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Bullying, Youth and the Anti-Gay Agenda

JoeBrummer| Category: Americans for "Truth", Ex-Gay Issues, Exodus International, Hate Crime Laws, Janet Folger, Lies, Peter LaBarbera, Sonja Dalton, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Reposted from “Replace the Lies with Truth“, my daily blog.

While bullying and violence continue to be a problem in this country for all youth, anti-gay forces have done zilch to solve this problem.  365gay.com is reporting today that two states, Florida and Iowa have anti-bullying laws on the table that are moving forward with protections for students perceived to be gay or lesbian.   It doesn’t really matter if the students are or are not gay, it is about how people perceive them.  Just so the anti-gay forces don’t try to claim this is a special rights thing, it covers all students, even if those students claim the ex-gay identity.

A father whose son was badly beaten in school by other students told the school board:

“For 22 minutes of my life I had to sit there and watch that clock tick by, and I had to contemplate I was going to have to go home and tell my wife we didn’t have a son no more”

It is proven by the science, over and over again that kids are bullied based on sexual orientation.   Many of these kids are not even gay, but seen as gay by their peers.   Anti-bullying laws would send a message that this violent behavior towards fellow students is wrong, yet anti-gay groups are against any form of anti-violence, anti-hate crime, or other that would reduce, stop or prevent violence against GLBT students, and even adults.

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The M.O. of Americans For “Truth”(AH?)

Punted| Category: Americans for "Truth", Fundies, Lies, Peter LaBarbera, Sonja Dalton | 0 Comments

Americans For Truth (AH?) have a fairly prominent theme or modus operandi for how they get their “truth” out to readers.  It’s a fairly simple one.  “Don’t refute the message. Attack the messenger !”

Instead of simply refuting the arguments against them, they attack the very people who express their point of view.  While holding the bible in their hands to boost the credibility of AFT, they use personal attacks to insult the sincerity of those making the opposing view points.

If one were to go to their page today or any day really but starting with the post at the bottom ”An Open Letter … ” dated January 5th, 2007 and work our way up to the top to “NEA’s Anti-Bullying Statement …” dated January 10th, one can see this trend of “blame the messenger” very clearly.  I’m going to analyze the stories on the page today and then let you, the reader follow along in the preceding days to see how they handle this.

The first post we’ll analyze is “An Open Letter to Peter LaBarbera.”  This was written by a person who comments on and reads Pams House Blend.  It was an open letter addressed to Peter LaBarbera in which he states as a gay man who has come to Christ he can’t understand why AFT instead of helping people come to Christ as is commanded in the Bible and helping those that are truly needy, they only pick on a small minority of the population and work as hard as is possible to condemn in every way possible. (more…)