By now, you know the story. A few weeks ago, Porno Pete got twelve or thirteen of his closest bigots together for a Spaghetti-O’s dinner of some sort out in the Chicago suburbs, for the purposes of honoring super-bigot Scott Lively, the main proponent of the lie that gays caused the Holocaust. Scott Lively, of course, had a huge hand in Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” legislation. Anyway, some ne’er-do-well gay “activists,” or possibly Porno Pete’s own people [who knows?] decided to make a pathetic situation more pathetic by throwing a couple of bricks through the window of the establishment where the soiree was to be held. This is, of course, worse than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor and Carrot Top, combined. At first Peter was crying that it was a “hate crime,” which it isn’t, as bigotry is not actually a protected class under hate crimes laws. It’s a simple, stupid, misguided act of vandalism. Oh, but now, craving more attention from the ordeal, he is calling it a “terror-attack.” Really. Here he is, setting up a video from his butchest friend, Matt “Bam Bam” Barber, the one he can always rely on to be his manly defender when people hurt his feelings:
Note that at the time of this recording, Barber was relying on early reports coming from the Oct. 15th terror-attack on Christian Liberty Academy, in which it was feared that the pro-homosexual assailants had entered the building and perhaps created water damage. Actually, they did not enter the building, and the vandalism that did occur was created by large paver bricks thrown through the glass doors and windows of CLA (accompanied by notes threatening further violence).
Yeah, bricks thrown through a window when nobody is around do not constitute an act of “terrorism.” Sorry. I’m in complete agreement that whoever did it — and if it was gays of ANY sort, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves for being such grade-A dumbasses — was in the wrong, but this melodrama really gets under my skin, especially when I have to report seemingly every week on some gay kid who killed himself because he was bullied so badly by his schoolmates, family, church or community into feeling he had nothing to live for. Considering that those sorts of messages start with people like Porno Pete and Scott Lively and their perverted interpretation of the Bible, and then trickle down to those kids, I’m just having a hard time writing about this “terror-attack” with a straight face.
The video Porno Pete was setting up is from the Liberty Counsel, and features a really pathetic, fearful conversation between Matt Barber and Mat Staver. They discuss the incident, and then go on to ratchet up the victim mentality by saying that the Southern Poverty Law Center, by labeling them hate groups [for their vicious anti-gay bigotry, and also the fact that they are pathological liars], is doing the same thing to them that the Nazis did to the Jews.
Seriously. I would cry them a river, but my eyes are too busy rolling into the back of my skull. Why do wingnut men always come across as such sissies?!
Here’s the text of that exchange, via Right Wing Watch:
Staver: This aggressive homosexual agenda is not about tolerance, it’s about dominance. And the more emboldened they get, the more laws that they get, the more vocal they become, the more hostile they become, the more aggressive they become, and the more violent, in this particular case, they become.
Barber: Americans for Truth, as well as Liberty Counsel for that matter, is one of those flashpoints, they have been unfairly labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a hard left-wing extremist organization that uses smears in order to label Christian organizations that take a principled stand on the biblical model of sexual morality in love, speak God’s truth in love, they label them hate groups. But really, they are fanning the flames of this kind of violence with their rhetoric, by labeling organizations a hate group. And they’re partly responsible for this, indirectly, I’m not going to say they’re directly responsible …
Staver: Well, when you go out and label somebody a hate group you think of the KKK …
Barber: It emboldens these people …
Staver: It also, it begins, you know, it’s the same thing that happened in the Nazi Holocaust where they start to just demonize and stigmatize and then at some point in time you don’t even think that someone’s human and then, you know, we look at it and our consciences are shocked but if you look at how it ultimately began where they began to just demonize and dehumanize them, that’s what’s happening with this labeling of hate groups.
WHINE! Okay, I’m done. Music post comes next.
I’m willing to give them the terrorism charge if we can take them for premeditated murder for every dead gaybashing victim, and abuse leading to the death of a child for every boy or girl who kills themself due to bullying. Let’s tack on the murders of gays and lesbians in foreign countries who have died as a direct result of these people’s meddling in the politics of those countries. So, how’s about it, fundies? Deal?
Fanatics must be worked with. The unfortunate thing is that in this man’s mind he probably believes he loves you very much, and wants to help you get better. To diffuse the fanatic you need to get them to use their imagination, and think beyond step one of their ideas. Which most fanatic ideas invariably do not end well. Often if you get a fanatic to think of the finer details required (including who is to be killed, by whom, and how) they will realize the error of their thoughts, forcing them to reform them often in far more humane ways. If that does not work attempt humor. If all that fails all there is left is to assume they are sociopaths and pity them.
I’m on the side that says they threw it themselves so they could point at us and say that we’re the “real” violent ones.
And this incident STILL doesn’t pass the smell test.
Again with the Holocause references, Bam Bam and Porno Pete? Some bricks thrown through the empty window of a building where a group of bigots met is comparable with the genocide of millions of people? I fail to see the connection.
I agree Evan. Why are anti-gay men such wimps? I guess its the same reason why anti-gay women are so butch…
I think that their constant nazi comparisons are an attempt to mask their own desire to finish what the nazis did to us.
I’m not sure if it’s that or merely if they think that everyone else is stupid. Or they have a truly incredible victim complex.
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Other, more conservative watchdogs than TWO believe that the brick-throwing was a hoax perpetrated by allies of Porno Pete.
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2011/10/19/37986
We at TWO are being exceptionally kind by giving him ANY benefit of doubt.
I said it when you all first posted about this and I see I’m not alone in my opinion that the writing on the note should be compared to Porno Putz’s handwriting. These people lie like rugs and I see no reason to start trusting them because they’re waving a brick around.
As for the “Waah Terrorist Nazi Queers!” drama queening, they’re trying the same s**t bigots have pulled on racial and ethnic minorities with no little success. Accuse “them” of being out to get you. Point to (or exaggerate or just make up) examples of “their” violent and dangerous nature. Beat, lynch or shoot “them” when one of “them” looks at you in a funny way. Claim it was self defense.
Of course the world has changed and the number of places where all they’d get is a pat on the back from law enforcement. But as always, their ignorance is what makes them dangerous.
Leave it to Porno Pete and Scott Deadly to turn a couple of bricks thrown by *unknown* vandals into their own personal Kristalnacht. When will bush be down their with his bullhorn and the new mantra on the lips of Rudy Giuliani and every other conservative will be 10/15…10/15….10/15. Oh the humanity!!!!!!!!
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It is entirely possible that this is a fake attack perpetrated by some anti-gay individual. I compare this to the infamous “white powder” attack on a Mormon temple in 2008, which the Christian Right invariably asserts was a Prop 8-related attack. No evidence of a link to Prop 8 has ever been discovered and no perpetrator identified. But the incident serves the anti-gay side very nicely.