10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG GAY?HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR VERS THE BIBLE
• THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

Those who are sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, men who subm to homosexual acts, men who practice homosexualy, thiev, greedy people, dnkards, revilers, and extortners will not her God’s Kgdom. Incintally, llg the belief that homosexuals are human creatur different om mal and femal “recent” is a cricism, but won’t be seen as such by progrsiv who value ias much more for their novelty than for their tthfulns.

If homosexual acts are nsired morally good bee those who engage them say they have no choice but to want to engage them, then follows pedophilic and zoophilic acts are also morally good for the same reason. Homosexuals, zoophil, masturbators, and all the rt are th actg agast human nature bee is human nature to reproduce via male-female pairg (ask your parents for nfirmatn; I clu the procreative ia the notn of a natural blogil fay raisg children; rape n lead to procreatn but not parentg). It’s worse now than ’s ever been: “In fact, the fact that we have only one sat repeatedly quoted on this topic om 19 centuri before our own prov to me that we have never had an epimic of so many homosexuals the prithood as today.

Cardal Tarcis Bertone “notorly favored promotg homosexuals to posns of rponsibily”, such as the elevatn of Bishop “Nighty Night Baby” Tob, who was jt appoted by Francis to the Youth Synod, and so on. Let remember that God tends good for our liv and often His prohibns the Bible are to protect om tent here is to prent how the Bible speaks on the very sensive matter of homosexualy, not to be ammunn for divisive cred: ©Getty Imag/pamela_d_mdams. Their society was bched and had gotten the attentn of God (see Genis 18:20-21) bee of their we see the first ias that the prevalence of homosexualy a society is a sign of their overall wickedns and that God will pass judgement on them.

CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT

Many arguments exist today bee the ancient Hebrew wrers did not e a sgle word for “homosexualy, ” and is claimed that this is a valid reason to qutn the Bible’s thory to rm on this Hebrew wrers ed phras stead. J associat this practice wh the ho of kgs and the wealthy who he often intified as opposnal to God’s ntu the ia that a proliferatn of homosexual practice a society has to do wh the directn that a natn is takg regard to followg God. To disunt this, some homosexual activists have argued that moral imperativ om the Old Ttament n be dismissed sce there were certa ceremonial requirements at the time—such as not eatg pork, or circumcisg male babi—that are no longer bdg.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Do not be ceived: Neher the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostut nor homosexual offenrs nor thiev nor the greedy nor dnkards nor slanrers nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God” (1 Cor. Furthermore, the ten percent figure clus people who are not exclively homosexual but who only engaged  some homosexual behavr for a perd of time and then stopped—people who had gone through a fully or partially homosexual “phase” but who were not long-term homosexuals.

The morn arguments favor of homosexualy have th been sufficient to overe the evince that homosexual behavr is agast dive and natural law, as the Bible and the Church, as well as the wir circle of Jewish and Christian (not to mentn Mlim) wrers, have always held. Even if they agree wh the Bible that homosexualy is a s and rolve not to seek fulfillment of their sexual sir, they mt still fd love other relatnships—the self-sacrificg love of agape and the iendly pannship of phileo. Jt keepg foced on the posive, bee we n go down that rabb hole of five players of 700 … that's not a player's boytt of team's Pri night tribute 'disrpectful' to gay muny: agentCan you take back three years ago to what that was like for you on a personal level, given the role you play a huge league like the NHL, to e out?

WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG GAY?HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR VERS THE BIBLE

If a certa percentage of the populatn is queer, we need to have those seats at the table of Hockey 's Pri nights lli wh LGBTQ+ polil climateEveryone always asked me when we were gog to see the first gay NHL player. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed?

In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe. Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts.

THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS

And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy. Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal.

My parents always raised me to believe that everyone is equal and jt bee they love someone of the same sex don't make them any worse than beg gay don't impact my life at all-- so nsir this hypothetil suatn-- if you were to see someone stealg would you act out disgt and nstantly bash that person for stealg? Three ma studi are ced by “gay rights” activists support of their argument2Hamer’s X-chromosome rearch, 3 LeVay’s study of the hypothalam, 4 and Bailey and Pillard’s study of intil tws who were homosexuals. The fal report of the Baptist Unn of Wtern Atralia (BUWA) Task Force on Human Sexualy stat “that a person be a homosexual ultimately by choosg to be volved same-sex activy… This is ntrast to nate characteristics such as genr and ethnicy.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

Secular psychologists assure that “children raised lbian and gay hoeholds are siar to children raised heterosexual hoeholds on characteristics such as telligence, velopment, moral judgments, self-ncepts, social petence and genr inty. ” They are not only wrong about the latter, but they are actually not beg at all lovg towards homosexuals, bee, ntrary to the Bible, they rce the homosexual person to the level of an animal, driven by stct.

WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?

Furthermore, the gospel proclaims liberatn om the bondage of s, cludg homosexual s, whereas the “liberals” tell the homosexual that they nnot help , and they n’t help them eher, so they will accept them as they are! The news this week that the largt study of s kd failed to nfirm the existence of a "gay gene" is not so much a disappotment for those lookg to unrstand the LGBTQ muny, as is an acknowledgement that science do not need to tell what should be plaly obv: gays, lbians, bisexuals and pansexuals are who they are.

Sce I last wrote on this, we now have: legalized gay marriage, several church nomatns marryg gay people and ordag gay clergy, church beg sued for refg to marry gay upl, Christian dividuals beg sued for refg to provi var servic to gay upl (i. A recent poll by the “Pew Rearch Center” (11-3-15) says that 54% of Amerins who intify as Christian (cludg non-Christian groups such as Mormons and Jehovah Wns), “now say that homosexualy should be accepted, rather than disuraged, by society. ***Note: I read a quote which me om the book “The Unhappy Gays” by Tim LaHaye, that said, “I have unseled over 300 homosexuals and have yet to fd one that enjoyed a warm love relatnship wh his father.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

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 fairy tal are important to the anti-gay right bee they form the basis of s claim that homosexualy is a social evil that mt be supprsed — an opn rejected by virtually all relevant medil and scientific thori.

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.

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.