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"a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."

He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior." (CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)


Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).

"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008



Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:

A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist."
(Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)

"A nutty lesbian blogger."
(MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)


Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush


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What you've been waiting for - the full Folsom report from The Peter

by: Pam Spaulding

Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 11:30:00 AM EDT


In a multipart on-the-scene "exclusive" series -- complete with photos with alleged naughty bits blacked out -- on the Folsum Street Fair in San Francisco, Peter LaBarbera and Allyson Smith of Americans For Truth Against Homosexuality go into almost orgasmic detail about the BDSM going on at the event.

I kid you not, this is "Christian" oppo research gone horribly wrong. From Part One:
How do you describe the most depraved pubic event in the most depraved city in America? Well, we’ll let the pictures do the talking — with our strategically-placed black boxes so as not to reward the perverted exhibitionists who invaded the city’s streets Sunday for the “Folsom Street Fair.” The Fair is an annual street party for BDSM enthusiasts (meaning bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism — or domination/submission) held on several blocked-off city streets here, that reportedly draws hundreds of thousands of “leather” practitioners and curious spectators every year
By the way, Steamworks, a bathhouse that Peter has intimate knowledge of (since the Chicago branch is where he has gone undercover to report on man-on-man depravity), has an almost magnetic draw for LaBarbera ("where men go to engage in anonymous sodomies with other men") -- he managed to photograph a Steamworks booth at Folsum.

The article goes on breathlessly -- I think he needs a cold shower after typing this next passage; it's after the jump.

 

Pam Spaulding :: What you've been waiting for - the full Folsom report from The Peter
[W]e watched as police standing on the street or just outside the blocked-off perimeter of Folsom did nothing as men walked by baring their genitals (only the men did this; some women bared their breasts). One extended orgiastic scene we witnessed involving several men (see photo below) took place on crowded Folsom Street as hundreds if not thousands of people walked by — yet police took no action.

...In addition to the nudity and public sex acts, there were public whippings and spankings. Some were held at booths: the AIDS Emergency Fund was hawking charity spankings for $5 each — and others apparently occurring spontaneously, if you can say that about an act of consensual, “erotic” violence. We witnessed one man whipping his “partner” on a sidewalk, the “whippee’s” back becoming a brighter red with each round of punishment — done out of love, we are told by the sadists.

...So pervasive was the public (mostly male) nudity that it seemed the more “modest” homosexuals were the ones wearing only underwear or leather chaps exposing their behind.
Apparently Peter has realized that he can no longer report on these BDSM events as homosex-only, so he couches the heterosexual behavior as an anomoly, likely caused by proximity to the homos. He describes another of his photos:
Man leads bare-breasted female slave “partner” around by a dog collar. It appears that in recent years, heterosexual perverts have joined their “gay” brethren at the “fair” in increasing numbers. Talk about a setback for women’s rights … On the flip side, women were also seen leading around their male “slaves” at the twisted “fair” (see photo below).

Why are Peter and Allyson so curiously attracted to these kink festivals?  I personally have no interest in them, but the fact that he had to "escalate" to do "research" on kink beyond his hometown International Mr. Leather convention says quite a bit.

Matt "Bam Bam" Barber and Peter sat down to discuss his eyewitness reporting on the Concerned Women for America radio show (hat tip, Good As You:

Downplayed by homosexual activists as nothing more than "an adult costume party," the Folsom Street Fair has proven again to be a festival of blasphemy and perversity. Peter LaBarbera, President of Americans for Truth, attended the fair this year and has returned with evidence that the anti-Christian bigotry, sponsored by the Miller Brewing Co., really is as horrid as critics have claimed.  * warning: material not suitable for children."  Listen | Download

"The whole thing was surreal. And I think it's interesting that the homosexual activists like Pam Spaulding and Wayne Besen...these guys...they attack me because I'm out there trying to show America when a city like San Francisco gives itself over to perversion."
[UPDATE (10/9): Peter wasn't pleased with my commentary on his breathless coverage of Folsom Street Fair. He somehow managed to assert that somehow I must approve of the child being present at the Steamworks booth at the BDSM fest. No, Peter, if that were my child, I wouldn't have him there; it's clearly a sex subculture-related event for consenting adults. That a child was there has nothing to do with hetero- or homo-sex, it's about parenting issues and choices in American culture.

