Don't Touch Peter LaBarbera's Junk

Peter LaBarbera, president of the antigay group Americans for Truth About Homosexuality said Tuesday that gay Transportation Security Administration workers should be barred from performing airport screening pat-downs for fear they might overindulge in frisking passengers of the same sex.

A seasoned antigay activist, LaBarbera said that rules prohibiting airport screeners from doing pat-downs of opposite-sex passengers should go further -- for starters, that gay employees be barred from such screening activities altogether. "The reality is, most traveling men would not want Barney Frank to pat them down at the airport security checkpoint," LaBarbera said. "Neither would it be fair to assign Ellen DeGeneres to pat down female travelers."

"To allow homosexual agents to conduct same-gender pat-downs is tantamount to a new form of discrimination that must be recognized and prevented," LaBarbera said.