Why we need non-discrimination laws
Some folks consider South Carolina to be backwards.
Naturally I don't agree because it's my home state and I love it.
But sometimes, I swear . . .
Check out this recent incident:
Couple: Hotel Wouldn't Rent to Us Because We're Gay
(Sumter) - A gay couple looking to rent a room say they were told by a local motel that it was against company policy to rent to gay couples.
The hotel is the Affordable Suites of America in Sumter.
For the past two and a half years, Jason Pickel and Darren Black Bear have been a committed couple. They recently exchanged bands, and Tuesday, their search for a temporary place to call home brought thtem to Affordable Suites, a long-term hotel in Sumter, where the couple says they were far from welcome.
"We were inquiring about the price, deposits, extra person fee, and she asked who the was going to be for, and I said for my partner and I,” Pickel said. “She said, 'oh we don't rent to multiple people of the same sex. I said, so you don't rent to gay couples, and she said no we don't rent to gay people at all."
They say they couldn't believe what they were hearing, but they say the woman working the front desk made the message very clear.
"She was like 'no we do not, no we do not...she was very assertive about it," they said.
The website for Affordable Suites of America states the company does not allow children or pets in its suites, but there's no mention of same sex couples. So News19 decided to contact the hotel. We posed as a potential renter, and inquired about two men staying in the same room.
The receptionist who answered the phone told us the following:“Our policy is we don’t’ rent to two people of the same sex if we only have one bed.” “Is that your policy,” we asked. “That’s corporate policy because they only have one sleeping area.” We then asked, “Okay, but they can't share the bed?” "I suppose they could, but most men don’t want to,"
However, when we contacted the owner of the hotel, Carroll Atkisson, he says there had been some confusion. He says any couple can come to the place and they will rent to them, period. Atkisson says the policy was not mean to target homosexuals. He says they were just trying to stop two single people from being in the same bed.
Pickel and Black Bear say they still plan to seek legal action.
Currently, there is no state law preventing a hotel from refusing service to a same-sex couple. However, it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, gender, disability, or marital status.
"If they have a policy, it has to be maintained fair and equitably," says Tom Sponseller, the President of the Hospitality Association of South Carolina. "At the beach, for example, because there are different bike weekends at the beach, that policy has to be enforced, and consistent."
There is currently a bill in the State Senate that addresses this issue. The measure, proposed by Charleston Democrat Robert Ford, would expand the Lodging Establishment Act to include prohibition of discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Bottom line: We need laws to keep things like this from happening. It's not about some "gay agenda," or an attempt to criminalize Christians.
It's only about fairness.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Paul Cameron, meet Peter LaBarbera
Peter LaBarbera, meet Paul Cameron
Cameron's lie about the supposed gay life span has hit the big time, so to speak, courtesy of our friend Peter LaBarbera and his group, Americans for Truth (in name only):
Canadian Research Suggests only 1.4% of Adults Homosexual
Readers should know that the same homosexual activist movement that now dismisses the Camerons’ research had, for decades, intentionally spread the myth — derived from homosexual sex researcher Alfred Kinsey’s fraudulent data — that “10 percent” of society was “gay.” – Peter LaBarbera
PHILADELPHIA, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - According to two researchers, the largest random sex survey ever conducted has reported that only 1.4% of adults engaged in homosexual behavior. Analyzing a 2003 Canadian Community survey of 121,300 adults, Drs. Paul and Kirk Cameron told attendees of the Eastern Psychological Association Convention that 2% of 18-44 year olds, 1% of 50 year olds, and only a third of a percent of subjects 60+ considered themselves homosexual. Thus homosexual activity was much more common among younger adults.
This entry solidifies Peter's absolute obsession with all things gay. Except for a brief burst of euphoria after Bush was re-elected in 2004, the anti-gay industry were careful to cite Cameron's studies, but not list his name. This is because they knew of his history.
For some reason, Peter seems to think that Cameron's problems are due to a "Gay Mafia." That could not be farther from the truth. Cameron relies on bad studies and distortions of legitimate work to prove his theories. He has gotten into trouble on many occasions because of this. Jim Burroway at www.boxturtlebulletin.com has written excellent reviews of Cameron's work
My upcoming book has an entire chapter on Cameron and his lies, but a little bit of information from Dr. Gregory Herek would be appropriate here:
On December 2, 1983, the American Psychological Association sent Paul Cameron a letter informing him that he had been dropped from membership. Early in 1984, all members of the American Psychological Association received official written notice that "Paul Cameron (Nebraska) was dropped from membership for a violation of the Preamble to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists" by the APA Board of Directors.
