WEYBURN, Sask. – A group calling itself Intolerance-Free Weyburn is raising concerns about the inclusion of an anti-gay activist as a guest speaker at a conference being held by the Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association.
Peter LaBarbera’s organization, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, has been called a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Chris Brookes of Intolerance-Free Weyburn says they’ve launched an online petition to try and stop LaBarbera from attending the event.
LaBarbera told News Talk Radio’s John Gormley Live that it’s an issue of free speech, saying he is a victim of leftist intolerance.
He says rather than trying to have him banned, his opponents should come and hear what he has to say.
Brookes says LaBarbera has no business telling people that being gay is wrong.
“That’s not fair to these people who are fighting tooth-and-nail just to gain the same basic rights that most people enjoy and were given freely,” Brookes says. “Rights to free speech or rights to religious freedoms can’t impose against somebody else’s rights.”
LaBarbera says he’s a Christian and doesn’t hate anybody, including homosexuals, but says he does believe homosexuality is wrong and the behaviour can be changed.
“Homosexual lobby groups like the Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force are pro-abortion on demand,” he says in explaining why he was invited to speak at an conference held by opponents of abortion.
“There’s no satisfying the left. You could be Mother Teresa and oppose the homosexual agenda and they would say she’s hateful.”
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