In our work here at Truth Wins Out, we go to great pains to make sure that when we’re talking about Fundamentalist Christian hate groups like the Family Research Council and the American Family Association, or even Porno Pete’s Dungeon of Leather Photography, we are talking about a specific subset of American Christians who believe they are entitled to a special, supremacist place in our society based on their “sincerely held religious beliefs,” i.e. their bigotry. It does a disservice to the broad swath of American Christians who are not hatemongers obsessed with what’s going on in everyone else’s beds and wombs to simply use the term “Christian” to describe these conservative Fundamentalists. Unfortunately, much of the culture and the media doesn’t grasp this distinction, and it hurts a lot of people. In a phone conversation with my mom last week, she said something to the effect of, “I’m a Christian and I’m right of center, but I’m not a wingnut.” Indeed, she is not, but she was kinda pissed that so often the media glosses over these distinctions. It doesn’t just give liberal Christians a bad name — it smears all the rest of them.

Of course, the media is at fault, but we have to also look at the hate groups themselves, who constantly use the blanket term “Christian” to describe their activities, most of which are quite un-”Christian” indeed. Timothy Noah has an important piece in The New Republic addressing this very issue, and he’s seeking to reclaim the term from that tiny subset which co-opts it and gives the rest of Christendom a bad name:

Christian? Christians aren’t some twee boutique demographic. Christians represent the majority. About 78 percent of Americans self-identify as Christian, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. What NPR and Fox and Sony mean when they say “Christian” is “Christian right” or “Christian conservatives,” terms that adherents don’t like because they think they’re pejorative. “Fundamentalist” and “evangelical” are imperfect substitutes because a) the two categories, though they overlap a lot, aren’t precisely the same; and b) some of these folks consider themselves political liberals. (The worldly Cold War liberal Reinhold Niebuhr called himself an evangelical Protestant.) What conservative Christians really like to be called is “Christians.” Hence “Christian rock” and “Christian college” and now “Christian film.” This strikes me as terribly presumptuous. Bruce Springsteen was raised Catholic but he doesn’t perform anything these folks would accept as Christian rock. Wesleyan was founded by Methodists and named after John Wesley but evangelicals would never call it a Christian university. “Christian” has become a euphemism for “acceptable to the type of Christian (in most instances Protestant) who frowns on homosexuality and wishes Saul Alinsky had minded his own business.”

[...]

To suggest that conservative Christians are the only Christians is like saying Hasidic Jews are the only Jews. It’s a cartoonish misconception that the Christian right has managed to sell to a largely secular news media that’s too sensitive to accusations of anti-religious bias.

I’ll co-sign that sentiment. Noah goes on to suggest that the media really should wake up and specifically use the phrase “Christian conservative” to describe the culture — films, music, hate group rallies — enjoyed by the subset of Fundamentalists who seem to think they’re the only real Christians. It’s not pejorative. It’s simply what they are.

But this disconnect is the reason why people like Tony Perkins are able to call gay rights an attack on “Christians” and get away with it. Most Christians couldn’t give a tinker’s damn what Tony Perkins or Bryan Fischer says, but you wouldn’t know it watching the news. This is a theme that Truth Wins Out will be pursuing in more detail in the coming months, so stay tuned.

Last week, Republican U.S. House Speaker John Boehner appointed Dr. Robert George — co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the National Organization for Marriage — to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). George’s two-year appointment that comes with a taxpayer-funded federal salary.

GLAAD’s newly-launched Commentator Accountability Project – which aims to unmask the extremist views of anti-LGBT activists frequently consulted and quoted by the media – names George as one of the 36 homophobes most often cited in news reports. George appears on the list alongside other famously outspoken bigots like Scott Lively, Tony Perkins, Alan Chambers, Matt Barber, Peter LaBarbera, and NOM’s own Brian Brown and Maggie Gallagher.

For those of you who may not be familiar with him, Dr. George is an anti-LGBT extremist who once described being gay as “beneath the dignity of human beings as free and rational creatures” and said that committed same-sex relationships have “no intelligible basis in them for the norms of monogamy, exclusivity, and the pledge of permanence.” The organization that he co-founded, the National Organization for Marriage, is the nation’s foremost opponent of marriage equality, fighting to preserve the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the federal level and pushing constitutional marriage discrimination amendments in the states.

