Double standard? You got that right

I like to read One News Now because it is one of the best examples of anti-gay propaganda.

It pretends to be a Christian new source, but under the cover of religion, it prints biased and one-sided articles that generally portrays lgbts as predators and such.

But today, something caught my eye:

Attorney: Legal system favors female sexual predators

The lenient sentence handed down to a female teacher who sexually abused five male students is proof of a double standard in America's legal system, says prominent pro-family attorney Pat Trueman.

Allena Ward, 24, of Laurens, South Carolina, was sentenced this week to six years in prison after she admitted to having sex with five of her teenage students. "I wish healing for each person affected by my carelessness. And I offer my deepest and most sincere apologies to these young men," Ward apologizes.

But Pat Trueman, special counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, says Ward's crimes were not the result of "carelessness" but the conscious choices of a sexual predator. Her victims were children, he says, not "young men." And, he adds, things would have been different if Ward had been male and her victims had been girls . . .

What was interesting about this article was what it did not contain. There were no quotes from Peter LaBarbera or Matt Barber or any of the so-called critics of culture.

If the situation had something to do with a man molesting a male child or a female molesting a female child, the article would have been filled with junk science about how gays are most likely to molest children.

I even suspect our friend, Paul Cameron would be cited.

Really, anyone molesting a child is a criminal. But apparently in the eyes of One News Now, a person molesting a same-sex child deserves a special designation as a "homosexual" (even though such is generally not the case). And the article must be an inference as to how "evil" homosexuality is.

But if a woman molests a male child, then attention must be paid to the individual criminal rather than the orientation of the criminal.

How very "fair." (yes that is sarcasm)

The success of a lie

They say that a lie can travel around the world before the truth has time to put its shoes on.

This is very true in Maryland at the moment.

Apparently fear stories of men invading women's restrooms and hoaxes involving men in women's gym locker rooms have their uses.

Opponents of allowing the county's an anti-discrimination law to include transgendered people have turned more than 28,000 signatures into the Board of Elections to bring the legislation up to a vote by county residents.

The group, Citizens for Responsible Government, formed after the County Council passed the legislation last year, needed 5 percent, or 25,001 valid signatures for the referendum in the November balloting.

So if enough signatures are valid, there will be a referendum this November regarding the appeal of the anti-discrimination laws.

Now the way Citizens for Responsible Government went about gathering signatures was just wrong.

I talked about it before and it bears repeating. They told people the law actually allows men to invade women's locker rooms and rest rooms.

I am not kidding. I saw a news program where Lisa Gundling, woman gathering signatures, was interviewed. She actually told the interviewer that the law would allow men to enter women's rest rooms. She even actually said that the men don't have to go to any trouble of dressing up like women.

Don't believe me? Check out this link.

Also, from what I understand, the group was allegedly helped by pastors who told their congregations that the new law would lead to men invading women's restrooms. And to top it all off, it is possible that they staged a hoax involving a man dressed in women's attire going into a local gym's ladies locker room.

Talk about pulling out all of the stops. Very Machiavellian but not very Christian.

I really don't think that any of the people collecting signatures actually believe their own hogwash. Bear in mind that this group began with challenging the area schools' sex education curriculum.

They won at first but then proceeded to be stymied with every attempt to stop the new curriculum from being taught. And with every attempt, the group gave a new and faulty reasoning why the curriculum shouldn't be taught.

With their fight against the anti-discrimination law, they relied on the classic but still effective "this law endangers us all, especially children."

That's right. In many of their pleas, they actually said that the law endangers children.

What they did was to read the law, looking for a loophole. And when they found one, small one that it was, they distorted its implications as much as they could:

The County Council and County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) approved the law after removing a contentious amendment that would have also regulated areas like bathrooms and locker rooms. Without the amendment, operators of those facilities would retain authority on who uses them.

But opponents, such as CRG - which initially argued against the bathroom provision - still argue that the law is too vague.

Without question, this group has received help from national anti-gay industry groups. I recognize the anti-gay industry tactic of "dire consequences," i.e. claiming that a law protecting lgbts will lead to negative consequences for the entire community without giving proof as to how.
There is one group fighting their nonsense. And I wish them all of the luck.

One thing about truth: when it finally arrives, it takes care of the situation.

CRG and its supporters would do well to remember that.

You can only lie for so long before it bites you in the ass.

Tuesday blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahs

I hate the Tuesday after a three-day weekend holiday.

They always feel like Mondays.

A couple of things today:

Connecticut state legislator comes out, becomes nation’s first LGBT African American state legislator

Connecticut State Rep. Jason Bartlett publicly came out today during a meeting with The News-Times. The announcement makes Bartlett the nation’s first and only openly LGBT African American state legislator.

Bartlett, a Democrat, claims that he has been open about his sexuality with his family, but decided that now was the right time to make it public.

