The
following has been garnered from studies and research carried out across the
world over the past few decades.
It
is not a homophobic document unless one considers the act of free thinking and
weighing up all the available evidence and coming to your own unbiased
conclusion homophobic.
And
on this very subject – it seems that there are those that say you either are pro
homosexual or homophobic. This is
very much lie the view taken by the TV licensing
organisation. – you either watch TV with a license or
you watch TV without a license.
(You can opt to not watch tv and not pay a license!)
There
is another option – you can disagree with the pro homosexual stance and not hate
those that do agree with it.
The
document has been included in its entirety – if there are any typos please let
me know and I’ll do my best to fix them.
If
you would like to visit the website for United Families International you can
get them here http://www.unitedfamiles.org/
My
thanks and credit goes to United families International for the work and
patience they have exhibited in the gathering of information and easy to read
format.
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Sexual
FAMILY
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accredited
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seeks to educate government, religious and community leaders, and
citizens
at
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most
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this
Guide
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studies
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Foreword
page
1
A
Guide
to Family Issues has
been prepared by United Families International as the most
comprehensive
resource available to provide concerned citizens and government
officials
with
factual scientific research and sound, logical arguments to support pro-family
positions
on
controversial issues.
Each
topic of the Guide examines a major social issue that impacts the family. The
Myth
and
Reality
section
provides insights into the most common misconceptions and
misrepresentations
on
each topic. The Fast
Facts and Commentary section
then provides a wealth of peerreviewed
social
science data, research and thoughtful commentary to debunk these
myths
and
misrepresentations.
The
Guide has been designed to enable the average person to articulate pro-family
positions
on
difficult topics and will be an indispensable tool in many
situations;
Lobbying
government officials on family issues
Legislative
debates
School
Board meetings
Preparing
letters to the Editor
Classroom
debates
Community
involvement
Employment
Discussions
with friends and neighbors.
Although
United Families International promotes religious freedom and is supported by
people from many faiths across the world, we do not use religious arguments to
support our positions.
This
can be counterproductive when working to influence public policy makers who tend
to base decisions on facts. The overwhelming preponderance of social science
data and research invariably support the pro-family side of every issue
considered in this Guide.
A
Guide to Family Issues continues to be a work in progress as new studies and
research are constantly being released. Updates on each issue can be found on
our website as new data becomes available.
United
Families International hopes that this Guide to Family Issues provides
motivation and encouragement and will aid responsible citizens and officers of
government in the neverending battle to preserve and
protect the family as the fundamental unit of society.
Marcia
Barlow
Managing
Editor
Table
of Contents
Foreword
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Introduction.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5
Myth
vs. Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8
Fast
Facts and Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17
Unhealthy
Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
18
Unstable
Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
21
Domestic
Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
22
Child
Abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 23
Homosexual
Parenting & Homosexual Adoption . . . . . . . . . . . . .
25
Genetics
and Homosexuality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
26
Treatment
of Homosexuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
27
Incidence
of Homosexual Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 28
Homosexuality
and Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
29
Homosexuality
and Hate Crimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
30
Homosexual
Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
30
Homosexual
Activism in the Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
32
Where
Can I Get More Information? . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
35
Appendix
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
36
Introduction
Gender
and sexual orientation issues are at the heart of many current public policy
battles affecting the family in the
United
Families International believes that gender confusion has a devastating effect
on individuals and their ability to lead healthy, productive lives and to form
stable nuclear families. In order to stem the tide of homosexual activism, to
thwart the attempts to redefine marriage in an effort to reestablish society based on alternative family forms, and
to preserve and protect marriage and the family, United Families International
presents a Guide to Family Issues: Sexual Orientation.
Sexual
Orientation
Throughout
history, societies have recognized the essential role of human reproduction to
the successful perpetuation of the human race. Human biology has dictated that
it always takes both a male and a female to produce children and nature has
prescribed that most adults are naturally attracted to the opposite sex. For
various reasons, however, a very small percentage of individuals develop
different sexual orientations. Gender is an innate
component
and
an essential characteristic of individual identity and
purpose.
Contrary
to false information spread by homosexual activists through the media, we know
that differing sexual orientations are not innate and immutable, but rather
represent developmental disorders that often can be prevented or successfully
treated. Individuals may not choose to have homosexual feelings, but they can
choose to act upon these feelings or seek help to overcome them. No one is "born
that way." Policies that would normalize homosexuality
by
equating homosexual behavior with innate
characteristics such as race or ethnicity should be
opposed.
Those
who advocate full acceptance of homosexual behavior
choose to downplay the significant evidence regarding the serious,
life-threatening health effects associated with the homosexual lifestyle.
Empirical data and social science research clearly demonstrate that homosexual
behavior is not just another alternative lifestyle or
even a sexual "preference"; it is an unhealthy and harmful practice that leads
to injury, disease and early death.
Homosexual
advocacy does not promote the best interests of individuals, families or
society.
United
Families International is opposed to verbal abuse and violence against
homosexually attracted persons and seeks to offer compassion and assistance to
help those experiencing same-sex attractions overcome these
tendencies.
Sexual
Orientation
page
7
MYTH
VS.
REALITY
page
8
MYTH
Research
shows that there is a .gay gene.. Homosexuality is
genetic. Homosexuality
is not a genetically encoded condition.
REALITY
There
is no conclusive or compelling empirical evidence showing any absolute
biological, genetic orhormonal causation for
homosexuality. Research by Dr. Simon LeVay reportedly
showed genetic support for sexual orientation. The media reported a "gaygene" and LeVay was later
forced to make the clarification,".I did NOT find a
genetic cause for orientation
."
Homosexual activist and molecular biologist Dean Hamer’s study claiming the existence of a homosexual gene
has not been replicated nor scientifically acknowledged. Studies that claim to
prove homosexuality is genetic have been purposefully designed from a homosexual
advocacy perspective and seek to convince society that homosexuality is innate,
and therefore normal, and should be recognized as such by
society.
A
small percentage of the population may have a predisposition toward homosexual
feelings, but this does not mean such people engage in homosexual behaviour as a
result of genetic causation. Predisposition toward something does not mean that
it is inevitable or that such a predisposition cannot or should not be resisted
and overcome. Some people may have a predisposition toward alcoholism, yet we do
not affirm their disposition, but rather treat their condition and help them
change. Current evidence suggests that environmental, familial and personal
influences contribute significantly to the development of homosexual tendencies.
Seventy years of therapeutic counselling and case studies show a remarkable
consistency concerning the origins of the homosexual impulse as an uncompleted
gender identity seeking after its own sex to replace what was not fully
developed in childhood.
(www.narth.com)
Although
individuals who experience homosexual attractions and thoughts may not have
chosen these tendencies, they do have a choice as to whether or not they will
act on the feelings. It is the acting on these feelings that constitutes
homosexuality. It is essential
to
remember that homosexuality is defined entirely by sexual behavior. Many people have changed their sexual orientation
and live successful heterosexual lives, which often include marriage and raising
children.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY #83-97.
MYTH
Homosexual
behavior is innate.Homosexuality is .what a person is..
REALITY
What
a person does
(behavior) should never beequated
with what a person is.
No
human being can or should be reduced to his or her sexual impulses. Impulses
cannot compel behavior or identities without a
person’s consent. If people "are" their actions, then what does that say about
the thief, the anorexic, or the prostitute? Ninety-eight percent of the
population do not define their very being and purpose in life by their sexual
behavior.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY #83-97.
MYTH
Homosexuality
is unchangeable.
REALITY
Reputable
studies and decades of successful treatment show that homosexual behavior can be changed.
Thousands
of former homosexuals are testimony to the possibility of change.
Homosexual
activists
claim that homosexuality is an unchangeable condition and insist that therapy
does not work. They attempt to justify their claim by defining success in
absolute terms stipulating that: 1) Before treatment a person must have never
experienced opposite-sex attraction and never engaged in heterosexual relations;
and 2) After treatment the person must be fully
heterosexual
in behavior and never have another same-sex thought or
temptation for the rest of his/her life. This would be the equivalent of saying
that no diet program works unless the person never gains back one ounce of
weight that was lost and is never tempted to overeat again. United Families
International supports the right to therapy for homosexually attracted
individuals. For a listing of groups in the
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY #90-97.
MYTH
Homosexual
behavior should be considered normal as a result of
the decision
made
by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1973 which
removed
homosexuality
from its list of .disorders..
REALITY
The
decision to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
(DSM) was made after APA leaders and members had endured several years of
intense political pressure and disruptive lobbying efforts by militant
homosexual activist groups. (Ronald
Bayer, "Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis,"
Princeton University Press, 1987.)
Homosexual
activist groups pressured APA committees to remove homosexuality from the APA’s approved list of disorders. In spite of the long
documented history showing that therapists have helped homosexual clients reduce
and change their homosexual
tendencies,
professionals who persist in viewing and treating homosexuality as a changeable
condition are labeled unenlightened, prejudiced,
homophobic and unethical. There
is currently a movement within the APA to normalize pedophilia that appears to be following the same path to
legitimization as homosexuality.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#1-66,
90-97.
MYTH
Government
discriminates against homosexuals and denies them their basic rights by not
legalizing same-sex marriage. Homosexuals share loving relationships and should
be allowed to marry. It
is not discriminatory to deny homosexuals the right to marry.
REALITY
Homosexuals
are afforded exactly the same right as heterosexuals; they can marry one person
of the opposite sex. No one may marry a close blood relative, a child, or a
person who is already married. Regardless of whether those restrictions may
disappoint the incestuous, pedophiles, polygamists and
homosexuals, the issue is not discrimination. It is
the
nature and purpose of marriage itself. Allowing homosexuals to marry would not
simply expand marriage but would redefine it. Contrary to the popular notions of
today’s culture,
marriage
is not just about loving relationships, even where there is longstanding commitment.
Governments
and societies have granted certain institutional benefits and privileges to
heterosexual marriage because these unions have the biological potential to
provide societies with a tangible benefit-- children.
Two
men or two women sleeping together to obtain a sensory experience (sterile sex)
provide societies with no measurable benefit. A stable marriage between a man
and a woman is the only relationship that has the biological potential to both
produce children and to then
provide
the best and most successful environment in which to rear the next generation.
Heterosexual marriage is a government imperative. This is not an issue of love,
rights or sexual preference. It is an issue of which activities and unions
provide societies with a net benefit and which do not. There is no societal
benefit to unions based fundamentally on genital stimulation and the
perception
of
love. Every man and woman who marries (whether age 24 or 74, fertile or
infertile) can
give
any child they create or adopt a mother and a father. Most heterosexual unions
will produce children. Homosexual unions will never produce children nor can
they provide a
child
with both a mother and a father. If
the law abandons the fundamental principle that
reproductive
sex within marriage has a unique role, there will be no basis upon which to draw
distinctions between multiple types of relationships such as polygamy,
incestuous couplings, or any type of chosen loving relationship. The same
arguments
used
to justify the legal recognition of same-sex marriage can also be used to
justify legal protection for any consensual sexual practice or form of
marriage.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#28-40,
67-82, 105-134.
MYTH
If
two people love each other, they should be allowed to
marry.
REALITY
"Your
love is your own private possession, but marriage is more than something
personal - it is a status, an office . that joins you together." (DietrichBonhoeffer)
Marriage
has a far more fundamental and influential role than simply a public or legal
documentation of "love." We
love many people that we don’t marry. If
feelings of love or affection were all that mattered, fathers should be able to
marry their own daughters, brothers could marry sisters, and people could marry
their dogs. Were there no restrictions
on
marriage, the possible arrangements would be endless. If marriage is based
solely on one’s affections, the need for companionship, the desire for genital
stimulation, or wanting increased benefits, then there is no logical reason for
not legalizing polygamous, incestuous or pedophillic
marriages.
