed or killed by those who hated them just for being gay, the list would be extraordinarily long. If you made a list of all the anti-gay people who had been beaten, maimed or killed just for being anti-gay, the list would be pretty much blank.

It’s certainly true that if you oppress a group you tend to radicalize them, but that is a good reason to stop the oppression, not to condemn the oppressed. And frankly, given the way gays have historically been oppressed in this country, it’s pretty remarkable how un-radicalized they have been as a group.

So Matt Barber, put that in your pipe and smoke it!  I wonder if perhaps maybe we do need to turn to becoming a bit more aggressive.  I’m not talking about militant actions, suicide bombing or any other act of violence…let me set the record ’straight’ on that.  But I am angry.  I’m angry that people are using religious ideology to promote inequality.  I’m angry that people like Barber, who don’t know any other treatment than perhaps ‘white privilege’ are claiming victim status over their own actions of intolerance and bigotry.  Sure Matt, it’s fine for you to get up and spout off about things you obviously know NOTHING about, but when someone calls you out, they’re being hateful or threatening.

People like Barber, Kern and others have said that homosexuality is the biggest threat to this nation…I disagree.  The theological movement, a.k.a., the religious right is actually the biggest threat to this nation.  If we left it up to the Christian zealots of this nation, all LGBT citizens, along with anyone who doesn’t absolutely agree with their twisted views, would be deported, or perhaps hanged to death.

Matt Barber…you’re life is interfering with mine, however my life doesn’t exist in your world.  That makes me a bit angry with you.  But, unless you’d grow a pair and accept my invitation to step into a boxing ring with me, I would never promote any type of physical harm to you.  In fact, I won’t even wish the type of psychological harm you’ve brought upon so many LGBT citizens upon you, because you obviously have some issues you’re already working through, like pathologically lying.

I have to admit however, I am also guilty of promoting hate, intolerance and bigotry against the LGBT community by even acknowledging Barber’s existence.  So I say let’s let the dog die in his sleep.  Let’s stop talking about Matt Barber.  The more we do, the greater his ego and voice becomes.

- Oh, but Matt, let me know if you’re man enough to step into a ring with a gay man!  Some of those “homosexual fantasies” you have of the gays beating Christians may come true! (and Yes, I would seriously take you on in the ring!)

Peter LaBarbera Throws Public Tantrum, Flaunts His Irrelevance

Last month, our anti-gay buddy Peter LaBarbera and a few assorted had held a press conference in Chicago to speak against President Obama’s supposed “radical homosexual appointments and overall “gay” agenda.”

Religious right figures such as Matt Barber, Oklahoma legislature Sally Kern, and Diane Gramley appeared.

Well the press conference came and went, but we heard nothing about it. I couldn’t find any articles about it. And Peter never mentioned it on the Americans for Truth webpage.

That is until today. Apparently, even though several religious right “dignitaries” showed up at Peter’s press conference, the media took a serious rain check.

Read more at: Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters!

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