News agencies gagging gay' factor in boy rape

But coverage beyond bonkers or fake Duke lacrosse assault

By Joe Kovacs, WorldNetDaily, posted July1, 2009



Frank Lombard, associate director of the Health Inequalities Program 
at the university’s Center for Health Policy, was arrested last 
Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C., for attempting to induce someone to 
cross state lines to engage in sex with the child, who is black.

The arrest affidavit goes into graphic detail of Lombard’s alleged 
actions, including alleged performance of oral sex with the child in 
front of a webcam, and sodomizing the boy with his finger and 
tongue. It also prominently cites the fact that Lombard is a 
homosexual living with another “gay” man.

In his online profile, Lombard reportedly describes himself as “perv 
dad for fun.”

But days after the case broke, there have been few, if any, mentions 
in news stories that Lombard is part of a homosexual couple raising 
children.

In reports by the Associated Press, CNN and ABC News, for instance, 
the “gay” factor is never brought up.

A Lexis-Nexis news database search by WND using search terms “Frank 
Lombard” and “homosexual” or “gay” resulted in just four results, 
none of which were any major media.

Just today, Duke’s campus newspaper, the Chronicle, finally 
mentioned the affidavit where it was stated, “he lived in Durham, 
North Carolina with his live-in homosexual partner.”

An online comment in reaction to the ABC News story mentioned media 
hypocrisy with the high-profile case of Duke lacrosse players who 
were wrongly accused of a rape that never happened:

“The Duke lacrosse case was front page news everywhere, professors 
were signing statements of protest, another professor threatened to 
resign in protest when the students were readmitted to Duke when 
found innocent. Could it be the liberal media and professors are as 
afraid of the gay lobby as Obama is, since this could harm the gay 
adoption activists?”

Radio host Rush Limbaugh commented today on the apparent double 
standard, stating, “Did you hear there has been an actual rape at 
Duke University? An actual rape in Durham, North Carolina. It’s not 
a phony one. Not a false charge. An actual rape. A guy sold his 
adopted 5-year-old son to a sex practitioner. A 5-year-old kid, 
yeah. There’s a problem with this, too, because the guy is gay, a 
gay adoption.

“This is why you haven’t heard about it. This does not fit the 
template. A false charge of rape at Duke when you had the poor, 
black, down-on-her-luck dancer and the rich, white, lacrosse 
players, oh, that fit the template. They were guilty before any 
evidence. This you haven’t heard about because this doesn’t fit the 
template here of what we’re trying to accomplish.”

The silence is reminiscent of the 1999 homosexual rape and murder of 
13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising of Prairie Grove, Ark. Many news 
agencies across the nation ignored coverage.

Among those trying to shine the light on the homosexual aspect of 
the Lombard case is Mike Adams, a professor of criminology at the 
University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

“I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his 
expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children,” 
wrote Adams. “So far, he’s declined to comment.”

Lombard faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted.