Peter LaBarbera's Antigay Website Listed as Hate Group

I have had numerous run ins with Peter Labarbera since I began my days as an activist a number of years back. We've even had a number of heated e-mail exchanges. Over that course of years, Labarbera continually repeats the same deliberate lies and feigns ignorance when confronted with documentation that refutes his anti-gay diatribes. He definitely rates right up there among the most challenged "professional Christians" when it comes to truth and veracity. In addition, Labarbera has bounced around from one anti-gay organization to another, starting with his days with Michael Johnston's bogus ex-gay "cure" ministry, Kerusso Ministries, formerly based in the Hampton Roads area, to his now falsely named Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. This blog by Wayne Besen goes into just how disingenuous Labarbera and Johnston were when they ran Kerusso Ministries and the end of Johnston's bogus "ministry." Now, Labarbera's website has been appropriately named as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Here are some details from The Advocate on this most appropriate labeling:
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The website of the antigay group Americans For Truth About Homosexuality was recently listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The listing, which appeared in the most recent issue of Intelligence Report, the Law Center’s quarterly publication, was the result of lobbying by the Chicago-based Gay Liberation Network, according to a news release from GLN.
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“The criteria that the Law Center historically has used to determine whether or not an organization is a hate group is not merely that it opposes legal equality for gays or others, but whether or not they intentionally utilize discredited and slanderous propaganda to spread lies about a group of people,” said GLN. “By repeatedly using the phoney ‘research’ of defrocked psychologist Paul Cameron, who is roundly condemned by every major professional psychological association, AFTAH's website apparently met the Law Center's definition of a hate group.”
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The leader of AFTAH is Peter LaBarbera, who previously headed the Illinois Family Institute.