A few weeks ago, Peter LaBarbera unleashed a pre-emptive attack against new Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, warning him not to even consider meeting with the Log Cabin Republicans, whom he called “homosexual activists whose agenda would restrict our precious religious and First Amendment freedoms by using the government to promote aberrant sexual lifestyles.”
On a related note, we mentioned last week that John McCain’s daughter and former campaign manager are scheduled to speak at the LCR’s convention in April … and guess what? LaBarbera is not happy about that either:
Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, says McCain is taking the wrong message to young voters.
“I’m afraid that some Republicans are going to think, ‘Hey, we have to go pro-gay and try to be hip to get the youth vote,'” suggests LaBarbera. “Look, the kind of youth who are going to be the long-term heroes in the Republican Party are going to be the principled youth of today — and the principled youth don’t want us to play around or go half-way on homosexuality, or just fight gay marriage and not anything else.”
Also speaking April 17 at the Log Cabin conference will be Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s former campaign manager. The topic of Schmidt’s address is “Moving Forward.” LaBarbera admits he feels “very sorry” for people like Schmidt, who has a lesbian sister who is living in a domestic-partner relationship.
“They believe that they’re showing love for their family member by promoting homosexuality and embracing homosexuality — and that’s just not the case,” the Christian activist emphasizes. “Homosexuality is a sin whether your sister or brother or son is engaged in it. We want to hope that those people will come out of that lifestyle because it’s wrong.”
This latest salvo comes amid a feud LaBarbera is having with Jamie Ensley, the president of the Georgia Log Cabin Republicans, who responded to LaBarbera’s attack on the LCR and Steele by calling LaBarbera’s Americans For Truth About Homosexuality a “radical Christian domestic terrorist group” and comparing it to Nazis.
