My GOD, the right-wing LIES about gay people!
USA Today has a "debate" today on the topic of same-sex adoption, and they've picked Cal Thomas, the newspaper "columnist" who is a former spokesman for the Christian Coalition, to argue the anti-gay side. And he spouts just one blatant lie after another! I'm actually annoyed with USA Today for printing his bullsh#%.
I honestly don't want to dignify his claptrap with a point-by-point rebuttal, but I can't
believe he actually brings up the Bell and Weinberg study of gay men in San Francisco in 1979 to argue that gay couples can't be stable! This was a study of men
recruited in gay bars in
San Francisco at the
height of the pre-AIDS bathhouse culture! And here's the thing: Bell and Weinberg, the authors of the study, SPECIFICALLY SAY THAT, EVEN AT THE TIME, THEIR DATA CANNOT BE USED TO GENERALIZE TO ALL GAY MEN!
And even if the study
was true, what the frick does the sexual behavior of gay men have to do with denying
lesbians the right to adopt?!?! Those
same studies even from the 1970s show that lesbians were actually
more monogamous than heterosexual couples!!
Cal Thomas is
SUCH A
PRICK!
Honestly, how do you have a debate with people who just make shit up? They have absolutely no good faith, no honor, and not a shred of Goddamn decency.
Cross posted at
The Big Gay Picture.