‘Truth Academy’ to peddle same old homophobic lies

Peter LaBarbera, head of the anti-gay group Americans for Truth, claims to have spent many years “tracking” and “exposing” the alleged “gay agenda.”

However his legacy will be the monicker of “Porno Pete” given to him by members of the lgbt community for his penchant of going to subcultural and leather events to take pictures of gay attendees while giving heterosexual attendees a free pass.

In this age of the Rekers rentboy scandal, draw your own conclusions about this sort of behavior.  I won’t because I am neither a psychologist or teacher.

However, LaBarbera is now seeking to be the latter. He is actually attempting to start the “Truth Academy,” which he says is designed for instructing youths (between the ages of 14 to 25) lessons in “combatting the gay agenda” and supposed homosexual “misinformation.” at a cost of $99 a head.

This “Truth Academy” is on deck to begin this week and it almost sounds like a plot out of a B-rated science fiction movie (Plan Stop the ‘Queers’ from Outer Space?), except for the fact that LaBarbera is serious. He has even assembled a team of  “instructors,” including:

Cliff Kincaid-  a man whose organization(Accuracy in Media), when not having to apologize for inaccurately labeling a gay Obama official (Kevin Jennings) as a pedophile, is busy defending a Ugandan law which penalizes people – with imprisonment and death-  simply for being gay.

Robert Knight of Coral Ridge Ministries – who has spent years demonizing the lgbt community even to the point of freely citing the discredited research of Paul Cameron (a man who publishes “research papers” accusing gays of such things as wallowing in feces and plunging gerbils up their rectums.) Knight has also in the past described lesbians as “pretty big heavy set women who look like they’ve been over working October Fest for the last six years “

Ryan Sorba, Young Conservatives of California – a man so nastily anti-gay that he was booed off of the stage at a right-wing conservative conference for his comments.

Greg Quinlan, Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays – who, when he is not distorting the words of prominent researchers such as Dr. Francis Collins, attempts to spin court defeats into victories for his fraudulent group.

Matt Barber, Liberty Counsel – a man who described gay relationships as “one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it ‘love.’” Barber is also the same man who encouraged attendees at a conference last year to go into more detail in describing gay sex acts as a way to disgust people.

And last but not least:

Arthur Goldberg – head of   JONAH, a Jewish “ex-gay” group. Golberg is a convicted felon who was imprisoned for a multitude of charges including federal mail and wire fraud to conspiracy counts as a result of a bogus bond writing scheme.

One more thing – JONAH is presently embroiled in an ugly scandal in which two former clients charged one of the organization’s lead therapists with sexual misconduct.

With all due respect to LaBarbera, his “Truth Academy” and his “crackpot” team of associates, I wouldn’t take my pet dog to his academy much less any youth I knew.

And  I would sincerely hope many others would have the good common sense not to either.