Cameron has posted an elaborate argument about his expulsion from APA on his website, claiming that he resigned from APA before he was dropped from membership. Like most organizations, however, APA does not allow a member to resign when they are being investigated. And even if Cameron's claims were accepted as true, it would be remarkable that the largest professional organization of psychologists in the United States (and other professional associations, as noted below) went to such lengths to disassociate itself from one individual.
At its membership meeting on October 19, 1984, the Nebraska Psychological Association adopted a resolution stating that it "formally disassociates itself from the representations and interpretations of scientific literature offered by Dr. Paul Cameron in his writings and public statements on sexuality."
In 1985, the American Sociological Association (ASA) adopted a resolution which asserted that "Dr. Paul Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented sociological research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism" and noted that "Dr. Paul Cameron has repeatedly campaigned for the abrogation of the civil rights of lesbians and gay men, substantiating his call on the basis of his distorted interpretation of this research."
The resolution formally charged an ASA committee with the task of "critically evaluating and publicly responding to the work of Dr. Paul Cameron."
At its August, 1986 meeting, the ASA officially accepted the committee's report and passed the following resolution:
The American Sociological Association officially and publicly states that Paul Cameron is not a sociologist, and condemns his consistent misrepresentation of sociological research. Information on this action and a copy of the report by the Committee on the Status of Homosexuals in Sociology, "The Paul Cameron Case," is to be published in Footnotes, and be sent to the officers of all regional and state sociological associations and to the Canadian Sociological Association with a request that they alert their members to Cameron's frequent lecture and media appearances.
And here is a little bit of information from my book:
In 2005, the Boston Globe spotlighted Cameron in an article entitled Beliefs Drive Research Agenda of New Think Tanks. According to the article, when the Traditional Values Coalition was asked about Cameron, the organization responded by allegedly removing all references to Cameron from its web page. A spokesperson for the organization, Daniella Lopez, said the research had been placed on the web page by mistake.
Funny. I didn't know that the Traditional Values Coalition was pro-gay.
Peter, if you are going to cite a lie, at least have the savvy to try and cover it up.
Geez, you make me miss Robert Knight.
Peter LaBarbera, meet Paul Cameron
Cameron's lie about the supposed gay life span has hit the big time, so to speak, courtesy of our friend Peter LaBarbera and his group, Americans for Truth (in name only):
Canadian Research Suggests only 1.4% of Adults Homosexual
Readers should know that the same homosexual activist movement that now dismisses the Camerons’ research had, for decades, intentionally spread the myth — derived from homosexual sex researcher Alfred Kinsey’s fraudulent data — that “10 percent” of society was “gay.” – Peter LaBarbera
PHILADELPHIA, March 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - According to two researchers, the largest random sex survey ever conducted has reported that only 1.4% of adults engaged in homosexual behavior. Analyzing a 2003 Canadian Community survey of 121,300 adults, Drs. Paul and Kirk Cameron told attendees of the Eastern Psychological Association Convention that 2% of 18-44 year olds, 1% of 50 year olds, and only a third of a percent of subjects 60+ considered themselves homosexual. Thus homosexual activity was much more common among younger adults.
This entry solidifies Peter's absolute obsession with all things gay. Except for a brief burst of euphoria after Bush was re-elected in 2004, the anti-gay industry were careful to cite Cameron's studies, but not list his name. This is because they knew of his history.
For some reason, Peter seems to think that Cameron's problems are due to a "Gay Mafia." That could not be farther from the truth. Cameron relies on bad studies and distortions of legitimate work to prove his theories. He has gotten into trouble on many occasions because of this. Jim Burroway at www.boxturtlebulletin.com has written excellent reviews of Cameron's work
My upcoming book has an entire chapter on Cameron and his lies, but a little bit of information from Dr. Gregory Herek would be appropriate here:
On December 2, 1983, the American Psychological Association sent Paul Cameron a letter informing him that he had been dropped from membership. Early in 1984, all members of the American Psychological Association received official written notice that "Paul Cameron (Nebraska) was dropped from membership for a violation of the Preamble to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists" by the APA Board of Directors.
Cameron has posted an elaborate argument about his expulsion from APA on his website, claiming that he resigned from APA before he was dropped from membership. Like most organizations, however, APA does not allow a member to resign when they are being investigated. And even if Cameron's claims were accepted as true, it would be remarkable that the largest professional organization of psychologists in the United States (and other professional associations, as noted below) went to such lengths to disassociate itself from one individual.
At its membership meeting on October 19, 1984, the Nebraska Psychological Association adopted a resolution stating that it "formally disassociates itself from the representations and interpretations of scientific literature offered by Dr. Paul Cameron in his writings and public statements on sexuality."
