Was it something we said?
If you have read my post below about our friend Peter and his talking about rimming, please be aware that he has pulled the post.
And it's a real shame too because so many of us "evil radical gays" was having so much fun with him over it.
Oh well, now that it is gone, time to go back to work in "taking over the world."
Analyzing and refuting the inaccuracies lodged against the lgbt community by religious conservative organizations. Lies in the name of God are still lies.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Geez! What is with these people?
You all have read it. You know what I am going to talk about.
Just when I think that our friend Peter LaBarbera can't stoop any lower, he breaks out the shovel.
Now he is talking about "rimming," or sexually stimulating the anal region with one's tongue?
And why is he doing this? To play the "gay people are so damned nasty game." He makes the claim that rimming is:
a revolting homosexual act that most heterosexuals have never heard of, but which is commonplace among “gay” men.
What I want to know is how in the hell does he know?
While I'm sure that many of my colleagues will treat Peter's rumination over rimming like the mockery it is, I would like to reflect on the reason why he felt it necessary to talk about such an "interesting" subject.
People for the American Way sheds some light on Peter's obsessions in an excellent piece that looked at a recent gathering of anti-gay industry talking heads:
Peter LaBarbera of the Illinois Family Institute, an organization that recently called on President Bush and Congress to rescind waivers “for HIV-infected travelers participating in or attending the ‘Gay Games” in Chicago on the grounds that they posed a health hazard, noted that the Right has, thus far, been unable to make the American public understand just how gross and unnatural homosexual behavior really is.
LaBarbera then read aloud to the crowd of middle-aged audience members, a graphically explicit posting from a “pro-gay website” describing the unpleasant physical side effects of male anal intercourse, concluding that such information needs to be shared with the public, especially young people, so that they can understand the true nature of such gross, unnatural and dangerous behavior.
LaBarbera then called for anti-gay activists to regain the offensive by constantly reminding people that homosexual behavior is always wrong and that they must stop “downplaying their opposition” to homosexuality. More importantly, they must work to “bring shame back” to those who are practicing or defending homosexuality.
It's sad that Peter seems to link us wild sexual behavior. Is it really a need to talk about truth on his part or a passive aggressive degree of jealousy?
Draw your own conclusions.
In more important news, two items:
April is around the corner, which means it is time for the annual Day of Silence. Unfortunately the anti-gay industry seeks to combat this with "Day of Truth."
I see that Peter wants to people to send him the names of the schools who take part in the Day of Silence. I think he and others have got something sinister in mind. We should get ready to combat their lies.
They claim to want to use the day to speak the "truth" about homosexuality. However (and this is a small excerpt from my book) take a gander at what they want school kids to repeat about our community:
One of the efforts of the Allied Defense Fund is "Day of Truth," which is supposed to combat "Day of Silence," a national campaign created to bring attention to the bullying of gay and lesbian students in America’s schools.
ADF’s "Day of Truth" resources and literature, like all resources of the anti-gay industry, is filled with distortions. Case in point is the handout, The Ten Biggest Myths of Homosexual Behavior:
The handout claims that "homosexual behavior is at much higher risk for many sexually transmitted diseases, including not just HIV, but also syphilis, gonorrhea, human papilloma virus (HPV), hepatitis, chlamydia, and a whole group of infections called ‘gay bowel syndrome." But . . . "gay bowel syndrome" is an obsolete medical term that medical practitioners do not use.
The handout also makes the following claim:"The Centers for Disease Control have found that 60 percent of new cases of HIV infection are men who have had sex with men, and also that the number of homosexual men who admittedly neglect to use condoms is rising. Homosexual victims of AIDS, they found, had an average 1,100 sexual partners in their lifetimes. They estimated that 30 percent of 20-year-old homosexual men will be HIV positive or dead before they reach their thirtieth birthday." This claim is a blatant lie. The CDC has said that it does not collect statistics on the life span of gay men.
Let's not get so caught at Peter's need to talk about rimming that we forget the danger that him and other groups (i,e, Mission America) pose to our lgbt children.
Lastly, I see Tony Dungy, coach of the Indianapolis Colts, had some words to say at an anti-gay industry banquet in which he was being honored. Apparently he is for the ban against gay marriage:
The Super Bowl-winning coach "embraced" the stance of an Indiana organization supporting an amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriages, and he added Tuesday night at a gathering of the Indiana Family Institute that he's "on the Lord's side."
"We're not trying to downgrade anyone else," said Dungy, coach of the Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts. "But we're trying to promote the family — family values the Lord's way," Dungy said. "IFI is saying what the Lord says. You can take that and make your decision on which way you want to be."
This is my response:
Dear Mr. Dungy,
You have a right to your opinion and I honor that right. However, I should remind you that finally winning a Superbowl (that you couldn't lead your team to when you had the best record in the AFC) does not give you any type of special knowledge of just what is "God's side" in the complex issues of our world. Please be advised that the Bible that I assume you follow does not say "And God created Heaven and Earth and gave Tony Dungy special status to be on his side and to know his mysteries."
If I am wrong and you have the correct clarification of this, please let me know.
Until then, I would like to make a small suggestion that you do not mistake your awards and status as any type of designation to tell the rest of us just what is God's side in the complex matters of this world, including the issue of same-sex marriage.
