I should but I won't cause it's Black History Month
I should talk more about the Greater Mount Calvary situation. But I won't.
There are soooooo many things I could say, but I choose not to for now.
In reading all I could about the issue, the only thing I could come up is this adage dealing with the gay men who still attended that church after being psychologically bashed:
People will stop getting slapped when they no longer want to be slapped.
But tomorrow (or today, all depending on the hours) is the start of Black History Month and that is what my focus is going to be on.
On the lower right side of this blog are the names of African-American lgbts who left their mark. Some you may have heard of, others you have not heard of.
And I am sure that there are some on that list that you did not know were lgbt.
Whatever the case, all of these folks (and many others) deserve to get their due. So listing them is my little way of making sure I never forget their names.
You can find out more about these folks if you click on the names.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Well I was rested, then all hell broke loose
As soon as I was done posting my last entry, I caught something that just blew me away:
Outing campaign roils D.C. black Baptist church
More than 100 members named as gay in e-mails to pastor, congregation
By LOU CHIBBARO JR. Jan 30, 2:14 PM
One of Washington’s largest black Baptist churches was rocked by a female member of its choir who sent separate e-mail messages to the pastor in December and January outing more than 100 church members as gay, mostly male choir members.
The outings added to the inner turmoil experienced by a large number of gays who attend services at the 7,000-member Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church, located on Rhode Island Ave., N.E., according to a gay former member who provided copies of the e-mails to the Blade.“I will be leaving the choir at the top of the year because 80 percent of the tenors are homosexuals and act more like a female in choir rehearsal than I do,” the church choir member said in one of her e-mails to Bishop Alfred Owens Jr., the church pastor.
The e-mail, sent in December, identifies about 45 fellow church members as gay.
She sent a second e-mail to Owens on Jan. 2 identifying another 62 church members as gay.“The following people I am asking you to monitor very closely and my prayer is that you will sit them down from their ministries,” she told Owens in the December e-mail. “
Because they are ushering in the presence of sin, lies, a spirit of homosexuality and sexual spirits.”She sent a copy of her e-mails to a Yahoo list group that goes to more than 300 church members, the gay former church member said.
The gay former church member redacted all of the names from the copies of the e-mails he sent to the Blade, including the name of the choir member who orchestrated the outings.Officials with the National Black Justice Coalition, a Washington-based group that advocates for African-American gays, and the D.C. Coalition of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Men & Women, said they have seen or spoken with people who have seen un-redacted copies of the e-mails.
Pam Spaulding's site has more on this mess.
I would be shocked but it's a classic case of the chickens coming home to roost.
Oh I will be watching this mess unfold.
As soon as I was done posting my last entry, I caught something that just blew me away:
Outing campaign roils D.C. black Baptist church
More than 100 members named as gay in e-mails to pastor, congregation
By LOU CHIBBARO JR. Jan 30, 2:14 PM
One of Washington’s largest black Baptist churches was rocked by a female member of its choir who sent separate e-mail messages to the pastor in December and January outing more than 100 church members as gay, mostly male choir members.
The outings added to the inner turmoil experienced by a large number of gays who attend services at the 7,000-member Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church, located on Rhode Island Ave., N.E., according to a gay former member who provided copies of the e-mails to the Blade.“I will be leaving the choir at the top of the year because 80 percent of the tenors are homosexuals and act more like a female in choir rehearsal than I do,” the church choir member said in one of her e-mails to Bishop Alfred Owens Jr., the church pastor.
The e-mail, sent in December, identifies about 45 fellow church members as gay.
She sent a second e-mail to Owens on Jan. 2 identifying another 62 church members as gay.“The following people I am asking you to monitor very closely and my prayer is that you will sit them down from their ministries,” she told Owens in the December e-mail. “
Because they are ushering in the presence of sin, lies, a spirit of homosexuality and sexual spirits.”She sent a copy of her e-mails to a Yahoo list group that goes to more than 300 church members, the gay former church member said.
The gay former church member redacted all of the names from the copies of the e-mails he sent to the Blade, including the name of the choir member who orchestrated the outings.Officials with the National Black Justice Coalition, a Washington-based group that advocates for African-American gays, and the D.C. Coalition of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Men & Women, said they have seen or spoken with people who have seen un-redacted copies of the e-mails.
Pam Spaulding's site has more on this mess.
I would be shocked but it's a classic case of the chickens coming home to roost.
Oh I will be watching this mess unfold.
Wednesdays are hell
Not a long post tonight. I am all MRSAed out.
I hope folks don't think that I dwelled too long about the situation. But just in case there are folks who do feel that way, remember:
The Watergate controversy didn't happen in a short time. It took over a year for Woodward and Bernstein to get the pieces together and find the corruption that dominated the Nixon White House.
Patience is a virtue. Diligence is a Godsend.
But anyway, I took the time to update my other webpage, Anti-Gay Lies and Liars. I added more entries for the year of 2008 and a few for 2007.