In 1985, the American Sociological Association (ASA) adopted a resolution which asserted that "Dr. Paul Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented sociological research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism" and noted that "Dr. Paul Cameron has repeatedly campaigned for the abrogation of the civil rights of lesbians and gay men, substantiating his call on the basis of his distorted interpretation of this research."
The resolution formally charged an ASA committee with the task of "critically evaluating and publicly responding to the work of Dr. Paul Cameron."
At its August, 1986 meeting, the ASA officially accepted the committee's report and passed the following resolution:
The American Sociological Association officially and publicly states that Paul Cameron is not a sociologist, and condemns his consistent misrepresentation of sociological research. Information on this action and a copy of the report by the Committee on the Status of Homosexuals in Sociology, "The Paul Cameron Case," is to be published in Footnotes, and be sent to the officers of all regional and state sociological associations and to the Canadian Sociological Association with a request that they alert their members to Cameron's frequent lecture and media appearances.
And here is a little bit of information from my book:
In 2005, the Boston Globe spotlighted Cameron in an article entitled Beliefs Drive Research Agenda of New Think Tanks. According to the article, when the Traditional Values Coalition was asked about Cameron, the organization responded by allegedly removing all references to Cameron from its web page. A spokesperson for the organization, Daniella Lopez, said the research had been placed on the web page by mistake.
Funny. I didn't know that the Traditional Values Coalition was pro-gay.
Peter, if you are going to cite a lie, at least have the savvy to try and cover it up.
Geez, you make me miss Robert Knight.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Three-prong attack of lies. What are we doing about it
I see that today has been a busy one for the anti-gay industry.
Adoption - This weekend, I wrote about how Paul Cameron was trying to retread his lie that gays have a short life span. It would be the third time he tried and like the first two, his observations are built on distortions (see Friday's posts).
Today, Cameron sent out another press release claiming that since he proved that gays have a short life span, they should not adopt children:
"The life span of gays is 20-plus years shorter than the life span of heterosexuals," states Dr. Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute, a Colorado-based think tank. "This shortened lifespan," he warned, "has profound implications for adoption. On average, in Norway and Denmark -- where same-sex marriage is legal – married lesbians lived to age 56 and married gay men to age 52. So the chances that a gay-adopted child will lose one or both parents before graduating from high school are much greater than they would be with a married man and woman."
How convenient for Cameron that the anti-gay industry is trying to use the issues of gay adoption and foster care as cash cows, much like that of same-sex marriage. Arkansas is just one state that has to deal with the issue.
And don't be so quick to laugh Cameron away. While it is true that he has a dubious reputation, are we doing a good job in making sure people know about him; especially those who will cite his so-called research.
Because slowly but surely, Cameron's recent press release is being passed around, read, and believed.
Hate Crimes Legislation - The anti-gay industry have been lying about hate crimes legislation, claiming that it will lead Christians to be put in jail simply for saying that homosexuality is a sin.
This, of course, is a lie. But now they have stepped up the game.
A group, Faith2Action is now claiming that the addition of lgbts to hate crimes legislation means that a crime committed against a grandmother would rank less than a crime committed against an lgbt.
As proof of this, Faith2Action is distorting the recent court case of the protestors arrested during a gay pride parade in Philadelphia. They are even asking for money for commercials featuring the protestors who just happen to be grandmothers.
Faith2Action's efforts are being led by one Janet Folger. Folger made a name for herself in 1998 in the failed media blitz of the ex-gay groups trying to publicize the notion that gays can "change."
The media blitz failed partly because Folger admitted in a debate with gay columnist Andrew Sullivan that she supported the sodomy laws; laws that could jail lgbts for private sexual behavior.
How ironic and hypocritical of Folger.
Day of Silence - The Day of Silence, an excellent way for lgbt students to express themselves, is under fire yet again. This time, a group of so-called "pro-family" groups are encouraging families to have their children boycott the day.
The schools participating in the Day of Silence are listed in no doubt a sly way to encourage folks to call them and badger administrators with lies of a "gay agenda."
And for those who will not protest the Day of Silence, there is the Day of Truth, or a day when students are encouraged to repeat Paul Cameronesque lies about the lgbt community.
The person who seems to be at the head of all of this is Linda Harvey of Mission America.
Unfortunately, Miss Harvey's mission has nothing to do with truth:
"When people have views supporting homosexuality they should not be involved with youth in any way, period. Because they:
will provide inaccurate, misleading information to kids;
may limit a student’s opportunity to hear warnings about the behavior;
may advocate or model inappropriate behavior;
may be directly involved in the molestation of kids themselves; or
may be in a position to allow others to do so" - Fairy Tales Don’t Come True, February 13, 2006
Harvey has no training in anything remotely having to do with child care or sexual orientation issues. Her webpage lists her as a former ad executive. In other words, this woman does not know what the hell she is talking about.
