Saturday, January 28, 2006
Illinois Family Institute’s Peter LaBarbera Makes Gay Magazine’s “Enemies List”
Certainly, Peter LaBarbera, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute would consider it a badge of honor.
Of all the people in the country that the leading gay magazine “The Advocate”on its “Enemies List,” one wonders who will savor it most. It might be LaBarbera.
His organization is leading the effort to place an advisory referendum on the fall ballot that asks policy makers to ban gay marriage and civil unions.
The January 31st issue of The Advocate calls LaBabera “The Night Staker.” He is “a married heterosexual who goes underground to gay clubs and events like Chicago’s 2005 International Mr. Leatherman “conference,” which he described as “a veritable cornucopia of the deviant.” IFI is a secular part of the family of Focus on the Family organizations.
Ahead of LaBarbera on the “Enemies List” are Dr. James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, Dr. Paul Cameron, Family Research Institute President, and the Reverend Lou Sheldon and his daughter Andrea Lafferty, California activists.
Also on the list are Liberty Council attorneys Matt Staver and Jay Sekulow.
On the honorable mention “Enemies List” are
Of all the people in the country that the leading gay magazine “The Advocate”on its “Enemies List,” one wonders who will savor it most. It might be LaBarbera.
His organization is leading the effort to place an advisory referendum on the fall ballot that asks policy makers to ban gay marriage and civil unions.
The January 31st issue of The Advocate calls LaBabera “The Night Staker.” He is “a married heterosexual who goes underground to gay clubs and events like Chicago’s 2005 International Mr. Leatherman “conference,” which he described as “a veritable cornucopia of the deviant.” IFI is a secular part of the family of Focus on the Family organizations.
Ahead of LaBarbera on the “Enemies List” are Dr. James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, Dr. Paul Cameron, Family Research Institute President, and the Reverend Lou Sheldon and his daughter Andrea Lafferty, California activists.
Also on the list are Liberty Council attorneys Matt Staver and Jay Sekulow.
On the honorable mention “Enemies List” are
· Maryland State Delegate Dan Dwyer,
· Wisconsin Family Research Institute http://www.fri-wi.org/ Executive Director Juliane Appling,
· Massachusetts Family Institute President Kris Mineau,
· California’s Randy Thornasson, who founded the Campaign for Children and Families,
· Center for Arizona Policy President Len Munsil,
· Michigan American Family Association President Gary Glenn and
· Indiana’s Advance America founder Eric Miller.
