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.
