We have a couple of diaries up taking a whack at Bam Bam Barber (“an open letter to matt barber,” and “Bam Bam Barber to bash Bowling Green!!”), but I thought I’d put up his latest filth so you can see how twisted and sick the man is to blame the LGBT community for daring to call out homophobia as a contributing factor in the suicides of young people who face bullying and harassment.
“Gay” Lobby Shamelessly Exploits Teen Suicides
Lynchburg, VA – Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel, released the following statement today on the series of recent highly publicized suicides committed by allegedly “gay” identified teenagers:
“Anyone with a heart grieves deeply over these needless suicides. Taking one’s own life is never the right choice. There are thousands of teen suicides each year. Some kids just don’t seem to understand the permanence of it, or how it destroys the lives of those they leave behind.
“We all agree: harassment and bullying of children should always be dealt with immediately and firmly. And if laws are broken, offenders should be prosecuted – period. This is true whether kids are targeted because they’re perceived to be homosexual, conservative, Christian or for any other reason.
“Unfortunately – though not surprisingly – extremist ‘gay’ pressure groups, like the incongruously named ‘Human Rights Campaign,’ Ellen DeGeneres and other liberal activists are shamelessly exploiting these tragedies as a means to achieve their own selfish political ends.
The garbage escalates below the fold.
“In a recent statement, Ms. DeGeneres said: ‘There are messages everywhere that validate this sort of bullying and taunting and we need to make it stop. We can’t let intolerance and ignorance take another kids life.’
“Indeed, actual bullying and taunting must not be tolerated. But what ‘messages’ is Ms. DeGeneres referring to, and how do ‘we…make [them] stop?’ I’ll translate from liberalese to plain English. What Ellen meant was this: ‘Public defense of God’s express, self-evident and unequivocal design for human sexuality must be stopped under force of law. Proponents of the Judeo-Christian sexual ethic are murdering ‘gay’ kids with their words.’
“Not only is this propagandist line of reasoning disingenuous, offensive and Orwellian, it’s utter nonsense.
“Joe Solmonese, president of HRC, took it a step further, directly blaming for these suicides Christians and the Mormon Church. To him, opposition to so-called ‘same-sex marriage,’ and defense of biblical sexual morality are the culprits: ‘Words have consequences,’ said Solmonese, ‘particularly when they come from a faith leader. This is exactly the kind of statement that can lead some kids to bully and others to commit suicide.’
“As Rahm Emanuel famously said: ‘You never let a serious crisis go to waste. [I]t’s an opportunity to do things you could not do before.’ It makes me physically ill to watch as the HRC and other ‘gay’ militants lick their chops and rub their hands together over the tragic suicides of these troubled, sexually confused young men,” continued Barber. “Before they were even laid to rest, the radical homosexual lobby pounced leveraging these suicides to demand that government codify each of their extremist, social engineering demands. This is political exploitation at its slimiest and it pours salt on the wounds of loved ones.
“God’s message to young people struggling with same sex temptation or to those who feel the shame that naturally accompanies sexual sin is that suicide is never the way out. But there is a way out. It comes first through belief in Jesus Christ, and then through confession of sin; finally, repentance. As Jesus said to the repentant sexual sinner at the well, ‘Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.’
“The families of these precious young people should know that Christians around the country are praying for them and will continue to pray for them in their time of loss. Scripture says ‘blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.’
“But Christians are also praying that these wicked and callous political vultures who seek to exploit these suicides become confounded and fail fantastically. Their mission is not one of ‘tolerance’ or ‘diversity.’ Quite the opposite: Their goal is to fan flames of anti-Christian bigotry and discrimination, evangelizing on behalf of their own perverted god: moral relativism. We simply won’t let them get away with it,” concluded Barber.




“Gay” Lobby Shamelessly Exploits Teen Suicides
“In a recent statement, Ms. DeGeneres said: ‘There are messages everywhere that validate this sort of bullying and taunting and we need to make it stop. We can’t let intolerance and ignorance take another kids life.’
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Error in translation
How about the message of “GO TO HELL, YOU F*CKING FAG!” I’m sure this was a direct quote from Jesus. It’s gotta be in the book somewhere.
Ok, Matt
Then, Matt, I expect you TOMORROW to advocate on both state and federal level for anti-bullying legislation WHICH INCLUDES SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
But you won’t do it…despite your words here. Remember the saying about actions speaking louder….
Then, Matt, if this is true, why does Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus, state that he would still get aroused around other naked men? Why did George Rekers (a MINISTER) hire someone from a male prostitute website (which required a membership to join) to accompany him on his European trip? HMMMMMMMMMMMMM???
he may not have been the first one to mine this cesspoolWitness, e.g., this obtuse, and similar, disquisition in the Rutgers paper. Judging by the comments thread, it was not BMOC material.
http://www.dailytargum.com/opi…
God works in, er, strange ways
The Right Rev. Rekers wanted someone, he said, to lift his luggage, stroke his Samsonite and wield his wardrobe. He want to minister to him, maybe even a laying on of hands. You’ll find it in the parable of the Gabardine swine.
Dear Matt is beginning to sound equally possessed.
Oh, the humanity …
Lifting luggageCoram, I read just a few days ago that the young man acknowledged that, in fact, he had had sex with Rekers on that trip (not just “long-stroke” massages).