I am still in the process of fine tuning it so please bear with me and don't hold any errors in form against me.
And before I forget (shameless plug) - buy my book. You can find out more information here.
Not a long post tonight. I am all MRSAed out.
I hope folks don't think that I dwelled too long about the situation. But just in case there are folks who do feel that way, remember:
The Watergate controversy didn't happen in a short time. It took over a year for Woodward and Bernstein to get the pieces together and find the corruption that dominated the Nixon White House.
Patience is a virtue. Diligence is a Godsend.
But anyway, I took the time to update my other webpage, Anti-Gay Lies and Liars. I added more entries for the year of 2008 and a few for 2007.
I am still in the process of fine tuning it so please bear with me and don't hold any errors in form against me.
And before I forget (shameless plug) - buy my book. You can find out more information here.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Keep it up, Peter, keep it up. Sink deeper into that hole
Peter LaBarbera continues try and whitewash his lie about the MRSA infection.
And he continues to step in his own mess. Let's talk about today's entry:
Here’s an e-mail I sent last Wednesday to one fellow who requested that AFTAH “correct our website”:
Richard, they [gay activists] created a straw man, and then tore it down. It’s ridiculous. I talked [in the AFTAH story] about other people getting MRSA at the hospital, etc. Now, I did say that this story had eerie reminders of the initial days of AIDS, and in saying that I was referring to the fact that BEHAVIORS were linked to that disease’s spread. I’m a pretty direct person, as you might have deduced (much more so than even many in the conservative, pro-family movement): if I wanted to call [MRSA] the [new] “gay plague,” I would have wrote a headline like this: ‘Is MRSA the Next Gay Plague?’ — which I didn’t.
Most of the media took the same interpretation as I did, minus the anti-gay-behavior editorializing, of course. I hope you’ll grant that we have the right to do that since, after all, we are opposed to homosexual BEHAVIOR. To read the actual MRSA [study] (have you read it?), you’d almost have to have the editorial instincts of an old Soviet Pravda editor to assert that it does not implicate reckless gay male behavior. Guess what: I’ll bet the researchers’ “sins” were grossly overstated, too! [homosexual activists have assailed researchers for overstating the MRSA-gay link]. As for Matt [Barber] and CWA, he’s a big boy and more than capable of defending himself. Best–pl
So now, he is clarifying what he said. But check out the semantics. No he did not call MRSA infection the new "gay plague" per se. But he did infer as much. Repeating what he said via a press release sent out by him on January 15, 2008:
Is this not an eerie reminder of the initial stories 25 years ago about AIDS -- then called GRID (Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease)? It is unfathomable that after that plague, disease specialists and the media are now surprised at the correlation of new infections with homosexual behavior;Wake up, medical and political establishment: homosexual behavior is unhealthy -- no matter how many secular sermons you preach against "homophobia." Due to liberal political correctness, which treats aberrant -- even deadly -- behaviors as a "civil right," we as a society don't seem to have learned much from the AIDS pandemic - LaBarbera: New MRSA Staph Risk Spread by Gay Men Shows Risks of 'Second-Hand Sodomy'
The words may not be exact but the connotation is there. Peter is weasling big time. And while he is talking about what the study said in order to prove his point, he omits the statements from the authors of the study and the CDC repudiating what he and Matt Barber (Concerned Women for America) said about the study.
By the way, I keep hearing from him and Barber as to how "homosexual pressure groups" bullied the researchers. But they have never produced proof. As Jeremy from Goodasyou.org pointed out, HRC wrote a letter castigating anti-gay industry groups for distorting the study. They never attacked the researchers.
And I just love this part:
Try this: do a quick Google search on syphills, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hepatitis, anal warts, anal cancer, etc. — combined with the word “gay” — and you’ll come up with a host of articles, some written by pro-homosexuality websites, that implicate homosexual behaviors in the disproportionately high incidence of said maladies among “gay” men.
What bullshit. I am sure that if I typed those words and combined with the word "women" or "African-American," I would find articles talking about how these diseases affect those population. To make a leap like Peter just did pretty much illustrates how the anti-gay industry finds data to distort.
Lastly, I noticed that Peter mentions John R. Diggs. Now unlike the article I talked about yesterday, Peter did mention that ridiculously fradulent paper Diggs wrote (The Health Risks of Gay Sex). For those who bought my book, you can read the long version of what I say about Diggs's paper.
But for those who have not read my book, let me give you an excerpt:
Twice, John R. Diggs includes the study done by Alan Bell and Martin Weinberg in their book, Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women, as indicative of the entire gay population. In one passage, he even refers to it as “a far ranging study of homosexual men . . .” But Bell and Weinberg never said that their findings were indicative of all gay men. They actually said “. . . given the variety of circumstances which discourage homosexuals from participating in research studies, it is unlikely that any investigator willever be in a position to say that this or that is true of a given percentage of all homosexuals.”
