Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Porno Pete: HUD Housing Discrimination Study - A 'Classic Attempt' to Create a Crisis

Perennial homophobe and psycho Peter LaBarbera - a/k/a Porno Pete due to his love of "undercover research" at gay leather events - is at it again as reported by the wingnut news source OneNewsNow. Porno Pete is incensed that the Department of Housing and Urban Development is on a course to study housing discrimination against LGBT citizens - something that is currently perfectly legal in Virginia. Porno Pete has his panties in a major knot and is whining about "straight flight" in areas where gays move in. From my observation, the situation is generally the exact reverse: gays go into run down semi ghetto areas, turn them around and help gentrify them, and then all the straights want to move in. Locally, the Ghent area of Norfolk is a case in point as is the Dupont Circle area in Washington, D.C. But then, LaBarbera is never one to let facts get in the way of his gay bashing. Here is some of the verbal diarrhea LaBarbera is spouting at OneNewsNow:
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Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is preparing a first-ever study of alleged housing discrimination against homosexuals. Federal officials are brainstorming with residents of New York, Chicago, and San Francisco on how to conduct the study that is to begin next year. Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, believes the purpose is to gather data to advance the cause of homosexual activists. "But beyond that," he adds, "this is the classic attempt to equate homosexuality so-called 'discrimination' with other traditional civil rights discrimination."
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"I've heard of cases where people who are sort of driven to sell their homes because all the homes are being sold to homosexuals," he accounts. "So is the Obama administration going to investigate discrimination against people who are not homosexuals?"
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LaBarbera is convinced the study is going to be used to develop and promote homosexual laws in housing, so it is another incremental approach in manufacturing the crisis and then addressing the crisis, which is not a real one. Assistant HUD Secretary Raphael Bostic is quoted by Associated Press as saying, "The president has this as a priority."
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There are days when I wonder what kind of head trauma LaBarbera has suffered. The fact that I receive calls from LGBT individuals who have suffered housing discrimination in renting places to live must be a figment of my imagination.

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