Clown Car of Anti-Gay Hate Group Leaders Unloads in Front of HRC Headquarters: VIDEO

The Human Rights Campaign has posted a highlight video of Peter "Porno Pete" LaBarbera's parade of jokers who picketed in front of its headquarters yesterday.

Have a laugh, AFTER THE JUMP...

Some choice quotes from LaBarbera:

"The escalation of homosexual power is bad for America....The deviant sexual revolution represented by the HRC headquarters behind us is built on a foundation of lies....You could fill a small book with the fake gay hate crimes that have been staged over the years....Most sins don't get their own Pride parade."

From Mission America's Linda Harvey: "And children will be led into darkness, deception, and sin... HRC wants children to embrace the stress and anxiety of gender confusion. How wicked."

From Diane Gromley, American Family Association: "What is their to be proud of when the sexual activity in which one chooses to engage leads to increased health risk and early death...Gay is definitely not okay as the human body responds to being misused during unnatural homosexual sex."

From Patrick Mangan, Citizens for Community Values of Indiana: "There are thousands of former homosexuals in our country today and it is estimated that there are more who have come out of it than are in it....This is not a civil right. What is being asked for is special rights...blah blah blah The Poison Tree."

Also Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber and Eric Holmberg of Apologetics Group.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Wayne Besen: A Gunman's 'Associate'? A 'Murderous Homosexual'?

Getting Wayne Besen off The O'Reilly Factor has, in the past 48 hours, become an obsession on the anti-gay right. Andrew Belonsky wrote about its first stirrings on Thursday, when several ex-gay groups jointly published a press release directed at FOX News, the nastiest paragraph of which might have been:

We ask the News Corporation, Fox News, and Bill O'Reilly to find more ethical spokespersons for the liberal view of sexuality. In their infamous Washington Post ad accusing FRC of hateful values, Besen and the SPLC claim that "words have consequences."  Yes, they do. And Besen's may lead to violence.

Wayne Besen is the founder of Truth Wins Out, and he occasionally appears on television to say nice things about the Southern Poverty Law Center -- the same Southern Poverty Law Center that's labeled the Family Research Center a "hate group" (partially because the FRC has stumped for legislation legalizing the execution of "repeat homosexual offenders" in Uganda), and who, therefore, are supposedly responsible for last week's non-fatal shooting of an FRC security guard by a crazyperson.

Now, the anti-Besenites have become totally unglued. They've penned a petition, bound for FOX News and signed by such headlining homophobes as Scott Lively, Matt Barber, Matt Staver, and Peter LaBarbera, in which they accuse Besen of being an "associate" of the FRC gunman. They ask readers to sign the petition, and finish off with this PS:

P.S. Thank you for standing with us against anti-Christian violence by murderous homosexuals.  Please forward this free petition widely to your friends!

Even Peter LaBarbera -- even Bryan Fischer -- has never before gone quite so far as to call a famous, non-violent gay activist "murderous." This is usually Fred Phelps's territory.

Wayne Besen responds here.

International Gayhaters Vs. Prague Pride And Friends

Tomorrow, Czechs will celebrate Pride in Prague, and the US State Department's helping. Exactly what the State Department's up to is difficult to know without reading Czech, but the US Embassy is, at the very least, promoting Pride like mad on its website. 

The embassy is very clear on why it's gotten involved:

Prague Pride Festival will focus on the topic of minorities within the LGBT community. The main goal of this Festival is to address discriminatory behavior based on sexual orientation and to promote a tolerant civil society and equal opportunities in the Czech Republic.

Tolerance! Equal opportunities! The embassy doesn't even mention "marriage"! 

Still, some Americans are upset. Elite homophobes of the United States and elsewhere have come together to protest with a very angry letter:

We the undersigned pro-family and pro-life leaders vigorously protest the participation of the United States Embassy in the Czech Republic in a so-called gay-pride parade which will take place on August 18.

As representatives of the international pro-family movement, we note the following:

The full list of complaints is tediously long, but includes:

At the directive of the president of the United States, Washington is aggressively promoting the “gay’’ agenda internationally, including same-sex “marriage” and the stigmatization and marginalization of any who object to the same. 

And:

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted by the General Assembly on December 10, 1948) provides that “Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family.” 

And: 

The Madrid Declaration of World Congress of Families VI (May 25-27, 2012) -- which was unanimously adopted by more than 3,200 delegates from 72 countries -- provides, in part: “We affirm the natural family to be the union of a man and a woman through marriage for the purposes of sharing love and joy, propagating children, providing their moral education, building a vital home economy, offering security in times of trouble, and binding the generations.” 