Apparently Harvey thinks that being a Christian excuses her for being ignorant.
I hope no one accuses me of being paranoid when I say that these events happening so close to each other does not strike me as coincidental.
This three-prong attack didn't happen spontaneously.
I don't think that Paul Cameron just happenstance decided to create his study and try to use it against gay adoption.
Nor do I think that Harvey and Folger just came up with their campaigns to lie and silence lgbts.
This three-prong attack seems to be the result of slow, meticulous planning.
So what are we doing about it?
There have been some who think that we should protest, march, and get arrested in order to show our anger as to how our community is being victimized.
Sometimes I wonder if being loud and showy the result of lazy behavior; trying to get what we need in one angry rush.
While we are doing all of this "demonstrating," the anti-gay industry is weaving a tapestry based on lies and distortions. We have to be there at the beginning, exposing the lies and dismantling the distortions. And I don't mean that namby pamby bullshit of "trying to win hearts and minds."
There is nothing wrong with calling a liar one to his or her face, as long as you have the proof to back it up.
If we don't do this, then all of the yelling, screaming, and protesting in the world will not help us.
I see that today has been a busy one for the anti-gay industry.
Adoption - This weekend, I wrote about how Paul Cameron was trying to retread his lie that gays have a short life span. It would be the third time he tried and like the first two, his observations are built on distortions (see Friday's posts).
Today, Cameron sent out another press release claiming that since he proved that gays have a short life span, they should not adopt children:
"The life span of gays is 20-plus years shorter than the life span of heterosexuals," states Dr. Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute, a Colorado-based think tank. "This shortened lifespan," he warned, "has profound implications for adoption. On average, in Norway and Denmark -- where same-sex marriage is legal – married lesbians lived to age 56 and married gay men to age 52. So the chances that a gay-adopted child will lose one or both parents before graduating from high school are much greater than they would be with a married man and woman."
How convenient for Cameron that the anti-gay industry is trying to use the issues of gay adoption and foster care as cash cows, much like that of same-sex marriage. Arkansas is just one state that has to deal with the issue.
And don't be so quick to laugh Cameron away. While it is true that he has a dubious reputation, are we doing a good job in making sure people know about him; especially those who will cite his so-called research.
Because slowly but surely, Cameron's recent press release is being passed around, read, and believed.
Hate Crimes Legislation - The anti-gay industry have been lying about hate crimes legislation, claiming that it will lead Christians to be put in jail simply for saying that homosexuality is a sin.
This, of course, is a lie. But now they have stepped up the game.
A group, Faith2Action is now claiming that the addition of lgbts to hate crimes legislation means that a crime committed against a grandmother would rank less than a crime committed against an lgbt.
As proof of this, Faith2Action is distorting the recent court case of the protestors arrested during a gay pride parade in Philadelphia. They are even asking for money for commercials featuring the protestors who just happen to be grandmothers.
Faith2Action's efforts are being led by one Janet Folger. Folger made a name for herself in 1998 in the failed media blitz of the ex-gay groups trying to publicize the notion that gays can "change."
The media blitz failed partly because Folger admitted in a debate with gay columnist Andrew Sullivan that she supported the sodomy laws; laws that could jail lgbts for private sexual behavior.
How ironic and hypocritical of Folger.
Day of Silence - The Day of Silence, an excellent way for lgbt students to express themselves, is under fire yet again. This time, a group of so-called "pro-family" groups are encouraging families to have their children boycott the day.
The schools participating in the Day of Silence are listed in no doubt a sly way to encourage folks to call them and badger administrators with lies of a "gay agenda."
And for those who will not protest the Day of Silence, there is the Day of Truth, or a day when students are encouraged to repeat Paul Cameronesque lies about the lgbt community.
The person who seems to be at the head of all of this is Linda Harvey of Mission America.
Unfortunately, Miss Harvey's mission has nothing to do with truth:
"When people have views supporting homosexuality they should not be involved with youth in any way, period. Because they:
will provide inaccurate, misleading information to kids;
may limit a student’s opportunity to hear warnings about the behavior;
may advocate or model inappropriate behavior;
may be directly involved in the molestation of kids themselves; or
may be in a position to allow others to do so" - Fairy Tales Don’t Come True, February 13, 2006
Harvey has no training in anything remotely having to do with child care or sexual orientation issues. Her webpage lists her as a former ad executive. In other words, this woman does not know what the hell she is talking about.