Diggs cites a Canadian study twice in order to claim that gays have a shorter lifespan than heterosexuals. But his citation of the study is a mischaracterization. In 2001, the six original researchers (Robert S. Hogg, Stefan A. Strathdee, Kevin J.P. Craib, Michael V. O’Shaughnessy, Julion Montaner, and Martin T. Schechter) who conducted that study have gone on record saying that religious conservatives (like Diggs) was distorting their work.
In another section entitled Physical Health, Diggs claims that gays are victims of “gay bowel syndrome.” The term is an obsolete medical term. exist and even the CDC does not use it. In fact, if one was to look at the endnotes of Diggs’ study, he would find that two of the sources he quoted concerning “gay bowel syndrome” were from articles in published in 1976 and 1983, which is consistent with the years that the term existed. One last source was a letter to the editor printed in 1994 but Diggs does not make it clear as to whatwere the circumstances surrounding it.
Diggs generalizes convenience sample studies as indicative of the gay population at large. Diggs takes studies done in foreign countries and claims that they are indicative of the gay population at large.
Diggs claims that there are five distinctions between heterosexual and homosexual populations including levels of promiscuity, physical health, mental health, lifespan, and monogamy. However, he spends very little time comparing the two dynamics. He uses all of his time castigating gay populations.
Diggs uses an out of date book, The Gay Report (published in 1979) to claim that gays are engaging in deviant sexual practices. Only once does he attempt to tie the alleged deviant practices of gays in 1979 to present day; and to do so, he cites two events that took place regarding bondage workshops. However, there is a strong indication that heterosexuals took part in these events as well as gays. Diggs ignores this dynamic.
In other words, it's anti-gay industry crap but in a different wrapper. What Diggs wrote is no different from what Timothy Dailey of the Family Research Council wrote, or Robert Knight wrote when he was with Concerned Women for America, or what Glenn Stanton from Focus on the Family wrote.
It is the same standard lies and distorted studies repeated over and over again. The big crime is that someone probably paid Diggs to write his hot mess when they could have easily slumped over to the Family Research Council's webpage and gotten it for free.
But back to Peter: it is apparent that he recognizes what mess he made. And even if it's not an apology, to see him flail is rather nice.
Peter LaBarbera continues try and whitewash his lie about the MRSA infection.
And he continues to step in his own mess. Let's talk about today's entry:
Here’s an e-mail I sent last Wednesday to one fellow who requested that AFTAH “correct our website”:
Richard, they [gay activists] created a straw man, and then tore it down. It’s ridiculous. I talked [in the AFTAH story] about other people getting MRSA at the hospital, etc. Now, I did say that this story had eerie reminders of the initial days of AIDS, and in saying that I was referring to the fact that BEHAVIORS were linked to that disease’s spread. I’m a pretty direct person, as you might have deduced (much more so than even many in the conservative, pro-family movement): if I wanted to call [MRSA] the [new] “gay plague,” I would have wrote a headline like this: ‘Is MRSA the Next Gay Plague?’ — which I didn’t.
Most of the media took the same interpretation as I did, minus the anti-gay-behavior editorializing, of course. I hope you’ll grant that we have the right to do that since, after all, we are opposed to homosexual BEHAVIOR. To read the actual MRSA [study] (have you read it?), you’d almost have to have the editorial instincts of an old Soviet Pravda editor to assert that it does not implicate reckless gay male behavior. Guess what: I’ll bet the researchers’ “sins” were grossly overstated, too! [homosexual activists have assailed researchers for overstating the MRSA-gay link]. As for Matt [Barber] and CWA, he’s a big boy and more than capable of defending himself. Best–pl
So now, he is clarifying what he said. But check out the semantics. No he did not call MRSA infection the new "gay plague" per se. But he did infer as much. Repeating what he said via a press release sent out by him on January 15, 2008:
Is this not an eerie reminder of the initial stories 25 years ago about AIDS -- then called GRID (Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease)? It is unfathomable that after that plague, disease specialists and the media are now surprised at the correlation of new infections with homosexual behavior;Wake up, medical and political establishment: homosexual behavior is unhealthy -- no matter how many secular sermons you preach against "homophobia." Due to liberal political correctness, which treats aberrant -- even deadly -- behaviors as a "civil right," we as a society don't seem to have learned much from the AIDS pandemic - LaBarbera: New MRSA Staph Risk Spread by Gay Men Shows Risks of 'Second-Hand Sodomy'
The words may not be exact but the connotation is there. Peter is weasling big time. And while he is talking about what the study said in order to prove his point, he omits the statements from the authors of the study and the CDC repudiating what he and Matt Barber (Concerned Women for America) said about the study.
By the way, I keep hearing from him and Barber as to how "homosexual pressure groups" bullied the researchers. But they have never produced proof. As Jeremy from Goodasyou.org pointed out, HRC wrote a letter castigating anti-gay industry groups for distorting the study. They never attacked the researchers.