“For me the decision came down to why not now,” he told the paper. “To me this is about having a conversation with my larger family - the people of Greater Danbury who voted for me.”

Bartlett said rumors about his sexual orientation had circulated during past political campaigns.

That is the good news. The bad news? Watch how the mainstream African-American media and possibly members of the mainstream gay community fall over themselves to ignore him.

I guess Flava Flav and Bobby Trendy are so much more better role models.

I told you I hated the Tuesday after three-day weekend holidays.

Ken Hutcherson, who never met a self-aggrandizement he didn't like is attacking a high school GSA.

This is resulting from and incident that took place when he was invited to his daughter's high school to speak on Black History Month. Now one teacher may have acted irresponsibly (by booing him), but I am totally in the corner of another teacher who questioned him on his statements about lgbts.

The teacher was totally in the right to do this. Some may disagree but that is how I stand on the issue.

Long story short, this has blown over into a huge incident, exacerbated by a poster advertising the school's GSA.

Hutcherson has gone on record calling the GSA a "sex club."

And naturally, that "fair and objective news source," One News Now has gone out of its way to not only defend his nonsense but give him a platform (that naturally does not include questions and statements from folks who disagree) to spout his nonsense.

But all is not lost. A group of concerned parents have gotten together and formed this site (you can read the One News Now article (biased editorial) there.

I wish them all of the luck. And I think Hutcherson may help them. He tends to shoot from the hip.

And shots from the hip tend to miss their target but cause a whole lot of trouble.

Meanwhile, how many more of our lgbt children are going to suffer.

I don't want to go into detail about what happened in California because I don't think that I can add more to what others have been saying.

All I am going to do is pray for guidance, control, and intelligence for us all.

An adendum to the Foreman Barber nonsense

Other than to their own choirs, the claim the Foreman "admitted" that HIV was a gay disease is really not a blessed news item for the anti-gay industry.

But there was something that I wanted to briefly mention about it.

I noticed how all of the right-wing press releases are saying that Foreman's statements "left people in shock" or "stunned gay activists."

That is not true. Please notice how these folks are using hyperbole to further their agenda.

As far as I know, no one was left stunned or speechless by Foreman's comments.

I guess to Barber and company, hyperbole beats out truth. And I am sure that they will knowingly use the same deceptive language when mistating Foreman's comments in the future.

Just wanted to make that short comment there.

Same nonsense, same desperation - stigmatizing a community

"Today, right now, more than 45 percent of African-American gay and bi men in key urban areas are infected with HIV, with a 33 percent increase in new diagnoses among our brothers under age 30 over the past six years. Today, right now, African Americans are nearly 10 times more likely than white people to be diagnosed with AIDS.

The response — internal to our community and external — is appallingly racist. Internally, when these numbers come out, the “established” gay community seems to have a collective shrug as if this isn’t our problem. Folks, with 70 percent of the people in this country living with HIV being gay or bi, we cannot deny that HIV is a gay disease. We have to own that and face up to that.

Even more disgusting is the response of our government. Of the 129 interventions developed and approved by the CDC to address HIV in the African-American community, only one has been designed for gay black men. Twenty-six years into the epidemic and only one out of 129 addresses the group of people most affected by HIV. And, on top of that, funding for meaningful and honest prevention programs has been systematically excised from the federal budget. If these things don’t prove that our government considers the lives of gay black men utterly expendable, I don’t know what does." - Matt Foreman, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

I don't have to tell anyone what happened next. It's an old script and I have seen it continuously:
WASHINGTON: Top 'Gay' Organization Comes Clean: 'HIV is a Gay Disease'

AFA-Michigan, AFTAH Welcome Gay Task Force Admission: ‘HIV Is a Gay Disease’

Amazingly, neither article bothered to ask Foreman to clarify what he meant. They just took his comments and ran with them, as are some folks cited in the articles:

Matt Barber addressed Foreman's admission: "It's extremely encouraging to see Matt Foreman, a homosexual activist who has for so long been in denial about the dangers of the lifestyle he has promoted, publicly coming to terms with the undeniable perils of that lifestyle."I only hope he will now stop promoting homosexual conduct and push for other liberal elites, especially those running our public schools, to do the same. Educators must truthfully address the 'gay' lifestyle's potentially deadly consequences.

And I see that Barber continues to push the MRSA infection line, even though he has been proven wrong by the authors of the study and the CDC.

There is a difference between what Foreman said and what his words are being twisted to mean.
Yes the lgbt community must take responsibility to fight HIV and AIDS. We must view it as a "gay disease" just as other communities affected by it (i.e. the African-American community) must also own the disease. When there is a problem addressing a disease in a community, the community must take steps to fight it, including admitting there is a problem.