The
redefinition of marriage would reduce it to a commitment between any individuals
or entities who love and share resources. There are many relationships in
society that would meet the new definition. Marriage is the union of the two
sexes, not just the union of two
people--an
important distinction. Marriage is the union of two families, and the foundation
for establishing kinship patterns and family names, passing on property, and
providing the optimal environment for raising children. To fully understand the
importance of marriage to societies across the millennia, it is useful to
remember that the concept of "love" as the most
important
element of marriage is largely a western cultural phenomenon. Arranged marriages
are still the norm in many societies.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#28-40,
105-115.
MYTH
Allowing
homosexuals to marry does not harm or negatively impact
anyone.
REALITY
Redefining
marriage to include same-sex unions not only devalues marriage, but it
diminishes the rightsof children.
Children
have a fundamental right to a mother and a father; to be born within the bonds
of
matrimony
to parents who honor their marital vows with complete
fidelity. Every time a child is robbed of these rights there are negative social
consequences. Diminishing a child diminishes every person in the
community.
Who
gave children the right to a father and a mother?
Nature
itself.
A unisex union will never produce a child. No matter how you slice the petri dish (artificial insemination, alternate surrogacy, or
any alternate method to procure a child), there’s still a male sperm (father)
and female egg (mother). Homosexual adoption requires that at least one
biological parent legally sever their natural bond and render a child
either
motherless
or fatherless. By legalizing same-sex marriage/adoption we would intentionally
be stripping children of their fundamental right to a father and a mother. Fatherlessness or
motherlessness
has serious consequences. We know this from a 40-year experiment with
dismantling the institution of marriage which has given us an epidemicof out-of-wedlock sex and child bearing,
skyrocketing divorce rates, alternate families, and a deteriorating social
fabric. If we look at the above list of negative consequences resulting from a
breakdown of
the
family, and then examine the startling, well-documented statistics showing their
negative impact on children, we can draw only one conclusion: government can
never create enough programs to compensate for motherlessness and fatherlessness.
Enduring
marriage between a man and a woman is the best environment for the social,
physical, mental, emotional and economic development of men, women and children.
Every deviation from the ideal model of enduring monogamous marriage between a
man and a woman brings hardship to men, women and especially children. The role
of government/society should be to
affirm and strengthen traditional marriage, not dilute it with notions of
homosexual rights and same-sex marriage.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#1-10,
14-15, 23-82, 105-115.
MYTH
Homosexual
partners can be great parents and should be allowed to adopt
children.
REALITY
The
concept of adoption was not created to transcend biology in order to give adults
(heterosexual or homosexual) more choice in family form. Adoption was created to
meet the needs of children whose parents could not or would not care for them.
Adoption
has never been about the desires or needs of the adults involved, but rather
adoption is about securing both a mother and a father for a child.
As
such, homosexuals do not meet the basic requirement of adoption, while married,
yet infertile heterosexual couples do.
Allowing
homosexual partners to adopt would purposely and intentionally create fatherless
and motherless children with all of the associated developmental handicaps and
negative outcomes.
Children
in homosexual households do not experience firsthand exposure to three of the
most important relationships required for healthy social development:
male/female, husband/wife, or mother/father. Adoption law should, first and
foremost, protect the
best
interest of children and their right to a mother and a father. Human experience
and a vast body of social science research show that children do best in
married, mother/father households.
When
considering the negative health and social consequences of homosexual behavior, adoption of children by homosexuals cannot be
considered in
the
best interest of the child. To
allow homosexual couples to adopt would require complete disregard of the
statistics on the high mortality rate from HIV/AIDS, and high rate of alcohol
and drug abuse, as well as the general instability and violent nature of
homosexual relationships. All of these can be harmful to the adopted child,
directly or indirectly.
Efforts
by homosexuals to support their gay-adoption argument by citing the numbers of
children in the foster care system needing love, and thus adoption, are
misleading. Less than 20 percent of the children in the foster care system are
even eligible for adoption. The
problems
in the foster care system and Child Protective Services are less a call for
homosexual adoption and more a clear statement about government’s lack of
ability to replace the crucial role of the biological father and mother bound
together in a stable
marriage.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#1-10,
14-15, 23-82, 105-115.
MYTH
Homosexuals
suffer from the same types of discrimination that minorities experienced prior
to the civil rights movement.
REALITY
Discrimination
on the basis of gender or race is vastly different from discrimination on the
basis of sexual practice. Many
veterans of the civil rights movement are against efforts by homosexual
activists to seek special rights and benefits based on sexual behavior, that unlike race, is neither
inherent, involuntary or immutable. Homosexual acts involve behavior and choice. "Skin color
is a benign, nonbehavioral characteristic. Sexual
orientation is perhaps the most profound of human behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a
convenient, but invalid argument." (General
Colin Powell) Governments
should not grant special rights to the homosexual community for what is a behaviorally-based identity rather than a true genetic one.
The
courts have specifically rejected the recognition that homosexuals as a group
are entitled to civil rights that are routinely granted to true minority groups
based on such factors as race or national origin.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#83-97,
120-134.
MYTH
Homosexuals
are discriminated against when they do not receive the same rights and benefits
(tax breaks, insurance, and other types of preferential treatment) as married
heterosexual couples.
REALITY
If,
as homosexuals state, they are discriminated against in tax breaks, insurance or
other types of preferential treatment, then so are all single people. Single
individuals do not receive certain institutionalized benefits. These benefits
are provided by governments and societies for children; to facilitate and assist
a married couple in what is a societal and governmental
imperative--bearing
and effectively rearing the next generation.
Homosexual
couples can already, without marriage, protect their basic interests with
simple, inexpensive contracts. Homosexuals
can easily obtain legal documents to establish hospital visitation and medical
decision-making rights, grant power of attorney,
have
joint ownership of property, get joint bank accounts, have inheritance rights,
be life insurance beneficiaries, etc. Any additional benefits provided by
marriage were put in place for the benefit of children and the parents that
created them. Because of the importance of the heterosexual marital contract to
the state, this union has enjoyed an honored role for
centuries. No one has made a convincing case that homosexual marriage adds
enough value to society to justify granting such special
benefits.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY #120-134.
MYTH
The
reason the homosexual community has high rates of promiscuity is because they
are denied the right to marry. Granting homosexual men the right to marry will
provide the motivation for them to form stable monogamous
relationships.
REALITY
It
is not marriage, but women in marriage, that help to contain and channel the
male sexual appetite. Nature
designed the male-female pair to complement and balance each other. By contrast,
same-sex mating seems to drive male partners to extremes. Instead of balancing
each other, men who have sex with men reinforce each other in their
sexual
behavior.
Note the promiscuous tendencies of men in general. Unbalanced by
women, these tendencies lead to the anonymous, no-brakes promiscuity manifest in
the homosexual community.
Validating
homosexual behavior by giving it the societal stamp of
approval via legalization of samesex marriage is
highly unlikely to curb this natural male tendency towards
promiscuity.
Within
the broader context of the burgeoning sexual revolution, the transient,
promiscuous and unfaithful relationships that are characteristic of homosexuals
would become part of society’s image and understanding of marriage. This could
only add to the downward spiral of fewer marriages being permanent, exclusive
and faithful. There is little room for optimism that legal unions would change
homosexuals for the better; it seems far more probable that homosexuals would
change marriage for the worse.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#28-40,
126-129.
MYTH
You
can’t legislate morality.
REALITY
We
can and we do legislate morality. The
all-too common contention that "government must not regulate morality" is
nonsense--unless the goal is to eliminate all government. Governmental
decisions, from welfare to clean air to sexual conduct to speed
limits,
always
involve moral values. Law
is nothing more than a public expression of a society’s morality.
So
the real question is: "Whose
morality
will we legislate?"
The
question of competing moralities can be answered by this simple test: "Do the
kinds of behaviors/ actions/programs that I want to
create laws for-- or against--bring about good or bad consequences to society?"
Based on society’s best interest, laws are made to encourage specific behaviors and discourage others. If homosexuality leads to
identifiable negative consequences, then society has a moral obligation to
regulate it and limit its influence.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY #1-82.
MYTH
The
mental and emotional problems that homosexuals experience are due to the
straight community’s persecution and intolerance of their
lifestyle.
REALITY
If
this were true, then one would expect to find lower rates of suicide and mental
illness among homosexuals in areas where homosexuality has been mainstreamed and
widely accepted for decades (i.e.,
substance
abuse, alcoholism, and homosexual domestic violence in areas where homosexuality
is more widely accepted. The high rates of emotional trauma in homosexuals are
not induced by society, but rather are the result of deviant (unnatural) sexual
behavior that negatively impacts their emotional and
physical health.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY #1-46.
MYTH
What
people do "in the privacy of their own bedrooms" is not anyone else’s
business.
REALITY
Private
behavior often has very public
consequences.
Homosexual
behavior has implications far beyond the bedroom.
Statistics clearly show that
homosexual
behavior is destructive and bears high costs, not only
to the individual, but to society. For example, each year the
disease
stemming from unhealthy sexual practices. There are many consensual behaviors occurring in the "privacy of a bedroom" like drug
use and prostitution, that current laws and customs have deemedharmful because of their negative effect on society.
Other activities like rape and incest also happen in bedrooms. The "my bedroom,
my business" rationale
stands
up to scrutiny only
if
a society is willing to say that there should be no government involvement nor
law regarding any
kind of
behavior. Otherwise, citizens have to go through the
process of determining what type of behavior truly
is
good
for society. That determination is the basis of all law.
The
2003 U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Lawrence
v. Texas)
decriminalizing homosexual sex has further opened the door for children to be
taught in public schools that homosexual sodomy is normal, healthy, and is the
equivalent of marital sex.
legal
it is coming out of the bedroom and increasingly into the classroom. If same-sex
marriage is legalized, there will be no principled or legal basis upon which the
promotion of homosexuality in the public school system could be
prevented.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#1-82,
105-115.
MYTH
Homosexuals
are powerless and oppressed by society and thus need special rights to protect
them.
REALITY
Homosexuals
are one of the most powerful special interest groups in the
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#98-104,
105.
MYTH
Homosexuals
are highly persecuted andfrequently the victims of
hate crimes.
REALITY
Rates
of violence against homosexuals are the highest within the homosexual community
(gay-on-gayviolence). (www.ojp.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipva99.pdf)
In
the
during
the year 2000, only two out of 15,517 murders were motivated by heterosexual
hatred toward homosexuals.(www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm)
Violence
toward any person is unacceptable, however, the Federal Government’s statistics
confirm that anti-homosexual crime is not only rare, but statistically
irrelevant. The total number of crimes in the
The
rationale behind the great publicity and focus on hate crimes against
homosexuals is to elevate sexual orientation to a special and protected class,
to silence anyone who would speak out against homosexual behavior, and to advance a pro-homosexual
agenda.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#41-46,
116-119.
MYTH
Ten
percent of individuals worldwide are homosexual. Since a substantial segment of
the population is homosexual, we should recognize, accommodate, and protect the
homosexual lifestyle.
REALITY
This
ten percent figure is a great example of statistical distortion.
This
figure comes from an analysis of interviews conducted from 1938 to 1948 under
the supervision of Alfred Kinsey where 10 percent of men interviewed claimed to
be homosexual. The study considered only male behavior
and thus the 10 percent figure cannot be applied to the half of the population
who are women. Furthermore, the Kinsey study did not claim that the 10 percent
were exclusively homosexual for life. Some boys experiment with same-sex behavior in adolescence only to become completely
heterosexual later. The Kinsey study itself stated that less than 4 percent of
men are homosexual. Current
studies estimate that between
1.8
to 3 percent of the male population consider themselves to be homosexual, with
the rate for females at 1.5 percent.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY #98-104.
