THERE IS NOTHING 'GAY' ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY
by Americans for Truth
Who Cries for Jesse?
The Playground is Empty.
... R.I.P. ...
1986-1999
Jesse Dirkhising ...
Thirteen years old ...
Befriended by two homosexuals ...
One of whom ...
(While his older 'gay' lover looked on) ...
bound and gagged ...
Repeatedly raped ...
And sodomized Jesse ...
And then went to the kitchen ...
For a sandwich ...
Returning to find Jesse's blue-lipped ...
Lifeless body ...
And the Human Rights Campaign says, "This has nothing to do with gay
people."
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Affidavits Reveal Gay Sadism Link
Why Aren't Media Covering Jesse Dirkhising Murder
Like that of Matthew Shepard - Peter LaBarbera
WASHINGTON, D.C. The national media should devote equal resources to
covering the pedophilic murder of Jesse Dirkhising a 13-year-old
Arkansas boy sadistically tortured to death by two homosexual men as
they did to the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard,
Americans for Truth President Peter LaBarbera said today.
Americans for Truth about Homosexuality has blacked out its website in
memory of Jesse and is publishing Internet copies of two affidavits
detailing the facts of his torturous killing. The affidavits, based
on the testimony of one of the alleged assailants, 22-year-old Josh
Brown, reveal that young Jesse was the victim of a sadomasochistic
torture episode gone bad. Browns 38-year-old homosexual lover, Davis
Don Carpenter, reportedly purchased items from a grocery store that
were used to sodomize Jesse and stood nearby performing sexual acts on
himself while Brown (whom he called Baby) repeatedly raped the Prairie
Grove boy.
Copies of two affidavits describing the Dirkhising murder are
available at www.americansfortruth.org. So far the only national
mainstream media to take a deep interest in the Dirkhising case is the
Washington Times, LaBarbera said.
The national media, following the lead of homosexual activists, made
Matthew Shepard a household name for most Americans, LaBarbera said.
But what about young Jesse? Is his death at the hands of two sadistic
homosexuals less newsworthy than Shepard's at the hands of two cruel
heterosexuals?
LaBarbera said he suspects there is a more plausible link between gay
advocacy institutions and Jesse's murder than between Shepard's murder
and religious foes of homosexuality. (Many reporters and pundits
repeated the absurd claim by homosexual activists that the public
discourse of pro-family groups opposed to gay activism such as a
series of ex-gay newspaper ads contributed to Shepard's murder by
creating an environment that encourages anti-homosexual violence.)
All across America, gay newspapers and bars and organizations not only
tolerate sadistic sex but promote it, LaBarbera said. In fact, on the
very day of Dirkhising's death, two leading homosexual groups, the
Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
were manning booths at a sadistic sex fair in San Francisco that
celebrated bondage, human floggings and the same S&M techniques that
led to the death of young Jesse. We call on all homosexual
organizations, bookstores and newspapers to stop promoting sexual
violence consensual or otherwise.
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Boston Gay Bookstore Refuses to Stop Selling Publications That Promote
Adult-Child Sex
Rejects Americans for Truth request to stop profiting off pedophilia
The manager of a major homosexual bookstore, Glad Day Bookshop in
Boston, said he will not stop selling publications that promote
adult-child sex, saying that Our policy is to sell everything that is
available to the [gay] community.
Glad Day manager John Mitzel defended his stores selling of
numerous pro-pedophile publications, including those produced by
the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which
champions sex between men and young boys. Glad Day is located
directly across from a branch of the Boston Public Library on
Boylston Street in the city's downtown. Mitzel made his comments
in an interview with Lambda Report, a publication of Americans for
Truth about Homosexuality, which monitors the homosexual movement.