Apparently Harvey thinks that being a Christian excuses her for being ignorant.
I hope no one accuses me of being paranoid when I say that these events happening so close to each other does not strike me as coincidental.
This three-prong attack didn't happen spontaneously.
I don't think that Paul Cameron just happenstance decided to create his study and try to use it against gay adoption.
Nor do I think that Harvey and Folger just came up with their campaigns to lie and silence lgbts.
This three-prong attack seems to be the result of slow, meticulous planning.
So what are we doing about it?
There have been some who think that we should protest, march, and get arrested in order to show our anger as to how our community is being victimized.
Sometimes I wonder if being loud and showy the result of lazy behavior; trying to get what we need in one angry rush.
While we are doing all of this "demonstrating," the anti-gay industry is weaving a tapestry based on lies and distortions. We have to be there at the beginning, exposing the lies and dismantling the distortions. And I don't mean that namby pamby bullshit of "trying to win hearts and minds."
There is nothing wrong with calling a liar one to his or her face, as long as you have the proof to back it up.
If we don't do this, then all of the yelling, screaming, and protesting in the world will not help us.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Rachel Griffiths, race, sexual orientation, and cherry-picking
In the middle of editing my book, I had a bad allergy attack this weekend. Subsequently, while still able to edit my book, I spent a good portion of time in bed.
And I didn't make it to work this morning because of it.
But there is nothing like a dose good old fashioned righteous indignation to get me going. And for that, I turn to my friends at Americans for Truth.
In his recent whining, our friend Peter is complaining that actress Rachel Griffiths dared to compare racial injustice to homophobia:
Griffiths: This lady told me she loved Brothers & Sisters, then said, “But I hope you pass this on to the producers, that we could really do without all that gay kissing.” I told her a story my grandmother told me: She went to Paris in 1932 and saw a black man holding the hand of a white woman, and she felt so horrified she almost threw up. My grandmother told me she knew that reaction was wrong, but it was the way she had been brought up. So I told this lady, “Maybe when you’re 98 you’ll tell your granddaughter how you saw two men kissing one day, and how you felt, but you know that’s wrong, and that was just how your were brought up.” She was shocked. I said, “So I’m not going to tell the show’s creators that. That’s for you to work out.”
– Interview in The Advocate, March 27, 2007, p. 20., by John Griffiths, who is identified as the TV critic for Us Weekly.
Homosexual activists regularly try to steal the goodwill of the civil rights movement, but in truth, opposing homosexual behavior is common sense and has nothing to do with racism. In fact, black homosexuals complain frequently about white racism within the homosexual subculture.
You know what pissses me off. That last sentence. For the record, as a black gay men, I do get angry at how ignorant some of our own people act towards me because of my color. I have been attacked and called names by ignorant gay racists.
Just like I have been attacked by ignorant black homophobes.
But nothing changes. I am still gay and I am still black. I am proud of both designations because God gave them to me. And I take great offense that Peter uses one to hurt the other.
With that in mind, I would like to ask Peter something. Or rather, I am calling him out. I doubt it will do any good because I don't know whether or not Peter reads this blog.
But just in case:
Peter dearest,
just how many black people are employed in your silly organization? For that matter, in your tenure with Concerned Women for America, I noticed that there were no black spokespeople. Were there any other black employees?
And while we are at it, why is it that a majority of so-called "'pro-family" groups have no representation of black people on their web pages. One sees many smiling, happy white families but very few black smiling, happy families.
One would like to think that black people hasn't fallen for your nonsense. However, the examples of Wellington Boone, Jesse Lee Peterson, and Tony Dungy proves this is not the case. Ignroance is truly color-blind,
With that in mind, what have you, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Phyllis Schafly, and the rest of the religious right done for black people? Criticizing Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and a lot others just don't cut it.
Do you know the issues that affect black Americans? Or are you like Lou Sheldon and seem to think that poverty, crime, and being on the low end of the American socioeconomic structure is because of a "gay agenda."
When it comes to the black community, you all are guilty of the same crime you have accused gays of committing.
And people, even if they are want-to-be Christians, who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
In the middle of editing my book, I had a bad allergy attack this weekend. Subsequently, while still able to edit my book, I spent a good portion of time in bed.
And I didn't make it to work this morning because of it.
But there is nothing like a dose good old fashioned righteous indignation to get me going. And for that, I turn to my friends at Americans for Truth.