MYTH
Schools
are not a safe place for homosexual students. This problem must be specifically
addressed in school curriculum, clubs, and safe-school policies and
programs.
REALITY
Public
schools must be safe for every child without differentiation. Most
schools already have policies prohibiting harassment of every kind. Many
children who are overweight, undersized, timid, acne-prone or part of an ethnic minority suffer from the
same
kind
of harassment homosexual activists claim is purportedly directed exclusively at
homosexual students. Anti-harassment policies should cover all students, in all
circumstances equally, and not provide special protection for specific
groups.
Federal
crime rate statistics (www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm) reported
a total of 140 incidents of hate crimes based on sexual orientation within
based
on sexual orientation relative to 55 million students is 0.00003 percent, or
three in 100,000.
Pro-homosexual
organizations such as Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
(PFLAG), Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), and the National
Education Association (NEA) see safe-school policies as an opportunity to establishclubs and develop curriculum that will indoctrinate
student populations toward pro-homosexual advocacy.
These
organizations use "safe-school" programs as a Trojan horse. Once sexual
orientation is established as an issue of safety rather than of sexual behavior, activists demand the entire fabric of public
instruction be modified to promote, validate, and even celebrate
risky
sexual practices and lifestyles that are unacceptable to the majority of
students and their families.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#1-27,
47-66, 135-145.
MYTH
Homosexuals
function within the community just like
heterosexuals.
REALITY
Homosexuals,
like the general population, contribute in the workplace and in their
communities. Nevertheless, homosexuals engage in behaviors that are destructive to themselves and to society. Homosexuality carries a number of
risks, the most
serious
of which is exposure to HIV/AIDS and other STDs. Fifty percent of men who have
sex with men will eventually become HIV positive or infected with another
potentially fatal sexually transmitted disease. About 30 percent of homosexually
active men and
women
have serious drug and alcohol problems. Pedophilia is
widespread among the homosexual community. Though homosexuals make up just two
percent of the
of
homosexuals have been victims of childhood sexual abuse or adult sexual
violence. Prevention, early intervention, and treatment for homosexual behavior, while not always 100 percent effective, does work.
Young people, students and the public at large must
be
fully informed about the negative consequences associated with homosexual behavior and lifestyle. It is the responsibility of
lawmakers, teachers, school boards and the media to ensure that this information
is provided.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#1-20,
23-66, 91-97, 135-145.
MYTH
The
homosexual community is doing everything in its power to stop the AIDS
epidemic.
REALITY
AIDS
in the homosexual community, after a short drop in the infection rate during the
mid-eighties, continues to rise. Many
of the homosexual men involved in homosexual advocacy and AIDS education believe
"The proper goal of AIDS prevention is to
defend
the gay sexual revolution." For these men, "Gay liberation was founded on a
sexual brotherhood of promiscuity," and "any abandonment of that promiscuity
would amount to a communal betrayal of gargantuan proportions." G.
Rotello, Sexual
Ecology:
AIDS
and the Destiny of Gay Men (New
York: Dutton, 1997), 109.
Those
who have died of AIDS have been memorialized as martyrs. Rather
than calling for changes in the behaviors that led to
these deaths, the homosexual activists blame the general public for not finding
a cure, not funding education, and for causing homosexuals’ low self-esteem.
When
one points to the economic and social costs of the AIDS epidemic, the fact that
in the
by
behavior change, the messenger is accused of victim
blaming and discrimination.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY #5, 9-22.
MYTH
The
REALITY
The
most prevalent adverse health conditions in the
total
annual per capita cost ranging from $3,000-$6,000. Less than 1 million Americans
have
HIV/AIDS,
with an estimated total annual per capita cost of about
$200,000.
More
than 400,000 Americans have died of AIDS. If standard disease containment
practices (which had been in place for more than half a century) had been
implemented at the inception of the AIDS epidemic, most of these HIV/AIDS
infections and deaths could
have
been prevented. These practices include testing, contact tracing, reporting, and
closing of infections sites. During the 2003 SARS epidemic, the world saw how
disease containment can and should work. Yet standard practices were all but
abandoned in regard to AIDS because of the intense and unrelenting political
pressure from homosexual activists
and
the AIDS lobby.
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY
#5,
9-22, 120.
MYTH
Religions
teach love, tolerance and acceptance of others. Those who oppose homosexuality
are hate-filled and intolerant and are not adhering to their religious
beliefs.
REALITY
There
is a difference between accepting and loving an individual and being required to
accept and condone their behavior. One can oppose a
person’s behavior and still love the person. For
example, one does not hate those who engage in drug or alcohol abuse but would
try to assist them in obtaining help in order to change. In fact it is more
compassionate to discourage homosexuality than to tolerate it. By legally
recognizing homosexuals as a special group entitled to special rights and
considerations, society is not promoting true tolerance but encouraging a
destructive behavior. Homosexual behavior/lifestyle is an unhealthy and harmful practice that
leads to injury, disease and early death for its participants. There is no
integrity, compassion or love in knowing this, and in
effect,
saying
to someone: "If you think your behavior will make you
happy, go ahead and harm yourself." Love and concern, not hate, motivate people
to encourage homosexuals to recognize that they are harming themselves and to
assist them in obtaining help. It
would
seem, however, that no matter how gently words are spoken or how carefully this
message is phrased, the homosexual activist hears only
"hate."
SEE
FAST FACTS AND COMMENTARY #1-82.
FAST
FACTS AND COMMENTARY
Index
to Fast Facts
Unhealthy
Practices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
#1-27
Unstable
Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
#28-40
Domestic
Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
#41-46
Child
Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
#47-66
Homosexual
Parenting/Homosexual Adoption . .
#67-82
Genetics
and Homosexuality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
#83-90
Treatment
of Homosexuality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
#91-97
Incidence
of Homosexual Behavior. . . . . . . . . . .
#98-104
Homosexuality
and Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #105-115
Homosexuality
and Hate Crimes . . . . . . . . . . . #116-119
Homosexual
Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
#120-134
Homosexual
Activism in the Schools. . . . . . . . . #135-145
Unhealthy
Practices
1
According
to a study in the
times
as likely to suffer generalized anxiety disorder, nearly four times as likely to
experienceconduct disorder, four times as likely to
commit suicide, five times as likely to have nicotine dependence, six times as
likely to suffer multiple disorders, and more than six times as likely to have
attempted suicide. (Study
of 5,998 Dutch adults) Theo G.M. Sandforte et al.,
"Same-Sex Sexual Behavior and Psychiatric Disorders:
Findings from the
Mental
Health Survey and Incidence," Archives
of General Psychiatry 58,
10 (2001): 85-91.
2
A
co-twin study found that men with same-sex partners were 6.5 times as likely as
their cotwin to have attempted suicide. The higher
rate was not explained by mental health or substance abuse disorders.
R.
Herrell et al., "A Co-twin Control Study in Adult
Men," Archives
of General Psychiatry 56,
10 (1999): 867- 874. Researchers
found "an elevated suicide risk for homosexuals" even in tolerant
3
A
study by
marijuana,
and cocaine before age 13, sexual intercourse before age 13, and sexual
intercourse with four or more partners. R.
Garofalo et al., "The Association Between Health Risk Behaviors and
Sexual Orientation Among a School-based Sample of Adolescents," Pediatrics
101,
5 (May
1998):
895-902. Homosexual
or bisexual teenagers are more than three times as likely to attempt suicide as
their heterosexual peers. R.
Garofalo et al., "Sexual Orientation and Risk of
Suicide Attempts Among a Representative Sample of
Youth," Archives
of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 153
(1999): 487-493.
4
Psychological
health problems including multiple drug use, partner violence, history of
childhood sexual abuse, and depression interface to sharply increase high-risk
sexual behaviour and HIV infection rates among homosexual and bisexual men in
the U.S. L.
Linley, R. Stall, and G. Mansergh, "New CDC Studies Shed Light on Facts Underlying
High HIV Infection
Rates
Among Gay and Bisexual Men," Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention,
9 July 2002,
(http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r020710.htm).
5
Epidemiologists
estimate that one out of two men who have sex with men will eventually become
HIV positive. Men who begin to engage in sex with men at an earlier age are more
likely to become HIV positive and to become HIV positive
earlier.
N.
Hessol et al., "Prevalence, incidence and progression
of human immunodeficiency virus infection in homosexual
and
bisexual men in hepatitis B vaccine trials, 1978-1988," American
Journal of Epidemiology 130,
6 (1989): 1167-1175. D. Hoover et al., "Estimating the 1978-1990 and future
spread of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in subgroups of homosexual men,"
American
Journal of Epidemiology 134,
10 (1991): 1190-1205. M. Morris and L. Dean, "Effects of sexual behavior change on long-term human immunodeficiency virus
prevalence among homosexual men," American
Journal of Epidemiology 140,
3 (1994): 217-232.
6
HIV/AIDS
is rampant in the homosexual community. Epidemiologists estimate that 30 percent
of all 20-year-old homosexually-active men will be HIV positive or dead of AIDS
by the time they are 30. E.
Goldman, "Psychological Factors Generate HIV Resurgence in Young Gay Men,"
Clinical Psychiatry News, Oct. 1994. HIV
infection rates more than doubled from 1997 to 2000 as safe-sex practices were
abandoned. In
7
A
study based upon statistics from 1986 through 1990 estimates that 20-year-old
gay
men
have a 50 percent chance of becoming HIV positive by age 55.
Donald
R. Hoover et al., "Estimating the 1978-1990 and Future Spread of HIV Type 1 in
Subgroups of Homosexual Men," American
Journal of Epidemiology,
134, 10 (1991): 1190-1205. A
study of 425 men age 17 to 22 who engaged in sex with men found that 15.2
percent of the 79 who began this activity before
age
15 and 11.6 percent of the 224 who initiated the activity by age 15 to 19 were
already HIV positive. G.
Lemp et al., "Seroprevalence
of HIV and risk behaviors among young homosexual and
bisexual men," Journal
of the American Medical Association 272,
6 (1994): 449-454.
8
In
a major Canadian center, life expectancy at age 20 for
gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men. If the same pattern
of mortality were to continue, estimates are that nearly half of gay and
bisexual men currently aged 20 years will not reach their 65th
birthday. Under even the most liberal assumptions, gay and bisexual men in this
urban center are now experiencing a life expectancy
similar to that experienced by all men in
Disease
on Mortality in Gay and Bisexual Men," International
Journal of Epidemiology 26
(1997): 657-661. Compare
this to tobacco smoking which decreases life span by 13.5 years.
Press
Release, "Smoking Costs Nation $150 Billion Each Year in Health Costs, Lost
Productivity," Centers
for Disease Control,
Office of Communication, April 12, 2000. (www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/
r020412.htm).
9
The
median age of death for those who regularly engage in homosexual behavior leaned in the direction of less than 50. The data
suggest a "20 to 30-year decrease in lifespan" because of "substantially
elevated rates of sexually elevated diseases . . . cancer and heart conditions,
and violence among homosexual men and women." (Four
data sets: obituaries from the homosexual press; two 1994 sexuality surveys;
homosexual marriage records
for
Scandinavia; and
violence,
and suicide; 3) Given the high rate of homosexual death from disease, drug and
alcohol abuse, smoking, suicide and domestic violence among homosexually active
persons, the contention that homosexually active persons have a dramatically
shortened life expectancy relative to the general public is
justified.
10
The
rate of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men is nine times higher
than among women and heterosexual men. L.