(This is an odd thing to mention, because the World Congress of Families, an international collection of anti-science, hyper-religious wackadoos, has no authority over anything but itself.)

And:

We can not imagine a worse form of cultural imperialism than Washington trying to force approval of the “gay” agenda on societies with traditional values. 

The letter also includes a shout-out to Czech gayhater Michal Semin, who asserts on his webpage that the site of the first-ever Pride celebration was ancient Sodom.

Signatories of note include Scott Lively, Linda Harvey, Peter LaBarbera, Tom Wildmon, Tom DeLay, and, most troublingly, Nigeria's Theresa Okafor, who runs the anti-gay Foundation For African Cultural Heritage. 

(HT: RightWingWatch.)

'Ex-Gay' Activist Calls for Arrest of Dan Savage for Lying to Gay Teens with 'It Gets Better' Project': VIDEO

Self-loathing "ex-gay" activist DL Foster tells Peter 'porno Pete' LaBarbera, on La Barbera's Americans For Truth About Homosexuality Radio Hour, that he thinks Dn Savage should be arrested for the "It Gets Better" project because gay teens are still killing themselves after believing his message, Right Wing Watch reports.

Says Foster: "I think he—personally—I think he should be arrested for propagating this lie to—for these kids to have this false promise without any sort of information on what is ‘it’ anyway? It’s really so vile to me that it disturbs me to even talk about it."

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Does Pam Spaulding Needs A Man To Rock Her World?

Two weeks ago, Pam Spaulding of Pam's House Blend blogged eloquently about the tendency of marriage equality opponents to enlist the support of black ministers to assure nervous Christians that, no, marriage equality isn't a civil rights issue. She referrred specifically to Dr. Patrick Wooden of the Upper Room Church in Raleigh, who was to join the execrable Peter LaBarbera (of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality) at a protest at the Southern Poverty Law Center. She referred to Dr. Wooden as a "a vigorous rent-a-reverend who never fails to get face time with the professional bigot brigade."

LaBarbera and Wooden read that, and hashed over it in an interview in which they discuss, in all seriousness, how much happier Pam will be once she discovers God, motherhood, and penises:

Dr. Wooden: Pam needs Jesus. And, and when Pam meets the Lord that yearning for a member of the same sex will change, and uh, you know what? She’d probably make a fantastic mother, and would enjoy having a husband who was born male -- no Chaz Bono business -- born male – and meet her man, and rock her world. In the name of the Lord!

Pete LaBarbera: She's uh, you know, you're right about the hatrd. You expect the hatred to come. This is a perversion movement, folks.

First, of course, Dr. Wooden made a great show of explaining how much he loved Pam and how much he'd like to take her to lunch. Because that's how one demonstrates love for strangers, isn't it? Tell them what to put in their vaginas, and then offer to demonstrate your groovy paternalism over sandwiches and Cokes? 

You can read a lengthy transcript from the interview at Pam's House Blend, as well as Pam's very funny commentary. You can also listen to four minutes of the interview AFTER THE JUMP ...

AFTAH Explains The Real Tragedy Of Penn State Scandal

Yesterday, the president of Americans For The Truth About Homosexuality, Peter LaBarbera, issued a press release in which he explained the real tragedy at the heart of Penn State defensive coach Jerry Sandusky's serial rape of an untold number of pre-adolescent boys over an untold stretch of years: Some of the victims may grow up to be gay.

Wrote LaBarbera:

Thus, how many boy victims of homosexual predator Sandusky will end up believing that being homosexual (“gay”) is “who they are”? How many will struggle with sexual identity issues? And how many will be told by LGBT advocates and liberal-minded people just to “accept being gay” as “who they are” because they were “born that way”?

Let's remember: LaBarbera and his allies believe that unrepentant LGBT folk will spend all of eternity basting in a lake of fire. Furthermore, LaBarbera believes that even the grossest sinner can gain entrance to eternal paradise should he feelingfully repent before he croaks. Which means LaBarbera believes something like the following: 1) Child is born; 2) Child is raped; 3) Child's sexuality is scrambled by said rape; 4) The creator of the universe is angry at both adult rapist and child rapee; 5) Adult rapist repents; 6) Child rapee does not; 7) Rapist enjoys happiness forever, untouched by pity for his erstwhile child rapee, who spends all of eternity convulsed in unspeakable agony.

Furthermore, Peter LaBarbera believes that "God is love," and that secular society is immoral, cruel, and heartless. He is, in other words, very confused.