The Bizarre Behavior Of An Apparently Hate Filled Man - Of Course It’s Peter LaBarbera
Via Pam’s House Blend, Peter LaBarbera of the hate group Americans For Truth About Homosexuality engages in a vicious twitter fight with transwoman Autumn Sandeen:
It’s pretty obvious that Peter LaBarbera wants to know my previous male name so he can stop referring to me as Autumn…or should I say stop referring to me as “Autumn.” You know, because the quotation marks around my legal first name are important for Mr. LaBarbera to use in his attempt to deny any recognition my gender identity, as well as deny that my legal name of Autumn Sandeen is real or credible.
Put another way, Mr. LaBarbera wants to weaponize my former male name against me. So exactly why would I voluntarily surrender a weapon to him? Did he honestly expect I would respond to his tweet with my old male name?
Apparently, this twitter exchange is what passes for Christian love and New Testament encouraged golden rule behavior within Mr. LaBarbera’s mind — I can’t decide whether Mr. LaBarbera’s behavior is entertainingly amusing or simply pathetic.
Bizarrely, Peter LaBarbera identifies lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community members as haters, but doesn’t see himself as a homophobic and transphobic hater. Nor does he believe that his American’s For Truth About Homosexuality website deserves the Southern Poverty Law Center’s identification of the website as a hate site.
Really. I find that Mr. LaBarbera’s belief that he isn’t a homophobic and transphobic hater just a tad hard to believe.
And seriously, WTF? I honestly just can’t figure out what he got out of this exchange.
That last comment sums it up, but go read the twitter exchange yourself here. I shouldn’t be surprised at LaBarbera ending up in the long line of conservatives who use twitter to act out (Brietbart being exhibit A), but there you go.