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An ugly murder took place recently. Unfortunately it's nothing new – murders take place all the time and all of them are ugly in their own fashion.
But this one was especially ugly. A former newsman, George Weber, was stabbed 50 times allegedly by a teenager he met on Craigslist.
According to reports, Weber had been looking for someone to choke him and engage in oral sex. He didn't know that the young man was a Satanist with a propensity for violence.
Peter LaBarbera has been exploiting the situation for his own purposes.
So far he has featured two consecutive posts about the crime spouting his usual unproven nonsense:
Folks, the greatest threat of violence to homosexual men comes from … other homosexual men. The stabbing murder of WABC reporter George Weber in New York is a terrible tragedy and yet it is instructive about the perils of promiscuous “gay” life. There is simply nothing that approaches the deviance of male homosexuality — especially at its sexual fringes — as other victims of gay-on-gay violence over the decades testify from the grave.
The second post featured an absolutely ridiculous comment by another so-called former gay, D.L. Foster (the interesting part put in bold by me):
“I probably will get hate mail for saying this but this type of hookup culture is common in the homosexual world. Another guy in NY who did the same thing was murdered. And yes heterosexuals do it too, but no matter what type of sexual proclivity it is, SIN leads to death. The best course of action is to get out of the deadly sin business and live for Christ.“
Let's be honest.
Had Weber been a heterosexual and his murderer been a teenaged girl, neither Foster nor LaBarbera would have given a damn.
In LaBarbera's posts, I saw the usual stuff – the lie that the lgbt orientation is indicative of hedonism, the lie that “you can walk away from homosexuality,” the ugly innuendoes that lgbts aren't capable of having health relationships or families.
But one thing I did not see, and this bothers me, is concern for Weber and his family. No words of condolescences, no comments of concern, no words of encouragement. Nothing.
It's almost if LaBarbera went through reports of the crime drooling while he thought up the ways he could indict the lgbt community for Weber's murder rather than young man who possibly committed the crime.
LaBarbera's vile behavior is no different than a racist who will count how many black men were arrested for crimes on the evening news so that he can talk about it the next day on whatever white supremacist forum he is a member of.
I could easily say that the heterosexual community isn't blameless in this situation because after all, the alleged murderer has a girlfriend.
But I won't play that game.
Nine years ago I lost my father, Alvin S. Glenn, to violence.
Trust me when I say that for the family of the victim, the anger and feelings of helplessness never completely go away.
I pray that justice is served for Weber and his family can find some sort of peace after this awful incident.
I also wish that LaBarbera, for once, would have shown some taste and discernment.
Or at least acted like he gave a damn about the person rather than his “cause.”
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The Author wrote a very thoughtful and respectful post.Especially given what you’ve disclosed here, that you lost your dad 9 years ago to violence, I want to commend you on both how you wrote this item and how you’ve thought about the incidents and issues revealed. I just wanted to let you know that it was noticed and is duly noted. Diego
If you take their logicThe greatest violent threat to mankind is heterosexuals. They are so found of telling us how few of us there are (and how many are changing) yet they spend millions of dollars and resources to taken away any rights and belittle us when ever they can.
The Peter and his co-horts are finding out that the well has run dry and people are not going to be contributing to there anti-gay lifestyle anymore and they’re all going to have to get real jobs. Maybe some of them will finally benefit society in some way.
Weber’s Real Killer!Was the closet!
What would be truly surprisingwould be his NOT exploiting this for his own purposes.
He’s deperately mentally ill.
“He’s deperately mentally ill”PETER LABARBERA
….. Homosexual Aficianado
….. Pornographer
….. Online Necrophiliac
….. American for “Truth”
Was he closeted?From everything I’ve read about the case, I hadn’t heard that Weber took great pains to hide his sexual orientation from those in his life, including co-workers, etc. I could very well be mistaken, but I hadn’t heard that.
In any event, it’s not just the closet cases who look for hook-ups on Craigslist.
As much as I hate to see a homophobe like The Peter using this story toward his own hateful ends, even I gotta admit … there’s a lot of red meat here.
Stories like this remind me why it’s so important for all of us to come out. Otherwise, one man who liked S&M and went searching for it on Craiglist becomes the poster boy for gay men everywhere – and it’s not even a fair representation; rather, his entire life is reduced to this one act.
Straight people who know a lot of gay people in their lives won’t be fazed by this story; they know that this isn’t an accurate picture of all gay men everywhere. But to a guy like The Peter, who makes his living catering to an ignorant fan base who don’t know that they know a single gay person, this is, to quote the former governor of Illinios, “a f***ing goldmine.”
Let’s face itIf someone slipped on a wet floor in a gay bar and cracked their skull and died from it, LaBarbera would exploit the gay angle there too.
The man is a lunatic!
And yes heterosexuals do it tooI have two words for Petey,
“Drew Peterson”
To quote a wise manTo The Peter:
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
Between this and the vile woman cackling about the abortion doctor’s family dying in a plane crash, I want to take the fight to these pathetic wastes of life. I want Jerry Falwell’s comments about 9/11 and these people’s statements repeated in 30 second statements every time they open they’re mouth about how they’re really loving, but-
The b-s lie about Fundamentalism making you a better person needs to burn in an f-ing hole. And I suspect that’s the real way we’ll win over all the Christians in the mushy middle. Make them appalled to call themselves Christian as long as they side these f***s.
ThanksThank you, Diego.
No decency indeedLabarbera, and the others take the page straight from Joe McCarthy’s playbook, substituting “homosexual” for communist.
And they have no decency.
LaBarbera is right!I myself have lost count of how many times I have been murdered.
Wish, but don’t expect.
Wishing LaBabs would show some taste and discernment is fine Alvin, but for it to actually happen has as much chance as the Pope announcing tomorrow that he’s converting to Hinduism.