Linley, R. Stall, and G. Mansergh, "New CDC Studies Shed Light on Facts Underlying
High HIV Infection Rates Among Gay and Bisexual
Men,"
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention ,
9 July 2002, (http://www.cdc/.ov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r020710.htm).
11
The
risk of contracting AIDS from a single act of unprotected heterosexual
intercourse is 1 in 715,000. The risk of contracting AIDS from a single act of
unprotected homosexual intercourse is 1 in 165. Tom
W. Smith, "Adult Sexual Behavior and Risk of AIDS,"
Family
Planning Perspectives 23,
3 (May/June 1991): 104.
12
The
bacteria contacted during anal intercourse includes Shigella, Entamoeba, Giardia (causes chronic diarrhea),
the bacteria that causes hepatitis A (severe liver damage which can kill), and
hepatitis B. Of course, the most deadly of all, HIV, is more easily transmitted
through anal sex. "When
Kids don’t Have a Straight Answer," NEA
Today, (http://pflag.communitypoint.org/neatoday.pdf).
13
A
study revealed a dramatic increase in anal cancer among homosexual men. This
increase is traced to the Human PapillomavHPV), a
sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women and is found in
almost all HIV positive homosexual men. Report
of study at annual meeting of American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons,
June 26, 2002.
Syphilis
cases in the western
seeing
any syphilis at all. We’re seeing syphilis rise primarily in groups of gay and
bisexual men." John
Douglas, Centers
for Disease Control,
"Syphilis On The Rise In
14
Bacterial
vaginosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, heavy cigarette
smoking, alcohol abuse, IV drug use, prostitution and AIDS are reported at
significantly higher rates among women who have sex with women. Katherine
Fethers et.al., "Sexually Transmitted
Infections and Risk Behaviors in Women Who Have Sex
With Women," Sexually
Transmitted Infections 76,
5 (2000): 345-349.
T.
Myers et al., "The Talking Sex Project: Descriptions of the Study Populations
and Correlates of Sexual Practices at Baseline," Canadian
Journal of Public Health 83,
1 (1992).
15
A
report from the Centers for Disease Control showed
that more than three quarters of the homosexual men studied were unaware they
were carrying HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Ninety percent of homosexual
black men, ages 15-29, which have the virus, did not know they had the virus
until researchers told them. The figure for Hispanic homosexual men is 70
percent and for white homosexual men, 60 percent.
CDC
Media Relations, Centers
for Disease Control,
7-12 July 2002
(http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/archives/2002.htm).
16
Researchers
from the Centers for Disease Control report that in a
study of 701 homosexual and bisexual men from four American cities, 11 percent
of HIV positive men did not disclose their serostatus
to their primary sex partner and 66 percent did not disclose their status to
anon-primary sex partner. In addition, of HIV positive men with one or more
non-primary partners, 16% of those who did not
disclose their serostatus reported inconsistent condom
use during anal intercourse with these partners. R.J.
Wolitski et al., "HIV serostatus disclosure among gay and bisexual men in four
American cities: general patterns and relation to sexual practices,"
AIDS
Care 10,
5 (1998): 599-610.
17
HIV
infection rates among homosexuals in King County Washington jumped 40 percent in
the year 2002 and were expected to jump 60 percent in the year 2003. The reasons
cited are decreased fear of the disease, burnout on safe-sex messages, lack of
interest in knowing HIV status, and few gay community leaders sounding the alarm
about the new wave of infections. Warren
King, "Dramatic Surge seen in Local HIV Cases," The
18
Researchers
from the
19
An
editorial in Steam,
a magazine for homosexuals, quotes a man who has been HIV positive since the
early years of the epidemic: "I’m so sick and tired of these Negatives whining
about how difficult it is to stay safe. Why don’t they just get over it and get
Positive." According to Scott O’Hara, Steam’s HIV-positive editor: "One of my
primary goals is the maximization of pleasure, and just as I believe that gay
men have more fun, so too, do I believe that Positives have learned to have much
more fun than Negatives. I’m delighted to be Positive.
. .The Negative world is defined by fear, ours by pleasure." G.
Rotello, Sexual
Ecology:
AIDS
and the Destiny of Gay Men (New
York: Dutton, 1997), 242.
20
In
21
During
fiscal year 2000, the
That’s
$l,359 per month per HIV/AIDS patient. "Summary
Fact Sheet on HIV/AIDS," The
White House,
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/onap/facts.html).
22
In
2002, HIV/AIDS-related prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) received $144 million in
funding. A large portion of these funds have been misused; going to
organizations that promote pro-homosexual events and pornographic literature
under the guise of AIDS prevention. Bob
Kellogg, "CDC Audit
Badly
Needed, Critics Say," Citizenlink,
1
Aug. 2002, (http://family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0021668.cfm).
For example see: www.stopaids.org. (Warning: sexually explicit
material.)
23
Thirty-two
percent of homosexual men and women abuse alcohol, as compared with
7
percent
(10 percent of men and 5 percent of women) in the general population.
L.
Fifield, J. Latham and C. Phillips, "Alcoholism in the
Gay Community: The Price of Alienation, Isolation, and Oppression,"
A
Project of the
24
Clinicians
estimate an incidence rate of substance abuse among homosexuals to range from 28
to 35 percent; this estimate contrasts with an incidence of 10 to 12 percent in
the general population. J.
H. Lowinson et al., Substance
Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook,
3d ed. (
25
Homosexuality
correlates with higher alcohol use, frequency of intoxication, marijuana use,
cocaine use, and other drug problems. There is a higher incidence for males than
females. D.
McKirnan and P. Peterson, "Psychosocial and Cultural
Factors in Alcohol and Drug Abuse: An analysis of a homosexual community,"
Addictive
Behaviors 14
(1989): 555-563. Lesbians
were at significantly greater risk than heterosexual women for both binge
drinking (19.4 percent compared to 11.7 percent), and for heavy drinking (7
percent compared to 2.7 percent). Peter
Freiberg, "Study: Alcohol Use More Prevalent for Lesbians," The
26
Among
homosexual men, ages 18 to 25: 79.2 percent have used marijuana; 75 percent have
used psychotherapeutics for nonmedical reasons; 65.2
percent have used stimulants such as dexedrine and
benzedrine; 62.5 percent have used inhalants such as
amyl or butyl nitrate; and 50.2 percent have used hallucinogens such as
LSD.
Rates among lesbians: marijuana, 82 percent; psychotherapeutics, 58.8 percent;
stimulants, 52.9 percent; inhalants, 41.2 percent; and hallucinogens, 41.2
percent. Comparing current usage to national usage, homosexuals were found to
use drugs with greater frequency: "Among adults aged 18-25, 16.5 percent of men
and 9.1 percent of women have used marijuana in the past month, compared with
37.5 per-
cent
of gay men and 23.5 percent of lesbians." William
F. Skinner, "The Prevalence and Demographic Predictors of Illicit and Licit Drug
Use Among Lesbians and Gay Men," American
Journal of
Public
Health 84
(1994): 1307-10.
27
Thirty-seven
percent of lesbian youths had been physically abused, and 32 percent had been
raped or sexually attacked. Nineteen percent had been involved in incestuous
relationships while growing up. Almost one-third used tobacco on a daily basis,
about 30 percent drank alcohol more than once a week, and 6 percent drank daily.
One in five smoked marijuana more than once a month. Twenty one percent of the
sample had thoughts about suicide "sometimes" or "often," and 18
percent
had
actually tried to kill themselves. More than half had felt too nervous to
accomplish
ordinary
activities at some time during the past year, and more than one-third had been
depressed. J.
Bradford et al., "National Lesbian Health Care Survey: Implications for Mental
Health Care," Journal
of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 62
(1994): 239, cited in Health
ImplicationsAssociated with
Homosexuality,
p. 81.
Unstable
Relationships
28
An
al.,
"The Contribution of Steady and Casual Partnerships to the Incidence of HIV
Infection Among Homosexual Men in
29
The
Advocate,
America’s largest gay magazine, published these results of their survey: 57
percent of gay readers claimed more than thirty sexual partners during their
lifetime, 35 percent claimed more than one hundred sexual partners in their
lifetime, 48 percent admitted having a "three-way" sexual encounter during the
past five years, 29 percent admitted to meeting their partners in a bathhouse or
a sex club. The
Advocate, August
1994.
30
A
1991 study of homosexual men in
31
According
to Centers for Disease Control interviews, 50 percent
of male homosexuals had over 500 sexual partners, the
first several hundred homosexual men diagnosed with AIDS had an average of 1,100
lifetime partners. G.
Rotello, Sexual
Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men (New
York: Dutton, 1997).
32
Clinicians
Mattison and McWhirter
studied 156 long-term homosexual relationships, but found that not one couple
was able to maintain sexual fidelity for more than five years. Most maintained a
monogamous relationship for less than one year. Homosexual theorists respond by
redefining promiscuity as normal and healthy for homosexual men.
David
P. McWhirter and Andrew M. Mattison, The
Male Couple: How Relationships Develop,
(Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984).
33
A.
P. Bell and M. S. Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female
homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with five
hundred or more partners, with 28 percent having 1,000 or more sex partners.
A.
P. Bell and M. S. Weinberg, Homosexualities:
A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women
(New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), 308-309;
See
also A. P. Bell, M. S. Weinberg, and S. K. Hammersmith, Sexual
Preference (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1981).
34
Few
homosexual relationships last longer than two years, but in a study of 156 males
in homosexual relationships lasting from 1-37 years, "all couples with a
relationship lasting more than five years have incorporated some provision for
sexual activity outside of their relationships." David
P. McWhirter and Andrew M. Mattison, The
Male Couple: How Relationships Develop (Englewood
Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984), 252-253. ".few
homosexual relationships
last
longer than two years, with many men reporting hundreds of lifetime partners."
M.
Pollak, "Male Homosexuality in Western
Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times,"
edited by P. Aries and A. Bejin, pp. 40-61, cited by
Joseph Nicolosi in Reparative
Therapy of Male Homosexuality (Northvale:
Jason Aronson Inc., 1991), 124-125.
35
In
a study of 2,583 older homosexuals, "the modal range for number of sexual
partners was 101-500. In addition, 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent had between 501
and 1,000 partners, and between 10.2 percent and 15.7 percent reported having
had more than 1,000 lifetime sexual partners." Paul
Van de Ven et al., "A Comparative Demographic and
Sexual Profile of Older Homosexually Active Men," Journal
of Sex Research 34
(1997): 354.
36
In
their Journal
of Sex Research study
of the sexual practices of older homosexual men, Paul Van de Ven, et al., found that only 2.7 percent of older
homosexuals had only one sexual partner in theirlifetime. Paul
Van de Ven et al., "A Comparative Demographic and
Sexual Profile of Older Homosexually Active Men," Journal
of Sex Research 34
(1997): 35.
37
Among
heterosexual couples, 75 percent of husbands and 90 percent of wives claim never
to have had extramarital sex. Robert
T. Michael et al., Sex
in
percentage
of faithful spouses between 75-81 percent for husbands and 85-88 percent for
wives. Michael
W. Widerman, "Extramarital Sex: Prevalence and
Correlated in a National Survey," Journal
of Sex Research 34
(1997): 2.
38
In
the homosexual life, fidelity is almost impossible. Since part of the compulsion
of homosexuality seems to be a need on the part of the homophile to absorb
masculinity from his sexual partners, there is a compulsion to be constantly on
the lookout for new partners. Consequently the most successful homophile
"marriages" are those where there is an arrangement between the two to have
affairs on the side while maintaining the semblance of permanence in their
living arrangement.
William
Aaron, Straight
(New
York: Bantam Books, 1972), p. 208; cited by Joseph Nicolosi in Reparative
Therapy of Male Homosexuality,
p. 125; quoted by Robert H. Knight in "How Domestic Partnerships and ’Gay
Marriage’ Threaten the Family," Family Research Council, Insight,
June 1994, p. 9.