NOM was disgraced earlier this week when internal documents revealed that the group engages in disrespectful and unsavory race-baiting tactics in its fight against marriage equality. The confidential memos asserted that NOM’s strategic goal is to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks” and “make opposition to gay marriage an identity marker” among young Latinos, “a badge of youth rebellion to conformist association to the bad side of ‘Anglo’ culture” and “a symbol of resistance to inappropriate assimilation.”

Last year, Speaker Boehner and House Republicans decided to defend DOMA themselves after President Obama’s Justice Department halted its defense, citing the law’s unconstitutionality. Boehner hired a team of private attorneys and committed to spend as much as $1.5 million in taxpayer dollars to defend the discriminatory measure in court.

By appointing an extremist like Robert George, Speaker Boehner is again using taxpayer funds to further an aggressively anti-gay social agenda. This stunt makes it clear that the USCIRF is the equivalent of a kangaroo court intent upon casting victimizers as victims. It is utterly farcical that Robert George — a man who has dedicated his life to curtailing liberties and limiting the freedoms of those who hold different beliefs — would be named to a commission that oversees liberty. But given George’s demonization of LGBT people and his group’s appalling use of racial politics, Boehner’s appointment may ultimately backfire with Latino and African American voters.

I’m not a Christian, but I have no problem with people praying for me, and I assume that prayers from gay Christians are just as good — or better — than those coming from fundamentalist bigots, so go for it!

Porno Pete has a long post complaining about the recent Truth Wins Out protest in Atlanta. Let us take a look see at what he has to say:

It says all you need to know about the mischieviously-named homosexual activist group “Truth Wins Out” — headed by “gay” gadfly Wayne Besen

Mischievous! Gadfly! Go on:

that it would feature anti-Christian photos like these prominently on its website. The photos are part of a story about a TWO protest outside the recent Exodus International “Love Won Out” conference in Atlanta, for people who have left or seek to leave homosexuality behind in their life. TWO attempts to discredit the idea that hcaltlhy change away from homosexuality is possible (by championing failed “ex-gays” and ignoring success stories).

We don’t “attempt” to discredit the possibility of, um, “hcaltlhy” change, Pete. The proponents of hcaltlhy change [rhymes with Cthulhu, I think] discredit themselves by spouting nonsense that’s already discredited by grown-up scientists, and by getting caught doing gay things all the time. Anyway, this is the picture he is complaining about:

Yeah, that’s real offensive. The mere suggestion for people like Porno Pete that his religious book shouldn’t be used to club minorities over the head…

In the TWO promotional photo at right proclaiming a “failed” Exodus conference (click to enlarge), the man’s sign reads, “The Bible is not a tool of hatred and injustice” — implying that efforts to help men and women overcome unwanted homosexual desires are hateful.

They are. They are also dishonest, and they all too often lead to increased depression, suicide and destroyed families. And even the king of the flagship, Alan Chambers, admits that 99.9% of the people he’s met in the “ex-gay” movement haven’t changed their sexual orientation. That’s a lotta people, Pete.

Note the men dressed in drag as “nuns” in the background — from the homosexual activist group “Sister of Perpetual Indulgence,” which blends Catholic-mocking attire with homosexual radicalism and perversion.

Oh, no! Wait, is Porno Pete Catholic? It’s interesting, and I think I wrote about this a few weeks ago, but thirty or forty years ago, Porno Pete wouldn’t have been defending Catholics. Fundamentalist Evangelicals saw the Catholic Church as the moral equivalent of the anti-Christ. But as time has gone by and the fundamentalists from both factions have whittled their scriptures down to their favorite parts — the ones they misread about gay people, and the ones that support the subjugation of women — it seems that their differences have fallen by the wayside. There’s a greater boogeyman out there for them, now, and it’s you and me. Because we’re so scary.

One “sister” carries a sign quoting the Bible verse Matthew 5:11, which is about suffering for the cause of righteousness (following Jesus). That verse could be used appropriately by former homosexuals enduring the cruel brand of ridicule and hatred wielded by TWO and fellow homosexual activists. But here it is flipped upside-down to scold Bible-believing Christians who testify to Christ’s power to help people overcome sinful temptations.

