Bryan Fischer spins a lie about gays & rape and his supporters couldn't back him up

Bryan Fischer spins a lie no one will back him up on.

An incident took place over a number of days involving me, arch-homophobe Bryan Fischer and conservative rag One News Now. In the great scheme of things, particularly what's going on now, it's probably highly irrelevant. Still, it's a nice victory that I want to brag about.

First of all, a little background for those who aren't aware about Bryan Fischer - he is an extremely homophobic person who has written and said some of the most vulgar things about the LGBTQ community such as:

we began the Nazi party in Germany,

our children ought to be taken away from us via kidnapping,

and we should be criminalized and treated like drug addicts.

His rhetoric is so ugly that the American Family Association (itself a vile anti-LGBTQ hate group) made a huge show out of dismissing him as a spokesperson in 2015. However, he still retains use of the group's name and its resources to pump out his bigotry. One News Now (affiliated with AFA) generally posts his pieces

In his latest piece, Eye-opening rape report exposes stomach-twisting stats, Fischer attempts to make the case that allowing gays to openly serve in the military has increased the rate of male-on-male rapes in the Armed Forces. Part of it reads as follows:

 Homosexuals have been allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military since the disastrously misguided repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in late 2010. President Obama was able to ram the repeal through just under the wire because the Democrats temporarily held both houses of Congress, a situation that would change with the election in the fall of 2010. Elections have consequences, and open homosexuality in the military was one of the unfortunate consequences of naïve voters placing regressives in office.

One of the complaints many of us had at the time, and one of our reasons for opposing open homosexual service, had to do with the numerous pathologies associated with homosexuality. One of them is rampant promiscuity. Psychology Today (note: not a part of the vast right-wing conspiracy) said in 2010 that one of the features of homosexuality is “the quantity of homosexual men’s preferences, as compared to those of homosexual women. Homosexual men are famously promiscuous, a fact that became well-known with the onset of AIDs, when studies of gay men who were HIV positive revealed average numbers of partners in the hundreds.” (Emphasis mine.)

According to a study by researchers Bell and Weinberg, 28% of homosexual men have more than 1,000 lifetime partners. An astonishing 83% of them admit to having more than 50 lifetime partners. This is irrefutable evidence of a twisted and disordered sexual compulsion among gay men, which drives them into unrestrained and dangerous sexual adventurism. An alarming 79% of homosexual men say that more than half of their sexual partners were virtual strangers with whom they only had sex one time. Among heterosexuals, by comparison, the average number of lifetime partners is around seven.

That passage is important because while Fischer probably thought it made his point, what it actually did was to prove that his entire piece was a huge distortion and contained nothing backing up his attacks on gay men.  I wrote the following which made it to the comments section under Fischer's piece:

Fischer's piece is inaccurate on many levels. The nine year old Psychology Today piece he posted was an opinion piece. The Bell and Weinberg study he cited looked at gay men in San Francisco in the early 70s. Bell and Weinberg themselves even said the study cannot be generalized to mean all gay men. Also, male-on-male sexual assaults have nothing to do with sexual desires as no rape generally is. In these cases, it's more about deliberately humiliating the victim by targeting his "manhood" than fulfilling a sexual desire. The sexual orientation of the perpetrator is not a factor.

As evidenced by the screenshot below,  One New Now's targeted audience (right-wing evangelicals) disagreed with or didn't like what I said, but none of them could dispute my statement  In fact, my comment was the only one posted about Fischer's nonsense.

Some may call this an insignificant thing, but I don't. I see it as further proof that for all of the bluster and homophobic accusations made against the LGBTQ community by Fischer and the rest of that crowd, they can't argue against facts.