39
For
homosexual men, the term "monogamy" doesn’t necessarily mean sexual exclusivity.
The term "open relationship" has for a great many homosexual men come to have
one specific definition: A relationship in which the partners have sex on the
outside often, put away their resentment and jealousy, and discuss their outside
sex with each other, or share sex partners. Michelangelo
Signorile, Life
Outside (New
York: HarperCollins, 1997), 213.
40
"Even
’committed’ homosexual relationships display a fundamental incapacity for the
faithfulness and commitment that is axiomatic to the institution of marriage."
Timothy
J. Dailey, "Homosexual Parenting: Placing Children at Risk," Family
Research Council, fttp://www.frc.org/get/is01j3.cfm).
Domestic
Violence
41
A
U.S. Justice Department study found an epidemic of violence between homosexuals:
an annual average of 13,740 male victims of violence by homosexual partners and
16,900 victims by lesbian partners. Callie
Maire Rennison, "Intimate
Partner violence and Age of Victim, 1993-99," Bureau
of Justice Statistics: Special Report,
Oct. 2001, (http://www.ojp.gov/bjs/pub
/pdf/ipva99.pdf).
By
contrast, the 1999 statistics for hate crimes based on sexual orientation totaled 1,558 victims. Uniform
Crime Reporting Program, Federal
Bureau of Investigation,
(www.fbi.gov/ucrucr.htm).
42
A
survey of 1,099 lesbians found that more than half reported that they had been
abused by a female lover/partner. This includes verbal, emotional,
psychological, and physical abuse. Gwat
Yong Lie and Sabrina Gentlewarrier, "Intimate Violence
in Lesbian Relationships: Discussion of Survey Findings and Practice
Implications," Journal
of Social Service Research 15
(1991):
41-59.
Researchers
found that 90 percent of the lesbians surveyed had been recipients of one or
more acts of verbal aggression from their intimate partners during the year
prior to this study, with 31 percent reporting one or more incidents of physical
abuse. Lettie
L. Lockhart et al., "Letting out the Secret: Violence in Lesbian Relationships,"
Journal
of Interpersonal Violence 9
(December 1994): 469-492.
43
Among
lesbians, "rates of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse were all significantly
higher in their prior lesbian relationships than in their prior heterosexual
relationships: 56.8 percent had been sexually victimized by a female, 45 percent
had experienced physical aggression, and 64.5 percent experienced
physical/emotional
aggression."
(A
1991 survey of 350 lesbians, 75 percent of whom had been in a previous
relationship with a man.)
Donald G. Dutton "Patriarchy and Wife Assault: The Ecological Fallacy,"
Violence
and Victims 9,
2 (1994): 167-178.
44
Women
are four times more likely to be victims of domestic violence in a lesbian
household than in a married household. Claire
Renzetti, Violent
Betrayal (London:
SAGE, 1995). Married
women in traditional families experience the lowest rate of violence compared
with women in other types of relationships. "Violence
Between Intimates," Bureau
of Justice Statistics Selected Findings,
(Nov. 1994): 2.
45
The
incidence of domestic violence among homosexual men is nearly double that in the
heterosexual population. D.
46
Relationship
violence was found to be a significant problem for homosexuals. Forty-four
percent of the gay men reported having experienced violence in their
relationships; 13 percent reported sexual violence and 83 percent
reported
emotional
abuse. Levels of abuse ran even higher among lesbians: 55 percent reported
physical violence in their relationships, 14 percent reported sexual abuse, and
84 percent reported emotional abuse. (Study
of 499 ethnically diverse homosexual, bisexual, and transgendered teenagers and adults) Susan C. Turrell, "A Descriptive Analysis of Same-Sex Relationship
Violence for a Diverse Sample," Journal
of Family Violence 13
(2000): 281-293.
Child
Abuse
47
Eight
out of every ten homosexuals court-martialedby the
48
Homosexual
males are three times more likely than straight men to engage in pedophilia and the average pedophile victimizes between 20 and 150 boys before being
arrested. K.
Freund & R. I. Watson, "The Proportions of Heterosexual and
Homosexual
Pedophiles
Among Sex Offenders Against Children: An Exploratory Study," Sex
& Marital Therapy 18
(1992): 34-43.
49
The
1995 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance
found that gay, lesbian, and bisexual orientation was associated with having had
sexual intercourse before the age of 13, with having four or more partners in a
lifetime, and with having experienced sexual contact against one’s will.
R.
Garofalo et al., "The Association between Health Risk
Behaviors and Sexual Orientation Among a School-based
Sample of Adolescents," Pediatrics
101
(1998): 895-902.
50
A
study of 425 homosexual males, ages 17 to 22, reported that 40.9 percent
reported an occasion of forced sex. Seventy-nine of the boys reported beginning
anal sex with men when they were ages 3 to 14. Of these, 10 percent were already
HIV-positive and 19.8 percent were positive for hepatitis B. G.
Lemp et al., "Seroprevalence
of HIV and Risk Behaviors Among Young Homosexual and
Bisexual Men," Journal
of the American Medical Association 272,
6
(1994): 449-454.
51
"Individuals
from 1 percent to 3 percent of the population that are sexually attracted to the
same sex are committing up to one-third of the sex crimes against children."
Timothy
J. Dailey, "Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse," Family
Research Council,
(http://www.frc.org/get/is02e3.cfm).
52
Over
90 percent of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests is same-sex. About 10
percent of Catholic priests are homosexual. That means homosexual priests’ abuse
of children is 81 times more prevalent than heterosexual abuse. Fr.
Benedict Groeschel,
53
Researchers
Karla Jay and Allen Young report data showing that 73 percent of homosexuals
surveyed had at some time had sex with boys 16-19 years of age or younger.
Karla
Jay and Allen Young, The
Gay Report: Lesbians and Gay Men Speak Out about
Sexual
Experiences
and Lifestyles (New
York: Summit Books, 1979), 275.
54
While
many homosexuals do not seek out young sexual partners, evidence indicates that
disproportionate numbers of homosexual men seek adolescent males or boys as
sexual partners. Zebulon
A. Silverthorne and
55
"Incest
was more common among bisexuals and homosexuals of both sexes"
than among heterosexuals. While less than 0.8 percent of heterosexual males
reported have had sex with a brother, 12 percent of homosexuals reported having
had sex with at least one brother. (Study
of more than 9,100 adults in
56
A
study of male child sex offenders found that 14 percent targeted only males, and
28 percent chose males as well as females as victims, thus indicating that 42
percent of male pedophiles engaged in homosexual
molestation. Michele
Elliott, "Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: What Offenders Tell Us,"
Child
Abuse and Neglect 19
(1995): 581.
57
A
study in Archives
of Sexual Behavior found
that homosexual men are attracted to young males. The study compared the sexual
age preferences of heterosexual men, heterosexual women, homosexual men, and
lesbians. The results showed that in marked contrast to the other three
categories, "all but nine of the 48 homosexual men preferred the youngest two
male age categories," which included males as young as age 15. Zebulon
A. Silverthorne and
Heterosexual
Men and Women," Archives
of Sexual Behavior 29,
1 (2000): 73.
58
Research
confirms that homosexuals molest children at rates vastly higher than
heterosexuals. W.D.
Erickson et al., "Behavior Patterns of Child
Molesters," Archives
of Sexual Behavior 17
(1988): 83. K. Jay et al., The
Gay Report: Lesbians and Gays Speak Out About Sexual Experiences
and
Lifestyles
(New
York: Summit Books,1979), 275. Eugene Abel et al.,
"Self-Reported Sex Crimes of Nonincarcerated Pedophiliacs," 2 J. Interpersonal
Violence 3
(1987): 5. ("Child molestation, by comparison,
was
a relatively infrequent crime, occurring from an average of 23.2 times by a
pedophile (nonincest) with
female targets to an average of 281.7 times by a pedophile (nonincest) whose
targets were males.") R. Blanchard et al., "Fraternal Order and Sexual
Orientation in Pedophiles," Archives
of Sexual Behavior 29
(2000): 464. K. Freund
&
R.I. Watson, "The Proportions of Heterosexual and Homosexual Pedophiles Among Sex Offenders
Against Children: An Exploratory Study," 18 J. Sex
& Marital Therapy 34
(1992): 34-43.
59
A
study of 229 convicted child molesters found that "86 percent of offenders
against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual." W.
D. Erickson, "Behavior Patterns of Child Molesters,"
Archives
of Sexual Behavior 17
(1988): 83.
60
In
a 1999 Journal
of Homosexuality,
author Helmut Graupner claims: "Man/boy
and
woman/girl
relations without doubt are samesex relations and they
do constitute an aspect of gay and lesbian life." Graupner argues that, as such, consensual sexual relations
between adult homosexuals and youths as young as fourteen qualifies as a "gay rights issue." Helmut
Graupner, "Love Versus Abuse: Crossgenerational Sexual Relations of
Minors:
A Gay Rights Issue?" Journal
of Homosexuality 37
(1999): 23, 26.
61
The
Archives
of Sexual Behavior reports:
"One of the most salient findings of this study is that 46 percent of homosexual
men and 22 percent of homosexual women reported having been molested by a person
of the same gender. This contrasts to only seven percent of heterosexual men and
one percent of heterosexual women reporting having been molested by a person of
the same gender." Marie,
E. Tomeo et al., "Comparative Data of Childhood and
Adolescence Molestation in Heterosexual and Homosexual Persons," Archives
of Sexual Behavior 30
(2001): 539.
62
A
study of 279 homosexual/bisexual men with AIDS and control patients reported:
"More than half of both case and control patients reported a sexual act with a
male by age 16 years, approximately 20 percent by age 10 years."
Harry
W. Haverkos et al., "The Initiation of Male Homosexual
Behavior," The
Journal of the American Medical Association 262
(28 July, 1989): 501.
63
Noted
child sex abuse expert David Finkelhor found that
"boys victimized by older men were over four times more likely to be currently
engaged in homosexual activity than were nonvictims.
The finding applied to nearly half the boys who had had such an experience . . .
Further, the adolescents themselves often linked their homosexuality to their
sexual victimization experiences." Bill
Watkins and Arnon Bentovim,
"The
Sexual Abuse of Male Children and Adolescents: A Review of Current Research,"
Journal
of Child Psychiatry 33
(1992); in Byrgen Finkelman,
Sexual
Abuse (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1995), p. 316.
64
A
study in the International
Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
found:
"In the case of childhood sexual experiences prior to the age of fourteen, 40
percent (of the pedophile sample) reported that they
had engaged ’very often’ in sexual activity with an adult, with 28 percent
stating that this type of activity had occurred ’sometimes.’" Gary
A. Sawle and Jon Kear-Colwell, "Adult Attachment Style and Pedophilia: A Developmental Perspective," International
Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 45
(February 2001): 6.
65
A
National
Institute of Justice report
states that "the odds that a childhood sexual abuse victim will be arrested as
an adult for any sex crime is 4.7 times higher than for people . . . who
experienced no victimization as children." Cathy
Spatz Widom, "Victims of
Childhood Sexual Abuse - Later Criminal Consequences," Victims
of Childhood Sexual Abuse Series: NIJ
Research
in Brief,
(Mar. 1995): 6.
66
A
Child
Abuse and Neglect study
found that 59 percent of male child sex offenders had been victims of contact
sexual abuse as a child." Michele
Elliott, "Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: What Offenders Tell Us,"
Child
Abuse and Neglect 19
(1995): 582.