Um. See, my problem with that interpretation is that “former” homosexuals, when they stop drinking the Kool-Aid and realize, through whatever process they have to endure to get there, that people like Pete and his “ex-gay” cohorts have been selling them a pack of lies dressed up in religious garb, they come to groups like Truth Wins Out, Beyond Ex-Gay and therapeutic groups around the world, to start picking up the pieces of their lives. We always feel for the people who are still trapped in “ex-gay” delusion, because we imagine their psyches are in dark places, indeed, as they try to convince themselves every day that if they just pray hard enough, they’ll be “liberated.” Unfortunately, that “freedom” never comes and they realize that what they’re trying to accomplish isn’t something they should want in the first place, and that no loving God would ever want them to accomplish. The idea that Who A Person Is is evil, sinful and hellbound is among the most evil messages disseminated in this world today, so yeah, if we’re “scolding” the bigots who propagate such disgusting nonsense, and if we save a few lives in the process, so freakin’ be it.

Below is another photo from the “Truth Wins Out” protest, advancing the discredited “gay theology” claim that Jesus was “gay” and had an erotic, homosexual relationship with a beloved disciple (the Apostle John). There is no more crass cliche in the homosexual activist playbook than the preposterous notion that affection between people of the same sex — i.e., great friends – constitutes evidence of homosexuality.

Whatever, I’m not interested in that argument. Some gay Christians ascribe to a theology that includes that possibility, many [probably more of them] do not. Focusing on that sign is really deflecting from the actual point, which is that “ex-gay” businesses hurt people.

Besen and fellow homosexual activists despise the truth that many men and women have overcome homosexuality in their own lives, through faith in God.

Haha, to “despise” that “truth,” we’d have to first see evidence of that “truth.” Still not forthcoming, is it, Pete? I mean, again, Alan Chambers has essentially admitted that what Exodus said for YEARS about change and “overcoming homosexuality” is not true. Exodus is the cornerstone of the movement! Pete! You’re becoming more ridiculous than ever, and that’s saying something.

The Lord asks us to pray for our enemies, so I’m asking you to pray for Wayne Besen and his sidekick, Evan Hurst. They are very deluded and angry men, but ultimately, their beef is with the Creator.

Haha, John Becker doesn’t get any prayers! So there! Anyway. He always thinks we’re angry. I never understand that, but it’s a common wingnut thing. They don’t understand that when we’re making fun of them, we’re simply making fun of them. Peter LaBarbera and his ideological cohort lose followers every day, both when they open their mouths and when new voters turn eighteen. We’re not, um, angry. This is just our job, and the truth of the matter is that when I’m writing pieces like this, I tend to be grinning and listening to super awesome music at the same time. Sometimes I am also chit-chatting with my friends on Facebook. But Peter sees this as SO ANGRY, GRRRRRR!

Projection on his part? Prob’ly. Or a desire to believe that his words have more of an effect than they do. Delusions of grandeur, I think they call that. Anyway, pray for us all you want.

Peter ends his piece by complaining that Exodus isn’t bigoted or irrationally hateful enough for his tastes anymore:

By highlighting Truth Wins Out’s run-of-the-mill homosexualist hatred of Exodus, we do not mean to endorse all of Exodus’ teachings. In fact, this writer — though appreciative of Exodus’ and its president Alan Chambers’ great contributions to Christian overcomers and the pro-family movement – has become alarmed at Exodus’ straying from Scriptural Truth. Regrettably – partly out of a desire to “dialogue” with misguided “gay Christian” advocates – Chambers has become mired in semantic contortions surrounding homosexual “orientation” (an ambiguous modern-day concept not found in the Bible).

Store Brand Kool-Aid Isn’t Real Kool-Aid, Exodus!

Porno Pete says that “homosexual activists” are “reacting furiously” to his censorship of a beautiful photo of a Marine kissing his partner upon returning home. Read this.

Done?

Was that “reacting furiously?” Or was it, as it usually is, simply making fun of him?

These people have no ability whatsoever to discern between actual anger — which would give far more importance to the wingnuts’ words than they deserve — and simple mockery, which is what they deserve.

