10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• COUNCIL NDIDATE APOLOGIZ FOR RACIST, ANTI-GAY ONLE POSTS
• ANTI-GAY
• MSNBC HOST JOY REID BLAM HACKERS FOR ANTI-GAY BLOG POSTS, BUT QUTNS MOUNT
• MNEAPOLIS COUNCILMAN JAMAL OSMAN APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY, ANTISEMIC POSTS
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• BUSTED: JOY REID’S DISTURBG ANTI-GAY POSTS ARCHIVED THE LIBRARY OF CONGRS
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• MORE JOY REID ANTI-GAY WRGS DISVERED — MSNBC HOST CLAIMS SE WAS HACKED

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.

Both pani are alg wh fallout om those mpaigns, which have clud hostile and anti-gay cricisms and lls om LGBTQIA+ activists not to ve to anti-LGBTQIA+ has been booed by Toronto fans his two home appearanc sce the apology. The laws clu Florida’s novel rtrictns banng classroom discsns of genr and sexualy, which have bee a template for other stat seekg to lim what stunts learn about the issu and effective as of July: rtrictns on the sports teams that transgenr stunts n jo Indiana, South Dakota, Tennsee and Utah, and an Alabama law that echo Florida’s “don’t say gay” law but also prevents transgenr stunts om g bathrooms, lockers and other such facili that align wh their school districts across the untry are still months away om regnizg the full impact of the new polici, LGBTQ and civil rights advot say they are alarmed.

The host of MSNBC’s weekend show AM Joy has been unr fire for newly unvered blog posts published on Reid’s now-funct blog, the Reid Report, the mid-to late 2000s that repeatedly mocked gay people and specific dividuals who were allegedly gay.

COUNCIL NDIDATE APOLOGIZ FOR RACIST, ANTI-GAY ONLE POSTS

1/x From 2007 to 2009 @joyannreid thored a dozen homophobic posts not only attemptg to out Charlie Crist as gay, she attacked & mocked him for beg repeatedly referred to him as "Miss Charlie" and tagged posts about him unr "gay policians.

ANTI-GAY

5/x Joy said Tim Hardaway’s ments about gay teammat were stupid for a public figure to make, but says there is a veat – She says part of the trsic nature of straightns is that gay sex is gross, that most straight people feel that way. “Che Amerins nounce Juan Ardila for the e of the highly racist ch-nk and n-word, and the flagrant disparagement of Jews, women, gays and lbians, ” said Wai Wah Ch foundg print of the Che Amerin Cizens Alliance of Greater New York,.

Palm Beach County School Board electn:Karen Brill, Eri Whfield will returnPalm Beach County schools issue:LGBTQ guidance amid fears of so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' lawAs a rult, the district approved 15 tl — largely foced on racism and historic jtic — wh no rtrictns, cludg Kg's letter and Anne Frank’s diary. MSNBC host Joy Reid is unr fire this week after a Twter er says they unearthed another set of homophobic blog posts which the journalist rejects gay marriage, claims LGBTQ groups explo teens, and lls gay sex “gross. I don't know who's advisg you on PR, Joy, but om a LGBTQ muny member, would be better to apologize, adm you had homophobic/transphobic views once upon a time, and that (hopefully) those views have changed, stead of tryg to blame everythg on hackers.

Joy Reid did wre all of the hio blog posts, not only were they homophobic, they cheered on Tmp, fat shamed Rosie O'Donnell, and were sanely meanIf you don't believe experts who know she's lyg, her nstant misspellg of 'fd' is a ad give away — beth, pury tt enthiast (@bourgeoisalien) April 26, 2018, jounalists clud, are takg her si. Reid was nonted wh a new batch of homophobic wrgs om that same perd, she said she had been the victim of claim was lled to qutn on Tuday, when the Inter Archive, the meticulo onle rerd-keepg nonprof that hosted the archived versn of her se, said had found no evince to support her Tuday night, MSNBC provid documents that show Ms.

MSNBC HOST JOY REID BLAM HACKERS FOR ANTI-GAY BLOG POSTS, BUT QUTNS MOUNT

He apologized to his nstuents and his lleagu, particularly Mayor Jab Frey (who is Jewish), Council Print Andrea Jenks (a transgenr woman), Council Member Lisa Goodman (who is Jewish), Council Member Jason Chavez (who is gay) and to his ai Sean Broom (who has a Jewish fay member).

MNEAPOLIS COUNCILMAN JAMAL OSMAN APOLOGIZ FOR ANTI-GAY, ANTISEMIC POSTS

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. 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. Others have ced a group lled the Amerin College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) to claim, as Tony Perks of the Fay Rearch Council did November 2010, that "the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a [moltatn] danger to children.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

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. The Amerin Amy of Child & Adolcent Psychiatry affirmed 2013 that “[c]urrent rearch shows that children wh gay and lbian parents do not differ om children wh heterosexual parents their emotnal velopment or their relatnships wh peers and adults” and they are “not more likely than children of heterosexual parents to velop emotnal or behavral problems. The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics (AAP) a 2002 policy statement clared: "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual.

