According to
Buzzfeed, anti-gay activist "Porno Pete" LaBarbera was invited to a rally in Jamaica where he encouraged the country to keep its anti-gay law (against "buggery") illegal.
The article said he and another spokesperson at the rally made much use of the discredited claim that homosexuality and pedophilia are connected:
LaBarbera, a longtime activist opposing LGBT rights in America, said he was working on a book on the connection between “homosexual activism and pedophiles.” He said that after winning rights like marriage and protection for gay kids in schools, U.S. activists were now championing the rights of MAPS, or “minor-attracted persons.”
“Homosexuals are always on offense,” he said. “It’s another secret that American activists don’t like to tell is that NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association, used to march in gay pride parades.”
If LaBarbera is truly working on a book - rather than boosting his credentials by claiming to be "working on a book" - one could only guess what information he would use to connect homosexuality and pedophilia. Several medical groups, including the American Psychological Association, have proven that the two aren't connected.
However, as the above audio interview from 2010 demonstrates, LaBarbera has been known to not only ignore information that doesn't match his worldview, but also embrace information that backs up his beliefs no matter how discredited the source. In an interview with Concerned Women for America's Martha Kleder, LaBarbera
freely admits to using the discredited research of Paul Cameron in order to demonize the lgbt community.
Cameron is a researcher who has made a name for himself by creating
studies designed to demonize the lgbt community. These studies for the
most part have been published in "vanity" or "pay-for-publish" journals
and they are not "peer-reviewed" in the normal sense. No "peer" who
objects to Cameron's work has the right to remove it from the journal.
He is a major proponent behind many wild arguments such as gays will molest their fellow soldiers in the military, lesbians get into more car accidents, gay men stuff gerbils up their rectums, and - of course - the false link between pedophilia and homosexuality.
He has
also been discredited and censured by many group and
individuals on the left, the right, and in the middle due to his bad
research techniques. Several of his studies have been criticized for
such errors
as having small sample sizes, showing an anti-gay bias in interviews,
and not having enough responses to establish a suitable analysis.
Even Barbera's claim in the interview that another researcher proved Cameron's thesis about
children in same-sex households is also incorrect. LaBarbera failed to
mention that the researcher, Walter Schumm, used the
same bad methodology Cameron used to come to his original thesis.
Of course who needs facts when you are "working for Jesus," right Peter? LaBarbera obviously doesn't care about stoking the fires of homophobia in a Jamaica, a country where
lgbts are viciously attacked and murdered by anti-gay mobs, so why should he care that the information he uses to stoke those fires is wrong.
If LaBarbera is truly writing a book, then it deserves to be in the fiction section.
