Good As You: Matt Barber
05/02/2008
From 'The Hills' to wounds that won't heal: Barber predicts teen trends
Since the social conservatives' own "Day of Truth" seems to be an utter failure, they are trying desperately to reframe the anti-bullying, pro-acceptance Day of Silence so that it fits their twisted agenda. Here is what omnipresent 'mo foe Matt...
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04/24/2008
'It's time for androgyny. Here comes Matt!'
Since there are only so many times one can uses phrases like "San Francisco values" and "radical, militant, activists" without them growing stale, it's always exciting when Matt Barber inscribes a new phrase into his book of reliable code-wording. However,...
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Audio: Hutch unhitched
Over the past few days, we told you about both Matt Barber's raging disdain for the upcoming Day of Silence and Pastor Ken Hutcherson's plans to protest the same. Now in this new audio from the Concerned Women For America,...
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04/22/2008
People. Glass houses. Stones. Silence.
We know that the folks on the far-right are opposed to the pro-gay, pro-acceptance Day of Silence because they detest homosexuality and are thoroughly intimidated by the growing tolerance and respect of young people. We get that. However, the hypocrisy...
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04/14/2008
But hey, it's only our mortality he's trivializing
In a new piece wherein he literally compares the promotion of gay acceptance to advocacy on the subject of smoking crack, the United States' most proudly brutish gay right foes, Matt Barber, has the following to say about an 11-year-old...
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03/26/2008
Barber out for gay blood
Whenever Matt Barber writes an anti-gay commentary, picking the most offensive part becomes about as difficult as picking your nose in the minutes following a quadruple amputation surgery (when you've already had a complete rhinoplasty a day earlier). But from...
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03/13/2008
Audio: 'Angels', 'Penthouse'; tomato, tomahto
Remember a few days ago when we let you listen to the Concerned Women For America's Matt Barber trivializing Tony Kushner's legendary, acclaimed, literary Angels In America as "racist gay porn"? Well, Matt has now gone on CBN News to...
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03/11/2008
Audio: Tony Kushner: 'Racist Pornographer Hack'
We've already showed you and decried the way that the Concerned Women For America are referring to the legendary and literary play Angels In America as "racist gay porn." But since it's always more revelatory to hear the words come...
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03/07/2008
Christian: Let's encourage gays to snuff each other out!
You know, it's always annoying to hear how our socially conservative opposition will talk about us in public. But for the really juicy stuff, you have to hear how they talk about us in private. For example, Matt Barber recently...
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02/29/2008
Anti-gays shocked --SHOCKED! -- that gays are politically active
Yesterday we showed you how Focus on the Family's Caleb Price was acting like he had somehow found the out gay community's secret strategy simply because he had been made aware of an initiative to recruit pro-gay applicants to work...
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02/15/2008
Pete & Matt: Brothers in Demonization
If you follow the gay "culture war," you know that whenever Matt Barber or Peter LaBarbera form an anti-gay opinion about something, the other of the duo will be behind to back up their bro. They're like the Matt and...
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02/14/2008
Matt & Matt: Their connection ends at a name
In the State of the Movement address that NGLTF executive director Matt Foreman issued last week, he said this: "Today, right now, more than 45 percent of African-American gay and bi men in key urban areas are infected with HIV,...
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02/13/2008
Barber not gone, not more tolerant
Yesterday we wondered if maybe Matt Barber had taken leave from the Concerned Women For America. Well today we get our answer. And not only does Barber seem to still be employed by the conservative organization, he just might've ratcheted...
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02/12/2008
Has the Barber been cut?
Immediately after his unhinged MRSA attacks, we realized that Matt Barber's writing virtually disappeared from the Concerned Women For America's website. Then we noticed that his regular chat partner Martha Kleder had broken usual form and recorded some audio pieces...
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01/28/2008
Antibiotic-resistant queer hostility: Barber still afflicted
The bulliest bully in Anti-gayville, Matt Barber, has written yet another piece regarding the MRSA scare. Here is but one passage that really pissed us off: Homosexual groups and the media set up a mean ol' straw man and took...
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01/22/2008
Matt, we don't hang with dudes who assault our souls
Matt Barber is simply unbelievable! Less than a week after he and his pal Peter LaBarberba used inaccuracy about MRSA to try and make gays look unsavory, the Concerned Women For America spokesman now has the audacity to call on...
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01/16/2008
Audio: Antibiotic-resitant gay hate
Yesterday afternoon we showed you how militant 'mo foes Matt Barber & Peter LaBarbera were rushing to condemn gays for the news that MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is hitting the gay community particularly hard. Now, since hearing is disbelieving, we...
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01/10/2008
Audio: The homosexual playbook - now, apparently, in Arabic
No group works on their own free will any longer. Any political action that rubs the social conservatives the wrong way is not the product of the particular group's own rage or own thought processes, but rather a direct result...
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12/27/2007
Man up, Concerned Woman!
Oh, Matt Barber. Throughout 2007, the male Concerned Women For America spokesman seemed more desperate to thwart LGBT equality than Jerry Seinfeld was to turn Bee Movie into a national phenomenon. Latest case in point? Well, Matt is rounding out...
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11/08/2007
Matt sings the classics
As expected, our ol' pal Matt Barber has seized the opportunity to lash out against the House for yesterday passing ENDA (The Employment Non-Discrimination Act). And in doing so, Matthew has recycled all of the classic anti-ENDA lines that we've...
