And my best ally in that matter has been him. But today, I think he stooped to a level which even shocks me.
Today, he has decided to post on his site a picture of an STD - anal warts - close up.
Accompanying that morbid picture, he features a guest post from Lara Melton, a woman who has allegedly spent 20 years typing acute care medical record.
Melton proceeds to make the following claims:
Because of privacy issues, I cannot cite the specific contents of the actual medical reports I have transcribed – but the following are some general examples of what they reveal [Editor’s note: AFTAH has added web links giving further information about these maladies]:
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.);
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). [See Cancer.org; UCSF;
Many have substance abuse problems and the resultant psychiatric disorders, depression, suicidality.
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.
Research tells us that when lgbtqs suffer problems of substance abuse, depression, etc, it's generally because 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.
As for the other stuff Melton alleges, I have a problem its truthfulness, particularly the parts regarding "anal laxity." It's no secret that LaBarbera seems to be on this kick about gay men and "loose bowels" ever since that awful five-part interview with homophobic diaper pastor Patrick Wooden. During the interview, Wooden claimed that gay men have so much sex that they require surgery and diapers. He also claimed that gay men use gerbils and cell phones as sexual instruments.
However, it seems that perhaps LaBarbera is garnering negative attention from his obsession with this mess, hence the need to refer to a "mysteriously anonymous" typist of medical reports.
And also because of his need to post a close-up picture of anal warts.
Now we may shudder in disgust when looking at LaBarbera's page or laugh at his psychological need to go off the deep end when attacking the lgbtq community, but let's not forget one thing.
LaBabera is a living, breathing embodiment of homophobia. He puts stuff like this on his page to demonize us, to make us look like monsters in the eyes of others.But his stridency backfires and he ends up looking like the monster.
But there are others out there who can temper themselves (i.e. the National Organization for Marriage, the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, Maggie Gallagher, Peter Sprigg) and push a better balance between stigmatizing the lgbtq community and pretending to be concerned experts.
Watch them. They are the real dangers.
these people are just sick homophobes...thats the bottom line...sick homophobes
ReplyDeleteThere has to be a way to charge him with harassment of some kind.
ReplyDeleteIf Porno Pete's site is to be believed, the person who transcribes medical records has no more real medical knowledge than your average person on the street does.
ReplyDeleteI know this for a fact because I actually DO work with medical records and have for greater than 11 years now.
You want to know what I'VE seen in those thousands of medical records as it pertains to LGBT people?
I see co-parents referred to as "room mates", I see loving partners of decades referred to as "the friend who brought them to the hospital" and on and on.
I've also seen straight (as far as I can tell from the medical record) women with perirectal fistulas and no one blames her heterosexual lifestyle. Ive seen straight (as far as I can tell from the medical record) men with penile lesions and no one blames his heterosexual lifestyle.
The worst are the (very very few thankfully) young girl children who've been sexually assaulted by there otherwise heterosexual fathers.
I had a conversation with a friend of my sister's once. She was, at the time, an ER nurse. I asked her about the stories of guys coming in with items up their ass. She told me that yeah, she'd seen some interesting things but that it wasn't just men but women. And it wasn't just gays or lesbians but straight men who were drunk. Seems most of the cases, both men and women, are because they get dared to do something. Her worst story was someone who'd stuck a light bulb partially inside and then been paddled, causing the bulb to break. That required an OR, not just the ER. So it's not just gays who do such things.
ReplyDeleteMy closest friend worked as an ER clerk for years. There were only two times (in 9 years) where something bizarre was inside of a person, and in both cases, they were straight, hetero men, in one case a man over 70!
ReplyDeleteThe stuff LaBarbera is posting on his site IS pornography, very sick pornography. He truly lives up to his monicker - Porno Pete.
I just have to share. It happens that my first job, in the small town where I lived, was an after-school gig as a medical records transcriptionist in a doctor's office. I may have been somewhat less qualified than typical--mostly I had the ability to type and I was moderately inexpensive. I had decent spelling sense and the doc was willing to spell out some of the words as he transcribed them. My point is that transcribing medical records does not make a person any kind of medical specialist. At best, it makes one a person with some specialized spelling skill who had the opportunity to be a voyeur in other people's medical records.
ReplyDeleteGeez, did you really have to repost the picture of the anal wart with your headline?
ReplyDeleteDon't be mean and insult anal warts by comparing them to LaBarbera. lol
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