SALLY KERN & ANITA BRYANT APPEAR AT GAY HATE EVENT

 

July 26, 2009

 

By James Miko, Wayne Fuller, & Lucas K.

 

PART ONE (PART TWO NOW AVAILABLE BELOW)

 

No Paul Blair-sponsored Christian event would be complete without numerous talks of who to hate and where to buy guns. This weekend’s event – the fourth of its kind – was no different and had the added bonus of a joint appearance by the 20^th Century’s most notorious homophobe Anita Bryant and her 21^st Century counterpart Rep. Sally Kern showing up for the Reclaim Oklahoma for Christ Conference.

 

Although neither was a featured speaker at this year’s gathering, both Kern and Bryant were acknowledged from the podium on Friday night.

Earlier this year Gossip Boy went undercover in at Bryant’s ministry, which is located above the Hooters in Bricktown. The results of that investigation can be found here and include her desire to raise her anti-gay campaign from the ashes and reclaim her throne from Kern as homosexuality’s most vocal foe. Their appearance together Friday is likely the first time the duo have been seen together in public.

 

     

A DAY WITHOUT HATE IS A DAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE: SALLY KERN & ANITA BRYANT

 

Headliners for the hate fest included two national anti-gay figures: Janet Folger and Peter LaBarbera.

 

Standing in solidarity on Friday and Saturday with the anti-gays, anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim, anti-science and the anti-Federal Reserve factions were two contenders for the 2010 Oklahoma governor’s race: Mary Fallin and Randy Brogdon. Also, showing up was candidate for lieutenant governor Todd Lamb.

 

CONGRESSWOMAN FALLIN MAKING APPEARANCE LAST SUMMER WITH SALLY KERN IN BETHANY

 

While serving as Oklahoma lieutenant governor after being elected in 1995 and serving until 2006, Fallin was the subject of a statewide scandal that saw her husband, a prominent Metro dentist, accusing her of having an extramarital affair with a state trooper and being heavily involved in the occult. Barely able to live down the Mattress Mary nickname she earned during the controversy, Fallin was elected to Congress in 2006 to serve Oklahoma’s Fifth District making her the first woman in the state put into the position since 1921.

 

Current Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brogdon is a resident of Owasso, OK and normally is the guy that fixes your air conditioner if it breaks down. He will be challenging Fallin as they both pursue the Republican slot for the state’s number one executive slot. In his six years in the state senate the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee has deemed him as having the highest conservative voting record in that governing body. As seen in the photo below, Brogdon in 2007 was awarded a Friend of the Eagle award from infamous homophobe and political extremist Phyllis Schlafly. Schlafly is considered on par with the likes of Sally Kern and Anita Bryant in that all three have been active in spreading homophobia while being rumored to have gay sons. Brogdon has become known this year for his 10^th Amendment Resolution, which proclaimed Oklahoma’s sovereignty from the United States of America. He is a frequent speaker with the John Birch Society and during a Teabag event outside the state capitol on July 4, 2009 he was seen closely associating with figures there to recruit members into white supremacist organizations.

 

SCHLAFLY AND BROGDON

 

During a break, a conversation with Republican candidate for Oklahoma governor Randy Brogdon saw the John Birch Society pawn complain about “that goddamn chimpanzee’s socialist health care program” to a gleeful Richard Engle, vice chair of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee. 

 

Todd Lamb spent four years from 1998 to 2002 with the U.S. Secret Service after working for Gov. Frank Keating beginning with his campaign in 1993. In 2002 he returned to Oklahoma to work on the staff of Congressman Don Nickles. He has been representing the Edmond area (District 47) as a state senator since 2004. On June 4, 2009 it was announced Nickles would be serving as his campaign chair for the lieutenant governor’s race in 2010. Joining Nickles as co-chair of the campaign is Tom Ward, CEO of Sandridge Energy. In 2004 Ward and Aubrey McClendon of Chesapeake Energy contributed over one million dollars to an anti-gay marriage political committee run by Gary Bauer the past president of the Family Research Council. Later, former Oklahoma State Corporation Commissioner and openly gay man Jim Roth offered to assist the pair in Seattle in overcoming their anti-gay image as they joined with Clay Bennett in purchasing the NBA franchise now known as the Thunders, which led to Gossip Boy’s rejection of him as a valid gay candidate for office. Despite Ward’s and Bennett’s funding of anti-gay causes and his role as a public servant charged with regulating the companies each man owned, Roth added them to his list of campaign managers in his failed 2008 race to retain his corporation commissioner seat.     