Oh, I stand corrected -- you're right, you have never gone incognito at Steamworks; it was International Mr. Leather.]

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depraved cities
for peter and the vast majority of fundies out there, every city is depraved.  any dense collection of human individuals is intrinsically more diverse than what they're accustomed to in their isolated suburban settings--a frightening concept to the fundie who wants to surround himself only with like-minded bigots.

The gays stole my lunch money

Depraved vs Deprivation

Psychosexual deviance, while far more widespread among "straights," nonetheless represents a true pathology. "Leather drag" as with "transvestism" are quite commonplace as Rudi Guiliani demonstrates, but neither is to be confused for paraphilias and true psychosexual displacement.

Alas, San Francisco, once the tolerant progressive city of good taste and good manners, has tanked with its alcoholic "ted haggard" major Gavin Newsom and his encouragement of kink and torture porn as "light industry," since major corporations have or are relocating out the city of fruits and nuts (not a gay reference, but to Barbara Boxer's Marin County, and birthplace of Exodus).

Newsom, caught porking his campaign manager's wife for a yea while on drugs and alcohol, has decided to surveil the entire city via strategic cameras so that civil servants can watch the goings-on, rather than require the police to work for a living. Torture is "approved" as long as its "sexual torture." This is not the first loony proposal of Newsom's; he is the first-ever politician to sponsor a tax on "gross receipts," that anyone with commonsense would recognize as insane. Oh, and that futile gesture in favor of "gay marriages" on the municipal level illustrates why "good looks and charisma" has denizens calling Newsom "pretty-boy airhead."

The baths have been closed in San Francisco since the AIDS pandemic, but Newsom approves of barebacking and low-life sex trade, since it generates "dependents on the dole," who, provided their drug abuse can be controlled one day every couple of years, will elect Newsom, Boxer, Migden, Leno, Lantos, Pelosi for all the "milk-and-honey" they provide the massive indigents hyped on drugs.

Those of us who remember the Summer of Love do not remember a time when the quality of life in San Francisco was worse. But since Newsom is the "progressive" pretty-boy airhead without a clue, the People's Republic of Berkeley is mainstream compared to Newsom's agenda -- if it includes something other than sex. He makes Larry Craig's toliet tapping still ugly, but at least it was confined to a men's room.

 We've never had "toilet-sex" queens, but now we have BJs out in the streets, in the gyms, on the dance floors, and drug-abuse that is scandalous, with dealers on most street corners. "But judgment-free" San Francisco has become just as "value-free." Creating addicts to support one's political habit is no different than any other junkie. Look at some of the Democrats 6,600 earmarks. No hypocrisy, mind you. It's all out in the open, which may explain why tourism is DOWN, rather than dodge indigents' shit and urine and accosting rather than pay a 35% tax on a hotel room. Even Disneyland does not fleece patrons as badly as Newsom fleeces everyone.

Dogs are treated better than humans. And Iraq continues, AIPAC dominates, and YOU worry about Laberra in leather? There must be something in the air below the Mason-Dixon Line that blurs vision. In the meantime, invest in www.kink.com. It's practically the only business left, and somebody has to finance Newsom's habits. 

Newsom and his political mentors, including the "lackey" Nancy Pelosi, carry on the Burton Machine, but what one sees in San Francisco is no longer "pretty." Depraved has always existed, but deprivation in Dorothy's OZ. A first. Emperor Norton has clothes, otherwise we'd have an excuse. 



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Reaction Formation
LaBarbara and the like almost seem obsessed with the fringe gay world... how come they aren't as fascinated by the same stuff going on in the straight world such as the worldwide fetich balls for example. http://www.sffetishb...

