Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans
For Truth About Homosexuality, and pastor Rick Scarborough are
considering a “class action lawsuit” against homosexuality.
At a Tea Party Unity event held on
Thursday, LaBarbera lamented the lack of visibility in the media for
the stories of people who claim to have altered their sexual
orientation from gay to straight.
“We need to work on our conservative,
alternate media and say, 'Look, don't do the pro-gay thing, why don't
you rather step out and support these ex-gays?'” LaBarbera
said. “We should encourage Fox News to tell their stories.
Fox is now telling the stories of black conservatives because the
other media is not doing that, we should all get on Fox and say,
'Come on, tell these stories, these wonderful stories of happy men
and women who have left the homosexual lifestyle.'”
“Peter, the whole issue of a class
action lawsuit, you and I have talked about this a little bit. I just
wonder if you've explored that, talked to anyone about it,”
Scarborough said. “Obviously, statistically now even the Centers
for Disease Control verifies that homosexuality much more likely
leads to AIDS than smoking leads to cancer. And yet the entire
nation has rejected smoking, billions of dollars are put into a trust
fund to help cancer victims and the tobacco industry was held
accountable for that. Any thoughts on that kind of an approach?”
“I think that's great,” LaBarbera
answered. “I would love to see it.”
LaBarbera added that he would like to
see either a commercial or reality program in which a high school
teen “was counseled by the official school counsel to just be gay,
then he comes down with HIV.”
(Related: Sandy
Rios: Americans kept from knowing ex-gays' fabulous stories.)