 

Competing against Roth in that doomed race was Dana Murphy, whose own campaign was being funded by Ralph Harvey another energy executive. Harvey, CEO of Marlin Oil, is a heavy contributor to Rep. Sally Kern and a benefactor of Oklahoma Christian University where the Reclaim Oklahoma for Christ Conference occurred this weekend. Critics during last fall’s race commented that it didn’t matter who won the race as the corporation commissioner was already bought and paid for by somebody.

 

Murphy went on to win the race and Roth left office in January 2009 to work for a downtown law office. His partner of many years, a Dallas area real estate executive, is no longer by his side as it was discovered Roth was having a secret affair with a male friend during his campaign. That friend turned out to be an employee of Premium Beers of Oklahoma, which is helmed by gay man John Cresap. During the presidential election race involving John McCain and Barack Obama, Cresap hosted a McCain fundraiser at his OKC estate with President George W. Bush as a special guest.    

 

This year’s Saturday’s program was limited to half a day in order to allow attendees the opportunity to attend the Metcalf Gun Show at the Oklahoma City fairgrounds. Strangely, the Metcalf Gun Show out of Owasso (State Senator Randy Brogdon’s hometown) is listed as a religious organization at http://www.zirana.com/OK_owasso/religious_organizations/ 

 

Part Two

MY FIRST TIME…AT A GAY HATE RALLY

 

August 1, 2009

Commentary by Lucas K

 

Peter LaBarbera’s mission in life is to “counter the gay movement”. That’s it. Nothing more. Every essence of his being and every hour he spends awake is fighting homosexuality. Not homosexual feelings mind you. No, repressed homosexuality is not his true problem he denies over and over again. As founder for Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), he has said, “The reality we face is that the same ‘gay’ movement that has reached unparalleled power and influence also aims to redefine traditional Judeo-Christian sexual mores as ‘hatred,’ ‘bigotry,’ and ‘phobic’ prejudice on a par with racism. Most Americans are simply unaware of the tremendous threat to freedom and morality that this radical ideology poses to society and especially to committed people of faith.”

 

I’m sitting there in the audience in Central Oklahoma hearing something similar that night about this unparalleled power and influence and wondering why I don’t have the right to marry who I want or join the Armed Services. I am asking myself where are my job and housing protections? If my lover falls ill will I have to climb through a window to visit him? Christians don’t have those problems, because they’re protected from such discrimination. I with all this unparalleled power and influence I’m supposed to have seem to have no rights. I question why my desire to be dealt with fairly and justly and be safe from oppression and violence is considered a radical ideology. None of my “agenda” involves taking away anything from another. My radical “agenda” involves having the freedom to love who I fall in love with, providing a safe loving home for my family no matter what it is made of, of not being fired from my job because my marital status doesn’t measure up to a book written during the Bronze Age, when the earth was still flat and witches were causing droughts and you dare not go too deep out into the sea lest a monster swallow you whole or you fall off the side of the world.    

 

I was getting angry, but that soon subsided and turned to stifling a laugh when LaBarbera struggled to describe to the audience what a power bottom was without using the actual words and offending certain people.

 

The LaBarb

 

Since last year LaBarbera, age 47, has made a few trips to the Oklahoma City area from his home base in Illinois to spend quality time with Paul Blair and Sally Kern and to dramatically motivate followers of the Christian Patriot Movement hate group known as Reclaim Oklahoma for Christ and teach them about power bottoming. I got to set in on his speech Friday, July 24, 2009 at the Hardeman Auditorium on the campus of Oklahoma Christian University in Edmond, OK. It was Paul Blair’s 4^th annual gathering of anti-gay, anti-Muslim, and anti-government types. The big emphasis was on the anti-gay part.   