What Foreman said is no different than what Phil Wilson, executive director of the Black AIDS Institute, wrote in this brilliant piece, part of which reads:

There are many reasons why we are so disproportionately impacted by AIDS. But, chief among them is that we've not taken ownership of the AIDS epidemic and responsibility for ending it. Many of us continue to believe that AIDS is someone else's problem. Even as our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, get infected with HIV, develop AIDS and die.

I get the sister from the Black Philanthropy conference's concern about stigma and image. But we can't be more concerned about 'our image' than we are about our lives. Having a raging epidemic run through our community unchecked is actually the last thing we need.

Wanting something to not be so is not the same as it really not being so or doing something about it. AIDS in America today is a Black disease ... unless we do something about it.

Or when Julian Bond said the following:

It is time for the African-American community "to face the fact that AIDS has become a black disease" and find ways to defeat it, the chairman of the NAACP said at the international AIDS summit.

The difference is no one thinks that it is allowable to use the words of Wilson and Bond to attack the African-American community as "unclean:"

Matt Barber addressed (Wilson and Bond's) admission: "It's extremely encouraging to see (Wilson and Bond), two black activists who has for so long been in denial about the dangers of the lifestyle they have promoted, publicly coming to terms with the undeniable perils of that lifestyle."I only hope they will now stop promoting black conduct and push for other liberal elites, especially those running our public schools, to do the same. Educators must truthfully address the 'black' lifestyle's potentially deadly consequences.

Gets you angry, don't it? It should. Stigmatizing communities for the spread of disease is wrong, no matter what community it is.

However, when Foreman made his statement, the prejudices came out in full blaze. There is one main reason why lgbts are affected by HIV and that is because of stigma. And when a gay leader's words on how the community can fight HIV is twisted in order to declare war on the very things that can stop the disease (i.e. more education in our nation's schools regarding sex education and sexual orientation) is creating stigma with a capital "S."

When a gay leader's words are twisted to infer that the lgbt community are "unclean," the stigma which plays a huge role into increasing HIV rates continues.

The bottom line is that HIV affects us all. And as with all negative things affecting the human condition, the communities which do not have as much access to information is affected. And it does not help matters to exploit statements to push forth propaganda and distortions.

To use what Foreman said do this is irresponsible and ugly.

But it is what I have come to expect from members of the anti-gay industry.

A little ranting and raving never hurt anyone

Nothing specific to report on today. Of course there are a lot of things happening and my fellow bloggers are covering them.

I am in a ranting mood today.

It's nothing you haven't heard before but I want to put things in perspective yet again.

It always amazes me how the anti-gay industry omits the fact that lgbts are raising children and that lgbt children exist. Sometimes this intentional omission gets downright infuriating.

Yes, I said intentional.

I am of the belief that when folks like Peter LaBarbera, Matt Barber, Janet Folger, and the rest sit down to write their press releases and work on their verbal talking points, they aren't looking to relate truth.

They are looking to relate fear and ignorance. And what better way than to consistently push the lie that lgbts are outside the mainstream of America and that we have no love of the simple things like decency and family.

Through their words and deeds, these folks push the lie that the lgbt orientation is not indigent of who we are, but what dirty, filthy, irresponsible sex acts they claim that we partake of.

In pursuit of this lie, they won't even acknowledge our families. And if we even dared to seek acknowledgement for our families (i.e. participating in the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt) then we accused of exploiting our children.

Personally I feel that the anti-gay industry and whomever supports them can have whatever opinion they want about lgbts, our children, and our families. But the facts don't bear those opinions out.

The truth is that there are many lgbt led homes and these homes are doing very well.

And more to the point, for every one person (i.e. Michael Glatze, Charlene Cothran, Stephen Bennett) that Dobson and company can claim "freely walked away from homosexuality," we can produce at least 10 (Barney Frank, Mandy Carter, Lance Bass, Melissa Etheridge, Ellen DeGeneres, Matt Foreman, Bayard Rustin, Barbara Jordan, Keith Boykin, Pam Spaulding, Nadine Smith, etc. etc.) who not only embrace their lgbt orientation, but have been instrumental in changing the world for the better.

This "cultural battle" goes beyond laws and personal opinion. The anti-gay industry deals in lies and deception masked behind religious beliefs in order to semantically force lgbts into spiritual bondage.

To them, we the self-hating disease ridden hedonist seeking physical release in our nation's bathrooms, we are the gender confused man wearing a mini skirt and five o'clock shadow, we are the lonely man-hating overweight lesbian with a roll of socks stuffed down her pants.

And to them, we don't have a right to seek a better and more truthful personification of ourselves.

As they attempt to covertly push this image, they simultaneously try to stop laws that would allow us to thrive beyond these stereotypes while claiming that they don't "hate us, but what we do."

Well I don't like the anti-gay industry because of what they do. It's one thing to believe that homosexuality is a sin and that the lgbt orientation brings nothing but sadness, but to try and quantify this lie through deception and propaganda is not only wrong . . .