And I just love this part:
Try this: do a quick Google search on syphills, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hepatitis, anal warts, anal cancer, etc. — combined with the word “gay” — and you’ll come up with a host of articles, some written by pro-homosexuality websites, that implicate homosexual behaviors in the disproportionately high incidence of said maladies among “gay” men.
What bullshit. I am sure that if I typed those words and combined with the word "women" or "African-American," I would find articles talking about how these diseases affect those population. To make a leap like Peter just did pretty much illustrates how the anti-gay industry finds data to distort.
Lastly, I noticed that Peter mentions John R. Diggs. Now unlike the article I talked about yesterday, Peter did mention that ridiculously fradulent paper Diggs wrote (The Health Risks of Gay Sex). For those who bought my book, you can read the long version of what I say about Diggs's paper.
But for those who have not read my book, let me give you an excerpt:
Twice, John R. Diggs includes the study done by Alan Bell and Martin Weinberg in their book, Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women, as indicative of the entire gay population. In one passage, he even refers to it as “a far ranging study of homosexual men . . .” But Bell and Weinberg never said that their findings were indicative of all gay men. They actually said “. . . given the variety of circumstances which discourage homosexuals from participating in research studies, it is unlikely that any investigator willever be in a position to say that this or that is true of a given percentage of all homosexuals.”
Diggs cites a Canadian study twice in order to claim that gays have a shorter lifespan than heterosexuals. But his citation of the study is a mischaracterization. In 2001, the six original researchers (Robert S. Hogg, Stefan A. Strathdee, Kevin J.P. Craib, Michael V. O’Shaughnessy, Julion Montaner, and Martin T. Schechter) who conducted that study have gone on record saying that religious conservatives (like Diggs) was distorting their work.
In another section entitled Physical Health, Diggs claims that gays are victims of “gay bowel syndrome.” The term is an obsolete medical term. exist and even the CDC does not use it. In fact, if one was to look at the endnotes of Diggs’ study, he would find that two of the sources he quoted concerning “gay bowel syndrome” were from articles in published in 1976 and 1983, which is consistent with the years that the term existed. One last source was a letter to the editor printed in 1994 but Diggs does not make it clear as to whatwere the circumstances surrounding it.
Diggs generalizes convenience sample studies as indicative of the gay population at large. Diggs takes studies done in foreign countries and claims that they are indicative of the gay population at large.
Diggs claims that there are five distinctions between heterosexual and homosexual populations including levels of promiscuity, physical health, mental health, lifespan, and monogamy. However, he spends very little time comparing the two dynamics. He uses all of his time castigating gay populations.
Diggs uses an out of date book, The Gay Report (published in 1979) to claim that gays are engaging in deviant sexual practices. Only once does he attempt to tie the alleged deviant practices of gays in 1979 to present day; and to do so, he cites two events that took place regarding bondage workshops. However, there is a strong indication that heterosexuals took part in these events as well as gays. Diggs ignores this dynamic.
In other words, it's anti-gay industry crap but in a different wrapper. What Diggs wrote is no different from what Timothy Dailey of the Family Research Council wrote, or Robert Knight wrote when he was with Concerned Women for America, or what Glenn Stanton from Focus on the Family wrote.
It is the same standard lies and distorted studies repeated over and over again. The big crime is that someone probably paid Diggs to write his hot mess when they could have easily slumped over to the Family Research Council's webpage and gotten it for free.
But back to Peter: it is apparent that he recognizes what mess he made. And even if it's not an apology, to see him flail is rather nice.
Monday, January 28, 2008
And the lies continue
Why can't they just admit what they did and apologize?
While the rest of us are caught up with the election, Heath Ledger's death, and the rest of the world's affairs, members of the anti-gay industry are consistently trying to cover up their big gaffe concerning the MRSA infection.
Recap: Members of the anti-gay industry (especially Matt Barber of Concerned Women for America and Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth) distorted a study regarding a drug resistant MRSA staph infection. Because the study found that there was a number of gay men who received in the infection in San Francisco, Barber and LaBarbera went out press releases inferring that the infection was a result of "homosexual behavior" and could possibly be seen as AIDS was in the early 80s.
When the Centers for Disease Control and the authors of the study repudiated Barber and LaBarbera's ridiculous notions, they whitewashed their past comments through straw arguments and the "blame game" on "homosexual pressure groups."
Today's piece in right-wing CNS News.Com is a continuation of this whitewash. Jeremy from Goodasyou.org breaks it down rather nicely.
But let me throw a little piece into the situation. There are things I noticed about today's article:
1. "We never suggested that it was a sexually transmitted disease," CWA's Barber countered. "We only talked about the specific behaviors that are causing this infection to spread."
Oh really, Matt? What do you make of this statement?
“The medical community has known for years that homosexual conduct, especially among males, creates a breeding ground for often deadly disease. In recent years we have seen a profound resurgence in cases of HIV/AIDS, syphilis, rectal gonorrhea and many other STDs among those who call themselves ‘gay."