 

LaBarbera has spent a number of years infiltrating various facets of the gay lifestyle (always the more colorful and seedier ones that certainly have their counterparts in the straight world) to bring out the horror stories to spread to the fundies writing his paycheck. While his wife Cristine tends to their brood in wealthy white suburbia, he’s donning ass-less chaps and a fake mustache and visiting the leather daddies in what he calls The Republic of San Francisco. That’s where all the immoral stuff takes place…in the gay world. You won’t find immorality in some Southern Baptist’s barnyard, or with a church leader molesting children, or some woman letting a donkey do her, or so forth. Were everyone to think the way LaBarbera thinks then we’d all have to judge the straights by certain behaviors and only those behaviors. I am not about to evaluate all straights on what I’ve seen on Jerry Springer, Cheaters, or the six o’clock news. That would be dumb. Thus I’ll just let it stand that LaBarbera isn’t as smart as me.   

 

Mostly, what I got from LaBarbera’s oration is that people like me are a health risk worse than smoking that the government needs to address. He made that claim. I should’ve asked him if he wanted a warning on my ass saying “SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Homosexuality Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy” and a tax stamp slapped on my left nut. I will agree with him that homosexuality does indeed complicate pregnancy, but that’s all.

 

LaBarbera said he wanted a comprehensive federal study to determine the health risks brought about by homosexuality. I wonder if they will find out we all have worms in our asses like Fred Phelps claims? He believes sodomy is more dangerous than cigarettes. Let’s see, during 2007 140,000 people died of lung cancer in the U.S. and in 2007 14,561 people died of AIDS. (I am going with his line of thinking here and not implying anything.)   

 

Since he believes homosexuality is such a severe health risk the government needs to step in and curb it. On my part the biggest health risk a person will face is if they try to control my sex life. LaBarbera needs to get his hands off my zipper and his thoughts out of my bedroom. Nosey Nancy is going to get her fingers broke if she doesn’t settle her ass down. Just because your name is Peter doesn’t mean you have to think about it all the damn time and if your life is all about wondering what other men are doing with their peters then you have some frigging unresolved issues.  

 

They detest The LaBarb in other places too.

 

The LaBarb thinks the government should finance an anti-homosexuality campaign from billboards to classrooms. He wants government workers sent into schools to teach the children about the dangers involved in the homosexual lifestyle. That will work out as well as the abstinence only programs in Oklahoma where you can’t throw a cigarette butt out the window without hitting a pregnant teenager.

 

Isn’t it funny how these anti-government types suddenly want more federal control, when it comes to homosexuality? They want the feds to stay out of a state’s business and then demand a federal ban on gay marriage that all the states would have to comply with. They want their local communities to determine what is taught in the classroom, but then want federal bureaucrats to come in with visual aids and force feed children with anti-homosexual rhetoric.      

 

The AFTAH was originally created by LaBarbera in 1998, but laid dormant until he lost his job as executive director with the Illinois Family Institute in 2006 and needed a quick source of income. At IFI his job was fighting against gay rights in Illinois, so he was well-equipped to continue the effort on a national scale. The IFI was recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a bona fide hate group, while LaBarbera was its leader. Picking up where they left off is Heterosexuals for a Moral Environment (H.O.M.E.) in Downers Grove, IL, who are many of the same people involved in LaBarbera’s first group. They’ve also been tagged a hate group by the SPLC. H.O.M.E. has somehow linked the Homosexual Movement to the Freemasons. Apparently, we’re supposed to have secret rites and initiations and mislead people with false interpretations of our symbols. And then they are real intent that those Freemasons gather and have homosexual orgies. You don’t even find that kind of imagination on Nifty.org.

 

Okaaaaaaaaay. Moving on…you can practice your secret handshake later.   

 

Last year LaBarbera was at the Rally for Sally.

Watch Reid Mullins to his left start breathing hard and swaying like his sugar is low. He needs a cake.

