10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• WHY ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’ IS WRONG ABOUT THE BIBLE AND SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
• THE U.S. CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE ATTACK ON GAYS AI

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

They do not harbor the same feelgs for everyone the followg list of those the Bible says will not her the kgdom of God: “the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers” (1 Cor 6:9–10). The urt found 303’s ADF’s rightwg advocy extends further, however, as the anizatn has donated to more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortn found that the ADF donated $85, 000 to the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, a group which, acrdg to a Poli report, helped Florida Republins shape the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” law, which prohibs discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty group has also sued two school districts Florida over issu relatg to the rights of trans youth.

In recent years, the LGBT rights movement has wnsed a sea change Amerin attus toward the gay muny and, along wh , a seri of dramatic policy and legal victori — most notably marriage equaly — that would have seemed unthkable jt a ago.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

It currently reprents former Atlanta Fire Chief Kelv Cochran, who was termated by that cy’s mayor after allegedly failg to clear his self-publitn of a book, which scrib homosexual acts as “vile, vulgar and appropriate, wh the cy’s Board of Ethics as mandated by the cy . Over the years, Liberty Counsel has bee known for the vilent anti-LGBT rhetoric of s spokpeople, who have lked homosexualy to pedophilia, claimed that is a perversn that will stroy Wtern civilizatn, and asserted that same-sex marriage will spread disease. ” In 2013, staff attorney Steve Crampton said: “When you nsir that the life of the average homosexual is not ntrolled by reason, not ntrolled by the will, ’s really a life ntrolled by this lt, this passn, that has kd of overwhelmed them, and so you have kd of the sence of a lack of self ntrol.

WHY ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’ IS WRONG ABOUT THE BIBLE AND SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS

Liberty Counsel has reprented opponents of same-sex marriage and those who oppose bans on the psdoscientific and harmful practice known as “ex-gay” therapy, which claims to “cure” homosexualy (already, four stat have banned the therapy for mors). "We basilly looked at the tradn and began to unrstand that the Jewish value of Kevod HaBeriyot, the digny of every dividual, is equal to or even tak precence over some of our olr tradn around attus toward homosexualy, " Blumenthal says.

Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society. But addn to hawkg that myth, the legns of anti-gay activists who followed have add a panoply of others, rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia.

THE U.S. CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE ATTACK ON GAYS AI

Depictg gay men as a threat to children may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy — and for wng electns and referenda, as Ana Bryant found out durg her succsful 1977 mpaign to overturn a Da County, Fla., ordance barrg discrimatn agast gay people. Gregory Herek, a profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is one of the natn's leadg rearchers on prejudice agast sexual mori, reviewed a seri of studi and found no evince that gay men molt children at higher rat than heterosexual men.