Barber: Suicide Rate High Among Gay Youth Because...

[liberal N proud]

Barber: Suicide Rate High Among Gay Youth Because They Know "What They Are Doing Is Unnatural, Is Wrong, Is Immoral"

Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber took to the airwaves to bash President Obama and organizations working towards bullying-prevention, joining other Religious Right opponents of anti-bullying programs. Along with Shawn Akers, who like Barber works for both Liberty University and Liberty Counsel, Barber railed against the alleged use of “a ‘Trojan Horse’ strategy, using language of bullying and violence and creating safe schools” to implement “a homosexual activist political indoctrination agenda and a curriculum of pro-homosexual propaganda.” Barber also said that Obama is “furthering a separate but equal policy” that supposedly favors gay and lesbian students and employs an “Alinsky-style, homo-fascist tactic to stifle any dissent.” Barber concluded by claiming that “kids who are engaging in homosexual behavior often look inward and know that what they are doing is unnatural, is wrong, is immoral, and so they become depressed and the instances of suicide can rise there as well.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-suicide-rate-high-among-gay-youth-because-they-know-what-they-are-doing-unnatural-wro

[xchrom]

1. Homo-fascist? Some one has been looking at Tom of Finland

A little too long and a little too hard.

[get the red out]

2. Ugh, I believe the German Fascists put gays in the camps

History escapes these guys, they are the ones mimicking Fascists.

Also, why do they seem to automatically assume that "bullying" means "gay agenda"? A variety of kids are bullied in school, basically anyone who isn't part of the "in" group can be subject to it. That would very often include gay kids, but others as well. I was straight and subjected to bullying, a good friend was gay and subjected to it. It strikes me as horrific that they are basically saying that any child that gets mistreated by others must be "bad", "immoral", and have it coming. But isn't permitting kids to harm other kids completely immoral? Of course they are the "good Christians" but they want children mistreated.

The Religious Right is one of the sickest groups of people on the planet. He is part of a "Liberty Council" that wants no liberty for anyone but strict rules for everyone made by his narrow cult. Because of people like this the word "liberty" makes me cringe.

[Initech]

3. So these assholes encourage bullying?

[mopinko]

7. that's what it looks like it boils down to.

they are pro-bullying, sticking up for the right of stupid fuckwads to bully at will. because that is what the world looks like for them. kill or be killed.

[arcane1]

4. Using that reasoning, the kids would simply just stop being gay.

Then again, I'm using the word "reasoning" when talking about a fucking idiot, so never mind :)

[EC]

5. Oh, and I guess the other kids

teasing and beating up of them doesn't depress them at all? Or try this asshat, it's not the behavior of the gay people causing them to become depressed - it's the behavior of the straight jerks.

[nosmokes]

6. Barber is unnatural,wrong and immoral.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. s/Know/Falsely Believe/