LaBarbera's MO

Because people like LaBarbera are trying to paint these events as being representative of mainstream gay culture.  It is a part of his MO-demonize and marginalize gays and lesbians.  According to LaBarbara's logic, then all straight folks are swingers who engage in BDSM activities.  Because in his view, if a few do it then they all must do it.

I would however, question the judgment of any parent that thought that it was an appropriate venue to bring a child. The organizers of the fair do make it quite clear that it is an adult oriented event.  It makes me want to ask the parent in that Steamworks picture "What the hell were you thinking?"  



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great pictures, Pete, thanks


Forgot to ask...
...what were you wearing, Pete?

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ugh, i don't even want to think about it
imagining peter in leather makes my penis cry.

The gays stole my lunch money

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WOW!!!
Mr. Peter, methinks thou dost protest too much! ;)

Christian Purveyors of Porn
Never ceases to amaze me how someone can be so "outraged" over such "sinful" things that they feel the need to advertise them clear across the worldwide web.  With pictures!  LOL!!  No wonder LaBarbara is such buddies with Brain & Ami from MassResistance.  They famously and very publicly posted the name of a 5 year old boy on their website who they were trying to "protect" from learning in school that gay people exist.  They cared so much about the tot that they informed every school bully and every pedophile of his identity and coordinates.  True Xtian love.

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Petey must really be bummed
He and his Christian loon pals can barely get a few hundred kooks to show up for their self-loathing events, yet thousands of people come to IML and Folsum Street Fair. 

And it IS thousands; I love how Petey tries to minimalize it, like hundreds or thousands...  The fair space is takes up four or five blocks, on Folsum, in the South of Market area; for those of you who haven't been, these blocks are probably double the length of a normal city block.  It also takes up the side streets for one block on both sides of Folsum.  At the height of the Fair, the streets are so full of revelers, that it is almost impossible to move.

I've been to Folsum Street Fair many times -- for most people, it is just a party.  There are tons of non-leather straight and gay folks who come just to party, listen to the bands, dance on the dance street.  That had to just set Petey's brain on fire.  And, yes, the booths he describes are there.  What he failed to note is that people in SF are so cool and so non-freaked out by sex, that they bring their kids.

If Petey were rational, an event like this should make him realize that his side has already lost and he might as well live and let live.  If he doesn't like the event, then he doesn't need to go.

Because he is a hopeless authoritarian bottom, however, he acted true to form and realesed his ridiculous report of the goings on.

News flash Pete: Folsum and IML ain't going anywhere -- by all means blather on, though; you only serve to marginalize yourself, while the world evolves without you.


Porno Pete shows his hand

As always, Porno Pete knows exactly what his good "Christian" followers want to see. Lots of sex! So, he's there to deliver it to them. It's his stock in trade. He's basically a Christian pornographer. To make a huge issue of what a few people do on a few blocks somewhere Porno Pete doesn't live means he's looking for publicity and money. And what sells better than sex?

He certainly won't get any contributions by showing images of violence and trying to outrage his followers to find a way to stop the massive killings that happen in the name of religion. 

In that way, Pete shows us his priorities. Killing, good. Sex, bad.



Why haven't I've seen him in my gay events?

Interesting.  Wonder if Babs will secretly video tape the events my business group puts out.  He would see us and realize we look to "normal" and it wouldn't help his "cause".  His cause of hate, discrimination and who knows what other pyschological issues this guys has.

America is diverse.  There are some things people do that I don't like, but that is not my business.

Why is this guy so obsessed I wonder?  Is this of way of coping with perhaps his own gayness?



I sent him an e-mail to that effect...
And he posted it on his site, saying that was a "tired" argument.  He never really got into it substantively...

Obviously, the guy is a self-loathing, authoritarian submissive, closet case; the bigger the closet, the bigger the homophobe. 

It is sad, really.  I'm fine with letting him spew his hate; he really does look ridiculous to anyone outside of the 30% authoritarian community and does a lot of our work for us. 