Homosexual
Parenting &
Homosexual
Adoption
67
Children
of homosexuals reported that their childhoods were more difficult than the
childhoods of children of heterosexuals. In nine percent of homosexual-parented
families, children mentioned having one or more problems or concerns. Of the 213
"score problems," 94 percent were attributed to the homosexual parent(s). Among
appellate cases, the courts attributed 97 percent of the "harms" to children to
the homosexual parent. (Narratives
from 52 homosexually- parented families and files from 40 appeals court cases
involving custody disputes between homosexual and heterosexual parents.) Paul
Cameron** and Kirk Cameron, "Children of Homosexual Parents Report Childhood
Difficulties," Psychological
Reports 90,
1 (2002): 71-
82.
**Although there is criticism of Paul Cameron’s work we find no substantive
evidence or reason to exclude Cameron’s studies.
68
Compared
with children from traditional families, children from nontraditional families
showed
more psychological problems as rated by their parents and more internalizing
behaviour as rated by their teachers. Boys from non-traditional families were
especially at a disadvantage; they showed lower self-concept, more
externalizing, poorer classroom behavior, and lower
grade-point averages. Girls from such
families
were less popular with peers. (Study of 136 fifth-grade children and their
parents in
69
"Twenty-nine
percent of the adult children of homosexual parents had been specifically
subjected to sexual molestation by that homosexual parent, compared to only 0.6
percent of adult children of heterosexual parents. Having a homosexual parent(s)
appears to increase the risk of incest with a parent by a factor of
about
50."
P.
Cameron** and K. Cameron, "Homosexual Parents," Adolescence
31
(1996): 772. **Although there is criticism of Paul Cameron’s work we find no
substantive evidence or reason to exclude Cameron’s
studies.
70
Golombok’s
and Tasker’s study revealed in its results section a
clear connection between being raised in a lesbian family and homosexuality:
"With respect to actual involvement in same-gender sexual relationships, there
was a significant difference between groups . . . None of the children from
heterosexual families had experienced a lesbian or gay relationship." By
contrast, five (29 percent) of the 17 daughters and one (13 percent) of the
eight boys in homosexual families reported having at least
one
same-sex
relationship. Susan
Golombok and Fiona L. Tasker, "Do Parents Influence the Sexual Orientation of
Their Children? Findings from a Longitudinal Study of Lesbian Families,"
Developmental
Psychology
32
(1996): 7.
71
When
a young child (typically at 18-24 months of age) begins to show a deep need to
understand and make sense of his/her sexual embodiment, the child’s relationship
with mother and father become centrally important. Both the same-sex parent and
the opposite sex parent play vital roles as gender identity continues to develop
and is deeply influential throughout the life cycle. Ethel
Person and Lionel Ovesey, "Psychoanalytic Theory of
Gender Identity," Journal
of the
72
A
survey taken in 1999 showed that 86 percent of people worldwide agreed that
"[a]ll things being equal, it is better for children
to be raised in a household that has a married mother and father."
Wirthlin
Worldwide for The
73
More
than 70 percent of Americans agree that it is always best for children to be
raised in a home with a married man and woman as parents. Los
Angeles Times poll, April 13-16, 1996 as cited in "Families: A Strong Yes to the
’Traditional’ Structure," Public
Perspective (February/March
1998): 20. Seventy
percent of Americans favor children being raised in a
family with a married father and mother, as opposed to a homosexual household.
Wirthlin
Worldwide Poll for Family
Research Council,
July 23-26, 1999.
74
Homosexual
relationships are characteristically unstable and fundamentally incapable of
providing children the security they need. Timothy
J. Dailey, "Homosexual Parenting: Placing hildren
at Risk," Family
Research Council,
(http://www.frc.org/get/is01j3.cfm).
75
"Homosexuals
model a poor view of marriage to children by teaching that marital relationships
are transitory and mostly sexual in nature, sexual relationships are primarily
for pleasure rather than procreation, and monogamy in marriage is not the norm
[and] should be discouraged if one wants a good ’marital’ relationship."
Bradley
P. Hayton, To
Marry or Not: The Legalization of Marriage and Adoption of Homosexual Couples
(Newport
Beach: The Pacific Policy Institute, 1993), 9.
76
Twelve
percent of the children of lesbians became active lesbians themselves, a
rate
which
is at least four times the base rate of lesbianism in the adult female
population. Tasker
and S. Golombok, "Adults Raised as Children in Lesbian Families," American
Journal of Orthopsychiatry 65,
2 (1995): 213. Sixty
four percent of young adults raised by lesbian mothers reported considering
having same sex relationships. Only 17 percent of young adults in heterosexual
families reported the same thing. Judith
Stacey and Timothy Biblarz, "(How) Does
the
Sexual
Orientation of Parents Matter?"
American
Sociological Review 66
(2001): 159-183.
77
Recent
studies indicate that a higher proportion of children of lesbian parents are
themselves apt to engage in homosexual activity. Adolescent and young adult
girls raised by lesbian mothers appear to be more sexually adventurous and less
chaste. The researchers conclude that "children with lesbigay parents appear less traditionally gender-typed and
more likely to be open to homoerotic relationships."
Judith
Stacey and Timothy J. Biblarz, "(How) Does the Sexual
Orientation of Parents Matter?" American
Sociological Review 66(2001):
174, 179.
78
The
research comparing outcomes from homosexual parenting and heterosexual parenting
are notoriously inconclusive. Studies on the positive aspects of homosexual
parenting "rely on small samples of white, middle-class,
previously
married
lesbians and their children." David
Demo and Martha Cox, Families with Young Children: A Review of Research in the
1990s," Journal
of Marriage and the Family 62
(2000): 889. Glenn T. Stanton, "Examining the Research of Homosexual Parenting,"
Journal
of the Southern Baptist Convention,
(June/July
2002),
(http://sbclife.net/Articles/2002/06/Sla7.asp).
79
It
is routinely asserted in courts, journals and the media that it makes "no
difference"
whether
a child has a mother and a father, two fathers, or two mothers. Reference is
often made to social-scientific studies that are claimed to have "demonstrated"
this. An objective analysis, however, demonstrates that there is no basis for
this assertion. Robert
Lerner and Althea K. Nagai, "No Basis: What the Studies Don’t
Tell
Us About Same-Sex Parenting," Marriage
Law Project,
80
There
are no homosexual parenting studies that a) take a nationally representative
sample of babies born to or adopted by gay parents and married mothers and
fathers and b) follow them longitudinally while c) controlling for standard
demographic variables (race, educa- tion, etc.) and d) include a broad range of outcome
variables. The studies that currently exist simply compare lesbian single moms
to heterosexual
single
moms. Social science research has already shown the negative outcomes visited
upon children who do not live with two married parents. Maggie
Gallagher, Marriagedebate.com, Institute
for Marriage and Public Policy,
(www.marriagedebate.com/mdblog/2003_07_27_mdblog_archive.htm).
81
The
American College of Paediatricians believes it is inappropriate, potentially
hazardous to children, and dangerously irresponsible to change the age-old
prohibition on homosexual parenting, whether by adoption, foster care,
or
by
reproductive manipulation. This position is rooted in the best available
science. "Homosexual
Parenting Is It Time For A Change?"
82
There
is a tremendous amount of social science research showing that children who are
raised with their married mother and father do far better in every measure of
well being than children who grow up in any other family configuration.
Glenn
T. Stanton, Why
Marriage Matters: Reasons to Believe in Marriage in a Postmodern Society (Colorado
Springs: NavPress, 1997). David Popenoe, Life
without Father (New
York: The Free Press, 1996). Sara McLanahan and Gary
Sandefur, Growing
up With a Single Parent: What Helps, What Hurts (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1994)
Genetics
& Homosexuality
83
Research
studies on homosexuality by Drs. Dean Hamer, Michael
Bailey, Richard Pillard, Simon LeVay, Laura Allen, and Roger Gorski have failed to show proof of a gay gene. There is no
scientific evidence that shows that homosexuality is genetic. The media has
sensationalized and perpetuated the myth of a homosexual gene. Jeffrey
Satinover, Homosexuality
and the Politics of Truth (Grand
Rapids: Baker Books,1996).
84
Dr.
Simon LeVay’s research (1991) centered on finding the difference between homosexual and
heterosexual brains. The brains studied were from 41 cadavers; 26 of these from
people who had died from AIDS related diseases. What may have been measured was
nothing more than the effect of AIDS upon the brain. LeVay admitted: "My study doesn’t
actually even address whether one is ’born that way.’" Simon
LeVay, "A Difference in Hypothalamic Structure Between Heterosexual and Homosexual Men," Science
253
(1991): 1034-
1037;
Quote from Harvard
Gay and Lesbian Review, Winter
1997.
85
In
the Bailey/Pillard study, 52 percent of the identical
twin brothers were homosexual; 22 percent of the fraternal twin brothers and 11
percent of the adoptive brothers were homosexual. If sexual orientation is
genetic, then each set of identical twins, which both possess identical DNA,
would share an "orientation" much closer to 100 percent of the time. What the
Bailey/Pillard study actually proves is that
homosexuality is not purely genetic. J.
Bailey and R. Pillard, "A genetic study of male sexual
orientation," Archives
of General
Psychiatry
48
(1991): 1089-1096.
86
In
1993 Dr. Dean Hamer announced to the world that Xq28,
found on the maternal X
chromosome,
is the genetic address for the newly discovered GAY-1 gene. Hamer also found that 18 percent of the homosexuals he
studied did not inherit that same portion of the Xq28, nor could Hamer identify any kind of sequencing in that region
whatsoever. The numbers studied (40 families that included at least two
homosexual brothers) were so small and the means of determining who was
homosexual so unreliable that the results cannot be said to have "proved"
anything. The results of
subsequent
studies casting doubt on the Hamer study have not
received the same
amount
of attention in the media. Dean
H. Hamer et al., "A Linkage Between DNA Markers on the X Chromosome and Male Sexual
Orientation," Science
261
(1993): 321-327.
87
The
homosexual advocacy group PFLAG ("Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays")
acknowledges that there is not a "gay gene": "To date, no researcher has claimed
that genes can determine sexual orientation. At best, researchers believe that
there may be a genetic component. No human behavior,
let alone sexual behavior, has been connected to
genetic markers to date...sexuality, like every other behavior, is undoubtedly influenced by both biological and
societal factors." "Why
Ask Why," Parents
and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG),
Pamphlet addressing research on Homosexuality and Biology.
88
"Like
all complex behavioral and mental states,
homosexuality is neither exclusively
biological
nor exclusively psychological, but results from an as-yet-difficult-to quantitate mixture of some genetic factors, intrauterine
influences, postnatal environment (such as parents, siblings and cultural behavior), and a complex series of repeatedly reinforced
choices occurring at critical phases of development."
Jeffrey
Satinover, "The Gay Gene?" The
Journal of Human Sexuality (1996),
(http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/satinover.html).
89
Homosexuality
is probably caused by multiple factors. Genetic and pre-natal hormonal
influences may predispose or place people at greater risk for developing
homosexual attractions. However, current research indicates that post-natal
environmental influences must also be present in order for the homosexual
attractions to be manifested. Some environmental and psychological factors that
may play a causal role in the development of homosexuality include: (1)
cross-gender, effeminate behaviour in childhood, (2) gender-identity deficits,
(3) hostile, detached, or absent fathers (which leads to "defensive detachment"
from the father and other males), and (4) overly close, controlling or
dominating mothers. P.
Scott Richards, "The
Treatment
of Homosexuality: Some Historical, Contemporary, and Personal Perspectives,"
AMCAP
Journal 19,
1 (1993): 36.
90
"The
removal of homosexuality from the DSM 2 (American Psychiatric Association) was
all the more remarkable when one considers that it involved the out-of-hand and
peremptory disregard and dismissal not only of hundreds of psychiatric and
psychoanalytic research papers and reports but also of a number of other
serious
studies
by groups of psychologists, psychiatrists, and educators over the past 70 years.