QEDThe ones most obsessed with gay sex seem to be the ones, well, most obsessed with gay sex.
Huh?
Are there Christian kids being bullied? Because they’re Christian? Or conservative kids, because they’re conservative? More to the point, have there been any documented cases (as opposed to just Christian anecdotes) of school administrators deliberately turning a blind eye to it? And of such kids committing suicide because of the bullying?
Anyone know of any? At all? Even one?
I didn’t think so.
These vermin live in a fantasy world. It started 3,000 years ago with their damned silly talking snakes and asses, and it’s gotten progressively more ludicrous since then. It would be out-and-out laughable if it wasn’t so poisonous.
and women who are raped somehow asked for it.it’s all from the same pot of bile.
STILL worseIn a similar vein, but even more disgusting… the take from Tom Prichard (of the Minnesota Family Council) is that Justin Aaberg, here in MN, committed suicide because of “the gay lifestyle”.
Even ignoring the obvious nonsense here (i.e. the notion that all LGBTQ people lead the same “lifestyle”, which, in the fundies’ bigoted mythology, usually involves rampant promiscuity)… the real question is WHAT “lifestyle”?!? The kid was FIFTEEN!!!
Regular-strength bigotry and hatred (which we see from Prichard’s ilk on a daily basis) is bad enough, but this was transcendently ugly…. ugly enough to make you wonder why Prichard hasn’t had his face rearranged for him…
Exploiting someone’s unfortunate death?You mean like all the asshats who have been exploiting the death of that Jesus guy who died on the cross some 2,000 years ago? I understand that some folks make their entire livelihood exploiting THAT particular death.
Oh for the day when all these sanctimonious creeps crawl back under the rocks from which they emerged.
Documentation / linkhttp://www.advocate.com/News/D…
Director of Cultural Affairs?BWAAAAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAAA
What culture is that? The rural redneck, eatin fried chickin in the back of the truck, screwing your second cousin, and lying for gawd kind of culture?
As Bugs would say:
What a maroon!! What an ignoranimous!!!
Jesus also said, “He that is without sin among you…”
You made them troubled! You told them they were confused!
Then, when (predictably) some of them took their own lives, you express your grief.
No, not for having led them to the edge of the abyss. For having failed to get the opportunity to cause more confusion and despair! Regretting you weren’t able to be personally responsible for making them “feel the shame” of what you arrogantly proclaim to be God’s message.
Yup. And they’d put that Jesus guy back on that fucking cross if he ever came back, too. Crucifixion’s good for business.
“Biblical sexual morality”?Like when men in the bible had sex with their brother’s wives? Or their own slaves? Or offered their daughters to strangers?
That kind of “morality”, Matt?
Matt “Papa Bully” BarberSo his answer to the anguish of LGBTQ teens is to tell them they are sinners and must change? And when they can’t, just keep on blaming their failure on them? And that helps? Its just this kind of assault that LGBTQ people deal with every day that leads kids to suicide. Constant barrage of these negative messages wears people down, and vulnerable teens reach a point they can’t take it anymore. We need to stop calling this bullying and call it what it is, outright assault and abuse.
I blame not only the outspoken abusers like Barber, but the silent religious people, who may claim acceptance but give tacit approval of the negative messages by failing to confront them.
I prefer Shakespeare’s turn of phrase“Methinks the laddie doth protest too much!”
what an asshole.he should be ashamed of what he and others like him post. My coming out to other college students has been hard enough. I seriously wish at times that someone would file a civil suit against him for contributing to other people’s deaths and unhappiness.
Lol, bam Bam Barber doesn’t even know “his own” bibleThe bible passage he quotes toward the end of his screed,
had nothing to do with a well. It was something he said to a woman he rescued from being stoned by the conservative religious bigots of his day. Those haters used the same law that Barber and his cronies are using today to bash LGBT youth and drive them down the dark path of depression and suicide.
It never says that the woman was “repentant” in the bible, but I’m guessing she was grateful to be saved from the bigots before they killed her unjustly.
Not only are his arguments irrational, but he doesn’t even know the basis for them.
I found Oscar Wilde’s phrase on point as wellMay be apocryphal, but it’s said that after Oscar was released from prison (on a sodomy rap) he went to Paris. A friend checks them in to a Paris hotel, then goes to their room to find Oscar in a compromising position with the bellhop. He said, “Oscar, I thought you were turning over a new leaf!”
Oscar supposedly replied, “So I am, but first I need to get to the bottom of the page.”
You can lead a horse to water, but cannot make him wear plaid.
Well, at least get the page’s bottomI will definitely have to remember that story, thanks!
which reminds me of a storyThey tell the story of how Churchill, after he had been defeated for PM by Clement Attlee and went into Opposition, found himself in the Parliament men’s room one day with Attlee at the next urinal. Churchill turned away and Attlee asked, ‘Feeling standoffish today, Winston?’
Churchill supposedly replied, ‘No, I’m scared. Anytime you see anything big you want to nationalise it.’
Very moving videoThose kids need to listen to Tim Gunn, not Matt Barber. Matt has to be a money grubbing media whore in order to earn a paycheck. Tim Gunn is awesome and successful.