 

Now I’ve done a little digging and The LaBarb lives in DuPage County - Naperville, IL at 1217 Bainbridge Drive. His “unpublished” home telephone number is (630) 717-7626. He does run AFTAH out of his home, but uses a post office box for their business. Residents of that town are called Napervillians. NaperVILLIANS?  

 

Something strange about LaBarbera’s home phone number is that a man named Matt Barber uses it too. Barber is a board member at AFTAH, but the office number is (630) 717-7631. Not sure if LaBarbera’s wife Cristina knows about that though. You’d think he’d hand out the office number, not the hotline to his pal’s wife and kids. There are five kids in the family and two of them (both boys) didn’t go to kindergarten and waited until the age of 6 to start school, because Cristina didn’t think they were ready. She’s a strong proponent of waiting to put kids in school, especially boys. Maybe she is hoping they’ll take up the family business of running con jobs and doesn’t possess much hope for them to begin with. We can all just draw the conclusion that Peter LaBarbera’s kids are just too stupid for school.

 

Let’s see what kind of house you can get, when your income is derived from hating homosexuals…

 

 

That home was purchased for $340,000. Naperville is an extremely wealthy suburb of Chicago. The LaBarbera’s previously lived in Woodbridge, VA. The LaBarbera’s maintain a $272,000 mortgage from Professional Mortgage Partners, Inc. along with a $30,000 equity line of credit. From Chase Bank they have another $50,000 home equity loan. 

 

LaBarbera derives his income from donations made to AFTAH and speaking engagements related to it. Thing is there are no tax records on file for the group. Someone needs to look into that.

 

He also runs Real Civil Rights Illinois a “new statewide organization devoted to upholding genuine civil rights as opposed to the modern counterfeits based homosexuality, abortion and the supposed ‘right’ to view pornography in public libraries. RCR-IL operates under Americans For Real Civil Rights, the C-4 sister organization of Americans For Truth.”

 

Basically, that’s a group where LaBarbera decides who gets civil rights and who doesn’t. “Genuine civil rights” and “modern counterfeits”? That description of the RCR is just ignorant and running a bunch of words together with no real basis in legitimacy.

 

His personal email is: peterlabarbera@comcast.net

 

Now I have some other impressions about my visit to Reclaim Oklahoma for Christ’s weekend bash. It was my first time seeing Sally Kern in the flesh. She’s an ugly woman. I can see her dragging a team of oxen across the plains in 1870, while she threatens to toss her boot at the Comanches and sucks on a corncob pipe. I would imagine that when her husband Steve rolls over in the bed and cops a feel it would be similar to feeling up a 175 pound bag of potatoes. Sally even smells like a bag of potatoes. I am not lying! She smells like potatoes, dirt, and bugs. When I bathe my dog, she likes to run outside and roll around in the dirt and I think that is what Sally does too. Steve needed to have hosed her off, but he was too busy looking at every woman’s ass and tits. I have an uncle like Steve Kern. During Thanksgiving and Christmas the teen girls in the family make sure to never get left alone in a room with him. He has that aura of a dirty old man. In ten years he’ll be chasing nurse’s aides down the rest home hallways in his wheelchair and when he dies the last death throe he makes will be reaching out to grab a hooter.   

 

Janet Porter (neé Folger). I only had a very brief encounter with that one. Frigid. Definitely frigid. She had a clenched jaw and you could hear her teeth grinding together underneath her fake smile. I’ve never done any undercover work for Gossip Boy before, but got prepped before attending this affair and looked at lots of photos of Miss Janet, but seeing the monster in the flesh was still startling. From behind she looks rather young, but then she turns around and it’s SHRIEK! time. If you ever approach her, back step a quarter of a mile and then approach her slowly, so you become accustomed to her face. Most her photographs have been severely doctored or taken from a distance. If you’ve ever seen the episode of The Beverly Hillbillies where they have Granny dressed up as a young blonde, then you know what I am talking about here. The last I saw of her before her speech, she walked by the restrooms and you could hear all the toilets automatically flush.    