It was a disheartening attack upon psychiatric research and a blow to many
homosexuals who looked to psychiatry for more help, not less." P.
Scott Richards, "The Treatment of Homosexuality: Some Historical, Contemporary,
and Personal Perspectives," AMCAP
Journal
19,
1 (1993).
Treatment
of Homosexuality
91
Between
1966 and 1974, more than 1,000 articles appeared in the Medline databases alone
on the treatment of homosexuality, showing evidence that homosexual behavior is treatable and changeable. J.
Satinover, Homosexuality
and the Politics of Truth (Grand
Rapids: Baker Books, 1996).
92
A
study of 200 recovered homosexual men and women found that the majority had been
able to make a change in their sexual orientation. Robert
L. Spitzer,** "Can Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change
Their Sexual Orientation? Two Hundred Participants Reporting a Change,"
Archives
of
Sexual
Behavior 32,
5 (2003): 403-417. **In 1973, Dr. Spitzer played a pivotal role in the removal
of homosexuality as a disorder from the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM 2
manual. Now that Dr. Spitzer recognizes that homosexual behaviour can be
changed, the APA has treated him with scepticism and periodic
disdain.
93
Twenty
to thirty percent of participants in voluntary conversion therapy said that they
shifted from a homosexual orientation to an exclusively or almost exclusively
heterosexual orientation, belying any assertion that homosexual orientation is
"immutable." Joseph
Nicolosi et al., "Retrospective Self-Reports of
Changes in Homosexual Orientation,"
Psychological
Reports 86
(June 2002): 1071, 1083. Warren Throckmorton and Mark A. Yarhouse, "Ethical Issues in Attempts to Ban Reorientation
Therapies," Professional
Psychology: Research and Practice 39,
1 (2002).
94
Thirty
percent of those who enter treatment for homosexuality with an experienced
therapist are able to achieve a heterosexual adjustment. An additional 30
percent are able to control their homosexual behavior,
although they do not develop a sexual attraction to females. Warren
Throckmorton, "Efforts to modify Sexual Orientation: A
review
of
outcome literature and ethical issues," Journal
of Mental Health and Counseling 20,
4 (1996): 283-305.
95
"I
believe there is rather powerful evidence that human beings are a two-sex
species,
designed
for sexual rather than asexual reproduction. If this is true, then the absence
of desire for the opposite sex represents, at a minimum, a sexual dysfunction
much as impotence or infertility." Maggie
Gallagher, "Fixing Sexual Orientation," Townhall.com
,
10 May 2001, (http://www.townhall.com/
columnists/maggiegallagher/mg20010510.shtml).
96
The
American
Psychological Association Journal (2002)
reported on scientific evidence that efforts to change thoughts, behaviors, and feeling- based sexual orientation can be
successful. Warren
Throckmorton, "Initial Empirical and Clinical Findings
Concerning
the Change Process for Ex-gays;" Psychotherapy:
Research and Practice 39,
1(2002): 66-75.
97
Homosexual
behavior is "considerably less prevalent among the
religiously devout," is "more prevalent in father-absent households and where
divorce or family disruption [has] occurred," is more common in large U.S.
cities than in suburban or rural areas, and is more widespread in societies
where it is accepted rather than condemned. (Study
of more than 9,100 adults in
Incest
Cause Homosexuality?"
Psychological
Reports 76
(1995): 611- 621. **Although there is criticism of Paul Cameron’s work we find
no substantive evidence or reason to exclude Cameron’s
studies.
Incidence
of Homosexual
Behavior
98
A
study of the sexual behavior of men in the United
States based on the National Survey of Men (a nationally representative sample
comprised of 3,321 men aged 20-30), found that "2 percent of sexually active men
aged twenty to thirty-nine . . . had had any same-gender sexual activity during
the last ten years. Approximately 1 percent of the men (1.3 percent among whites
and 0.2 percent among blacks) reported having had exclusively homosexual
activity." John
O. G. Billy et al., "The Sexual Behavior
of
Men in the
99
Studies
indicate that homosexuals comprise between 1 to 3 percent of the population.
R.
Herrel et al., "A Co-twin Control Study in Adult Men"
Archives
of General Psychiatry 56,
10 (1999): 867-874. Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon,
Robert T. Michael and Stuart Michaels, The
Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the
100
Contrary
to estimates claiming that 10 percent of the American male population is
homosexual, only "a very small number" of respondents reported that they were
homosexual or bisexual. "Ninety-eight percent of the sample reported that they
were heterosexual." Barbara
C. Leigh, "The Sexual Behavior of
American
Journal of Public Health 83
(1993): 1400-1406.
101
In
a survey of studies on homosexuals in different populations, the
Archives
of Sexual
Behavior
reported
a random sample of
102
The
percentage of men claiming to be homosexual is far less than Alfred Kinsey’s
1948 claims that 10 percent of American males were homosexual and that 37
percent of men had some homosexual experience during their life. The National
Survey of Men reports that "2.3 percent of men, age 20-39, have had ’same gender
sexual activity’ during the preceding ten years" and that "1.1 percent have had
such activity exclusively." In addition, the "majority of men who have had
homosexual contact
report
that such contact occurred ’once, twice, or rarely’ for less than 2 years."
Stuart
H. Seidman and Ronald O. Reider, "A Review of Sexual Behavior in the
103
Two
percent of the sexually active men (aged 20 to 39) reported some homosexual
activity within the previous 10 years. 1 percent reported sexual activity that
was exclusively homosexual during that time period. (3,321 men, 1991)
John
O. G. Billy et al., "The Sexual Behavior of Men in the
104
A
coalition of 31 leading pro-homosexual activist groups submitted a friend of the
court brief to the
"Homosexual
Groups Back Off From "10 Percent" Myth, but Still Exaggerate Numbers,"
Culture
Facts, 4
April 2003, (http://www.frc.org/get/cu03d1.cfm).
Homosexuality
& Marriage
105
A
1999 Wirthlin Worldwide survey conducted for the World
Congress of Families II found that 84 percent of people around the world agree
that "the definition of marriage is one man and one woman." Wirthlinn
Worldwide for The
106
A
107
A
CBS News/N.Y. Times Poll cites 55 percent favoring and
40 percent opposing a
Constitutional
amendment that would allow marriage only between a man and a
woman.
Sixty-one percent of Americans oppose same sex marriage. Asked whether
homosexual relationships between adults should be legal, 49 percent said no, 41
percent said yes. CBS
News/N.Y. Times Poll, "
108
"I
believe marriage is between a man and a woman and I believe we ought to codify
that one way or the other." President
George W. Bush, Press Briefing, Rose Garden, July 30,
2003.
109
"I
have long opposed governmental recognition of same-gender marriages, and this
legislation is consistent with that position." President
William J. Clinton, Signing of the Defense of Marriage
Act (DOMA), 1996.
110
An
111
"The
very concept of marriage is indissolubly linked to the societal imperatives of
procreation and child rearing. As the Supreme Court has recognized, procreation
involves the ’very existence and survival of mankind.’ Laws protecting and
preferring heterosexual marriage are a principled and necessary means of
furthering this most imperative of all governmental objectives."
Richard
Wilkins, "The Constitutionality of Legal
Preferences
for Heterosexual Marriage," Family
in
112
Nearly
40 percent of the 5,700 homosexual couples who have entered into civil unions in
113
"Even
’committed’ homosexual relationships display a fundamental incapacity for the
faithfulness and commitment that is axiomatic to the institution of marriage."
Timothy
J. Dailey, "Homosexual Parenting: Placing Children at Risk," Family
Research Council, (http://www.frc.org/get/is01j3.cfm).
114
The
five major world religions--Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and
Judaism-- recognize and uphold the natural heterosexual understanding of
marriage. All five religions teach that homosexual behavior is sinful or wrong. "Major
World Religions on the Question of Marriage," Marriage
Law Project,
2000, (http://marriagelaw.cua.edu/major_world_
religions_on_the_que.htm).
115
A
study of the historical decline of 86 different cultures revealed that when a
society strays from the sexual ethic of marriage (a union between a male and a
female), it deteriorates and eventually disintegrates. "In human records there
is no instance of a society retaining its energy after a complete new generation
has inherited a tradition which does not insist on prenuptial and postnuptial
continence." J.
D.
Unwin,
Sexual
Regulations and Human Behavior (London:
Williams & Norgate, 1933).
Homosexuals
& Hate Crimes
116
The
2000 Hate Crimes Report finds 8,063 "bias motivated" incidents. Of these, 1,299
were crimes based on sexual orientation. Most of these offences were low-level. A
third of these incidents fell into the nondescript category of "intimidation."
Uniform
Crime Reporting Program, Federal
Bureau of Investigation,
(www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm).
117
Homosexual
activists seek to normalize homosexual behavior and
vilify anyone who opposes it. With the inflammatory epithet "homophobe"
activists throw anyone who expresses compassionate or personal disapproval of
homosexuality into the same category as those who hate or harm those who engage
in homosexual behavior. "The
Homosexual Issue: Where Do We Stand?" Citizens’
Courier 20,
2 (2002): 4.
118
Out
of 15, 517 murders in the
119
The
U.S. Justice Department’s study found an epidemic of violence between
homosexuals. The annual average is 13,740 male victims of violence by homosexual
partners and 16,900 victims by lesbian partners. U.S.
Department of Justice, "Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim, 1993-99,"
(http://www.ojp/.
gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipva99.pdf).
By
contrast, the 1999 statistics for hate crimes based on sexual orientation totaled 1,558 victims. Uniform
Crime Reporting Program, Federal
Bureau of Investigation,
(www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm).
Homosexual
Activism
120
Homosexuals
are one of the most affluent groups in
121
When
the issue of homosexuals routinely being denied the right to visit their
partners in hospitals was raised during debate over the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, the Family Research Council
did an informal survey of nine hospitals in four states and the
incredulous
that this would even be considered an issue. Peter
Sprigg, "What’s Wrong with Letting Same-Sex Couples
Marry?"
Family
Research Council,
In Focus: Issue No. 256.
122
Since
1997, government reports only one in seven same-sex couples residing
in
either
by registering as partners or through marriage. Maria
Xiridou et al. "The Contribution of Steady and Casual
Partnerships to the Incidence of HIV Infection Among
Homosexual Men in
123
In
the first years after
124
125
Of
General Motors 1.3 million employees (2001), 166 individuals extended health
insurance benefits to a same-sex partner--just one hundredth of one percent of
all General Motors employees were interested in utilizing same sex benefits. The
push for domestic partner benefits is driven more by a desire for social change
than a true need for workplace benefits or protections. Maggie
Gallagher "Why Supporting Marriage
Makes
Business Sense," Corporate
Resource Council (2002),
(http://www.corporateresourcecouncil/.
org/white_papers/DP_Good_Business_Sense.pdf).
126
Paula
Ettelbrick, former legal director of the Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund, has stated, "Being queer
is more than setting up house, sleeping with a person of the same gender, and
seeking state approval for doing so. . . Being queer means pushing the
parameters of sex, sexuality, and family, and in the process transforming the
very fabric of society." Paula
Ettelbrick, "Since When Is Marriage a Path to
Liberation?" Outlook
National Gay and Lesbian Quarterly 6
(1989): 14-16.