Pete then cites some other wingnut blog, written by a Mary Ann Kreitzer, who claims to have had friends at the event where the beautiful picture was taken:

When the bus moved the soldiers and their families ran over to welcome each other. My friend’s daughter described the clinch. The gay soldier and his homosexual partner ran to each other and the soldier leaped into the other man’s arms straddling him with his legs as is clearly shown in the photo. Soldiers are supposed to refrain from PDA (public display of affection) while in uniform, but at homecomings there is some leniency.

Yes, ’cause when two people who are in love haven’t seen each other in months, they tend to sort of react when reunited.

Ready for weird?

Interesting that my friend said her daughter described the rather restrained welcomes of the normal families. (In other words no full body hugs pressing private parts together.)

I am just going to venture a guess here, that if the picture showed a woman jumping into the arms of her husband, wrapping her legs around his waist and kissing him, this wingnut writer would not be screaming about HER VAGINA AREA IS TOUCHING HIS PENIS PARTS! Indeed, I doubt that the couple pictured was thinking “We are touching genitals right now!”

Because, despite sexually stunted wingnut protestations to the contrary, not everything is about sex. Seriously.

Keep in mind there were lots of children present. But as the World Net Daily article points out, no one can say one word against this privileged behavior. After all, it’s a new “gay” military world. Let the sodomy in the barracks begin.

Ugh. And if it does, they’re under the same UCMJ as everyone else. These people are disturbed.

Does everybody remember a few days back when our favorite hysterical anti-gay hate group leader, Porno Pete LaBarbera, posted a graphic picture of a diseased anus on his blog, in order to illustrate just how bad gayness is?

Juxtapose that with today, as Peter has posted the now-viral picture of the gay Marine kissing his partner upon arriving back in Hawai’i. But in this case, Peter found the shot too graphic, so he censored the liplock.

Here is the original:

And here is Porno Pete’s version:

Here’s why he did this, I think. Wingnuts like Porno Pete are in absolute denial of reality when it comes to things they fear. Since one of Porno Pete’s greatest fears [which will be realized] is that LGBT people will be accepted fully by society before too long, he’s desperately trying to hide from the reality of this picture, which shows two guys who love each other and who have been away from each other, reuniting the way that couples do. One jumps into the other’s arms, they kiss and for that moment, no one else exists. This is just how that works, and it doesn’t matter whether the couple is straight or gay. So Porno Pete is desperately trying to turn it into something dirty, because the reality of the matter is that the great majority of Americans see a picture like that and not only does it not bother them, but they think it’s sweet.

Because it is.

Joe screen-capped this tweet from Porno Pete about a new proposed law in Alberta:

Wow, that would be just crazy if the Canadian province of Alberta passed a law denying parents the right to teach their children to be little bigots! Homo-fascism indeed!

Of course, that’s not happening in any way, shape or form. Is Porno Pete just excitable, or is he a liar?

Here is what is actually happening. The actual story can even be gleaned from the hysterical “news” article at WingNutDaily, if you read between the lines of abject bigotry and fear:

Homeschooling families will soon be forbidden from teaching that homosexual sex is sinful as part of their schooling program, according to the government of Alberta, Canada. Under the province’s Education Act, homeschoolers and religious schools will be banned from “disrespecting” people’s differences, Alberta Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk’s office told LifeSiteNews just last week. “Whatever the nature of schooling – homeschool, private school, Catholic school – we do not tolerate disrespect for differences,” said Donna McColl, Lukaszuk’s assistant director of communications. “You can affirm the family’s ideology in your family life, you just can’t do it as part of your educational study and instruction.”

So, again, reading between the lines, Alberta is considering a homeschooling curriculum which doesn’t include hate. Parents who happen to be bigots will have to find supplemental materials in order to indoctrinate their children into hate, I suppose. I’m sure they can find appropriate churches for that?

The question, one more time. Porno Pete: excitable/gullible/ravaged by fear of gays around every corner and behind every tree, or just a liar?

Who knows…

We have always made fun of Peter LaBarbera, for his strange proclivities involving trying to “unmask” the gay community by visiting and reporting on leather sex events and the like. His fixation with what a few people do in the bedroom is bizarre and his sensationalistic attempts to use that to hurt the entire LGBT community is sick.

