Update: Peter LaBarbera hasn’t said that the congregants at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church brought Sunday’s deadly shooting on themselves–not yet, anyway. However, LaBarbera has used the incident as fodder in his fight against hate crimes legislation:
“It proves our case” that hate crimes laws are not necessary, said Americans for Truth About Homosexuality president Peter LaBarbera. The media spotlight on Adkisson will “give more attention and better treatment to this case.”
“The fact is, this case will get the attention it deserves,” he continued, “and I believe this man could be given the death penalty, without any extra help from the Feds and any sort of hate crimes prosecution.”
Which would be a convenient argument for someone to make if they happened to take LaBarbera and a wiffleball bat miles from where anyone could hear him scream. Not that anyone has, but if they did….
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