Head "Concerned Woman" Matt Barber spreads gay panic over MRSA staph infection

[Bluebear]

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.

Barber, of course, led the frenzied, panicked call:

The medical community has known for years that homosexual conduct, especially among males, creates a breeding ground for often deadly disease. In recent years we have seen a profound resurgence in cases of HIV/AIDS, syphilis, rectal gonorrhea and many other STDs among those who call themselves ‘gay.’
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In recent years our culture has adopted a laissez faire attitude toward sexual deviancy. Television shows like Will and Grace glorify the homosexual lifestyle while our children are taught in schools that homosexuality is a perfectly healthy, alternative sexual ‘orientation.’ ‘Stay out of our bedrooms!’ we’re often commanded by militant ‘gay’ activists.

Well, now the dangerous and possibly deadly consequence of what occurs in those bedrooms is spilling over into the general population. It’s not only frightening, it’s infuriating.

Citizens, especially parents, need to stand up and say, ‘No More! We will no longer sit idly by while politically correct cultural elites endanger our children and larger communities through propagandist promotion of this demonstrably deadly lifestyle.’

It’s great when backward right wingers call the left wing “elites,” as if an education and moral compass are the worst thing in the world.

HRC honcho Joe Solmonese released a reply to Barber’s rant:

We’ve come to expect hysteria and gross distortions from an organization like this and normally their bigoted rants don’t even warrant a response. But the statement today about MRSA is beyond the pale. In typical fashion, they disregard the facts and instead chose to demagogue the issue in order to fear-monger. Serious medical issues deserve serious consideration, not wildly off-the-mark press releases from anti-gay groups trying to capture media attention.

We saw this kind of hysteria in the early 1980’s around HIV/AIDS, I’ll be damned if we will sit idly by in 2008 and let them perpetrate that type of anti-gay hysteria without calling them out on it.

http://www.queerty.com/right-wing-spreads-gay-panic-after-staph-report-20080116/

[rox63]

1. So tell me...

How long has Matt Barber been a "concerned woman"? Is he trapped in the body of a "concerned man"? :rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

2. What an absolute asshole. I'm sure the medical community

would be elated to discover that MRSA is a 'gay disease'. :eyes:

Here in VA, one of the wrestling teams at a local high school came down with seven cases. My son's wrestling team has (currently) 9 cases of mono, wonder if we can classify mono as a 'gay disease' as well.

Fucking moran.

[LostinVA]

5. There's been a few outbreaks at middle schools here

Haruka's mom, a germophobic middle school teacher, is freaking out.

You might be onto the mono being a gay disease, though. I mean, the wife had mono in HS, and she has The Gay.

[Horse with no Name]

14. STOP IT!

I don't have "The Gay" and I have had mono.;)

[GodlessBiker]

3. He sure has his panties in a twist.

[DCKit]

4. He's not gettin' his share of gay lovin'

The fear and hate mongering never ends. I hope he never gets MRSA. How would he explain it to the other concerned women?

edit to add:

The education campaign they would like to begin sounds suspiciously like sex-ed, albeit with a negative slant. Additionally, the more they keep issues like this out in front, the more the children they're so concerned about are being exposed to "Teh Gays" issues. Being naturally curious, many of those kids are going to go online to learn more.

Those damn homonosexals have tricked the wingers into promoting their agenda again! Lock up your kids, take away their 'puters! Them queers are on the march against marriage and family values again!

[LostinVA]

6. The head of Concerned Women is not gay

It's actually pretty homophobic to say homophobes are gay. We don't say sexists are secretly women or racists are secretly black, do we?

[DCKit]

7. I didn't say he was gay, just that he wasn't getting any gay lovin'

And yes, many homophobes, especially those who feel the need to speak publicly on the subject, turn out to be self-loathing gay men with deep, dark and ugly issues. The short list is a who's who of the Republic party.

[LostinVA]

9. I respectfully disagree and I know the OP does, as well

[GodlessBiker]

13. You don't think some people overcompensate for a self-perceived shortcoming?

Haven't there been some preachers out there who rally against this or that only to be consumed by their participation in the very "evils" of which they speak?

[Bluebear]

17. Yes, indeed. nt

[NorthernSpy]

10. I firmly believe that many a racist has a stash of "blacks on blondes" porn...

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=411

[Fleshdancer]

8. The spin on this thing really pisses me off

The first I've heard of this super staph bug was at the beginning of the school year when reports of children getting it surfaced. I don't recall reporters spinning this last fall as a child specific infection but now that cases have popped up in the gay community, it's suddenly a gay thing?

It's a f*cking staph infection. It's a human problem because any human can get it. It's a "super" human problem because that's what bugs do when we humans increase the amount of antibiotics and antibacterial products...they evolve into something that can survive our medical advances. Sexual orientation has NOTHING to do with this.

[gollygee]

11. I am a concerned woman who hates the "Concerned Women"

I hate that man. "Politically correct cultural elites"? I think that means "nice people who don't try to destroy other people."

[Javaman]

12. What I want to know is...

what report was it that supposedly reported a higher than average incident of MRSA among the Gay population? Who funded the report? who was on it's panel?

I have never ever heard anything reported regarding MRSA in the Gay community until this ridiculous report came out.

If anything, all the reports I had been hearing had it appearing in locker rooms at various high schools around the country.

sounds to me that someone is pushing yet another personal agenda/campaign of gay bashing/scapegoating through the media under the guise of a "report".

[icymist]

15. My goodness! Letting MRSA incubate in the prison systems the last ten years...

by far did more to help spread this infection. After all, these are just inmates. Who cares about their infections? :sarcasm: Ignorance in fear-mongering tactics know no bounds in this 'What next can we blame on the gays in order to make people afraid?' campaign! MRSA is a staph infection that has become immune to most antibiotics due to overuse of these. In that sense, the dairy and meat industries are more to blame.

[terrya]

16. Of course. Yes, it's like clockwork.

And good for Joe Solmonese with his statement.

This crap from the bigots at "Concerned Women of America" is obscene.

[Bluebear]

18. When high school wrestlers were getting it were we 'warned' against teenaged males?