"The human body is quite callous in how it handles mistreatment and the perversion of its natural functions. When two men mimic the act of heterosexual intercourse with one another, they create an environment, a biological counterfeit, wherein disease can thrive. Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences."
In recent years our culture has adopted a laissez faire attitude toward sexual deviancy. Television shows like Will and Grace glorify the homosexual lifestyle while our children are taught in schools that homosexuality is a perfectly healthy, alternative sexual 'orientation.' 'Stay out of our bedrooms!' we're often commanded by militant 'gay' activists.
"Well, now the dangerous and possibly deadly consequence of what occurs in those bedrooms is spilling over into the general population. It's not only frightening, it's infuriating.
"Citizens, especially parents, need to stand up and say, 'No More! We will no longer sit idly by while politically correct cultural elites endanger our children and larger communities through propagandist promotion of this demonstrably deadly lifestyle.' - Epidemic Feared - 'Gays' May Spread Deadly Staph Infection to General Population, January 15, 2008
2. I also noticed that Peter LaBarbera wasn't quoted in today's article. And maybe that was intentional. You see, if you read my last post you would know that Peter did in fact make a very interesting assumption about the MRSA infection and AIDS.
This was a press release sent out by him on January 15, 2008:
Is this not an eerie reminder of the initial stories 25 years ago about AIDS -- then called GRID (Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease)? It is unfathomable that after that plague, disease specialists and the media are now surprised at the correlation of new infections with homosexual behavior;Wake up, medical and political establishment: homosexual behavior is unhealthy -- no matter how many secular sermons you preach against "homophobia." Due to liberal political correctness, which treats aberrant -- even deadly -- behaviors as a "civil right," we as a society don't seem to have learned much from the AIDS pandemic - LaBarbera: New MRSA Staph Risk Spread by Gay Men Shows Risks of 'Second-Hand Sodomy'
So wouldn't these two facts make Barber's statement a lie? I think so.
3. This was also included in today's article:
Internationally known infectious disease specialist Dr. John Diggs is siding with the conservatives. The Massachusetts-based physician said treating any infection in a politically correct manner could be dangerous. Treating MRSA that way could prove fatal.
The article continues with a long interview with Diggs. But what it does not do is to inform readers of Diggs's history.
Diggs has a very interesting history in anti-gay distortions. A study he wrote, the Health Risks of Homosexuality, is included in my book as an example of a legitimate physician distorting medical research.
Diggs even appeared in Florida supporting Mayor Jim Naugle in his ludicrous crusade against the gay community there.
Please bear in mind that my problem is not with Diggs. Even though his work is fradulent, my problem is with the article. Peter Winn, the author, had a duty to inform the reader of Diggs's history. But he does not, making it seem that Diggs is an objective voice in this matter.
And I can't help but wonder whether or not that was intentional.
But really, it amazes me that the more Barber and company tries to whitewash their lies, the deeper they sink. While they may convince others sharing their beliefs of their side of the story, in the long run, this situation is going to get a lot worse for them.
Wouldn't it have been more Christian for them to have apologized?
Why can't they just admit what they did and apologize?
While the rest of us are caught up with the election, Heath Ledger's death, and the rest of the world's affairs, members of the anti-gay industry are consistently trying to cover up their big gaffe concerning the MRSA infection.
Recap: Members of the anti-gay industry (especially Matt Barber of Concerned Women for America and Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth) distorted a study regarding a drug resistant MRSA staph infection. Because the study found that there was a number of gay men who received in the infection in San Francisco, Barber and LaBarbera went out press releases inferring that the infection was a result of "homosexual behavior" and could possibly be seen as AIDS was in the early 80s.
When the Centers for Disease Control and the authors of the study repudiated Barber and LaBarbera's ridiculous notions, they whitewashed their past comments through straw arguments and the "blame game" on "homosexual pressure groups."
Today's piece in right-wing CNS News.Com is a continuation of this whitewash. Jeremy from Goodasyou.org breaks it down rather nicely.
But let me throw a little piece into the situation. There are things I noticed about today's article:
1. "We never suggested that it was a sexually transmitted disease," CWA's Barber countered. "We only talked about the specific behaviors that are causing this infection to spread."
Oh really, Matt? What do you make of this statement?
“The medical community has known for years that homosexual conduct, especially among males, creates a breeding ground for often deadly disease. In recent years we have seen a profound resurgence in cases of HIV/AIDS, syphilis, rectal gonorrhea and many other STDs among those who call themselves ‘gay."
"The human body is quite callous in how it handles mistreatment and the perversion of its natural functions. When two men mimic the act of heterosexual intercourse with one another, they create an environment, a biological counterfeit, wherein disease can thrive. Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences."
