More on Timothy Dailey

Yesterday's revelation that Peter LaBarbera used a bad fallacy about the gay men and pedophilia via Family Research Council member Timothy Dailey only scratches the surface.

Throwing out lies against the gay community is not a new thing to Mr. Dailey. Dailey has spread negative propaganda about the gay community on many instances and every time he has taken the guise of a concerned Ph.D. when doing it.

Dailey has a Ph.D. in religion. With all due respect, he should have a Ph.D. in lying.

A perfect example is a study he created entitled Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples (http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02).

If there is one example of this study that proves Dailey's shoddy work and lack of credibility, it has to be in the portion where he compares the promiscuity levels of gay and straight couples.

Let me break it down in a nutshell for you:

Dailey’s theory - Homosexual couples are less monogamous than heterosexual married couples

Dailey’s examples of married heterosexual couples:

A nationally representative survey of 884 men and 1,288 women published in the Journal of Sex Research in 1997

Another 1997 national survey appearing in the Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States

A telephone survey conducted for Parade magazine of 1,049 adults selected to represent the demographic characteristics of the United States published in 1994.

Dailey’s examples of homosexual couples:

A Dutch study of gay men in steady and casual partnerships in the Netherlands. The researcher, Dr. Maria Xiridou, took her data for this study from the Amsterdam Cohort Studies (ACS). The ACS collected data between the years of 1984-2000. http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/Articles/000,003.htm

(One more thing: same-sex marriage was legalized in the Netherlands in 2001)

Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women, published in 1979. The authors of the study, Bell and Weinberg went on record saying that their study was not indicative of all gay couples. Their exact words, which is included in the book are: ". . . given the variety of circumstances which discourage homosexuals from participating in research studies, it is unlike that any investigator will ever be in a position to say that this or that is true of a given percentage of all homosexuals."

A study of the sexual profiles of 2,583 older homosexuals published in the Journal of Sex Research published in 1997. The study included homosexual men in other countries. More than three quarters of men were born in Australia or New Zealand (78.1%), a high number of the men were from United Kingdom or elsewhere in Europe (19.5%) and a small percentage of men surveyed were from other countries (Asia, Africa, Oceania, North, Central or South America - 2.3%).

A survey conducted by gay magazine Genre. Dailey did not study the results himself, but received them from a web page created by your friend and mine, Peter LaBarbera.

Dailey is clearly creating piecemeal trash.

In the first place, the Dutch study is not a fair comparison with any the three examples used for heterosexual couples because the data was collected over a span of 16 years (for gays who were not even married or counted as monogamous) in contrast with a span of one year (married heterosexual couples).

Also, all surveys for heterosexual couples originated in the United States, while the studies featuring gays were mostly from other countries. Lesbians are not even included.

The truly sad thing is that these studies are repeated by other so-called "pro family" groups and supporters as proof of the "abnormality" of the gay community.

How sad indeed.