In his recent whining, our friend Peter is complaining that actress Rachel Griffiths dared to compare racial injustice to homophobia:
Griffiths: This lady told me she loved Brothers & Sisters, then said, “But I hope you pass this on to the producers, that we could really do without all that gay kissing.” I told her a story my grandmother told me: She went to Paris in 1932 and saw a black man holding the hand of a white woman, and she felt so horrified she almost threw up. My grandmother told me she knew that reaction was wrong, but it was the way she had been brought up. So I told this lady, “Maybe when you’re 98 you’ll tell your granddaughter how you saw two men kissing one day, and how you felt, but you know that’s wrong, and that was just how your were brought up.” She was shocked. I said, “So I’m not going to tell the show’s creators that. That’s for you to work out.”
– Interview in The Advocate, March 27, 2007, p. 20., by John Griffiths, who is identified as the TV critic for Us Weekly.
Homosexual activists regularly try to steal the goodwill of the civil rights movement, but in truth, opposing homosexual behavior is common sense and has nothing to do with racism. In fact, black homosexuals complain frequently about white racism within the homosexual subculture.
You know what pissses me off. That last sentence. For the record, as a black gay men, I do get angry at how ignorant some of our own people act towards me because of my color. I have been attacked and called names by ignorant gay racists.
Just like I have been attacked by ignorant black homophobes.
But nothing changes. I am still gay and I am still black. I am proud of both designations because God gave them to me. And I take great offense that Peter uses one to hurt the other.
With that in mind, I would like to ask Peter something. Or rather, I am calling him out. I doubt it will do any good because I don't know whether or not Peter reads this blog.
But just in case:
Peter dearest,
just how many black people are employed in your silly organization? For that matter, in your tenure with Concerned Women for America, I noticed that there were no black spokespeople. Were there any other black employees?
And while we are at it, why is it that a majority of so-called "'pro-family" groups have no representation of black people on their web pages. One sees many smiling, happy white families but very few black smiling, happy families.
One would like to think that black people hasn't fallen for your nonsense. However, the examples of Wellington Boone, Jesse Lee Peterson, and Tony Dungy proves this is not the case. Ignroance is truly color-blind,
With that in mind, what have you, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Phyllis Schafly, and the rest of the religious right done for black people? Criticizing Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and a lot others just don't cut it.
Do you know the issues that affect black Americans? Or are you like Lou Sheldon and seem to think that poverty, crime, and being on the low end of the American socioeconomic structure is because of a "gay agenda."
When it comes to the black community, you all are guilty of the same crime you have accused gays of committing.
And people, even if they are want-to-be Christians, who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Friday, March 23, 2007
More info on Cameron's phony claim
I was looking online and found this interesting item that puts more doubt on the validity of Cameron's claim (see post below). The information is by Romeo Vitelli, who is a legitimate psychologist:
Latest Paul Cameron Study Targets Canadian Gay Statistics
In the latest research by Dr. Paul Cameron, chairman of the Family Research Institute, and his son Kirk, demographic information provided by a 2003 Canadian community survey was used to provide estimates of the prevalence of homosexuality and early gay mortality. Based on the sample of 121,300 adults, the Camerons concluded that only 2 per cent of 18 to 44 year old respondents described themselves as homosexual with the percentage dropping to less than 1 per cent of respondents over 60. While admitting that the overall 1.4% figure can not be regarded as the "bedrock truth", Paul and Kirk Cameron accused the Canadian government of distorting the data by not reporting on homosexual activity in respondents over the age of 60 thereby increasing the "homosexual footprint".
They accuse governments around the world of "covering up" the early mortality of homosexuals and draw on their own research despite the controversy that has surrounded their findings.
While the true prevalence of homosexuality in modern society remains a politically charged question, using data from the Canadian Community Health Survey for a purpose for which it was never designed can only add further distortion to an already murky issue.
The survey was designed to examine a range of health-related questions in Canadian residents through a series of face-to-face interviews across the country. The survey was designed to "provide regular and timely cross-sectional estimates of health determinants, health status and health system utilization for 136 health regions across the country ". There was no sinister intent in the survey and expanding the "homosexual footprint" was not part of its stated goal.
It would be best if Paul Cameron looked elsewhere for his diatribes.
I was looking online and found this interesting item that puts more doubt on the validity of Cameron's claim (see post below). The information is by Romeo Vitelli, who is a legitimate psychologist:
Latest Paul Cameron Study Targets Canadian Gay Statistics
In the latest research by Dr. Paul Cameron, chairman of the Family Research Institute, and his son Kirk, demographic information provided by a 2003 Canadian community survey was used to provide estimates of the prevalence of homosexuality and early gay mortality. Based on the sample of 121,300 adults, the Camerons concluded that only 2 per cent of 18 to 44 year old respondents described themselves as homosexual with the percentage dropping to less than 1 per cent of respondents over 60. While admitting that the overall 1.4% figure can not be regarded as the "bedrock truth", Paul and Kirk Cameron accused the Canadian government of distorting the data by not reporting on homosexual activity in respondents over the age of 60 thereby increasing the "homosexual footprint".