Even I was surprised, though, when I visited his Americans for Truth hate website today, to see that, without warning, on his “pro-family” blog, he had posted a picture of a diseased anus. [If you want to see it for some reason, it's at Americans For Truth Dot Com. I don't link to Peter.]

No, really.

Accompanying the photograph is a report from a supposed medical transcriptionist [she remains anonymous, so who knows] cum wingnut [look it up, Pete, I didn't type what you think I just typed], with a breathless report on just how diseased gay people are. This should be fun.

It’s heartbreaking at times being a medical transcriptionist, typing the medical and psychiatric illnesses of those admitted to hospitals, emergency rooms, mental health units and seen in clinics. People’s pain is what we see every day. Many can be cured, many can’t. Many are in pain or have illness because of lifestyle choices or practices that they will not change. That may be their “right,” but those choices unfortunately have a ripple effect to those around them.

In my 20-plus years typing acute care medical records, at times I have almost ceased to be shocked at what I see. At other times, I continue to be shocked. For those who don’t know what a medical transcriptionist does: Every patient who is admitted to a hospital, seen in an emergency department, or seen by a doctor in a clinic, has a medical chart with the summary of each visit dictated by a physician and transcribed by a medical transcriptionist.

Fantastic. Couldn’t get a real doctor to write the impending screed of bigotry, Peter?

What disturbs me most is the extreme disconnect between what you hear and see in media and in movies, and what children are taught in schools, and what real-life, indisputable medical reports prove. For purposes of this article, we’ll deal with the horrifying physical and emotional maladies and domestic abuse that takes place amongst practicing homosexuals. These patients are seen in all aspects of hospital care including emergency rooms, mental health units, rehabilitation (Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy[PT/OT]) units, surgery and clinics.

Alvin McEwen with the correct answer:

Research tells us that when lgbtqs suffer problems of substance abuse, depression, etc, it’s generally because of the effects of homophobia. Also, that fear of homophobia plays a serious role in gays not going to or trusting their doctors and thereby missing basic health instruction.

No study or research has ever blamed the lgbtq orientation for medical problems.

Very true. Indeed, gay people, when choosing doctors, have to deal with another stress beyond their qualifications, bedside manner and the like: can I completely trust this doctor to care for me without homophobia getting in the way. Surely, it’s becoming less of a problem, as physicians are well-educated people, but it still exists.

Back to the wingnut “medical person”:

Because of privacy issues, I cannot cite the specific contents of the actual medical reports I have transcribed…

Of course not.

Gay-on-Gay Assaults are at the hands of their same-sex domestic partners (not “hate crimes”) and are repetitive. (Reading details of the beatings is highly disturbing.);

Straight people never deal with domestic violence, of course. To the extent that this is an issue, it has nothing to do with sexual orientation, but the gay community needs to work harder to educate people on the fact that, just because there’s no societal rule against boys hitting boys and girls hitting girls, it’s still not okay under any circumstances. Still — can’t use it to condemn gay people.

Besides the many patients with HIV/AIDS, extremely common conditions are patients with penile lesions, testicle swelling and epididymitis*, anal warts, anal lesions, anal tearing, anal scarring, perirectal fistulas, external hemorrhoids with recurrent bleeding and anal abscesses, requiring surgeries such as colectomy, colostomy and colorectal surgery.

Some have rectal cancer (anal cancer).

Pete’s obsession with buttsex continues apace, I see. Like Alvin, I’m suspicious about all of this, as it’s sensationalistic and weird and in no way describes any gay people I’ve ever met. That said, note that it’s all supposedly about gay male sex, while they never have anything to say about lesbians.

Many have substance abuse problems and the resultant psychiatric disorders, depression, suicidality.

Addressed that above. Homophobia, societal acceptance…etc. We still haven’t encountered anything you can blame on sexuality.

Anal Laxity: From my work I have learned that repeated sodomy (or anal sex) results in a condition called anal laxity (looseness) that requires surgery or a colostomy bag in order for the bowels to function properly.

And again, we’re back to Peter’s obsession with people sticking things in their butts. He really should see a therapist. Here’s where the trustworthiness of the piece really comes into question:

When I learn of these types of conditions while typing reports of young and otherwise healthy teenaged patients, it is especially heartbreaking.

