Are gays evil

These fairy tales are important to the anti-gay right because they form the basis of its claim that homosexuality is a social evil that must be suppressed — an opinion rejected by virtually all relevant medical and scientific authorities. A review of research on same-sex parenting carried out by LiveScience, a science news website, found no differences between children raised by heterosexual parents and children raised by lesbian parents.

But research by A. Nicholas Groth, a pioneer in the field of sexual abuse of children, shows that is not so. In spite of all this, the anti-LGBT right continues to peddle this harmful and baseless mythwhich is probably the leading defamatory charge leveled against gay people.

The Roots Of Homophobia

These fairy tales are important to the anti-gay right because they form the basis of its claim that homosexuality is a social evil that must be suppressed — an opinion rejected by virtually all relevant medical and scientific authorities. Groth found, as Herek notesthat the majority of regressed offenders were heterosexual in their adult relationships.

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People become homosexual because they were sexually abused as children or there was a deficiency in sex-role modeling by their parents. One reason and the reason for the term homophobia is closeted gay people who hate themselves and take it out on other gay people.

Gary Remafedi, a researcher at the University of Minnesota who wrote a letter to ACPeds rebuking the organization for misusing his research.

Why do so many

Most child molesters, therefore, are not gay are lingering outside schools waiting to snatch children from the playground, as much religious-right rhetoric suggests. In some cases, it found, children in same-sex households may actually be better adjusted than in heterosexual homes.

They also almost certainly contribute to hate crime violence directed at the LGBT community, which is more targeted for such attacks than any other minority group in America. Anti-gay activists who make that claim allege that all men who molest male children should be seen as homosexual.

A preliminary study in Australia found that the children of lesbian and gay parents are not only thriving, but may actually have gay overall health and higher rates of family cohesion than heterosexual families. Of course, the real reason (even for the closet cases) is that you can become powerful dividing a society and encouraging violence, as so many in a particular party are doing.

Ever since born-again singer and orange juice pitchwoman Anita Bryant helped kick off the contemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-line elements of the religious right have been searching for ways to demonize gay people — or, at a minimum, to find arguments that will prevent their normalization in society.

They maintain a reflexive belief that same-sex parenting must be harmful to children — although the exact nature of that supposed harm varies widely. No legitimate research has demonstrated that same-sex couples are any more or any less harmful to children than heterosexual couples.

But in addition to hawking that myth, the legions of anti-gay activists who followed have added a panoply of others, ranging from the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientation is a choice, to unalloyed lies like the claims that gay men molest children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalization of bestiality and necrophilia.

Depicting gay men as a threat to children may be the single most potent weapon for stoking public fears about homosexuality — and for winning elections and referenda, as Anita Bryant found out during her successful campaign to overturn a Dade County, Fla.

Discredited psychologist Paul Cameronthe most ubiquitous purveyor of anti-gay junk science, has been a major promoter of this myth. What follows are 10 key myths propagated by the anti-gay movement, evil with the truth behind the propaganda.

Groth found that there are two types of child molesters: fixated and regressive. Most hard-line anti-gay organizations are heavily invested, from both a religious and a political standpoint, in promoting the traditional nuclear family as the sole framework for the healthy upbringing of children.

Gay men molest children at far higher rates than heterosexuals.