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10/31/2007
The Barbers of Antigay-ville
What's more anti-gay than a piece penned by the Concerned Women For America's Matt Barber? Well, that would be a piece penned by both Matt and his Concerned Brother For America, Jared Barber. And that's exactly what is being offered...
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10/23/2007
Well at least he's not accusing us of firebombing churches
The Concerned Women For America's Matt Barber has some very long-winded statements to make about ENDA (The Employment Non-Discrimination Act). Unfortunately, the totality of that long wind contains about as much value as the fart that just escaped from the...
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09/25/2007
Bread and whine: Barber guns for Bible dinner party-based ad
This is the advertisement for San Francisco's annual Folsom Street Fair: Okay, so clearly it's a mockup of the Last Supper. And being that it does use a religious concept as its basis, the "pro-family" kids are of course out...
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09/20/2007
Why rationally analyze when you can irrationally demonize?
Earlier this week, we briefly showed you how Focus on the Family was misusing the findings from a new "ex-gay" study to make it sound as if it definitively shows that 67% of participants were able to "change" their sexual...
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09/17/2007
Wherein Matt 'races' to condemn 'she-males'
In a new commentary on The Employment NonDiscrimination Act (ENDA), the Concerned Women For America's liability-in-waiting, Matt Barber, says many egregious things. For one, he completely throws out the possibility that either gays or transgenders could have any bio-genetic root...
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08/31/2007
Another renegade evangelical, another gross attack
Following in the footsteps of Daddy Dobson, the Concerned Women for America's Matt Barber has now released his own unsolicited thoughts regarding the Iowa gay marriage ruling: "Once again we have another renegade judge abusing the authority he's been granted...
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08/30/2007
All employees must wash hands of bias before returning to work
Speaking to One News Now, the Concerned Women For America's Matt Barber today says the following about gay men and anonymous restroom sex: "Not all men who self-identify as homosexual, or who engage in homosexual behaviors, take part in these...
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08/21/2007
Thompson corrects FMA remarks; Barber doesn't realize his team lost
So on Friday, we showed you a brief piece from that afternoon's "The Situation Room," wherein likely presidential candidate Fred Thompson seemingly voiced support for a federal amendment banning same-sex nuptials. Well, almost immediately after those remarks aired, Team Thompson...
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08/16/2007
When will Barber just go ahead and declare himself God?
In reaction to the welcome news that the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) will "refrain from or demonstrate restraint in disciplining" gay clergy members "who are in a mutual, chaste and faithful, committed, same-gender relationship," "Concerned Woman" Matt Barber...
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08/08/2007
Barber: They're here, they're queer -- shun 'em so folks won't get used to it!
"...simply pagan celebrations of hedonism and sexual deviancy" The above is how the Concerned Women For America's Matt Barber (pic.) refers to all gay pride events in a new press release regarding the San Diego firefighter situation. We respond: "simply:...
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07/27/2007
Path to parental fitness: Gastric bypass or Gay-stric bypass?
So in your opinion, which is more of a parental impediment: A couple in which one parent is 500 pounds, or a couple in which both parents are perfectly healthy and in love with one another, but who just so...
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06/21/2007
Matt Barber: Frank n' Steve = Frankenstein
The Concerned Women For America's Matt Barber has written yet another formulaic, talking point-laden diatribe in which he rails against gay marriage in general, and, more specifically, the recent Massachusetts decision. Seeing as how it's late in the afternoon and...
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06/15/2007
So wait, did the judges elect the lawmakers too?
Matt Barber weighs in on the Massachusetts victory: “After the Massachusetts Supreme Court — through judicial fiat — miraculously divined that the framers of the state constitution really intended that Patrick Henry could marry Henry Patrick, many in Massachusetts —...
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06/08/2007
When one goes to court, we ALL go to court of 'pro-fam' antipathy
You know what's annoying? How whenever one gay person does something on their own free will, it is automatically spun by our opposition as representative of the whole of the LGBT community. Latest case in point: As you might remember...
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06/01/2007
Barber equates fake bills to gay Bill/Bills
The following is a passage from the American Family Association's OneNewsNow website, wherein CWA's Matt Barber decries the possibility that gay state employees in Maryland may soon get domestic partner benefits: "This is a threat to traditional marriage," Barber said,...
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05/21/2007
Barber: But that's not the way I see it!
If you're a regular G-A-Y reader, you surely have learned a few things about the "pro-family" movement: *They stay on message in a way so freakishly uncompromising, you seriously begin to question if they are even still capable of independent...
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04/26/2007
Exploiting senseless tragedy: What could be more 'moral'?
We told you last Friday about a religious leader who was trying to capitalize on the Virginia Tech tragedy, so as to justify his antipathy for LGBT-centric hate crimes legislation (HR 1592). Well today the Concerned Women For America have...
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04/23/2007
Matt Barber: He just seems so...aggressive
It's no secret that we find the extremely anti-gay Matt Barber to be a liability-in-waiting for the Concerned Women For America. And for just a brief example of the type of sentiment that makes us think him to be a...
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04/13/2007
As opposed to 'Santa's talking points,' which mainly deal with 'hos'
So watch this video (regarding the Albert Mohler situation) and then we'll chat: So how does Peter LaBarbera of the so-called ""Americans For Truth respond to this clip? Well, this from his latest post and email blast to supporters: I...
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04/11/2007
Oh Barber, please cut the empty hyperbole
Speaking about the gay harassment-thwarting Day Of Silence event that is soon to be held in schools nationwide, Matt Barber of the Concerned Women For America says today: “The radical homosexual lobby has done a masterful job of infiltrating our...
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