Is there something more sinister at work underlying the whole affair involving Naperville's Holiday Inn Select denying an ultra-conservative (if not extremist) Christian group from using a banquet room? Something might be fishy here. It's interesting that Peter LaBarbera, head of the Naperville-based national group, was quoted as being "naive enough" to alert the hotel that pro-gay protesters might turn up at the group's annual fundraiser. And that's when the hotel pulled the plug on the group's dinner plans. But was LaBarbera being "naive" or "alarmist" or even "calculating" in warning the hotel, knowing full well the reaction he'd get. In the end it seems LaBarbera gets his cake and is able to eat it, too. He holds the group's dinner at another locale, backs the Naperville hotel into a corner and gets a lot of publicity for his group's publicly-stated "confronting the homosexual activist agenda."
Sadly - if not cynically - this could be the real story behind this whole situation.
Did hotel take the bait?
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LaBarbera's group (http://www.americansfortruth.org/) is obviously not a "Christian group". It is clearly a "hate group" hiding behind religion. The Sun perpetuates their lies in referring to LaBarbera's group as an "ultra-conservative (if not extremist) Christian group".
From their own website: "Welcome to Americans for Truth, a newly reorganized national organization devoted exclusively to exposing and countering the homosexual activist agenda."
There is nothing Christian about that.
Here is the REAL Christian teaching, about tolerance:
"he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." John 8:7
LaBarbera's group is closer to the KKK or the Nazis. They are not FOR anything but hate. Calling such a group "Christian" should be an affront to all Christians.
So, discrimination is bad when it happens to you, but not when you do it to someone else.
Thanks, Peter, for clarifying that stance of yours. Take your hate peddling dung someplace else like your basement and leave it there, please.
How ironic they are screaming discrimination when their entire group is based on discrimination. What goes around, comes around.
LaBarbera's legal advisor refers to the "sincerely held beliefs of Christians" about the evil nature of homosexual activity. Haven't we heard this before? Don't racists have "sincerely held beliefs" of white supremacy? Don't anti-immigrant patriots "sincerely believe" that they are better than Mexicans?
This s**t needs to be flushed down the toilet.