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Peter LaBarbera Begs Dan Savage To Take Down Santorum.com
“Porno Pete” LaBarbera is begging Dan Savage to take down the site that has the redefinition of Rick Santorum’s last name. Santorum has done little to counter or drive down the site Santorum.com. On that site, Dan Savage redefines via a neologism the name Santorum as “The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.”
LaBarbera wrote:
Today, I appeal to homosexual activist Dan Savage: take down your anti-Rick Santorum hate-site, Santorum.com.
Admittedly, it seems ludicrous to appeal to man who would go to such hateful lengths to sabotage religious conservatives that he would intentionally try to give a Republican presidential candidate a cold (Gary Bauer, 2000), or use Google to demonize an opponent in such a despicable way. Nevertheless, I make the appeal because bullying is bullying, and it must stop.
We get it, Dan, you HATE Rick Santorum, and you want to punish him for comments he made about the Supreme Court’s decision legalizing sodomy. But as a prolific writer and advocate, surely you have abundant opportunities to address Santorum’s arguments civilly — without resorting to cruel, twisted campaigns designed to destroy a man’s name and reputation by associating it with perversion.
“Santorum.com” (like its malevolent cousin, “Spreading Santorum”) is advanced cyber-bullying, pure and simple. You are a role model for “gay” youth, and your “It Gets Better” video campaign to help kids overcome bullying in their teen years has gained international attention. Yet bizarrely, with apparent ends-justifies-the-means rationale, you yourself have employed heinous bullying methods to malign Mr. Santorum — tactics you would strongly condemn if used against a self-identified “gay” kid. [AFTAH opposes all bullying of youth without regard to special criteria; we disagree with the "It Gets Better" campaign because it seeks to normalize homosexuality and celebrate immoral LGBT identities.]
Is this the lesson you want to teach young people? That if they encounter a person who disagrees with homosexual behavior, it’s OK to use the slimiest tactics imaginable to go after that person?
You and your homosexual partner have an adopted son. What did or will you tell him about Santorum.com? Have you no compassion for Rick Santorum’s wife, children and extended family, who too must bear the brunt of your high-tech smear?
And to the media I ask this: please hold Dan Savage and his homosexual and liberal supporters accountable for this heinous and malicious web slander. Stop joking about it, and do not act as if Rick Santorum’s “Google problem” just appeared out of nowhere. This is calculated character assassination engineered by a “gay” activist who, ironically, crusades against hate. Do not reward Savage with media appearances. In fact, treat him as you would, say, a deranged, far-right activist who had created “BarbaraBoxer[dot]com” and “redefined” her name in a similarly evil manner.
Ok, Mr. LaBarbera, how about Savage take that down and you guys take down every site that claims that homosexuality is a choice, homosexuality can be cured, homosexuality is a sin, homosexuality is an abomination, homosexuality will destroy society, homosexuals are akin to the KKK, homosexuals hate people, and all the other lies and slanders that are out there regarding lesbians and gays that have been pushed by men like you.
It is the same thing, honestly. In fact, what Savage did is far less harmful than what you and the rest of your cohorts have been doing because this neologism is not something that causes people to go out and savagely beat Santorum to death.
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Caroline
January 21, 2012 at 10:21 am
In the article, this sentence jumped out at me, “Have you no compassion for Rick Santorum’s wife, children and extended family?”
I would like the writer, with whom I am not familiar, if he would answer this question, “Have you no compassion for the wives, children, and extended families of all the people that Rick Santorum has hurt and damaged with pushing his bigoted views across the nation?” Then I would ask, have you written a similar letter to Mr. Santorum?”
I would ask any reader here, “Who has done the bigger damage?”
I also agree with Dan Savage that we must stand up to bullies, even those who national political platforms promoting them and who may one day occupy the most powerful office in the world. I believe that this is our civic duty.
With all of that said, I also have words ringing in ears from one who knew true struggle and had watched hatred in action far too many times: “Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
Perhaps we cannot change Rick Santorum… or Dan Savage… or the person who wrote this letter without challenging both side… but we do have power over how we act. Let us put the power within us to work for a greater good. One that respects the human dignity in all of us.
aral
January 10, 2012 at 8:03 pm
In fairness, Savage DID give Santorum a chance to get the site taken down – if he made a donation of $5 million (very doable for Santorum, even if he’s not as rich as Mitt Romney) to one of the major organizations that supports marriage equality and LBGT rights in general. I can’t remember which.
Of course, the right called it blackmail. And of course, it wasn’t. The public already knows Santorum’s views on the subject, and there’s nothing secret being held for a price. And Santorum is a public figure subject to criticism and satire, so it wasn’t even libel. It was simply an opportunity for Santorum to “buy out” the website.
Dan
January 20, 2012 at 1:22 pm
No, you’re right, aral, that’s not blackmail, it’s extortion. And it’s wrong.
I support gay rights, gay marriage, and generally just letting people live their lives, but sinking to the level of the “bad guys” is not a legitimate strategy. It’s not going to make people want to help you. It’s not the way to raise awareness or encourage people to be allies. It just makes Savage look like an asshole (which, actually, I suppose he is, so I guess that’s fair).
It doesn’t matter if Santorum is “strong” as opposed to “weak”, bullying is bullying. Engage the man on the merits and show that he is wrong. Don’t resort to something as childish as this.
tez
January 10, 2012 at 7:11 pm
^^ I totally agree with Ken. Well said, sir.
John
January 10, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Yea, sorry Pete. Your one of the most vile anti-gay supremacists in the western world. You’ve dedicated your life to harming gay people, specifically their families and already vulnerable children, and IMO have outdone even the Westboro baptist church with your dehumanizing slander. I don’t think many are going to feel sorry that you pretend to care about a relatively mild-mannered poke at a lesser bigot.
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WestCoaster
January 6, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Porno Pete started the trash talk. Let him stop it first. Then maybe after a couple of hundred years we will. That’s fair.
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M a r c
January 6, 2012 at 2:50 am
Bullies are so quick to play victim…
john moll
January 6, 2012 at 12:29 am
Don’t do it Dan Savage. You are holding the high ground and LaBarbera is a hateful bigot responsible for countless atrocities due to his hate-filled rhetoric.
sgasgasg
January 5, 2012 at 4:45 pm
lol, “cyber bully” lol hahaha thats rich
RICHARD C OCONNOR
January 5, 2012 at 4:04 pm
santorum may be a front runner in IOWA which is a far right christian state , he won’t be electd president I HOPE !!!!!!
Phillip
January 5, 2012 at 3:21 pm
So it appears to me that it’s Bully vs Bully. I say let them fight it out. Maybe Porno Pete will pray the Santorum.com site away, supposedly that works for homosexuality.
Ken
January 5, 2012 at 3:11 pm
As long as he uses the phrases “legalize sodomy,” “homosexual activist,” “homosexual partner” or even just “homosexual” to denote a human being, he does not deserve compassion. If he wants to be the better man, let him be the first to stop the defamation.
It’s not bullying when the weak attack the strong, nor can slaves oppress their masters.
I hope Dan Savage takes no action.