Folks? Folks, folks, folks…
Folks!
Folks, Peter LaBarbera has taken to posting right wing e-mail forwards. In this case, it’s a letter, written by a Navy captain who served starting in 1947, when homosexuality was not understood, when knowledge wasn’t readily available, before gays started coming out…in other words, back in the days when pesky reality didn’t interfere with the biases of a man like Peter LaBarbera. Oh, for the world to be ignorant again! Anyway, the letter was written to Admiral Mike Mullen, by a man named Lawrence “Jim” Jefferis. Here are a few quotes, along with what emotional needs the quotes fulfill for Peter.
This quote allows Peter LaBarbera to continue believing that he’s a stronger man than the valiant gay and lesbian servicemembers who could, in actuality, overpower him physically with one hand tied behind their backs:
During my enlisted service, homosexuals seemed to be a clumsy lot. They had a tendency to repeatedly fall headfirst down an engineroom ladder. Some were even known to trip on deck and “fall” overboard.
This quote allows Peter LaBarbera to pretend that being gay is somehow a limiting factor, like lack of education or a criminal record, and keeps him from confronting the fact that gay and lesbian West Point graduates like Dan Choi not only could physically overpower him with one hand tied behind their backs, but also could intellectually overpower him in the first seconds after they wake up, before they’ve even had their coffee:
The Navy, today, does not willingly accept GED [General Equivalency Diploma] holders for enlistment. Minor criminal records are a bar to enlistment. Visible tattoos and piercings are not permitted. Are these aberrations more damning than sodomy? Personnel may be denied reenlistment if they fail to meet obesity standards. The young men and women denied naval service because of these exclusionary conditions may also want to defend their country and might also be able to satisfactorily operate a radar, or a gas turbine, or a gun. But you are only advocating the acceptance of homosexuals! Why is that, Admiral?
This quote allows Peter LaBarbera to make the lazy, dishonest comparison of homosexuality to pedophilia. Strangely, the writer thinks that pedophiles would be better servicemembers than gays. That was a glance into the man’s psyche that I frankly did not need:
If we get to pick and choose which laws we uphold, which laws are next on the line to ignore? Carnal Knowledge? I would think a service man or woman who has sex with a minor (Carnal Knowledge) could perform military duties as well, if not better, than a homosexual.
This quote allows Peter LaBarbera to continue promoting strange right-wing myths that most or all gays actually want to change genders. I have never understood this bizarre myth. I suppose it’s just another way to scare their stupid sheep:
And have you considered the likelihood that some of the homosexuals will request sex-change procedures? I know for a fact that a significant percentage of my Law School class was undergoing sex-change therapy or surgery.
“A significant percentage”?! Ah yes, the famous transgender class of Hastings College, where 1 out of every 2 students was undergoing gender reassignment therapy.
WTF, Peter? Are you really willing to believe anything a right-wing nutjob tells you?
This quote allows chickenhawk Peter LaBarbera to believe he understands military stuff better than actual military leaders:
I hope that you recognize that we are irreconcilably opposed on this issue, but I think I have given it more thought than you.
And finally, this quote allows Peter to gaze at the words “anal fixation” for hours on end without his wife questioning his “research”:
In retrospect, I now realize that of all the officers I served with on active duty, Naval Academy graduates were the most tolerant of homosexuals. It may only be coincidence, but was there something in the curriculum that created such tolerance? I am aware that there have been numerous scandals regarding drug use, academic cheating, and heterosexual misconduct, but had never before given much thought to their acceptance of homosexual behavior, despite my awareness that there was a tendency toward an anal fixation.
Anal fixation, Peter. Anal Fixation. Anal fixation. Anus anus anus anus anus.
I think we all know that there is only one side in this argument that truly has an anal fixation.
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It’s all about the anus.
Why do you think gay men have had a love affair with Lana Turner for decades? Because when you rearrange her name, it spells ANAL NUTERR.
Mystery solved! So, Petey, if you’re reading… that’s a freebie.
