Headless Monsters Galore!!!

Leave it to my friend Peter LaBarbera to give me something to write about today. On his web page is a report by the American College of Pediatricians that criticizes gay parenting.

Now I don't know who encompasses this group but I will find out in the future. I do know that if they write position papers like the one criticizing gay parenting, then they are a bunch of quacks.

When I read it, I laughed out loud because I noticed several distortions. The piece, Homosexual Parenting, Is It Time for a Change follows two anti-gay industry tactics - 1. distort a legitimate study to prove something negative about the lgbt community, 2. repeat that distortion on several fronts.

In relation to the second principle, I found several of these claims in other anti-gay industry studies about the gay and lesbian community. I cover these lies in detail in my upcoming book. I am now going to show just a few of the distorted studies and then give the proof of the matter. In some cases, I am revealing parts of my book that many are not aware of:

Distortion 1: The report distorts the following studies to claim that gays and lesbians have a high rate of domestic violence in their households:

Gwat Yong Lie and Sabrina Gentlewarrier, “Intimate Violence in Lesbian Relationships: Discussion of Survey Findings and Practice Implications,” Journal of Social Service Research 15 (1991): 41-59.

Truth - The original study was conducted in 1985 at a Michigan Women’s Music Festival. According to a reviewer of the study, Suzana Rose, Ph.D., of the 1099 lesbians participants, most were white and between the ages of 20-45. She also said: "Questions concerning perpetrating abuse need to distinguish between actions taken in self-defense and actions initiated by the aggressor. This point was not assessed here. Findings are limited by the selective recruiting of participants."

D. Island and P. Letellier, Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence (New York: Haworth Press, 1991), p. 14.

Truth - Patrick Letellier went on record in 2001 declaring that his book was being misused and cherry picked

Lettie L. Lockhart et al., “Letting out the Secret: Violence in Lesbian Relationships,” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 9 (1994): 469-492.

Truth - The Journal of Interpersonal Violence offers the most up-to-date information on domestic violence, rape, child sexual abuse and other violent crimes. . . Focusing on both victims and perpetrators, the journal examines theoretical links between all types of interpersonal violence, exploring the similarities and differences between these types of crimes.

In other words, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence tracks domestic violence, as well as other violent crimes. Of course those surveyed in it had been recipients of violence, verbal or otherwise, because this is what the journal is designed to track. The study in it about lesbians cannot be used to represent the entire lesbian community.

Distortion 2: The report distorts a 1997 study to make a claim that gay men have a short life span:

Robert S. Hogg et al., “Modeling the Impact of HIV Disease on Mortality in Gay and Bisexual Men,” International Journal of Epidemiology 26 (1997): 657.

Truth - But in 2001, all of the six researchers wrote a letter to the International Journal of Epidemiology claiming that the anti-gay industry was distorting their work. They said they were speaking of a hypothetical situation that could take place if there were not better safe sex practices put in place in a particular place.

Distortion 3 : The report distorts a Netherlands study by Maria Xiridou:

Maria Xiridoui, et al., “The Contribution of Steady and Casual Partnerships to the Incidence of HIV Infection among Homosexual Men in Amsterdam,” AIDS 17 (2003): 1029-1038. [Note: one of the findings of this recent study is that those classified as being in “steady relationships” reported an average of 8 casual partners a year in addition to their partner (p. 1032)]

Truth - There are so many errors in how this was used but the biggest error is the fact that the study had no questions about children in same-sex households. To use it to measure children in same-sex households is wrong.

In this post, I did not include references because I don't want to reveal too much. But TRUST me, I talk about these studies used by the anti-gay industry in MUCH detail. And I have proof of all my claims.

Finally, I would like to thank Peter because he has strengthened my resolve. While I was in church today, I was going over in my head all the things that had to be completed before I send my manuscript off to the publisher. It overwhelmed me.

But not anymore. I am determined to get this book done and finished, now more than ever so that everyone can see how Peter and his cohorts lie about lgbt lives.