If he ever gets in my way, personally, however, there will be a come to Jesus...so to speak.


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You'll Never See Pete

Taking pictures at our weddings, however, or praising us for our committment to each other.  Sanctimonious prick.  The problem I have with this is that Pete is trying to paint all GLBT people with one brush.  As if all "straight" people behave the same way. 

Personally, I would never attend something like Folsom.  This may not be a popular sentiment around here, but I just think it's nasty.  If I want to see that, I'll rent some porn. Or better yet, go home to my husband.  Although he's MUCH better looking. 

I'd rather go on something like Rosie's family cruise, where we could take my neices and nephews with us without worrying about them being exposed to naked people by accident. 

My 2 cents.



Why can't I be both spiritual AND gay? I learned to kneel in church!!

Speaking of sanctimonius...
You admit you watch porn, but pooh-pooh Folsum Street participants.  Hmm; not quite as uppity as you would have us believe, I guess  And, since a good many porn stars attend the event, your hubby must be quite the treat.

Well, there are plenty of us who like to have fun.  Enjoy that cruise, tho.


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Pete

Thanks Pete for taking pictures at the festival for those of us who couldn't attend.  That was sure nice of you!  Although, I thought I saw "drool" stains on a couple of them.  Or, was that spittle on the pictures from you hyperventilating?

Hey, congrats Pam on being thought of so highly by Pete that he'd mention you on Bam-Bam's radio show.  You must be honored!

Seriously though, I always get a kick out of when Pete and the rest of the American Taliban put "warning: material not suitable for children." on stuff they print or air.  Somehow, I just can't picture any parent using Pete's material as a bedtime story for little Jenny or Jeremy, complete with pictures!

By the way everyone, remember that tomorrow night is Porno Pete's Pity Party A.K.A. Americans for Lies about Homosexuality's first annual banquet.  I'm sure there's going to be plenty of sob stories abounding about the poor, persecuted, Religious Right of this country and how those mean ole gays and lesbians want to take over the world with their eeeeeeevil agenda.  BAHAHAHAHAHAH. (evil sounding laughter here).  So, for those of you in the Chicago area, don't miss out on this!  I heard there's free admission for those that donate a gay porno magazine or pictures to Pete for his collection.  If they happen to be S & M related, you get a personally autographed picture of Petey posing in nothing but his studded, leather undies!  WOOHOO!!! 



Now I'm wishing I'd gone
I've only been to Folsom once, and it was crowded, and hot, so I've never been back, but those pictures make me think I may try to go next year. The thing that Peter's captions can't disguise is the fact that the people there are having fun--and that's what really bugs him. Sex isn't supposed to be fun, to him and his friends--and that's really sad, when you think about it.

Sex fun?!
Didn't you know that sex is for procreation ONLY?  I mean really!!!

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Rick Roberts

http://youtube.com/w...=

 

Listen to this guy go on about how he has he gay friends and they would never support the the Folsom event. He is "Sick of the gayness". Just listen to him it's three segments. 



The name of his organization =
"Americans for Truth About Homosexuality," not "Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality."

Same Thing
About or Against, it's all a bunch of Lies!

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????
Do you think you are making a point with that statement, somehow?

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Barely "Public"

One other thing our porno-obsessed friend never mentions, that it is pretty much impossible to stumble into the Folsom Street Fair without knowing exactly what you are getting into. The streets are blocked off, and one must run through a phalanx of metal dividers and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hawking for donations to the Fair (officially free, but they look at you really mean if you don't contribute - AND you get a dollar off the beer if you donate and wear your sticker). I don't understand why people bring their kids - it is one thing to be open minded, quite another to expose your kids to adult sexual behavior before they have hit puberty - but they can't say they didn't realize where they were going.

 And I love how Petey goes on about how "blasphemous" Folsom is - and he's totally right. It is exactly as blasphemous as a Mormon wedding or Southern Baptist funeral, if one is a Roman Catholic, that is. Does Peter not realize that there are plenty of people who find his "lifestyle choices" as immoral?



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