In recent years our culture has adopted a laissez faire attitude toward sexual deviancy. Television shows like Will and Grace glorify the homosexual lifestyle while our children are taught in schools that homosexuality is a perfectly healthy, alternative sexual 'orientation.' 'Stay out of our bedrooms!' we're often commanded by militant 'gay' activists.
"Well, now the dangerous and possibly deadly consequence of what occurs in those bedrooms is spilling over into the general population. It's not only frightening, it's infuriating.
"Citizens, especially parents, need to stand up and say, 'No More! We will no longer sit idly by while politically correct cultural elites endanger our children and larger communities through propagandist promotion of this demonstrably deadly lifestyle.' - Epidemic Feared - 'Gays' May Spread Deadly Staph Infection to General Population, January 15, 2008
2. I also noticed that Peter LaBarbera wasn't quoted in today's article. And maybe that was intentional. You see, if you read my last post you would know that Peter did in fact make a very interesting assumption about the MRSA infection and AIDS.
This was a press release sent out by him on January 15, 2008:
Is this not an eerie reminder of the initial stories 25 years ago about AIDS -- then called GRID (Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease)? It is unfathomable that after that plague, disease specialists and the media are now surprised at the correlation of new infections with homosexual behavior;Wake up, medical and political establishment: homosexual behavior is unhealthy -- no matter how many secular sermons you preach against "homophobia." Due to liberal political correctness, which treats aberrant -- even deadly -- behaviors as a "civil right," we as a society don't seem to have learned much from the AIDS pandemic - LaBarbera: New MRSA Staph Risk Spread by Gay Men Shows Risks of 'Second-Hand Sodomy'
So wouldn't these two facts make Barber's statement a lie? I think so.
3. This was also included in today's article:
Internationally known infectious disease specialist Dr. John Diggs is siding with the conservatives. The Massachusetts-based physician said treating any infection in a politically correct manner could be dangerous. Treating MRSA that way could prove fatal.
The article continues with a long interview with Diggs. But what it does not do is to inform readers of Diggs's history.
Diggs has a very interesting history in anti-gay distortions. A study he wrote, the Health Risks of Homosexuality, is included in my book as an example of a legitimate physician distorting medical research.
Diggs even appeared in Florida supporting Mayor Jim Naugle in his ludicrous crusade against the gay community there.
Please bear in mind that my problem is not with Diggs. Even though his work is fradulent, my problem is with the article. Peter Winn, the author, had a duty to inform the reader of Diggs's history. But he does not, making it seem that Diggs is an objective voice in this matter.
And I can't help but wonder whether or not that was intentional.
But really, it amazes me that the more Barber and company tries to whitewash their lies, the deeper they sink. While they may convince others sharing their beliefs of their side of the story, in the long run, this situation is going to get a lot worse for them.
Wouldn't it have been more Christian for them to have apologized?
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Anatomy of a lie
An email sent to me by Peter LaBarbera (Americans for Truth) on January 25, 2008:
Never called it a "Gay Plague," the New AIDS, etc., and you know it . . . The study itself was ABOUT gay and MRSA.We wrote about the study.
An press release sent out by Peter LaBarbera (Americans for Truth) on January 15, 2008:
Is this not an eerie reminder of the initial stories 25 years ago about AIDS -- then called GRID (Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease)? It is unfathomable that after that plague, disease specialists and the media are now surprised at the correlation of new infections with homosexual behavior;
Wake up, medical and political establishment: homosexual behavior is unhealthy -- no matter how many secular sermons you preach against "homophobia." Due to liberal political correctness, which treats aberrant -- even deadly -- behaviors as a "civil right," we as a society don't seem to have learned much from the AIDS pandemic - LaBarbera: New MRSA Staph Risk Spread by Gay Men Shows Risks of 'Second-Hand Sodomy'
I apologize if I have been dwelling on this issue too much but I believe in constant reminders. We should never forget how the anti-gay industry tried to distort news of the MRSA staph infection.
And we must make sure that they never forget it too.
An email sent to me by Peter LaBarbera (Americans for Truth) on January 25, 2008:
Never called it a "Gay Plague," the New AIDS, etc., and you know it . . . The study itself was ABOUT gay and MRSA.We wrote about the study.
An press release sent out by Peter LaBarbera (Americans for Truth) on January 15, 2008:
Is this not an eerie reminder of the initial stories 25 years ago about AIDS -- then called GRID (Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease)? It is unfathomable that after that plague, disease specialists and the media are now surprised at the correlation of new infections with homosexual behavior;
Wake up, medical and political establishment: homosexual behavior is unhealthy -- no matter how many secular sermons you preach against "homophobia." Due to liberal political correctness, which treats aberrant -- even deadly -- behaviors as a "civil right," we as a society don't seem to have learned much from the AIDS pandemic - LaBarbera: New MRSA Staph Risk Spread by Gay Men Shows Risks of 'Second-Hand Sodomy'
I apologize if I have been dwelling on this issue too much but I believe in constant reminders. We should never forget how the anti-gay industry tried to distort news of the MRSA staph infection.