127
The
homosexual activist strategy outlined in the book "After the Ball" (1989)
included: 1) begin portraying homosexuals as "victims in need of protection so
that straights will be inclined by reflex to adopt the role of protector," 2)
present homosexuals in the media as "wholesome and admirable by straight
standards, and indistinguishable from the straights we’d like to reach," 3)
desensitize people to homosexual issues by inundating the media with GLBT
messages, 4) convert people to the belief that "gayness" is good. ".conversion
of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will, through a planned
psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the
media." Marshall
Kirk and Hunter Madsen, After
the Ball: How
128
"They
(homosexual activists) are belligerent, coercive, and intolerant. They practice
the evils that they accuse the ’straight’ majority of practicing. . . In
defiance of biology, reason, and codes of morality dating back 5,000 years, they
wish not merely to have their sexual usage deemed normal, but their every demand
normative." Reid
Buckley, "The
129
According
to homosexual writer and activist Michelangelo Signorile, the goal of homosexuals is: "To fight for
same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the
institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of
adhering to society’s moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically
alter an archaic institution. . . . The most subversive action lesbian and
gay
men
can undertake . . . is to transform the notion of ’family’ entirely."
Michelangelo
Signorile, "Bridal Wave," Out,
Dec. 1994.
130
"The
’Gay-rights movement’ was created to justify homosexual behavior. All of organized homosexuality exists as a
mechanism for self justification. No other group of people has gone to such
great lengths to promote a sex act." "The
Myth of Sexual Orientation,. Leadership
Bulletin, The
Howard Center for Family Religion & Society, Vol.
3, No. 1, January/February 1999.
131
The
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) cut in half its coverage of health
insurance premiums for domestic partners of its employees, calling the premiums
"prohibitively expensive." Marc
Morano, "Homosexual Group Cuts Back Domestic Partner
Benefits," CNSnews.com,
(http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1190670.html).
132
In
regard to the impact of domestic partnership benefits on employer’s insurance
rates, consider that the incidence of AIDS among 20 to 30-year-old men is
roughly 430 times greater than among the heterosexual population at large.
Jeffery
Satinover, Homosexuality
and the Politics of Truth, (Grand
Rapids: Baker Books,1996).
133
There
is no federal or state law requiring all private employers to have written
non-discrimination policies, nor are there laws that require all business to
extend benefits to unmarried partners of their employees. Several cities
(
with
those cities. Answers
to an Employer’s Legal Questions About Domestic Partner
Benefits and Sexual Orientation Nondiscrimination
Policies, Jordan Lorence, Corporate
Resource Council,
(www.corporateresourcecouncil.org/white_papers/Legal_Questions.pdf).
134
With
an average period of 8-11 years from HIV infection to development of AIDS, it is
likely that costs may exceed $90,000 for each person who undergoes HIV
treatment. Human
Rights Campaign, "HIV/AIDS Drugs," October 2001,
(www.hrc.org/issues/hiv%5Faids/background/
drugs.asp).
This
does not include the health costs from treatment of full-blown AIDS. With the
impact of insurance "adverse selection" brought into play, the aggregate costs
to health insurers--and therefore to employers-- will be in the billions.
(www.corporateresourcecouncil.org).
Homosexual
Activism in
the
Schools
135
"First,
homosexual activists tout ’hate crimes’-- those sad but rare incidents in which
students are harmed because they are gay--and then they push for laws protecting
homosexual students. Once those laws pass, activists persuade schools to adopt
curricula that promote not just student safety, but acceptance of
homosexuality."
Candi
Cushman, "Unsafe at Any Grade," Citizen,
December 2002,
(www.family.org/cforum/citizenmag/coverstory/a0023411.html).
136
The
FBI Uniform Crime Report notes a total of 140 incidents of hate crimes based on
sexual orientation within
137
GLSEN
presents itself as a civil rights organization that is only after "tolerance"
and
"understanding" for a victim group.. But it is, in fact, a
radical organization that has clearly embraced the queer-theory worldview. It
seeks to transform the culture and instruction of every public school, so that
children will learn to equate "heterosexism"--the
favoring of heterosexuality as normal--with other
evils like racism and sexism and will grow up pondering their sexual orientation
and the fluidity
of
their sexual identity. Marjorie
King, "Queering the Schools," City
Journal 13,
2 (2003), www.cityjournal.org/html/13_2_queering_the_schools.html).
138
In
March 1995, GLSEN’s Executive Director Kevin Jennings,
in a speech entitled, "Winning the Culture War," spoke about how he was able to
delude the
the
success of the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. We immediately
seized upon the opponent’s calling card--safety—and explained how homophobia
represents a threat to students’ safety by creating a climate
where
violence,
name-calling, health problems, and suicide are common. Titling our report
’Making Schools Safe for Gay and Lesbian Youth,’ we automatically threw our
opponents onto the defensive and stole their best line of attack. This framing
short-circuited their arguments and left them back-pedaling from day one." Kevin
Jennings,
"Governor’s
Commission for Gay Youth Retreats to ’Safety’ and ’Suicide,’" The
Massachusetts News,
December 2000.
139
A
North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) representative stated: "The
ultimate goal of the gay liberation movement is the achievement of sexual
freedom for all--not just equal rights for lesbians and gay men, but also
freedom of sexual expression for young people and children." David
Thorstand, "Man/Boy Love and the American Gay
Movement," in "Male Intergenerational Intimacy: Historical, Socio-psychological
and Legal Perspectives," Journal
of Homosexuality 20,
1-2 (1990): 255. The
1972 conference of National Coalition of Gay Organizations released a "Gay
Rights Platform" which had as a plank "Repeal of all laws governing the age of
consent." The goal has not changed. (www.rslevinson.com/gaylesissues/features/collect/onetime/bl_platform1972.
htm).
See also (www.ageofconsent.com) (Warning: sexually
explicit)
140
"Exposure
to and experimentation with homosexual behavior
carries serious risks that school officials should be aware of in order to
protect students.
There is concern that by allowing access by homosexual activist organizations
and by establishing policies that have the effect of normalizing homosexual
behavior, schools may have become responsible for
physical and emotion harm to the students entrusted to their care."
"The
Legal Liability Associated with Homosexuality Education in Public Schools,"
Citizens
for Community
Values,
(http://www.ccv.org/Legal_Liability_of_Homosexuality_Education.
htm).
**This document includes a checklist for "Assessing Your School’s Risk for
Encouraging Homosexuality."
141
Margot
E. Ables, Coordinator, HIV/AIDS Program, Massachusetts
Department of
Education
and self-proclaimed lesbian: "We always feel like we are fighting against people
who say publicly, who say privately, that being queer is not at all about sex.we believe otherwise. We think that sex is central to
every single one of us, and particularly queer youth." Presenter
at GLSEN Teach
Out! Conference
at
recorded
by Scott T. Whiteman,
142
Leif
Mitchell, community educator/trainer for Planned Parenthood of Connecticut and a
GLSEN National board member in a presentation to Massachusetts teachers and
students explaining, "Strategies for Combating the ’Religious Wrong’ in your
community:" "Focus on Violence Prevention. Always go back to the issues of
safety to explain why Gay/Straight Alliances need to be formed. Violence helps
us!
It
is very important to tie the Religious Right to hatred." GLSEN
Teach
Out! Conference
at
143
In
spite of the dangers posed to students through homosexual behavior and lifestyle,
the
National Education Association (NEA) has concluded that homosexuality is
acceptable, normal, and should be validated within the public school system.
Under the banner of diversity and "safety," the NEA has commissioned a Task
Force on Sexual Orientation in order to put in place a comprehensive
homosexual
advocacy
program, bypassing customary program ratification by the NEA membership at
large. (www.nea.org/nr/02taskforce.html).
144
The
National Conference for Community Justice (NCCJ) actively sponsors national
youth leadership training programs such as the Any town
or Uni-town program. Through on campus recruitment
activities and teacher referral, Anytown/Uni-town
seeks students who have leadership capabilities for intensive diversity training
and multicultural training which includes efforts to mainstream homosexuality.
Regarding the issue of sexual orientation, NCCJ advocates: "An inclusive school
culture works to affirm, not just tolerate." homosexual behavior. "Special
Task Force," (www.nccj.org/
nccj/nccj.nsf/articleall/4543?opendocument&1#878).
145
Homosexual
acts are unhealthy. There are numerous reasons to oppose sexual orientation
codes in schools. Sexual orientation codes: 1) lead to escalating homosexual
activism in schools; 2) are used to discriminate and
propagandize
against
students and groups that oppose homosexuality; 3) may open schools
up
to
lawsuits from parents whose children are misled into dangerous behavior; 4) draw more homosexual teachers to the school and
encourage gay teachers to be activists in the classroom; 5) can lead to the
adoption of pro-homosexual curricula; 6) are used to justify the progay indoctrination of young children; 7) encourage school
children to embrace gay, bisexual and transgender identities and then proudly
share them with other students. Peter
J. LaBarbera, "Good Reasons to Oppose Sexual
Orientation/ Homosexuality Codes in Schools," Culture and Family Institute,
Concerned
Women for
Where
can I get more information?
page
35
Positive
Alternatives To Homosexuality (P.A.T.H.),
www.pathinfo.org.
New
Direction, www.newdirection.ca/research/index.html.
National
Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality,
www.narth.com.
www.healinghomosexuality.com.
Marriage
Law Project, www.marriagewatch.org.
Coalition
for Marriage, www.preservemarriage.com.
Defend
Marriage, www.defendmarriage.org.
Family
Research Council, www.frc.org.
Focus
on the Family Canada, www.familyfacts.ca.
Concerned
Women for
Focus
on the Family, www.citizenlink.org.
Corporate
Resource Council, www.corporateresourcecouncil.org.
Heartbeat
News by Dale O’Leary.
An archive of all of Dale O’Leary’s files can be provided
on
request.
heartbeatnews@compuserve.com.
Ronald
Bayer, Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis,
University
Press, 1987.
Reid
Buckley, The
Press,
Inc., June 2002.
Orientation,
Hyperion Press, 1996.
Timothy
J. Dailey, "Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse," "Homosexual Parenting,"
and
"The
Negative Health Effects of Homosexuality," Family Research Council,
www.frc.org.
Robert
T. Francoeur, Patricia Koch, and David L. Weis,
Sexuality in
Sexual
Values and Behaviors, The
Continuum Publishing Company, 1998. [especially pages 148-150].
Dale
O’Leary, The Gender Agenda, Vital Issues Press,
P.
Morgan, Children as Trophies? Examing the Evidence on
Same-Sex Parenting,
upon
Timothy
F. Murphy, Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research
University
Press, 1997.
"The
Myth of Sexual Orientation," Culture Watch,
Swan
Research-- a division of The Howard
Center
for Family, Religion & Society, Vol. 3, Number 1,
www.profam.org.
Claire
M. Renzetti, Violent Betrayal: Abuse In Lesbian Relationships, Sage Publications, Inc.,
1992.
Jeffrey
Satinover, "The Gay Gene?" The
Journal of Human Sexuality, 1996.
Jeffery
Satinover, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth,
Baker Books, 1996.
Richard
Wilkins, "The Constitutionality of Legal Preferences for Heterosexual Marriage,"
The
Family
in America, Howard Center for Family, Religion &
Society, Vol. 15, No. 6, June 2001.
Appendix
A
The
following is an excerpt from a chart included in the
report:
GLB
HETERO
Suicidal
Ideation
67.9 percent
29.0 percent
Suicide
Attempt
32.1 percent
7.1 percent
Psychiatric
disorders age 14 -21
Major
depression
71.4 percent
38.2 percent
Generalized
anxiety Disorder
28.5 percent
12.5 percent
Conduct
disorder
32.1 percent
11.0 percent
Nicotine
dependence
64.3 percent
26.7 percent
Other
substance abuse/dependence
60.7
percent
44.3 percent
Multiple
disorders
78.6 percent
38.2 percent
At
age 21 the GLB (Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual) portion of the
cohort has significantly more
problems
in every category. D.
Fergusson et al., " Is Sexual Orientation Related to
Mental Health Problems
and
Suicidality in Young People? Archives
of General Psychiatry 56,
10 (1999): 876-880.
page
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