WHOOPS! Homophobic Christian Right activist posts report on site that comes from Anti-Semite

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Peter LaBarbera has spent more than 20 years on the hard edge of the religious right, ranging from a stint as a reporter for The Washington Times to a whole career as what he calls a “conservative critic of the homosexual activist movement.” He has been an official of far-right groups like Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, the Illinois Family Institute, and Accuracy in Media. The founder of the gay-bashing Lambda Report, LaBarbera is now president of Naperville, Ill.-based Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.

LaBarbera is no friend of gay people, whose lifestyles he characterizes as “aberrant” and whom he accuses of working diligently to “penetrate” the schools. But up until now, he hasn’t relied on the help of radical anti-Semites.

That ended the other day when LaBarbera — who claims to operate “in a spirit of love and truth” — posted portions of an article by one Ted Pike (right), the Oregon-based reverend who heads the National Prayer Network and who was described by LaBarbera as simply a “pro-family advocate.” (Pike’s article described an April 12 encounter in Champaign, Ill., which ended with one college student charged with an anti-gay hate crime for attacking another.) Pike may or may not be pro-family — but he is most definitely anti-Jew, as reflected in his endless rants about the “Jewish origins of bolshevism, Jewish dominance of Hollywood and the media, (and) Jewish control of Congress.” Last year, Pike said that the Jewish holy book, the Talmud, “is full of moral filth” and attacked mainstream Christian evangelical leaders for “carefully concealing the Jewish identity of those who corrupt Christian culture.”

Perhaps there’s a reason LaBarbera didn’t provide a link to Pike’s website.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/05/20/anti-gay-%e2%80%98christian%e2%80%99-activist-cites-radical-anti-semite/

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Rob in Minneapolis said,
on May 21st, 2008 at 9:36 am

No surprise LaBarbera described him as “a strapping, clean-cut, All-American looking young man”. Peter’s proclivities are well documented in the GLBT media.

In order to keep his readers and followers well informed, P.L. spends lots of time in Gay bath houses and leather bars documenting the various sexual acts that “those homosexuals” engage in. A former intern described his office as being packed “wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling” with gay porn as proof of gay men’s deviency.

He is the worst kind of hypocrite and makes far too much money attacking people for the things he wants to do himself.