And we must make sure that they never forget it too.
Friday, January 25, 2008
WAAAAAAAAAAAH! THE BIG BAD GAY ACTIVISTS ARE PICKING ON US!!!
I knew that mea culpa was bullshit.
Earlier this week when faced with the reality that they misrepresented a report on a skin infection (unfairly linking it to the gay community), Concerned Women for America and other anti-gay industry groups sent out a press release saying that they wanted to work together with gay rights groups in order to stop the spread of the infection.
And their platitudes were not believed, mostly because they did not mention one word of apology regarding how they first lied about the infection.
Now it is looking like those who didn't believe their bullshit had good justification.
You see the mea culpa was just a tactic strategy. The second part of said tactical strategy came today via a column written by Matt Barber (Concerned Women for America.)
The column blames the so-called gay pressure groups for "bullying" the researchers behind the story. Of course Barber does not go name the pressure groups in question nor does he say how the bullying took place.
He totally mischaracterizes the statement by the CDC about the infection; omitting the part of the statement that says conclusions cannot be drawn about all gay men based on the gay men in the study.
And he cited an book written over 10 years ago as proof of how his original bullshit about the infection was accurate.
But where his column appears is the most important part of the story. It appeared on Townhall.com, a right wing webpage. That in itself may not seem like a big thing, but it is.
You see Barber doesn't have to work too hard there to convince readers of his bullshit. From the comments I have seen (including references to Paul Cameron's research), readers there already have a preconceived notion of homoseuxality and it ain't good.
It only goes to show that Barber's column was written as part of a plan. I hope I do not seem paranoid when I say this, but I am guessing that Barber and other members of the anti-gay industry (i.e. Peter LaBarbera) recognized that they really screwed up here.
So much so that they called in reinforcements. I was surprised to see that Barber's predecessor in Concerned Women for America, Robert Knight, was taking part in some of the damage control.
And joining together (probably email and cell phone), they have crafted this plan of retreat while throwing bombs at the enemy.
Well maybe for Matt, Peter and company, it will have to do. And maybe they can get a little traction by claiming yet again that the "invisible but POWERFUL gay lobby" strong armed them, but a retreat is still a retreat.
And a loss is still a loss. And you may convince minds at Town Hall and other right-wing webpages that you did nothing wrong.
But they are the only ones you can convince of your so-called innocence.
UPDATE 1:
Slowly but surely Matt Barber's nonsensical column is being featured on several webpages including Renew America. How long will it be before Peter features it. In interviews, Barber is playing innocent:
"They're saying that we're saying that this is the new HIV ... gay disease," said Matt Barber, policy director of Concerned Women for America, on Thursday. "We never said that. We simply reported what this study has reported – that there's an outbreak among certain segments of the homosexual community," he added. - Conservatives Fear Gay Outcry Downplays MRSA Outbreak, January 25, 2008
But just a few days beforehand:
“The medical community has known for years that homosexual conduct, especially among males, creates a breeding ground for often deadly disease. In recent years we have seen a profound resurgence in cases of HIV/AIDS, syphilis, rectal gonorrhea and many other STDs among those who call themselves ‘gay.’
“The human body is quite callous in how it handles mistreatment and the perversion of its natural functions. When two men mimic the act of heterosexual intercourse with one another, they create an environment, a biological counterfeit, wherein disease can thrive. Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences.
"In recent years our culture has adopted a laissez faire attitude toward sexual deviancy. Television shows like Will and Grace glorify the homosexual lifestyle while our children are taught in schools that homosexuality is a perfectly healthy, alternative sexual 'orientation.' 'Stay out of our bedrooms!' we're often commanded by militant 'gay' activists. "Well, now the dangerous and possibly deadly consequence of what occurs in those bedrooms is spilling over into the general population. It's not only frightening, it's infuriating.
"Citizens, especially parents, need to stand up and say, 'No More! We will no longer sit idly by while politically correct cultural elites endanger our children and larger communities through propagandist promotion of this demonstrably deadly lifestyle.' - Epidemic Feared - 'Gays' May Spread Deadly Staph Infection to General Population, January 15
True, Matt didn't say that the infection is the new AIDS crisis (way to set up that straw man argument, Matt) but the language he used goes far beyond simply reporting a story.
Nice try, Matt but neither you nor Peter nor Concerned Women for America is going to easily wash THIS egg off your face.
UPDATE 2: Bullshit in action
The following is a perfect example of how anti-gay industry distortions of legitimate science can in fact harm the lgbt community.
Imagine if you will, the MSRA infection brouhaha being used to make the case against lgbts adopting children. I found the following on a blog. Regardless of whether or not this blog has significant readership, the fact of the matter is that it serves as an example of how folks try to manipulate science against us:
In addition, the recent revelation that gay men are much more susceptible to drug resistant MRSA "gay" flesh-eating bacteria because of their propensity for anal intercourse should provoke additional caution. This strain is so virulent that a gay dad could spread it to his kid merely by touch.