Oh my god. So, accompanied by a picture of anal warts, Peter has posted a screed insinuating that not only do all gay men get all these diseases, but also it happens almost immediately, during the teenaged years. How sheltered of a bigot does one have to be to actually believe this stuff?

The questions that continue to run through my mind each time I type one of these situations arising from homosexuality are: “How can this be an act of love between two people?” and “Why are those who speak out against this damaging behavior vilified as intolerant haters?” — and my unanswered question is: “What type of person does this to another person?”

Ugh. Go interview a few loving gay couples who have been together for decades and stop wingnutting out over the stuff you read in your “reports,” and maybe you’ll understand. You’re willing to have your (anonymous) words posted on Porno Pete’s website, though, so you’re probably beyond hope.

Porno Pete is becoming a parody even of himself. This is what happens when bigotry, cowardice and fear become simply socially unacceptable. This is good news for the greater fight for equality, because as the haters reduce themselves in number, they will become notably more hysterical. It’s because they know their movement is dying. So be vigilant about countering this kind of crap, but do understand that this hysteria is simply their reaction to losing.

This quote, from Porno Pete, talking to his new non-husband Patrick Wooden again, is refreshing in its honesty:

Wooden: If you want to get knocked out just go into a male bathroom in the African American community or any community I would think and you’re standing there in a dress and many times the people are trying to hit on people, trying to make sexual responses, one man there, you know, you don’t want to be in there feeling like another man is trying to look at your penis. We’ve always had a hostile response, or a disrespect if you will, for that kind of behavior.

LaBarbera: It used to be common of course, I’ve heard many stories. I remember a story from a military guy, saying a guy came and he was a sailor and they had some temporary little day off at port and some guy hit on him and he decked him.

Wooden: That’s normal.

LaBarbera: When you make a sexual advance against a man on man, that is a normal response, and yet I fear in the rise of political correctness what’s going to happen is, somebody is going to find out that there was a man in his wife’s—his wife was in the restroom when a transgendered man, a biological male, was in the female restroom and he’s gonna punch him, but then the man who punches him is gonna be charged with a hate crime, that’s what I’m afraid of.

Wooden: We’re not promoting, advocating violence here.

LaBarbera: Of course not!

Nah, just reminiscing about the good old days when people didn’t laugh at weak straight men like Porno Pete and Patrick, crying as they are about whether somebody’s looking at their penises in the bathroom. My goodness, boys, do grow up someday.

Right Wing Watch has the audio at the above link.

I think this speaks for itself. Alvin sent this to Peter LaBarbera, in regards to Peter’s newfound obsession with that weird Patrick Wooden rent-a-pastor, as well as their attacks on the NAACP, Al Sharpton and other respected black leaders:

Peter, you are way out of your league here. The NAACP has existed long before you bought your first pair of chaps and your first camera to take photos of gay men which of course is “for research.”

[...]

It doesn’t matter who you drudge up to take part in your silly, unsuccessful attempts to gain attention because when it comes down to it, the black community will pick Al Sharpton, President Obama, and Ben Jealous over you and your cavalcade of jackleg Atlanta and North Carolina pimps masquerading as men of God.

Do everyone a favor, Peter. Slap on some chaps over the pasty butt of yours, strap on a camera, and go back to taking pictures of gay men in lurid acts while secretly wishing that you can take part in them.

That’s all you are good for and nothing else. You see, when it comes to issues of gay equality and the African-American community, adults have the floor and you really need to take heed of the advice that you don’t dip into grown folks’ conversation.

DAMN! Remind me never to anger Alvin…

Also, read his whole post.

Porno Pete had another one of his fireside chats with Patrick Wooden, the man who has made a national joke of himself in the past few weeks by claiming that gay men put iPhones in their butts, that we always have to wear butt plugs, and moreover, that Pam Spaulding would be just great if she found the love of a good man who would give her the business on a regular basis, in the name of God, of course.

It’s an audio interview, which you can hear if you go to Americans For Truth Dot Com, but for now, let’s just make fun of Porno Pete’s intro. He invited D.L. Foster, the “ex-gay” whose self-hatred is so intense that he blames gay children for their own suicides. Stellar cast of characters here:

Homosexual activists have sought to make fun of Wooden for describing in these AFTAH interviews) the body-destroying perversions associated with male homosexuality.

