IFI's LaBarbera Says Alan Keyes is 'Not Enslaved to Political Correctness,' and Criticizes GOP Leader Baar Topinka for Embracing Homosexual Lobby
9/2/2004 1:56:00 PM
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To: State Desk
Contact: David Smith, 773-858-6602 or Peter LaBarbera, 630-546-4439, both of the Illinois Family Institute
http://www.illinoisfamily.org GLEN ELLYN, Ill., Sept. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Illinois Family Institute Executive Director Peter LaBarbera said today that GOP Senate candidate Alan Keyes' willingness to debate conservative ideas is a "breath of fresh air in an age desensitized to moral truths," and said his comments on Mary Cheney's homosexuality are far closer to the truth than the views of his politically correct critics.
"We may not always agree with the way he says things and I think he could be more gracious, but Keyes' fearlessness in discussing issues is a refreshing change from cookie-cutter candidates who lack courage or run from their liberal record every election year," LaBarbera said.
"Alan Keyes is obviously not enslaved to political correctness, unlike the media lemmings who ridicule him, and unlike so many politicians, Democrat and Republican, who will do anything to avoid talking about two of the greatest moral crises of our time- legal abortion-on-demand and the push to mainstream homosexuality," he said.
On Monday, Keyes was interviewed by a "gay" radio network and characterized homosexuality as "selfish hedonism." When asked if that description applied to Vice President Dick Cheney's openly homosexual daughter Mary, he said it did.
Those words ignited a media firestorm, and liberal GOP leader Judy Baar Topinka called them "idiotic." Topinka is a big supporter of homosexual activism in Illinois, and recently rode a float in the Chicago "gay pride" parade. The parade featured vulgar Bush-bashing, gyrating male dancers and contingents of sadomasochist-and even a Chicago bathhouse (where homosexual men go for anonymous sex). Attending the parade as an observer, LaBarbera witnessed two men engage in a depraved sex act on the street directly in front of a row of policemen.
"What's truly idiotic is a Republican leader going out of her way to embrace homosexual activists-who are crusading for counterfeit "marriage"-in an election year when the head of her party, George Bush, supports the federal marriage amendment," LaBarbera said. "It's obvious that Illinois-GOP leaders like Topinka are out to get Keyes."
LaBarbera said there is a certainly a selfish component to proud homosexuality, just as there is to advocacy of any sin. He said it is a tragedy that Mary Cheney has "bought into the lie of the 'gay' movement that she is somehow defined by this unnatural inclination. I hope Dick and Lynne Cheney understand that they can love their daughter without embracing or defending wrong behavior."
Illinois Family Institute is featuring former homosexual Stephen Bennett at its banquet in Arlington Heights on September 27. "Opposition to proud homosexuality and defending traditional marriage is far more in line with grassroots Illinois citizens than celebrating 'gay pride,'" said LaBarbera, who accused the media of taking Keyes' statements out of context to make him look extreme, while ignoring opponent Barack Obama's very liberal record.
Illinois Family Institute defends marriage, family and the sanctity of life in Illinois.
http://www.illinoisfamily.org. 630- 790-8370.
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