“Porno Pete” LaBarbera of American’s for Truth About Homosexuality is shaking his fist and stamping his little feet that no anti-gay bigots were invited to speak at the National Gay and Lesbian Journalist Convention held last weekend in Chicago, IL.
“Even the NLGJA panel on religion and ‘gay rights’ was bereft of a traditionalist perspective, while the two openly homosexual speakers—former Episcopal Church bishop V. [Vicky] Gene Robinson and new Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ECLA) Bishop Rev. Doctor Guy Erwin—were heralded in the program as leaders of ‘this next wave of the civil rights movement.’Both Revs. Robinson and Erwin compared opposition to homosexuality and Christian businessmen’s principled refusal to participate in ‘gay weddings’ to racist bigotry. Perhaps it is asking too much of ‘mainstream’ journalists who consider homosexuality part of their intrinsic identity (“who they are”) to cover LGBT-related issues impartially. Nevertheless, intellectual diversity and ‘opposing’ viewpoint inclusion—the watchwords of this conference and pro-LGBT advocacy in general—were in short supply at the NLGJA convention. That is a peculiar and glaring deficit for a profession that ideally is supposed to cover ‘both sides’ of controversial issues.” – Peter LaBarbera,
No worries Peter. Hompohobic transgender blogger Parker Marie Malloy was there to represent homophobia and hate.