 

Then there was Lt. Gen. William Gerald “Jerry” Boykin (Ret.). Three words: psy cho path. He was looking behind a potted plant and I was damn certain he was making sure there wasn’t a Muslim hiding behind it and ready to leap out and blow everyone up. I got so paranoid around him I started watching where I stepped in case there was a trip wire to set off. It won’t be long until he’s in a stand off with the police for sitting on his front porch and taking potshots at the neighborhood children, who he will believe are toting IEDs in their school backpacks. That won’t be until after he retires as the commandant of some French Foreign Legion outpost though. After I got home I sure wish I’d wrapped a towel around my head and jumped out at him from behind something just to see what would happen. He’d probably had killed me though. He’s like ex-Delta Force and he was commander of the unit that got riddled in Mogadishu as related in the ‘Black Hawk Down’ movie. He was even considered the pet pit bull of Donald Rumsfeld, until Rummy got too scared of him and had to kick him out of the Army lest he start a worldwide Holy War. 

 

I didn’t meet Dr. John Morris, but did enjoy his slide show with beautiful pictures from around the universe. So pretty were the nebulas and such. As it turns out, that is where you go when Jesus wants you to come home. The big giant universe was made so good earthling Christians would have a place to go when they die. It’s nice of God that He’d make such a massive dumping grounds for his followers to go too where they won’t have to be near each other. His documented evidence that there is a Heaven was basically a cheap Star Trek special effect. Then he took us from the Jetsons to the Flintstones and talked about how young the Earth was and because it was so young the other scientists had to be lying by saying dinosaurs died millions of years ago. He quoted Genesis 2:18-19 as saying man came before animals so man was here before the dinosaurs. He didn’t mention Genesis 1:24-27 that says animals came before man though. So the science end of this conference dealt with the universe as being the final resting place of Christians and which side of the saddle you’re supposed to use to climb up on your brontosaurus. I wonder why the Oklahoma State Legislature didn’t make a fuss, when this “scientist” presented his views at an Oklahoma college?   

 

Finally, I wanted to point out an observation I’ve made of the Blairs and the Kerns. The husbands are Patriot Pastors and married to jock wives. Sally is an old girls coach and Cindy is a personal trainer at a Christian gym in Edmond. (Admittedly, Sally is a gone to pot jock.) Both sets of haters have two sons. The Kerns have Jesse and Nathan. Everyone has already heard that Jesse is probably gay and I think his brother is too. They’re both slight figured young men that would never be described as overly masculine. Nathan is married but to a woman that is bigger than he and very domineering. The Blairs have two sons that are very young, so I won’t name them. They’re both very girly. Now I don’t know what household chemicals were around three or four generations ago, but something in the toxic stew didn’t set right.

 

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EDMOND ANTI-GAY CONFERENCE BEGINS TONIGHT

 

July 24, 2009

By Wayne Fuller

 

Paul Blair, pastor of Fairview Baptist Church and founder of Reclaim Oklahoma, will be hosting his latest gay hate event tonight, Friday, July 24, 2009, starting at 6 pm in the Hardeman Auditorium of Edmond’s Oklahoma Christian University campus.

 

Blair’s desire to reclaim the state for Christ has focused over the last few years on very limited targets such as Gays, Muslims, and Science. His organization has never focused on issues such as divorce, adultery, poverty, teenage pregnancy, child health, or anything that would be considered an act of compassion. With Blair and his ilk, it is far more Christian to beat a homosexual than to feed a starving toddler. And it is more Godly to only look at your neighbor in order to find something in them you hate.

 

Among the keynote speakers is national figure Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH). AFTAH is based in Naperville, IL, and is a single-issue advocacy group set to lead a national culture war against homosexuals.

CAN'T GET ENOUGH PETER LABARBERA

 

Also in attendance is Janet Folger of Faith2Action, who has best been described as “Hate Mongering Homophobic Christian Bigot”. She has led the way this year in fighting for gay inclusion in hate crimes protections and has joined with others like Blair in deceptively calling it the “Pedophiles Protection Act” in order to rouse susceptible Christians against it. When not in Oklahoma to help stir up hate, Folger can be found making appearances on the O’Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, and Huckabee.  

