Contact: Peter LaBarbera, 630-546-4439; Andre Traversa, 847-318-6413; both with Americans For Truth about Homosexuality

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- In remarks prepared for a press conference this morning at San Francisco's City Hall, Americans For Truth President Peter LaBarbera said that - like homosexual "marriage" -- the public perversions and nudity allowed to go on at the annual "Folsom Street Fair" in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district represent America's deepening moral crisis.

The 25th annual "Folsom Street Fair" will be held this Sunday, Sept. 28, in San Francisco.  Details of today's and Monday's press conference follow:

WHAT:  Two press events exposing Folsom and the politicians who enable it;

WHERE:  San Francisco City Hall

WHEN:  Friday, Sept. 26, 11:00 AM – pre-Folsom; and Monday, Sept. 29, 10:00 AM – post-Folsom;

WHO:  Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH; Linda Harvey, Mission America; Diane Gramley, American Family Association of Pennsylvania; Anthony Gonzalez, St. Joseph's Men's Society

Pelosi has refused to condemn the debauched Folsom Fair in her district, which features:

• Rampant public nudity including men walking the streets in nothing but their socks and sneakers; police refuse to enforce decency laws and even recruit at the fair;
• Public street orgies in which men engage in sex acts – as depicted on enlarged photos at the press events -- as thousands of fairgoers walk by;
• Blatant anti-Christian bigotry – e.g., the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" -- transvestite mock "nuns" who work closely with Folsom; and religious-themed "sex toys" sold by vendors;
   

In prepared remarks, LaBarbera states: "As our nation deals with a severe economic crisis ... America faces an equally grave moral crisis that flies under the politically correct media's radar. In the name of 'tolerance and diversity,' we are casting aside all boundaries, some dating back to the beginning of recorded time. In that sense, redefining marriage outside its natural male-female state -- and Folsom's shocking, police-protected public perversions -- are mere markers of a nation in steep decline, a nation that is leaving God behind.

"It is no coincidence that the man who took it upon himself four years ago to illegally and radically redefine marriage - Mayor Gavin Newsom - now enthusiastically welcomes the Folsom Street Fair with its public depravities - an event that makes San Francisco a subject of ridicule and opprobrium the world over," LaBarbera said.