Comment by Christopher‚Ñ¢ — February 26, 2010 @ 3:24 am
“During my enlisted service, homosexuals seemed to be a clumsy lot. They had a tendency to repeatedly fall headfirst down an engine room ladder. Some were even known to trip on deck and “fall” overboard.”
I am actually surprised that Peter included these comments in his, I guess he wasn’t getting what the good Captain was insinuating. homosexuals weren’t really all that clumsy they were just being shoved headfirst down ladders, knocked down on deck and thrown overboard.
So tell me, who really should be in the military and who shouldn’t.
Comment by David Farrell — February 26, 2010 @ 7:44 am
People like LaBarbara shouldn’t even register on your radar. You keep giving him celebrity status by continuing to write about his crazy views. Those kinds of people think they are important when you quote, analyze and talk up their stupidity. Give it a rest. Let them die an ignored death. All of you, just stfu. Love, Damiano RN
Comment by Dom — February 26, 2010 @ 8:56 am
Uh. I don’t even know what to say. I am so shocked and appalled that I am speechless.
And sad.
:(
Comment by Melissa Anne Baluka — February 26, 2010 @ 9:07 am
Well, LaBarbera is on the radar because unfortunately, he still shares some associations that have to be monitored. It’s not a matter of him being important, by himself. But he falls completely in the “only worthy of mockery” category.
Comment by Evan Hurst — February 26, 2010 @ 9:31 am
Dom:
I think you just made the single biggest mistake you could when said: “People like LaBarbara shouldn’t even register on your radar. You keep giving him celebrity status by continuing to write about his crazy views.”
Your view is why liberals almost always lose and social conservatives win. You think if we just ignore the lies they will go away. They don’t.
Instead, they metastasize and are taken as truth by many people. Your opinion rests on the notion that we can give Porno Pete attention. Well, last time I checked he has a fax machine, e-mail, a media list and a telephone. He is capable of getting his own media. And, he does. Without our help.
Finally, your false argument is what liberals said about “death panels”. “Oh, just ignore it. No one will believe it.” Well, they did believe it and now helth reform is on life support.
We were told to “ignore” Scott Lively too, because he was fringe. Well, tell that to LGBT people of Uganda who are faced with the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, with the assistance of Lively.
People support this organization because we take on this predators and don’t take them lightly. When liberals learn how to follow our lead and fight, we will begin to win.
Instead we take the so-called “highroad” and allow social conservatives to define us.
I don’t know about you, but my family is too important to keep on losing.
Comment by Wayne Besen — February 26, 2010 @ 10:57 am
Until Peter LaBarbera’s “research” was cited by Ugandan pastors as justification for genocide, I might have agreed with Dom.
But now, no way. LaBarbera’s ability to mobilize mob violence and hate are why the Christian Right in general — and Exodus in particular — allow LaBarbera to promote genocide, murder in the armed services, antigay violence in schools, discrimination in government and public services, and his own unique brand of Christian pornography. Year, after year, after year.
Comment by Michael Airhart — February 26, 2010 @ 11:28 am
I agree with David Farrell, the reference to whomever wrote years ago of gays falling down “ladders” and tripping over “bulkheads” thrown overboard was a poor cover for someone saying they were bashing gays on board ships. I’m surprised if this letter really was written and sent to Admiral Mullen that the Admiral didn’t call the sender out on it himself. I understand in days past they would throw men overboard tied to ropes and drag them underneath the ship and drown them too. The killing and abuse of soldiers in Kentucky like they did to Private Wentchell is not the only way the military has gone about doing in it’s unwanted. Peter LaBarbera is a hatemonger no different than the Phelps’ Clan and others like them. I suspect if we could put on some sort of glasses that allowed us to see, we’d see 666 on many of their foreheads!
Comment by Don Craddock — February 26, 2010 @ 12:55 pm
Thank you for the spanking! In my 23 years at the bedside in roles from nurse practitioner to bedside registered nurse, I have never heard or seen a death panel. The only death panel I can think of is the metaphor of having no health insurance like for the 45 million plus americans who are losing jobs and their homes everyday. As a provider in a small, poor clinic near the Mexican border, I can tell you how hard it is to get a free mammogram for some woman with a suspicious lump. If we didn’t have a free sample cupboard, I wouldn’t know what to do for many of the uninsured. Yes, I understand there are people here in the US who are obsessed with fear and ignorance of the “other.” The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors all of these activities as does the ACLU; the hate talk has the same monitors as the KKK, the Phelps’ family and other sociopaths. I will never understand what motivates the hate preachers and the permanently frightend. They are just small, pathetic human beings who deserve more pity than anything else. Your LaBarbara , Phelps or other generic ass is just that. I don’t ever believe that they will have the power to take over the government and put us all in ovens. Their stench reaches all the way to Uganda and other places that are dank, dark and ignorant. If I had the money, I would hire some private planes and bring those victims of deluded religiosity here. Love, Dom, RN
Comment by Dom — February 26, 2010 @ 4:59 pm
I’m sorry, Wayne, but I got cut off. I hope you don’t think I’m a liberal nor a conservative; I’m none of the above. I think what’s happened in the country is how we nastily label others who don’t agree with us as one of the above. It’s a lot like the false choices that people like Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Hannity or Limbaugh use in their monologues. It can never be a discussion, because it is a one way street. There is no generic “liberal” nor “conservative.” It is neither black nor white. If I may say so, Wayne, your argument is generic emotional. These people like LaBarbara are not likeable nor understandable. You cannot reason with them as reason doesn’t reside in their psyches. We know who they are; they are watched by many people. You have no reason to fear them; they’re a lot like that wizard in the wizard of OZ; the man behind the smoke and bellowing voice was just a scared little man, who didn’t really know much about anything. Wayne, you get all riled up over hate speech. There will always be that for reasons we cannot know. What I do know is this: in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol, the ghost of Christmas past met Ebenezer Scrooge wearing a great coat. In side the coat were two horrible twin children, the ghost of fear and the ghost of ignorance which continue to plague the world. They will always be with us. The best way to combat those evil twins is to not demonize them and turn them into the “other.” That is the tactic they use. Rather learn to first neutralize your own hatred so you don’t fight fire with fire. Be that illumination, but never give them more power than they deserve. That is my stand. My own enlightenment and good works cannot stop evil entirely, but it’s a good start. I rather like the Ghandian approach to the violent in word and deed. Love, Dom R.N.
Comment by Dom — February 26, 2010 @ 5:50 pm
Insane liars like him are one of the dangers we face these days. His contemporaries believe every word he says, and they pass it around like the Gospel Truth. Because they do, others who are undecided end up voting our rights away because they want to protect themselves and their children, and they “can’t take the chance” that the wingnuts might be wrong. These people don’t necessarily mean us harm, but when it comes down to a decision between granting us rights and protecting their own they’ll do the latter every time, even if it means listening to specious nonsense in the process.
That’s why we can never, ever let the lies of people like Peter LaBarbera rest. We must expose them at every opportunity.
Comment by Buffy — February 26, 2010 @ 5:57 pm
“During my enlisted service, homosexuals seemed to be a clumsy lot. They had a tendency to repeatedly fall headfirst down an engineroom ladder. Some were even known to trip on deck and “fall” overboard.”
LOL!!
If that’s true, why haven’t we seen this on America’s Funniest Home Videos?
Comment by Scott — February 27, 2010 @ 3:42 am
For anyone that has not been in the military:
When a military person says, “During my enlisted service, homosexuals seemed to be a clumsy lot. They had a tendency to repeatedly fall head first down an engine room ladder. Some were even known to trip on deck and “fall” overboard,” they are talking about suspected gays being THROWN “repeatedly” “head first down an engine room ladder. And THROWN overboard, that’s why he put “fall” in quotes.
All military people understand the implied threat to the lives of gay people that this turd of a relic of a military person is referring to, representing the facts of military anti-gay history, a history that is illegal in today’s DADTDPDH military. The attacks and murders were illegal when they did happen, even if they were not often prosecuted.
Please spread the word that this “letter” is saying we should go back to the days of those attacks and murders. There’s nothing funny about that.
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