Unbelievable.
I knew that mea culpa was bullshit.
Earlier this week when faced with the reality that they misrepresented a report on a skin infection (unfairly linking it to the gay community), Concerned Women for America and other anti-gay industry groups sent out a press release saying that they wanted to work together with gay rights groups in order to stop the spread of the infection.
And their platitudes were not believed, mostly because they did not mention one word of apology regarding how they first lied about the infection.
Now it is looking like those who didn't believe their bullshit had good justification.
You see the mea culpa was just a tactic strategy. The second part of said tactical strategy came today via a column written by Matt Barber (Concerned Women for America.)
The column blames the so-called gay pressure groups for "bullying" the researchers behind the story. Of course Barber does not go name the pressure groups in question nor does he say how the bullying took place.
He totally mischaracterizes the statement by the CDC about the infection; omitting the part of the statement that says conclusions cannot be drawn about all gay men based on the gay men in the study.
And he cited an book written over 10 years ago as proof of how his original bullshit about the infection was accurate.
But where his column appears is the most important part of the story. It appeared on Townhall.com, a right wing webpage. That in itself may not seem like a big thing, but it is.
You see Barber doesn't have to work too hard there to convince readers of his bullshit. From the comments I have seen (including references to Paul Cameron's research), readers there already have a preconceived notion of homoseuxality and it ain't good.
It only goes to show that Barber's column was written as part of a plan. I hope I do not seem paranoid when I say this, but I am guessing that Barber and other members of the anti-gay industry (i.e. Peter LaBarbera) recognized that they really screwed up here.
So much so that they called in reinforcements. I was surprised to see that Barber's predecessor in Concerned Women for America, Robert Knight, was taking part in some of the damage control.
And joining together (probably email and cell phone), they have crafted this plan of retreat while throwing bombs at the enemy.
Well maybe for Matt, Peter and company, it will have to do. And maybe they can get a little traction by claiming yet again that the "invisible but POWERFUL gay lobby" strong armed them, but a retreat is still a retreat.
And a loss is still a loss. And you may convince minds at Town Hall and other right-wing webpages that you did nothing wrong.
But they are the only ones you can convince of your so-called innocence.
UPDATE 1:
Slowly but surely Matt Barber's nonsensical column is being featured on several webpages including Renew America. How long will it be before Peter features it. In interviews, Barber is playing innocent:
"They're saying that we're saying that this is the new HIV ... gay disease," said Matt Barber, policy director of Concerned Women for America, on Thursday. "We never said that. We simply reported what this study has reported – that there's an outbreak among certain segments of the homosexual community," he added. - Conservatives Fear Gay Outcry Downplays MRSA Outbreak, January 25, 2008
But just a few days beforehand:
“The medical community has known for years that homosexual conduct, especially among males, creates a breeding ground for often deadly disease. In recent years we have seen a profound resurgence in cases of HIV/AIDS, syphilis, rectal gonorrhea and many other STDs among those who call themselves ‘gay.’
“The human body is quite callous in how it handles mistreatment and the perversion of its natural functions. When two men mimic the act of heterosexual intercourse with one another, they create an environment, a biological counterfeit, wherein disease can thrive. Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences.
"In recent years our culture has adopted a laissez faire attitude toward sexual deviancy. Television shows like Will and Grace glorify the homosexual lifestyle while our children are taught in schools that homosexuality is a perfectly healthy, alternative sexual 'orientation.' 'Stay out of our bedrooms!' we're often commanded by militant 'gay' activists. "Well, now the dangerous and possibly deadly consequence of what occurs in those bedrooms is spilling over into the general population. It's not only frightening, it's infuriating.
"Citizens, especially parents, need to stand up and say, 'No More! We will no longer sit idly by while politically correct cultural elites endanger our children and larger communities through propagandist promotion of this demonstrably deadly lifestyle.' - Epidemic Feared - 'Gays' May Spread Deadly Staph Infection to General Population, January 15
True, Matt didn't say that the infection is the new AIDS crisis (way to set up that straw man argument, Matt) but the language he used goes far beyond simply reporting a story.
Nice try, Matt but neither you nor Peter nor Concerned Women for America is going to easily wash THIS egg off your face.
UPDATE 2: Bullshit in action
The following is a perfect example of how anti-gay industry distortions of legitimate science can in fact harm the lgbt community.
Imagine if you will, the MSRA infection brouhaha being used to make the case against lgbts adopting children. I found the following on a blog. Regardless of whether or not this blog has significant readership, the fact of the matter is that it serves as an example of how folks try to manipulate science against us:
In addition, the recent revelation that gay men are much more susceptible to drug resistant MRSA "gay" flesh-eating bacteria because of their propensity for anal intercourse should provoke additional caution. This strain is so virulent that a gay dad could spread it to his kid merely by touch.
Unbelievable.
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