On March 27, Lambda Report publisher Peter LaBarbera purchased
dozens of pro-pedophile publications from Glad Day, including:
* The NAMBLA Bulletin (NAMBLA's newsletter), Gayme, and other
pro-pedophile magazines;
* Panthology Four, a collection of erotic short stories (published
by Coltsfoot Press in Amsterdam) including: Under Thirteen, about
a man who sodomizes a 12-and-a-half year old boy; and Lower than
the Angels, about a man who seduces a reluctant 13-year-old boy by
first exposing him to (straight) pornography and ultimately paying
him for sex;
* Loving Boys, a two-volume book set authored by Dutch boy-love
advocate Dr. Edward Brongersma, who, the book states, eschews both
the common Judeo-Christian belief that man-boy contacts are
morally wrong and the traditional psychiatric premise (never
honestly tested) that they are unnatural, perverted and harmful
for boys
LaBarbera said it is a disgrace that a major Boston gay institution
like Glad Day is selling NAMBLA literature less then two years
after the horrifying pedophile murder of Jeffrey Curley, a
10-year-old boy from nearby Cambridge. Police found NAMBLA
publications in the car of one of the two men convicted of
murdering Curley, whose death sparked such a tremendous public
outcry that it nearly resulted in the reintroduction of the death
penalty in Massachusetts.
In the memory of Jeffrey Curley, I call upon Glad Day to stop
profiting off the promotion of pedophilia, said LaBarbera. I also
call on all homosexual advocacy groups to denounce Glad Day's sale
of literature defending adult-child sex.
In his interview with LaBarbera and Lambda Report, a defiant Mitzel
said, Why should we allow our selection to be dictated by the right
wing? We don't cave into the right-wing like other bookstores.
LaBarbera noted that Giovannis Room, a homosexual bookstore in
Philadelphia, recently decided to stop selling literature
advocating sex between adults and children after being pressured to
do so by a local radio talk show host and pro-family candidate for
city council.
The potential normalization of pedophilia has become an issue
recently following the release of a controversial 1998 study in the
journal of the American Psychological Association (APA) which found
that child abuse victims did not suffer as much as is popularly
thought. Popular radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger has
led a campaign to condemn the study.
The APA-published study is discussed favorably in the NAMBLA
Bulletin sold at Glad Day.
Glad Day is not alone among Boston homosexual institutions in
defending pedophilia. A gay travel magazine published in Boston,
The Guide, employs pedophile activist Bill Andriette (the former
editor of NAMBLA Bulletin) on staff as features editor, as well as
other pedophile activists such as Tom Reeves, a former member of
the NAMBLA collective. Guide publisher Ed Hougen defended
pedophilia and incest in a 1993 interview with Lambda Report.
Hougen said most of the NAMBLA members he's met I consider to be
very responsible, caring people.
LaBarbera also called upon Glad Day and other homosexual bookstores
to stop selling sadomasochistic materials that glorify sexual
violence and degrading practices that humiliate by design such as
(consensual) human bondage and even slavery. Glad Day and other
gay bookstores, including Lambda Rising in Washington, D.C., sells
a wide selection of magazines advocating sexual sadism and other
extreme practices. For example, one of the publications LaBarbera
purchased at Glad Day was a magazine called Water Boy, for
homosexual men who enjoy deriving sexual gratification through
urine. Glad Day also sells a leather magazine called The Care &
Training of the Male Slave.
On April 17, a homosexual youth group, the Sexual Minority Youth
Assistance League (SMYAL), distributed a flier with sadistic
imagery at the Youth Pride Day 99 rally in Washington, D.C. The
flier featured a man in leather garb spanking the bare behind of
another man and a photo of two men tied together with rope. SMYAL
executive director has not returned correspondence from Lambda
Report inquiring whether it is a common practice for his group to
distribute sadistic-oriented literature to young people.
Recently, Americans for Truth began a campaign to call on major
homosexual advocacy groups to disassociate themselves from sadism,
public sex and pedophilia. On March 23, LaBarbera wrote to Kerry
Lobel, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, asking her to publicly disavow sadism and public sex. The
Task Force aligned itself with the National Coalition for Sexual
Freedom, a pro-sadism group, and featured public sex activists at
its annual conference. Lobel has thus far not responded to
LaBarbera's letter.
Even as homosexual activists exploit the murder of Matthew Shepard,
they continue to tolerate, promote, and profit from publications
that celebrate adult-child sex and eroticize sexual violence,
LaBarbera said. Its time for homosexual activists to deal with the
violence and exploitation of youth in their own ranks rather than
smear pro-family groups for their supposed homophobia.
