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PageOneQ "I’m wondering why C-SPAN chose to re-air a long speech by homosexual activist and Episcopal Bishop Vicky Gene Robinson on Christmas Eve," said LaBarbera, "one of the most sacred days on the Christian calendar." LaBarbera also took the opportunity to mock the Reverend's legal name. Robinson's parents, who were told to expect him to die shortly after birth, named him Vicky Imogene, as they were expecting a girl. When he lived, his name was never changed. "Now, common sense dictates that if you do not want your boy to struggle with masculinity or gender issues, perhaps it is not a good idea to name him 'Vicky,' or Susan, or Linda," LaBarbera continues, framing Robinson as a victim of gender confusion brought on by an act of parental cruelty by way of nomenclature. Stories about "dysfunctional upbringings" among gays, he says, are "about as hard to find as corn in Iowa." "I can only imagine," LaBarbera goes on, "how difficult this man's life has been, but that can never justify his joining the dark side (abusing his pastoral authority to teach sin as a social good to others). In his defining, media-hyped crusade, Robinson personifies the most evil aspect of the 'gay' movement: the crusade to re-write Christianity itself to accommodate their besetting sin." LaBarbera calls on the public to tell C-SPAN to balance out the "offensive, pro-homosexual coverage" of Robinson's speech by covering an upcoming presentation, "Can you be gay and Christian?" by the Evangelical Dr. Michael Brown.
Peter LaBarbera, president of anti-gay organization Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, recently spoke out in protest of C-SPAN's airing of a speech by New Hampshire's Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay, noncelibate ordained bishop in the Episcopal Church.
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Originally published on Thursday January 24, 2008.



