Once again Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters offers a great read and once again, the American Family Association resorts to its vile arguments about gays — that we are all pedophiles. This is an interesting outcry given news like we saw today.
From Holy Bullies:
Family Research Council pulling the ‘gay = promiscuous pedophiles’ card to defend DOMA
Audacity is always rooted in what someone feels he or she can get away with.
In other words, if no one calls you out for lying then you are mostly likely going to do it again.
It’s helpful to keep this in mind while perusing a Family Research Council’s website directed solely at Defending DOMA.
One has to hand it to the organization for not letting a moment – in this case, the Justice Department saying that it will no longer defend DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) in court cases – go by without using it as an opportunity to fund raise.
But in attacking the decision not to defend DOMA – and gay marriage in general – FRC uses the page to push incredibly ridiculous arguments having nothing to do with gay marriage.
And when it does attack gay marriage head in, the organization uses tactics which led to its being called out several times in the past (most recently by the Southern Poverty Law Center) for deliberately passing along awful anti-gay propaganda and distorting legitimate science to quantify this propaganda.
Two sections of the webpage (Ten Arguments From Social Science Against Same-Sex ‘Marriage, and Q&A What’s Wrong With Letting Same-Sex Couples Marry?) are rife with deception.
For today, let’s look at Q&A: What’s Wrong with Letting Same-Sex Couples Marry?
A following passage in this piece is a perfect example of the low road FRC has chosen to travel in order to defend DOMA:
Do homosexuals pose a threat to children?
Homosexual men are far more likely to engage in child sexual abuse than are heterosexuals. The evidence for this lies in the findings that:
· Almost all child sexual abuse is committed by men; and
· Less than three percent of American men identify themselves as homosexual; yet
· Nearly a third of all cases of child sexual abuse are homosexual in nature (that is, they involve men molesting boys). This is a rate of homosexual child abuse about ten times higher than one would expect based on the first two facts.These figures are essentially undisputed. However, pro-homosexual activists seek to explain them away by claiming that men who molest boys are not usually homosexual in their adult sexual orientation. Yet a study of convicted child molesters, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, found that “86 percent of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual” (W. D. Erickson, M.D., et al., in Archives of Sexual Behavior 17:1, 1988).
This does not mean that all, or even most, homosexual men are child molesters–but it does prove that homosexuality is a significant risk factor for this horrible crime.
I thought being a member of the clergy was a significant risk factor for this horrible crime??
Read more here.
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