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GOP Presidential Candidates Should Reject
Homosexual Republican Groups Pledge: LaBarbera
Says Linking Racism to Opposition to Homosexuality Insults
Minorities
WASHINGTON, D.C. Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth
about Homosexuality, issued the following statement today regarding
a report in U.S. News & World Report magazine that the homosexual
group Log Cabin Republicans will be asking GOP presidential
contenders to sign a pledge condemning racial and sexual
intolerance. Log Cabin spokesman Kevin Ivers said the presidential
hopefuls are not going to get a pass on this. They are going to
have to enforce tolerance. LaBarbera responded:
By equating opposition to homosexuality to racism, Rich
Tafel, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, has
embraced a spurious gay shibboleth that insults millions of
Americans of every race and creed who hold traditional moral
views. Most Americans whether Black, Hispanic or Asian believe
homosexual practices are unnatural or sinful. Opposing the Log
Cabin agenda, which includes homosexual adoption and gay marriage,
has nothing to do with racial intolerance, and Tafel knows it. Yet
he is using this ploy to enforce a pro-homosexual orthodoxy on the
Republican Party ironically, in the name of tolerance. GOP
candidates should reject the Log Cabin pledge outright.
When Rich Tafel and other homosexual activists link skin color
to homosexual behavior, they belittle the convictions of Americans
who support a moral renewal in our nation. Gay and bisexual
advocates are wrong when they equate interracial marriages, which
enjoy wide support, to immoral so-called marriages between two men
or two women which Americans of every stripe reject.
Abraham Lincoln, whose visage greets visitors to the Log Cabin
Republicans web site, was a man of principle who believed in a
divinely created order. Lincoln, whose Christian faith deepened in
his later years, surely could never have envisioned the organized
homosexual and abortion movements of today. (Log Cabin also
champions abortion rights.) To promote homosexuality in his name
dishonors an American hero, distorts history and degrades the
truth.
As we have before, Americans for Truth calls upon Rich Tafel
and the Log Cabin Republicans to remove President Lincoln's image
from their logo and internet site, and cease exploiting his good
name to promote their dubious cause.
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LaBarbera to D.C. TV Networks:
'Don't Accommodate "Gay Censors"
On Ads Featuring Former Homosexual and Mom'
WASHINGTON, D.C. Americans for Truth President Peter LaBarbera
criticized three local TV stations today for refusing to run a
pro-family Truth in Love commercial featuring a former homosexual
who has AIDS and his mother.
TV stations and newspapers should stop playing Big Brother and let
Americans judge for themselves about the possibility of change for
homosexuals, LaBarbera said.
ABCs Washington, D.C. affiliate WJLA-TV, FOX affiliate WTTG-TV and
CBS affiliate WUSA-TV all rejected an ad featuring Michael
Johnston, a former homosexual who now has AIDS. In the ad,
Johnston's mother says, If you love your children, love them enough
to let them know the truth, [that] there is hope for change for
homosexuals. Michael says he overcame homosexuality through Jesus
Christ.
A representative from FOX's WTTG-TV said the ad was too
controversial, according to Janet Folger, national director for the
Center for Reclaiming America, which produced the Johnston ad on
behalf of a coalition of 18 pro-family organizations, including
Americans for Truth. The other two stations gave similar reasons
for denying the ad, Folger said.
Only UPN-affiliate WDCA-TV accepted the Johnston ad, which is
running between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. this week in the
Washington, D.C. area.
Its interesting that FOX finds it too controversial to run an ad
showing hope for homosexuals, but it wasn't too controversial to
show a passionate lesbian kiss on its program Party of Five,
LaBarbera said. The fact is, the testimonials of formerly
homosexual men and ex-lesbians are the Achilles heel of the
homosexual movement, and that's why gay groups like GLAAD want so
badly to have them censored.
A GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) spokeswoman
told the Washington Times that her group is lobbying WDCA to stop
running the ad. LaBarbera said TV networks are wrong to cave in to
pressure from groups like the GLAAD not to run ads highlighting
ex-gays. The homosexual newspaper Washington Blade reported last
November that representatives from the four major TV networks FOX,
ABC, CBS and NBC said they would most likely reject the Truth in
Love TV ads. The Blade quoted Rick Gitter, vice president of
advertising standards and program compliance at NBC, as saying that
the network exercises special sensitivity when presenting material
dealing with sexual orientation, in addition to race, creed, etc.
Gitter told the Blade, Our policy is to avoid damaging or demeaning
stereotypes.
LaBarbera said the TV stations rejection of the ex-homosexual ads
hurts the pro-family movement far more than homosexual activists,
because most reporters are biased in favor of the gay position.
The ads are a way to bypass the medias bias and reach the public,
he said.