“Sought?” No, we’ve made fun of him handily and successfully, because the unhinged Wooden wingnut doesn’t really know what the hell he’s talking about, but is more than fixated with anal sex, for reasons unknown.

But LaBarbera, noting that the Homosexual Lobby a “sin movement,” says one would expect it to yield heinous perversions like “fisting,” rimming and “water sports” (“gay” slang for men urinating on and in one another for sexual pleasure).

Porno Pete knows these things are common because his photography collection presumably tells him so. Of course, it goes without saying that it’s truly bizarre for these three men to be sitting around obsessing over other people’s sex lives. It’s disturbing.

Foster says that the portrayal of himself, Wooden and other Black leaders who participated in AFTAH’s Jan. 17 press conference [click HERE for audio] outside the Southern Poverty Law Center headquarters as somehow being controlled by “white organizers” “highlights the high level of racist arrogance inside the homosexual movement” – which he said he experienced when he was active as a homosexual. “The white gay movement needs to deal with its own latent racism,” he said. Wooden said he’s never been called “Nigger” so much (by white “gay” activists) than since his interviews with AFTAH went public.

Let’s go backward through this bullshit:

Which white gay activists have called Wooden that name? Prominent ones? Anybody I would know? I highly doubt that. It is true that there is a fair amount of white privilege in the gay community [sort of like how there is a fair amount of white privilege in greater society -- gays don't get a pass], and there is racism to contend with. Certainly. But let us please not be silly and pretend that this is a distinctly “gay” problem. Moreover, it hasn’t just been white activists who have pointed out that Porno Pete and his cohort cynically co-opt black pastors and leaders in order to “prove” [to themselves, I guess, as they're not fooling anyone else] that they’re not bigots. Indeed, Pam Spaulding, who has STILL not heeded Wooden’s suggestion to find a totally hot Christian guy, said this about it the other day:

When those excursions failed to bring in enough dough from conservative little old ladies on Social Security, he found a new gravy train — hooking up (not literally, of course) as other white social conservative anti-gays-for-pay have done, is to trot out groups of rent-a-black pastors to hold sad little press conferences, ostensibly to say “look, we’re not bigots, here are men of God who think you all are diseased/pathological/perverted sinners who don’t deserve civil rights either….AND OUR PEEPS ARE BLACK.”

Enter one Rev. Patrick Wooden, the latest minister to pimp himself to Jesus the professional anti-gay set. He has been hard at work trying to deny LGBT residents in the state of North Carolina any kind of civil rights protections by conflating church and state matters. Actually, it’s worse than that. While he parrots the usual bible-beating lines, he seems to have spent most of the time in the past week displaying his, um, deep interest in unusual purported sex acts (gay men using iPhones, gerbils, etc. as sex toys) that makes you wonder what his sermons must be like (or based on).

Unless she’s really put one over on us and is indeed a “white gay activist,” I have it on good authority that Pam is a black woman. Wooden and Foster perhaps are unable to see the way that white conservative Christian male leaders use them, but that is their problem. Not Pam’s. Not mine.

Foster and LaBarbera talk about the case of Jesse Dirkhising, a 13-year-old Arkansas boy who was raped and grotesquely sodomized in 1999 by two older homosexual men who left him for dead after drugging, gagging and penetrating him with foreign objects including a cucumber.

A heinous crime. You’ll find no gay activist or run-of-the-mill person saying anything different. Of course, pedophilia and murder are two things that Porno Pete, D.L. Foster, Wayne Besen and I agree are grotesque, awful things. It’s truly perverted that, thirteen years later, these men are sitting around dredging up this tragedy in order to further their insipid campaign against gay people. I mean, it’s not like self-identified straight people have ever raped and killed children, is it, Pete and friends? Moreover, are we to ignore the reality that pedophilia is much more prevalent among straight-identified people, or that every honest researcher who has looked into the matter has found no correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia? Should we use the thousands of cases of straight people abusing and killing children in order to argue against the heterosexual lifestyle? I think not. But then again, my side of the culture war has integrity. Porno Pete’s does not.

Okay, I’m bored now. As I said, if you want to listen to the whole interview, go to Porno Pete’s Dungeon of “Pro-Family” Doom And Fetish Photography.