They accuse governments around the world of "covering up" the early mortality of homosexuals and draw on their own research despite the controversy that has surrounded their findings.
While the true prevalence of homosexuality in modern society remains a politically charged question, using data from the Canadian Community Health Survey for a purpose for which it was never designed can only add further distortion to an already murky issue.
The survey was designed to examine a range of health-related questions in Canadian residents through a series of face-to-face interviews across the country. The survey was designed to "provide regular and timely cross-sectional estimates of health determinants, health status and health system utilization for 136 health regions across the country ". There was no sinister intent in the survey and expanding the "homosexual footprint" was not part of its stated goal.
It would be best if Paul Cameron looked elsewhere for his diatribes.
New anti-gay "headless monster"
Early Gay Death Syndrome.
Don't laugh because my guess is that the we will have to deal with this term sooner or later.
In other words, Paul Cameron is back:
According to two researchers, the largest random sex survey ever conducted has reported that only 1.4% of adults engaged in homosexual behavior. Analyzing a 2003 Canadian Community survey of 121,300 adults, Drs. Paul and Kirk Cameron told attendees of the Eastern Psychological Association Convention that 2% of 18-44 year olds, 1% of 50 year olds, and only a third of a percent of subjects 60+ considered themselves homosexual. Thus homosexual activity was much more common among younger adults.
What happened to the older homosexuals? "Some may have ceased to be sexually active," said Paul Cameron, "or they may have died. Recent reports from Scandinavia indicate that the life expectancy of homosexuals is 20+ years shorter than that of heterosexuals."
Now for those who are not in the know, Paul Cameron has a great degree of relevance in how Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, and the rest of the anti-gay industry lies about our lives.
It was Cameron who either popularized or created the myths that:
Gay men molest children at a high rate,
Gay men are sexually irresponsible individuals with a short life span,
LGBTs on the whole are hygenically disgusting people with a "devil may care" attitude about their lives.
Cameron created a series of studies that supposedly proved these theories. However, he also used bad tactics, including distorting the work of his colleagues.
For these offenses, Cameron has been censured by many research groups, including getting kicked out of the American Psychological Association. He claimed that he resigned from this group before being dismissed but this is not true. At the time he supposedly resigned, Cameron was under investigation for his tactics. APA rule specify that members under investigation cannot resign.
In my upcoming book, I devote an entire chapter to him, his lies, and how the anti-gay industry have used his studies or methodologies to demonize the lgbt community.
I also point out how when the anti-gay industry is not citing Cameron by name, they attempt to quantify his lies with distortions of their own.
With Cameron's new announcement, it sounds as if he is trying to push up his "gays have a short life span" lie yet again. The truth of how Cameron is trying to recycle this claim is better explained by the site queersighted:
The research, by the way, was based on a sex survey of one Canadian community of slightly over 120,000 adults.
The survey revealed that there were more practicing homosexuals among younger people than among older people. Combined with other research, Cameron concluded that this is because homosexuals die young.
The best part of this story is that Cameron put out a press release that suggests that he presented his latest research during yesterday's sessions of the annual Eastern Psychological Association Convention in Philadelphia.
According to his press release, "Drs. Paul and Kirk Cameron told attendees of the Eastern Psychological Association Convention..."
In fact, he did not present and was not on the agenda at this meeting. The fact is that he roamed the public corridors of the convention venue and "told" doctors about his research. Cameron was neither a registered speaker nor a member of the convention faculty.
Nonetheless he will present this research to lawmakers and judges as data that was "presented" at this legitimate convention . . .
This retread by Cameron is receiving much play at Free Republic and I am sure that the folks there know of his history. I have gone through past postings in which a member of the site diligently posts Cameron's studies as if they are true. When the person was challenged on the veracity of the studies, he or she (I don't know if it was a male or female) voiced very vehemently that there was a conspiracy to silence Cameron.
On the contrary, I am hoping that the anti-gay industry pushes Cameron's new claim loudly. That way, those of us who know how they lie would have more ammunition for our claims that the anti-gay industry are more interested in distortions than morality.
There have been a few minor sites that have already posted Cameron's press release.
I am presently looking to see if other anti-gay industry sites are doing the same. Whatever I find will be posted here.
or
Manure with icing covering itEarly Gay Death Syndrome.