But just in case I am wrong and you do possess some special conduit to God, could you ask him just why in the world does Peter LaBarbera like to focus on rimming?
You all have read it. You know what I am going to talk about.
Just when I think that our friend Peter LaBarbera can't stoop any lower, he breaks out the shovel.
Now he is talking about "rimming," or sexually stimulating the anal region with one's tongue?
And why is he doing this? To play the "gay people are so damned nasty game." He makes the claim that rimming is:
a revolting homosexual act that most heterosexuals have never heard of, but which is commonplace among “gay” men.
What I want to know is how in the hell does he know?
While I'm sure that many of my colleagues will treat Peter's rumination over rimming like the mockery it is, I would like to reflect on the reason why he felt it necessary to talk about such an "interesting" subject.
People for the American Way sheds some light on Peter's obsessions in an excellent piece that looked at a recent gathering of anti-gay industry talking heads:
Peter LaBarbera of the Illinois Family Institute, an organization that recently called on President Bush and Congress to rescind waivers “for HIV-infected travelers participating in or attending the ‘Gay Games” in Chicago on the grounds that they posed a health hazard, noted that the Right has, thus far, been unable to make the American public understand just how gross and unnatural homosexual behavior really is.
LaBarbera then read aloud to the crowd of middle-aged audience members, a graphically explicit posting from a “pro-gay website” describing the unpleasant physical side effects of male anal intercourse, concluding that such information needs to be shared with the public, especially young people, so that they can understand the true nature of such gross, unnatural and dangerous behavior.
LaBarbera then called for anti-gay activists to regain the offensive by constantly reminding people that homosexual behavior is always wrong and that they must stop “downplaying their opposition” to homosexuality. More importantly, they must work to “bring shame back” to those who are practicing or defending homosexuality.
It's sad that Peter seems to link us wild sexual behavior. Is it really a need to talk about truth on his part or a passive aggressive degree of jealousy?
Draw your own conclusions.
In more important news, two items:
April is around the corner, which means it is time for the annual Day of Silence. Unfortunately the anti-gay industry seeks to combat this with "Day of Truth."
I see that Peter wants to people to send him the names of the schools who take part in the Day of Silence. I think he and others have got something sinister in mind. We should get ready to combat their lies.
They claim to want to use the day to speak the "truth" about homosexuality. However (and this is a small excerpt from my book) take a gander at what they want school kids to repeat about our community:
One of the efforts of the Allied Defense Fund is "Day of Truth," which is supposed to combat "Day of Silence," a national campaign created to bring attention to the bullying of gay and lesbian students in America’s schools.
ADF’s "Day of Truth" resources and literature, like all resources of the anti-gay industry, is filled with distortions. Case in point is the handout, The Ten Biggest Myths of Homosexual Behavior:
The handout claims that "homosexual behavior is at much higher risk for many sexually transmitted diseases, including not just HIV, but also syphilis, gonorrhea, human papilloma virus (HPV), hepatitis, chlamydia, and a whole group of infections called ‘gay bowel syndrome." But . . . "gay bowel syndrome" is an obsolete medical term that medical practitioners do not use.
The handout also makes the following claim:"The Centers for Disease Control have found that 60 percent of new cases of HIV infection are men who have had sex with men, and also that the number of homosexual men who admittedly neglect to use condoms is rising. Homosexual victims of AIDS, they found, had an average 1,100 sexual partners in their lifetimes. They estimated that 30 percent of 20-year-old homosexual men will be HIV positive or dead before they reach their thirtieth birthday." This claim is a blatant lie. The CDC has said that it does not collect statistics on the life span of gay men.
Let's not get so caught at Peter's need to talk about rimming that we forget the danger that him and other groups (i,e, Mission America) pose to our lgbt children.
Lastly, I see Tony Dungy, coach of the Indianapolis Colts, had some words to say at an anti-gay industry banquet in which he was being honored. Apparently he is for the ban against gay marriage:
The Super Bowl-winning coach "embraced" the stance of an Indiana organization supporting an amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriages, and he added Tuesday night at a gathering of the Indiana Family Institute that he's "on the Lord's side."
"We're not trying to downgrade anyone else," said Dungy, coach of the Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts. "But we're trying to promote the family — family values the Lord's way," Dungy said. "IFI is saying what the Lord says. You can take that and make your decision on which way you want to be."
This is my response:
Dear Mr. Dungy,
You have a right to your opinion and I honor that right. However, I should remind you that finally winning a Superbowl (that you couldn't lead your team to when you had the best record in the AFC) does not give you any type of special knowledge of just what is "God's side" in the complex issues of our world. Please be advised that the Bible that I assume you follow does not say "And God created Heaven and Earth and gave Tony Dungy special status to be on his side and to know his mysteries."
If I am wrong and you have the correct clarification of this, please let me know.
Until then, I would like to make a small suggestion that you do not mistake your awards and status as any type of designation to tell the rest of us just what is God's side in the complex matters of this world, including the issue of same-sex marriage.
But just in case I am wrong and you do possess some special conduit to God, could you ask him just why in the world does Peter LaBarbera like to focus on rimming?