Porno Pete: Tammy Baldwin Election and Glee Portend America's Collapse

There are times I really would like to know what mind altering drugs the talking heads of anti-gay Christofascists groups are consuming.  Some of their insanity is hard to explain other than via drug altered states.  And one of the anti-gay leaders who often takes the prize for insanity is Peter LaBarbera, a/k/a Porno Pete, a self-style "godly Christian" warrior against homosexuality who seems to have no career skills outside of shilling for money from the ignorant and gullible and peddling anti-gay hatred.  In one of his latest eruptions of diarrhea of the mouth, Porno Pete has claimed that Tammy Baldwin's election to the U.S. Senate and the popularity of Glee, the TV show, are indicative of America's impending collapse.  Right Wing Watch captured LaBarbera's latest delusional rant.  He also attributes Mitt Romney's loss to Barack Obama to Romney's failure to be virulently anti-gay.  Here are highlights:

Talk show host Janet Mefferd invited Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality onto her program on Friday to mourn the recent string of electoral victories of openly gay candidates and gay rights measures. While we continued to hear over and over again from conservatives that President Obama’s endorsement of marriage equality greatly undermined his support among minority voters, it turned out that Obama performed just as well—if not better—among minorities. Now, Mefferd and LaBarbera wondered if millions of more white voters would have turned out if only the Romney campaign had promoted his anti-gay stances more vigorously.

Mefferd: .   .   .   . you wonder how many of those white voters who stayed home actually would’ve come out if they would’ve had a candidate who had a backbone on issues that are culturally important to them.

LaBarbera: Let’s talk about the homosexual issue Janet, of course Romney barely, I don’t know in the general election, was it raised at all?

Mefferd: No.

LaBarbera said that he will pray that Senator-elect “Tammy Baldwin leaves the lesbian lifestyle as so many women have,” and lashed out at the media’s treatment of officials like Baldwin as historic milestones, wondering if the media would have similar reports on the “first alcoholic” to win an election. He went on to rail against the Huffington Post for “celebrating homosexuality” and claimed that “homosexuality and abortion” are now “the sacraments of liberalism.”  .  .  .  .  LaBarbera lamented. “America it seems is just falling apart right before our eyes.”

LaBarbera: We’re talking about a sin movement here. Would we be ticking off any other collective group of public representatives who had another sin problem: ‘Say Janet boy did you hear the first alcoholic just got elected in Colorado’? It’s preposterous, the whole movement is preposterous, and we got to retain our thinking as Christians. This is not an achievement. Homosexuality is a problem and the good news is people can overcome it. I hope and pray that one day Tammy Baldwin leaves the lesbian lifestyle as so many women have.  .  .  .  .  it’s not really a minority, it’s about behavior and behavior that can be changed. I’m sorry to offend the homosexual lobby but that’s what it is to us. This is not a great achievement and it’s nothing to be proud of.

Later in the show, Mefferd called the gains of the gay rights movement a “rejection of God” while LaBarbera appeared nostalgic for the days when states had anti-sodomy laws on the books. 

He even said that the kiss between two gay characters on “Glee” was a sign that America is in “big, big trouble.” “When you saw two teenage boys in a romantic set-up kiss, making out, during primetime TV and it didn’t engender mass outrage among Americans, you know we are pretty far gone,” LaBarbera said.

All too typically, LaBarbera went on to depict gays as disease ridden and dangerous and immoral.  Given LaBarbara's decades long obsession with homosexuality, he must be in deep, deep denial and subconsciously be lusting for some hot man on man sex.  It would certainly be consistent with more recent studies that have found the loudest homophobes to in fact be self-loathing closeted gays.