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Disproves Lie Underlying Clinton's Gay Pride Month
Something Truly to Be Proud of:
Former Homosexual Jim Hanes Takes a Bride
WASHINGTON, D.C. Jim Hanes, Administrative Director of Americans
for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH), has returned from an Alaska
honeymoon with his new bride, the former Sarah Carr, whom he wed in
a Christian ceremony in Maryland on June 12.
Hanes, who lived for four years as an open homosexual, left the
lifestyle two years ago after hearing of the possibility of change
on a Christian radio broadcast. He met Sarah through a mutual
friend, who also had abandoned his gay identity a year earlier.
Americans for Truth President Peter LaBarbera issued the following
statement about the happy event:
In the same month that President Clinton asked all of America to
join him in celebrating Gay Pride Month, Jim Hanes former proud
homosexual proclaimed his lifelong commitment to Sarah. Their
marriage is a dose of truth for a culture whose trendy
opinion-makers are falling all over themselves to celebrate
homosexuality.
Jim's changed life disproves the curious notion that people are
fated by birth or other circumstances to be gay. It offers
tremendous hope to those struggling with homosexuality. Perhaps if
Bill Clinton and Al Gore could meet Jim and Sarah, and hear Jim's
heartwarming story, they might see the folly of their politically
correct embrace of the homosexual cause.
When Jim and Sarah walked down the aisle and were united before God
in true marriage, they followed in the tradition of millions of
couples before them. Homosexual so-called marriages, in contrast,
are a perversion of the real thing. Romantic love was never
intended to be between members of the same sex a truth that
politics and propaganda cannot alter. We understand why groups
like the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation are desperate
to censor the truth that homosexuals can change (even as they
champion diversity). It undermines the core of their ideology that
homosexual conduct is natural and therefore acceptable. It
subverts their Big Lie.
A healthy society encourages men and women to love each other in
marriage, and create stable families with mothers and fathers. It
does not lower divine, age-old standards of right and wrong in the
name of equality or ending discrimination. Hollywood, the media,
liberal politicians, and open-minded gays and lesbians would do
well to consider the lesson of Jim's life: that homosexuality is not
about orientation but behavior and desires that can be overcome.
Thank you, Jim and Sarah, for giving us something truly worth
celebrating!
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Video Footage of Anheuser-Busch-Sponsored
Sadistic Sex Event to Be Unveiled in St. Louis
Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) will show video
footage from a radical homosexual festival sponsored each of the last
two years by Anheuser-Busch, Inc. The September 26 leather festival
held in San Francisco, called the Folsom Street Fair, celebrated
sadism and featured such acts as men whipping one another to the point
of drawing blood.
The footage will be shown Tuesday, November 16th at 1:30 p.m at a
press conference in the Hyatt Regency St. Louis Hotel at Union Station
-- in the Missouri-Pacific Room. Videotaped excerpts of AFTAH's
footage of the event will be made available to the media.
Speaking at the press conference will be: Peter LaBarbera, President
of Americans for Truth; Jim Hanes, Administrative Director of
Americans for Truth; and Joe Glover, President of the Family Policy
Network, a Virginia-based group that has launched a nationwide
campaign to pressure Anheuser-Busch to stop promoting homosexuality.
You will not believe the shocking behavior that Anheuser-Busch has
lent its name and prestige to, said LaBarbera. Its bad enough that
San Francisco blocked off several streets for a festival celebrating
consensual cruelty and human degradation, but it's even worse that for
the second straight year Bud Light banners were flown proudly at this
event glorifying sexual violence.
Its time for the people of St. Louis and the rest of America to see
the activities that Anheuser-Busch is helping to make possible,
LaBarbera said. August A. Busch III needs to take responsibility for
the perversions his company is promoting and put an end to this
nonsense.
AFTAHs video footage, shot by Jim Hanes, shows men and women being
whipped in sadistic rituals; Folsom participants strutting about in
the nude; various pornographic- and sadistic-oriented booths from
other fair sponsors; and simulated sex acts staged in public.
Anheuser-Busch executives are hypocrites for putting forth an
all-American image through their TV ad campaigns while ignoring calls
by pro-family groups to stop promoting homosexuality and now
sadomasochism, LaBarbera said. In 1998, the St. Louis-based
corporation justified its sponsorship of the Folsom fair as part of
its non-discrimination policy toward homosexuals.