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Sinners in the hands of an angry GOP
At a messianic "War on Christians" conference, Tom DeLay warned that "the future of man hangs in the balance" as other righteous souls demanded that gay sex be explicitly described to restore "shame."
By Michelle Goldberg [2006-03-29]

  • Hey, does anyone fact-check this stuff?

    Just one point here, Peter LaBarbera's supposed "posting on a gay message board" seemed awfully fishy to me. I'm certainly no expert as I don't visit gay message boards but something about the way it was written seemed really off to me. It read more like a fundamentalist homophobic Christian's purile fantasy about what gross thing might be posted on a gay message board.

    I guess there's no way of checking out if this thing's for real, but once, just ONCE, I'd like someone in the media to ask these people to verify the crap they throw out there, instead of just accepting it as fact. I mean, it's not like we haven't proved time and again in the past that these folks are liars.

    I've read lots of MSM coverage of this conference, including in the NYT and Washington Post, as well as Salon. Did any reporter approach LaBarbera after he spoke about this supposed message board item? Did anyone ask him where he found it? The name of the website, maybe?

    I've got a pretty good nose for bullshit and this stinks.

    -- Litz
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    Friday, March 31, 2006 11:15 AM
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