BUSTED: JOY REID’S DISTURBG ANTI-GAY POSTS ARCHIVED THE LIBRARY OF CONGRS

” Schumm, who has also argued that lbian relatnships are unstable, has ti to discreded psychologist and anti-LGBT fabulist Pl Cameron, the thor of numero pletely basels “studi” about the alleged evils of homosexualy. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn noted a 2000 fact sheet available on the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists, that alg wh gay, lbian and bisexual issu, that sexual abe do not appear to be any more prevalent among children who grow up and intify as gay, lbian or bisexual than children who grow up and intify as heterosexual. Siarly, the Natnal Organizatn on Male Sexual Victimizatn not on s webse that "experts the human sexualy field do not believe that premature sexual experienc play a signifint role late adolcent or adult sexual orientatn" and add that 's unlikely that anyone n make another person gay or heterosexual.

Anti-LGBT anizatns, seekg to promote heterosexualy as the healthier "choice, " often offer up the purportedly shorter life spans and poorer physil and mental health of gays and lbians as reasons why they shouldn't be allowed to adopt or foster children.

On the basis of the same obuari, Cameron also claimed that gay men are 18 tim more likely to die r accints than heterosexuals, 22 tim more likely to die of heart attacks than wh, and 11 tim more likely than blacks to die of the same e. Anti-LGBT anizatns have also tried to support this claim by distortg the work of legimate scholars, like a 1997 study nducted by a Canadian team of rearchers that alt wh gay and bisexual men livg Vanuver the late 1980s and early 1990s.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

Anti-gay activists, who have long opposed addg LGBT people to those protected by hate crime legislatn, have repeatedly claimed that such laws would lead to the jailg of relig figur who preach agast homosexualy — part of a bid to ga the backg of the broar relig muny for their posn. Anti-gay groups have been adamantly opposed to allowg gay men and lbians to serve openly the armed forc, not only bee of their purported fear that bat reads will be unrmed, but bee the ary has long been nsired the purt merocracy Ameri (the armed forc were succsfully racially tegrated long before Amerin civil society, for example). At the same time, gays and lbians have served openly for years the armed forc of 25 untri (as of 2010), cludg Bra, Israel, South Ai, Canada and Atralia, acrdg to a report released by the Palm Center, a policy thk tank at the Universy of California at Santa Barbara.

Dpe the fact that gay men and lbians have been servg openly the ary sce September 2011, anti-LGBT groups ntue to claim that openly gay personnel are g problems the ary, cludg claims of sexual abe by gay and lbian soldiers of straight soldiers. Though is te that LGBT people tend to suffer higher rat of anxiety, prsn, and prsn-related illns and behavrs like alhol and dg abe than the general populatn, that is due to the historil social stigmatizatn of homosexualy and vlence directed at LGBT people, not bee of homosexualy self. A report prented by the Council on Scientific Affairs to the AMA Hoe of Delegat Interim Meetg wh regard to reparative (“ex-gay”) therapy noted that most of the emotnal disturbance gay men and lbians experience around their sexual inty is not based on physlogil , but rather on “a sense of alienatn an unacceptg environment.

Mark Hatzenbuehler, a socmedil scienc profsor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia Universy, said that the data gathered the study suggts that “sexual mori livg muni wh high levels of anti-gay prejudice have creased risk of mortaly, pared to low-prejudice muni.

MORE JOY REID ANTI-GAY WRGS DISVERED — MSNBC HOST CLAIMS SE WAS HACKED

Qazi Rahman, study -thor and a leadg scientist on human sexual orientatn, said: "This study puts ld water on any ncerns that we are lookg for a sgle 'gay gene' or a sgle environmental variable which uld be ed to 'select out' homosexualy — the factors which fluence sexual orientatn are plex. The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics stated 1993 (updated 2004) that “homosexualy has existed most societi for as long as rerd scriptns of sexual beliefs and practic have been available” and that even at that time, “most scholars the field state that one’s sexual orientatn is not a choice … dividuals do not choose to be homosexual or heterosexual. A number of "ex-gay" relig mistri have spng up recent years wh the aim of teachg gay people to bee heterosexuals, and the have bee prime purveyors of the claim that gays and lbians, wh the aid of mental therapy and Christian teachgs, n "e out of homosexualy.

"Reparative" or sexual reorientatn therapy — the psdo-scientific foundatn of the ex-gay movement — has been rejected by all the tablished and reputable Amerin medil, psychologil, psychiatric and profsnal unselg anizatns. The Amerin Medil Associatn officially oppos reparative therapy that is “based on the assumptn that homosexualy per se is a mental disorr or based on an a prri assumptn that the person should change his/her homosexual orientatn.

"From 2007 to 2009 @joyannreid thored a dozen homophobic posts not only attemptg to out Charlie Crist as gay, she attacked & mocked him for beg so, " @Jamie_Maz wrote the first of a seri of tweets about Twter er noted Reid repeatedly referred to Crist as "Miss Charlie" her posts and speculated that his 2008 marriage to a woman was a d and part of a “veep marketg strategy. "Among the equent subjects of my posts was then-ernor Charlie Crist, at the time a nservative Republin, whose posns on issu like gay marriage and adoptn by same-sex upl Florida shared headl wh wily mored reports that he was hidg his sexual orientatn, " Reid wrote her apology.