But very anti-Christian.

Liars and hypocrites don't fade away . . . they just wrap themselves up in religion

I know I shouldn't mention you know who, but what can one do when he makes it so easy almost every day.

Our friend Peter LaBarbera is back attacking the so-called transgender menace:

WATCH IT: Tranny Insanity at CNN — No Other Side on 8-Year-old Boy Gender Confusion Story

It is simply mind-boggling that CNN chose not to include another viewpoint on this story about the Colorado elementary school encouraging gender-confusion in an eight-year-old (biological) male student who thinks he’s really a girl. (Click HERE for the One News Now story citing AFTAH on this.) You will note that CNN interviews only the parent of another gender-confused child — a girl whom the mother refers to as “he” on the CNN video.

Now the thing that stands out in this piece is Peter's hypocrisy.

Apparently he is okay with being able to appear on Hannity and Colmes by his lonesome while attacking the lgbt community

But now he is calling for fairness.

Talk about your hypocrites.

And unfortunately, Matt Barber has not left Concerned Women for America.

But he is getting pathetic. On the conservative Town Hall site, he has published a ridiculous tome, Unmasking the Gay Agenda.

I don't think I need to tell you all what he says. It's the usual "gays are planning to take over" nonsense backed up the usual suspects of distortions employed by the anti-gay industry:

1. In Their Own Words

What you are about to read is just a quick, though disturbing, glance behind the homosexual lobby’s lavender curtain.

Below are two of the central demands put forth by homosexual activists in their “1972 Gay Rights Platform”:

I am not even going to repeat these so-called list of demands. But the fact that Barber mentioned them is lunacy on his part. I have never heard of these list of demands, except on anti-gay industry sites. I think that it is farfetched to claim that lgbt organizations, activists, and bloggers are using these list of demands, especially seeing that they are over 30 years old.

Wait a minute . . .

I do remember that in a recreation of what Hamilcar Barca did to his son, the famous Carthiginian Hannibal (look it up), I was forced in 1973 to lay my one-year-old hand on a copy of Joan Crawford poster and swear that I would do all I can to promote the 1972 platform.

Then it was repressed in my mind until I could become of age.

That was sarcasm, folks. And based on how the anti-gay industry jumps on almost every word that lgbts say to smear us, I feel that it was necessary to say that.

Otherwise the headline to tomorrow's edition of World Net Daily would read:

HOMOSEXUALS PUT REPRESSED SUGGESTIONS IN THE MIND OF THEIR YOUTH

Of course Barber does not provide proof that lgbt organizations, activists, and bloggers are pushing the demands of the 1972 platform. What he does is distort actual events (i.e. schools teaching correct information regarding sex education) to claim that this platform is being pushed.

2. In their manuscript, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s (1989, Doubleday/Bantam), Harvard educated marketing experts Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen meticulously laid out the homosexual lobby’s blueprint for success in what is widely regarded as the handbook for the “gay” agenda.

Here we go again with that book. In 1989, Kirk and Madsen published a book giving their opinions on how lgbts can achieve equality. Since that time, anti-gay industry groups have inferred that almost lgbt activist carry a copy of this book in our hip pockets.

This is a blatant lie. While the book does present excellent ideas, there have never been any meetings or planning sessions around making the ideas of the book a reality.

This is in total contrast as to what happens when the anti-gay industry develops talking points on lgbt issues. The following nonsense do have roots in planning sessions:

Children have a right to a mother and father,

We must protect the union of marriage from unelected judges,

People with "deeply held religious beliefs" will be forced to compromise these beliefs if ENDA is passed.

In mentioning the so-called 1972 Gay Platform and the book by Kirk and Madsen, Barber is employing a very effective anti-gay industry tactic - Conspiracy Theory,

The Conspiracy Theory tactic is taking unrelated events and weaving them together as proof of a conspiracy. The idea of a conspiracy is not based upon any actual proof but by the fears and the prejudices of the audience one is addressing.

If Barber is looking for insidious plotting, he is best served in taking good notes in a future planning session of his group, Concerned Women for America.

3. The push for federal “hate crimes” legislation is another activist tool intended to silence traditional views on human sexuality and sexual morality. Similar laws have already been used around the world, and even right here at home, to persecute Christians and other traditionalists. For example, in 2004, 11 Christians were arrested in Philadelphia and charged with a “hate crime” for merely preaching the Bible at a public homosexual street festival. They could have served up to 47 years in prison.

Talk about your blatant lies. As my post from yesterday clearly said, these 11 "Christians" were not just "merely preaching the Bible at a public homosexual street festival." And the sad thing is that I'm sure that Barber was fully aware of the truth when he sat down to write his column.

Yesterday, I called Matt Barber the William Hung of the anti-gay industry.

Today, I only have two words:

She-bang! She-bang!