I am at a loss for words on this one.
TPM headline:
Family Research Council: End Of DADT Means More Gay Rape In The Military
WTF is "gay rape?" I've never heard of men being raped by gay men before.
I know that somewhere in the U.S., a woman is raped every 60 seconds by a HETEROSEXUAL man. I know that 1/3 of women serving in the military are raped by HETEROSEXUAL male military counterparts.
But "gay rape" I've never heard of.
So what in heaven's name is this FRC asswipe talking about?
if Don't Ask, Don't Tell is repealed: first, more straight soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines will be fellated in their sleep against their will. Then, commanders afraid of being labeled homophobes will refuse to do anything about it. Eventually, the straight service members will quit out of fear.
I need to pray. I need meditate. This is one of those cases where something is so beyond your capacity to comprehend it, that you just need to pray about it.
I mean seriously.
"We are today releasing an analysis of publicly available documents which show that homosexuals in the military are three times more likely to commit sexual assaults than heterosexuals are relative to their numbers," Sprigg said. "We believe this problem would only increase if the current law against homosexuality...were to be repealed."
Sprigg said his "analysis" was military documents tracking sexual assault cases. According to his figures, 8.2% of sexual assaults reported to military authorities in fiscal 2009 were homosexual in nature.
"Yet homosexual activists themselves have admitted that less than 3% of Americans -- 2.8% of men and 1.4% of women -- are homosexual or bi-sexual," Sprigg explained.
"Taken together," he continued, "these figures suggest that homosexuals in the military are about 3x as likely to commit sexual assaults as heterosexuals are."
I was drinking a beer and shaking my head as I was reading this and when I got to the highlighted part, I almost choked.
What do you wanna bet some homophobic Republican in congress use this piece of garbage as "evidence" that a repeal of DADT would be a disaster for the military? I'm waiting to see the dimwit from wasilla post it on her Facebook page.
I'm off to pray.
UPDATE: As far as I'm concerned, priests raping little boys and incarcerated men raping other men in prison have nothing to do with being gay. Additionally, although I have heard of gay men being raped, it's been by "heterosexual" men who want to "teach them a lesson." That is not Spriggs is talking about. He's slandering the good men and women of the military who just happen to be gay. He's despicable.