A few days ago, LaBarbera posted a piece which claimed that the book company which published Jennings' book is "pro-pedophile" because of several other books which it published.
And in other news, the police are coming to arrest me since my cousin whom I hugged at the family reunion (which I didn't have to attend but decided to) robbed that bank.
I should get 10 years.
The real issue here is a response which LaBarbera received because of his smear and his answer to the response; both of which he published:
The email:
Gee, that’s huge! Does he also drive the same make car as Ted Bundy? And why are you still pushing that lie about an “underage” boy, when we now know [Brewster — a sophomore student counseled by Jennings after the boy had a sexual encounter with an older man] he was not underage? [The Age of Consent in Massachusetts is 16.] Have you no shame at all?
LaBarbera's response:
Dear Sir, it appears that it is you who has no shame. Yes, we think it’s scandalous to be linked in any way to an organization that encourages predatory, exploitative man-boy sex. It would be like signing up with a pro-Nazi publishing house. And in my mind, under 18 is “under age.” How sad and pathetic that your “gay” movement is resting on the technicality that Brewster was (allegedly) 16 and not 15 (as his teacher Jennings recollected) — to absolve Jennings of his reckless counsel to the boy.
In LaBarbera's response, we see the mindset of all religious right groups -when the truth is not to your liking, create a new truth. Make inaccurate judgements and accusations but never admit you are wrong even when you have been proven wrong.
And above all, put up a front. LaBarbera sounds so proper in responding to that email, it's almost as if he wore white gloves when typing it.
I laughed loudly when reading it because that's not the response he gave me when I also emailed him about the situation with Brewster a few weeks ago. This was his response:
you are a fool, Alvin . . . Kevin Jennings is a lying, reckless, anti-Christian bigot. It's no wonder you are defending him.
That is LaBarbera's true face and that of the religious right. Some people will allow themselves to be fooled (i.e. some vestiges of the news media), but we who have been the victims of their invectives should never be fooled.
It's becoming increasingly obvious the Pete LaBarbera is a pathetic, foolish assclown.
ReplyDeleteHis grip on reality was very tenuous to begin with, but even that is slowly slipping away as he, himself, slides into obscurity.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! Looky there, Porno Pete put my email on his web page! But only the first one. (I was taken aback when I saw the email posted here, I hadn't realized that he'd put it up on his site.)
ReplyDeleteI just wrote him and challenged him to post my response to his response. I doubt that he will, but you can if you want.
This is it:
we think it's scandalous to be linked in any way to an organization that encourages exploitative man-boy sex.
Then I take it that you have no ties to the Catholic church? Have they not encouraged exploitative man-boy sex by covering up the predators in the clergy? By moving them around and not warning people? By repeatedly allowing them access to boys when they know what will happen?
In "your mind" under 18 may be under age, but the law does not exist in your mind, and according to the law, he was of age. But then, the boy had not had relations with an older man, so what, exactly, do you think Jennings is guilty of? Giving someone bad advice? Should everyone who has ever given bad advice in their life lose their job? Also, Kevin Jennings told that story a number of times, during which he varied the name and age of the boy. This was not because he couldn't remember, it was because he was trying to shield the young man's privacy.
Neither my, nor anyone else's "gay movement" is resting on the technicality of the young man's age to absolve Jennings. He needs no absolution because he has done nothing wrong. You are merely trying to disgrace him on the basis of something that is simply "in your mind," but does not exist in the real world.
If you are so anxious to protect the children, why don't you shut down Catholic boarding schools?
Oh, and he didn't answer my second email, either. Of course, if he's going to get as rude as he did with you, perhaps that's a good thing.
ReplyDeleteNow Cold Country, it's not right to tease the mentally infirmed. LOL.
ReplyDeleteSeriously - good job!