You know how they say there's a gay mafia? Well, there's an anti-gay mafia, as well, and Sally Kern's a member. Or, at the very least, an adherent.

The Oklahoma lawmaker first burst onto the national scene last week, after Victory Fund published her now infamous anti-gay audio.

While addressing like-minded peers, Kern spouted some pretty dangerous - and erroneous - bullshit, like that we gays are going after children and hellbent on destroying the United States. Sound familiar?

It should, because that's the same garbage produced by some of the nation's most notable right-wing activists, Matt Barber and Peter LaBarbera, whose arguments Kern uses to back up her homophobic nonsense.

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A right wing nutter got all genocidal while speaking with Concerned Women For America boy man, Matt Barber.

Good As You has the entire audio of Barber's appearance at the non-profit's "Cultural Conference," but features the above snippet of a man's maniacal solution to gay bathhouses:

I'm wondering there might be a possibility that we should encourage the homosexuals and the lesbians to do more and more and more of this bathhouses, no matter where it is and maybe they will destroy themselves…

The remark got a good chuckle, of course. They must assume all the gay folk a. have deadly, contractible diseases and b. grace bathhouses.

You know when a dog starts gnawing on a mystery object and simply won't let go? Yeah, that's kind of what's happening with the right wing and the "super staph" reports…

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While we're on the subject of nauseating bigots…

Despite the fact that University of California at San Francisco apologized for its staph-related gay panic, the Concerned Women of America have extended an invitation to gay groups to "help curb the spread of a potentially deadly strain of Staph infection".

Because Concerned Women for America (CWA) cares deeply for the health and well being of all Americans, CWA is sending letters inviting the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, GLAAD and Lambda Legal to put aside profound ideological differences with CWA — for the sake of the lives and health of their members — and to call for commonsense steps to help curb the spread of a potentially deadly strain of Staph infection.
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Matt Barber, CWA's Policy Director for Cultural Issues, said, "We now have a wonderful opportunity for ideological opponents to come together for the common good. Steps must be taken to keep this MRSA outbreak, which is occurring within certain segments of the homosexual community, from becoming a more widespread epidemic.

"HRC and other homosexual groups have a profound leadership role in their communities and a responsibility to protect their members from behaviorally related threats to their health and well-being. Therefore, these groups should publicly condemn those specific 'high-risk behaviors' which this study has concluded are responsible for spreading MRSA among homosexuals."

Um, right…

The CDC recently reported that gay men are helping spread a super staph infection. While certainly bad news, things got even worse when the right wing used the findings to further fuel gay panic.

Seeing the error of their ways, the CDC released a statement clarifying that the matter does not rest entirely on homo shoulders:

The strains of MRSA described in the recent Annals of Internal Medicine have mostly been identified in certain groups of men who have sex with men (MSM), but have also been found in some persons who are not MSM. It is important to note that the groups of MSM in which these isolates have been described are not representative of all MSM, so conclusions can not be drawn about the prevalence of these strains among all MSM.

We're sure social conservatives like Matt Barber and Peter LaBarbera will dismiss this as part of some sinister gay agenda…

Americans For Truth leader Peter LaBarbera joined Matt Barber in demonizing gay folk for "spreading" disease.

Is this not an eerie reminder of the initial stories 25 years ago about AIDS — then called GRID (Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease)? It is unfathomable that after that plague, disease specialists and the media are now surprised at the correlation of new infections with homosexual behavior.

LaBarbera and his ilk don't seem to understand that right wing rhetoric helps breed unsafe sex practices. They should really be indicting themselves.

It's like clockwork! The Concerned Women for America and their male leader, Matt Barber, took some time yesterday to blast gays for their role in the spread of a deadly new staph infection.

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Concerned Women of America's male leader Matt Barber took to the radio recently to discuss with Martha Kleder how the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been using the same tactics as the "homosexual lobby".

His evidence? They called for an advertisers to boycott anti-Islam radio host Michael Savage. How sinister!

Matt Barber simply can't wrap his closed, conservative mind around the trans experience. Nor does the Concerned Women of America member* have much love for those of us who do:

Liberal ideology and political correctness, infused with public policy, begets social insanity.

Case in point: A recent report on a popular homosexual "news" site declares, "A transgendered student says he is the victim of discrimination at a small Massachusetts community college because he is biologically female."

Say what? "He" is "female"? Welcome to PC-ville. Come for the oxymoron, stay for the cognitive dissonance.

As much as we loathe Barber's perspective, we have to admit he makes us laugh.

We'd also like to note that Barber's Renew America piece begins with a quote from anti-gay radio host Michael Savage. It's a match made in homophobic heaven, which sounds a lot like hell to us!

Barber belongs to a women's group, but slams people who want to be women. Just saying…

Matt Barber of Concerned Women of America delivers this doozy of an ENDA summation:

ENDA would force all Americans who prefer to live within the realm of reality to pretend, by force of law, that a man is a woman, that an apple is an orange, simply because that apple thinks it's an orange (awkward, fruity pun not intended).
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The bill legalizes sexual harassment. It states that 'denial of access' to workplace facilities such as restrooms and dressing rooms based on gender is only allowed for shared shower or dressing facilities in which being seen fully unclothed is unavoidable. This means that female employees would have to endure both systematic sexual harassment and a hostile work environment by being forced to share bathroom facilities with any male employee who got his jollies from wearing a dress.

Barber and his ilk must think that tranvestites and transgenders are simply foxes in women's clothing.

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