LaBarbera Laments 'Isaiah 5:20 Culture'
by Chad Groening
July 5, 2006
(AgapePress) - - An Illinois family advocate says it's an absolute abomination that the governor of Maryland recently appointed an openly homosexual judge to oversee a family court in Baltimore -- particularly in light of the fact that the governor shortly before that dismissed a state official who had spoken the truth about the homosexual lifestyle.
LifesiteNews.com recently reported that Governor Robert Ehrlich appointed 47-year-old Judge Christopher Panos -- who with his homosexual partner of 17 years is raising a young daughter -- as special master to the Baltimore City Circuit Court Family Division. A week earlier Ehrlich fired Washington Transit Authority Board member Robert Smith who, during an appearance on a local TV show, described homosexuality as a "deviant" lifestyle.
Peter LaBarbera of the Illinois Family Institute has been a longtime defender of traditional family values against the attacks of the homosexual agenda. He laments that the governor's actions seem to reflect a culture that tends towards political correctness.
"Governor Ehrlich fires a Catholic man who simply voices mainstream thought that homosexuality [behavior] is a deviant practice ... and then the governor turns around and appoints a pro-homosexual judge for family court as if traditionalists are going to get a fair hearing in that court," LaBarbera observes. "Political correctness is now coming down to the point where good people are getting harmed or getting fired in this rush to embrace homosexuality in our culture."
And that culture, says the Illinois activist, is an "Isaiah 5:20 culture" where good is bad and bad is good.
"You have excellent groups -- good groups like the Boy Scouts -- that are being criminalized, and yet the liberals are trying to have the state grant full protection and celebration to sinful behavior, [to] homosexuality," LaBarbera notes. "I mean, we're at the point now where our kids are getting scholarships at colleges for being homosexuals."
It is "just obscene," he adds, that good behavior is criminalized and sinful behavior is celebrated. But "this is what's going on -- and all we can do is fight back," LaBarbera says.
In addition to heading the Illinois Family Institute, LaBarbera is also founder of the group Americans for Truth.
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