NEVER-BEEN-KISSED HAGS PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY AND JANET FOLGER

 

Creationist geologist Dr. John Morris will be presenting a lecture on how humans and dinosaurs co-existed (like in the Flintstones.) Morris has been repeatedly targeted by scientists from around the world for his severely flawed research, which many claim is manufactured to begin with.

 

Morris is a young earth creationist and son of theologian and the father of creation science Henry Morris. He is president of the Institute for Creation Research, which others refer to as Imbeciles for Creationism Rhetoric.

 

Rounding out the guest panel will be Lt. General Jerry Boykin (Retired), who has enraged people around the world by claiming America’s war on terror is a Christian vs. Satan event. As a military leader he wanted to use the U.S. Armed Forces as a Christian army out to do battle with Muslims, who he considers the forces of Satan. He has been implicated as part of the Muslim prisoner abuse scandal. Also, he was connected with a man named Jonathan Idema, who was a private citizen who went to Afghanistan in 2002 and began kidnapping and torturing Muslims. Boykin’s office attempted to cover-up the event.

 

Previously, Boykin has said about entering Heaven, “Heres the way I want to enter the gates of Heaven. I want to come skidding in there on all fours. I want to be slipping and sliding and I want to hit the gates of heaven with a bang. And when I stand up and I stand before Christ, I want there to be blood on my knees and my elbows. I want to be covered with mud. And I want to be standing there with a ragged breast plate of righteousness. And a spear in my hand. And I want to say, "Look at me, Jesus. I've been in the battle. I've been fighting for you." Ladies and gentlemen, put your armor on and get into battle. God bless you.”

PSYCHOPATH JERRY BOYKIN

 

According to an article on beliefnet.com, in 2002, at a church in Oklahoma, he showed slides he took in Somalia just after 18 Americans were killed in the "Black Hawk Down" debacle. Pointing to a dark shadow of Mogadishu's skyline, Boykin said it was "a demonic presence in that city that God revealed to me as the enemy."

 

Boykin’s hallucination then led him to declare a Holy War and self-style himself as a Holy Crusader charged with executing Muslims. His discharge from the military came soon after.

 

Oklahoma Christian University has been playing host to Paul Blair’s summer hate series for the last few years. Earlier this year a similar event in January took place at the Character First Training Center in downtown Oklahoma City courtesy of the John Birch Society.

 

OCU has a big benefactor in oil man Ralph Harvey. Harvey, owner of Marlin Oil, is on the university’s Academy of Leadership & Liberty board and received an honorary doctorate from them last year. Gossip Boy has previously reported that Harvey is among Rep. Sally Kern’s biggest financial supporters and during last year’s state corporation commissioner race between openly-gay Jim Roth and challenger Dana Murphy, Harvey took over Murphy’s campaign and headquartered her offices in a building he owned. 

 

The university’s Academy of Leadership & Liberty unit is co-sponsoring the event with the Bott Radio Network. Rep. Sally Kern serves on the advisory board of Bott Radio, whose founder Richard Bott was a pro-Apartheid figure along with his employee Paul Sublett, who fiendishly held onto Kern’s Morality Proclamation at the recent State Capitol signing and who had previously assisted Bott in his pro-Apartheid/white supremacist causes.  

WHITE SUPREMACISTS BLAIR AND SUBLETT AT MORALITY SIGNING

 

The 2009 Reclaiming Oklahoma for Christ event is open and free to the public. Sessions will run Friday from 6 pm to 10 pm and on Saturday from 8:30 am until 1:00 pm. Gossip Boy will have assets in place to report on the hate speeches and attempts at Blair’s forces to arouse passions and incite violence against  homosexuals, people of color, and non-Christians. 

 

Schedule of Events - Friday Night
6:30 Opening and Janet Porter
7:25 Peter LaBarbera
8:40 Jerry Boykin
9:20 John Morris

Schedule of Events - Saturday Morning
9:00 Welcome and John Morris
10:00 Jerry Boykin
11:15 Peter LaBarbera
11:55 Janet Porter
12:35 Closing Comments