Peter LaBarbera and Matt Barber lie about Joe Solmonese - perfect example of distortions and bigotry
Matt Barber of Concerned Women for America, Peter LaBarbera and the rest of the anti-gay industry like to constantly beat the same tired drum of lies, claiming that the gay community wants to endanger America and silence Christians.
They are telling blatant lies, of course. And today's posting on the Americans for Truth (in name only) site is a perfect example of this:
Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s leading homosexual pressure group, says the federal ban on accepting blood donations from “men who have sex with men” is “discriminatory
The entire article talks about comments Solmonese made regarding the CDC ban on accepting donations from men who have sex with men.
Its a well written piece, being sure to include all of the anti-gay industry talking points of so-called Biblical admonitions against homosexuality, distortions of old articles (an article from 2006 relating how gay activists in South Africa were allegedly trying to taint the blood supply there - having of course nothing to do with the United States), and even a little mention of our friend Sally Kern.
The article pretty much attacks Solmonese for comments he made regarding the CDC ban:
Solmonese recently placed politics over science, falsely declaring this commonsense public health precaution to be “discriminatory.” He has called for the ban to be lifted, with the wildly irresponsible claim that, “[T]here is no medical or scientific rationale for this discriminatory policy.”
But it omits something very important; something very crucial.
The entire controversy over Solmonese's comments came about last week, as this Concerned Women for America press release proves.
Solmonese's comments came about because of a hearing at the Food and Drug Administration in which the American Red Cross, the American Association of Blood Banks and America’s Blood Centers all said that the ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with men since 1977 should be lifted.
Solmonese was merely commenting on this testimony.
Now the links to Solmonese's comments on the Americans for Truth (in name only) web page are to a January 2008 article regarding a Seattle blood bank.
It seemed that Barber knew about the testimony from the hearing and rather than being forced to mention the parts about the American Red Cross, the American Association of Blood Banks, and the America's Blood Centers, he decided to dig and find earlier comments from Solmonese about the CDC ban.
The following comment is on both the original CWA press release and the article on LaBarbera's web page:
Solmonese recently placed politics over science, falsely declaring this commonsense public health precaution to be “discriminatory.” He has called for the ban to be lifted, with the wildly irresponsible claim that, “[T]here is no medical or scientific rationale for this discriminatory policy.”
Now some may say big deal, this doesn't mean anything.
But that mindset is wrong.
The original press release by Barber and company had to do with Solmonese's comments about the hearing. But because Solmonese's comments were backed up by credible officials from the American Red Cross, the American Association of Blood Banks, and America's Blood Centers, attacking Solmonese over them would have been futile.
So Barber or his cohorts dug up comments by Solmonese from two months ago talking about the very same subject. That way, they didn't have to mention the hearing or the organizations whom Solmonese's comments were referring to. They could continue to push forth the false image of the "reckless homosexual who will endanger America while pursuing his agenda."
Some people may not see that there is anything wrong with what Barber and company did but I think there is.
It's unethical and highly irresponsible.
Attempting to distort someone's comments is bad but the fact that these folks are doing it in the name of Christian values goes beyond the pale.
You see this is a perfect example of the levels that some people will stoop to in order to demonize the lgbt community. They claim to have nothing but love in their hearts but with their poison pens filled with enough venom to kill a herd of elephants they work little by little to dehumanize the lgbt community.
My question is how low can they stoop after this?
Nothing will shock me anymore.
"WASHINGTON - March 14 - Last week, the Food and Drug Administration heard testimony from the American Red Cross, the American Association of Blood Banks and America’s Blood Centers that the ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with men since 1977 should be lifted. Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese released the following statement:
ReplyDeleteTwentieth century prejudice shouldn’t keep us from 21st century health standards. Our nation’s leading blood services organizations agree that there is no rational justification for treating gay and bisexual men different than straight men. Given modern testing and the fact that anyone can be vulnerable to infection, there is no medical or scientific rationale for this discriminatory policy."
But it’s the gay guy [Solomonese] who’s all wrong about this? Not the American Red Cross, the American Association of Blood Banks and America’s Blood Centers?
Makes one wonder why the FDA doesn’t consider the unofficial testimony of Peter LaBarbera and Matt Barber to be legitimate, or noteworthy at all...
What could be clearer evidence of "Christian" persecution?
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Gee Willikers, there’s more?
"It’s a self-evident reality which is bolstered by medical science, but Scripture additionally reminds us in both the Old and New Testaments that those who choose to engage in homosexual conduct do so at their own peril.
Consider Romans 1:26-27 (NIV), which a presidential candidate recently referred to as an “obscure passage in Romans”: “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.”"
First of all, the Old Testament doesn’t talk about female homosexuality, therefore, Scripture DOES NOT "reminds us in both the Old and New Testaments that those who choose to engage in homosexual conduct do so at their own peril."
So, just a thought for the next time Mr. LaBarbera, you might want to brush up on your own religion before buffooning yourself on the world wide web.
That said, yes, let’s consider Romans 1:26-27, as you’ve so eloquently repeated from “the Bible” above. But all you’ve really done is attempt to relay your own personal disdain for same sex attraction, in an of itself --- unnatural, indecent, lust, etc. Big whoop die do, run for your lies. (sic)
Now, if the next part of that Scripture, which describes yourself and your good friend Mr. Barber were actually indicative of same-gender attraction--in and of itself, then you’d have a point.
But you don’t, and it doesn’t, but as I just said, it does however describe yourself and your good friend Matt Barber TO A TEE:
The quintessential descriptors of Peter LaBarbera and Matt Barber (and ilk), in and of themselves, AND I QUOTE:
Romans 1:28-32:
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Do you really think God had to come down here to tell you to be masculine men, to the point of cultural barbarism?
You two pups are in deep deep doo-doo.