Don't laugh because my guess is that the we will have to deal with this term sooner or later.
In other words, Paul Cameron is back:
According to two researchers, the largest random sex survey ever conducted has reported that only 1.4% of adults engaged in homosexual behavior. Analyzing a 2003 Canadian Community survey of 121,300 adults, Drs. Paul and Kirk Cameron told attendees of the Eastern Psychological Association Convention that 2% of 18-44 year olds, 1% of 50 year olds, and only a third of a percent of subjects 60+ considered themselves homosexual. Thus homosexual activity was much more common among younger adults.
What happened to the older homosexuals? "Some may have ceased to be sexually active," said Paul Cameron, "or they may have died. Recent reports from Scandinavia indicate that the life expectancy of homosexuals is 20+ years shorter than that of heterosexuals."
Now for those who are not in the know, Paul Cameron has a great degree of relevance in how Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, and the rest of the anti-gay industry lies about our lives.
It was Cameron who either popularized or created the myths that:
Gay men molest children at a high rate,
Gay men are sexually irresponsible individuals with a short life span,
LGBTs on the whole are hygenically disgusting people with a "devil may care" attitude about their lives.
Cameron created a series of studies that supposedly proved these theories. However, he also used bad tactics, including distorting the work of his colleagues.
For these offenses, Cameron has been censured by many research groups, including getting kicked out of the American Psychological Association. He claimed that he resigned from this group before being dismissed but this is not true. At the time he supposedly resigned, Cameron was under investigation for his tactics. APA rule specify that members under investigation cannot resign.
In my upcoming book, I devote an entire chapter to him, his lies, and how the anti-gay industry have used his studies or methodologies to demonize the lgbt community.
I also point out how when the anti-gay industry is not citing Cameron by name, they attempt to quantify his lies with distortions of their own.
With Cameron's new announcement, it sounds as if he is trying to push up his "gays have a short life span" lie yet again. The truth of how Cameron is trying to recycle this claim is better explained by the site queersighted:
The research, by the way, was based on a sex survey of one Canadian community of slightly over 120,000 adults.
The survey revealed that there were more practicing homosexuals among younger people than among older people. Combined with other research, Cameron concluded that this is because homosexuals die young.
The best part of this story is that Cameron put out a press release that suggests that he presented his latest research during yesterday's sessions of the annual Eastern Psychological Association Convention in Philadelphia.
According to his press release, "Drs. Paul and Kirk Cameron told attendees of the Eastern Psychological Association Convention..."
In fact, he did not present and was not on the agenda at this meeting. The fact is that he roamed the public corridors of the convention venue and "told" doctors about his research. Cameron was neither a registered speaker nor a member of the convention faculty.
Nonetheless he will present this research to lawmakers and judges as data that was "presented" at this legitimate convention . . .
This retread by Cameron is receiving much play at Free Republic and I am sure that the folks there know of his history. I have gone through past postings in which a member of the site diligently posts Cameron's studies as if they are true. When the person was challenged on the veracity of the studies, he or she (I don't know if it was a male or female) voiced very vehemently that there was a conspiracy to silence Cameron.
On the contrary, I am hoping that the anti-gay industry pushes Cameron's new claim loudly. That way, those of us who know how they lie would have more ammunition for our claims that the anti-gay industry are more interested in distortions than morality.
There have been a few minor sites that have already posted Cameron's press release.
I am presently looking to see if other anti-gay industry sites are doing the same. Whatever I find will be posted here.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Short post - something you can do
The anti-gay industry is scared to death because of the possibility of lgbts being added to hate crimes legislation.
Go to this site and take action so that we are added to hate crimes legislation.
If you need more information as to hate crimes protection, go here.
Oh and one more thing so that this site does not lose it's integrity:
Adding lgbts to hate crimes legislation will not lead to jailing Christians for believing or even saying that homosexuality is a sin. The ultimate goal of lgbts is not to persecute Christians.
Any claims that this is the case is anti-gay industry tactic 4 - Claiming that any pro-lgbt laws will lead to the persecution of Christians. This is not true nor will it ever be.
The anti-gay industry is scared to death because of the possibility of lgbts being added to hate crimes legislation.
Go to this site and take action so that we are added to hate crimes legislation.
If you need more information as to hate crimes protection, go here.
Oh and one more thing so that this site does not lose it's integrity:
Adding lgbts to hate crimes legislation will not lead to jailing Christians for believing or even saying that homosexuality is a sin. The ultimate goal of lgbts is not to persecute Christians.
Any claims that this is the case is anti-gay industry tactic 4 - Claiming that any pro-lgbt laws will lead to the persecution of Christians. This is not true nor will it ever be.
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