Accuracy in Media
(AIM) sent an email explaining the real stats on homosexuality and
transgenderism in America.
In America these alternate lifestyle morons can choose this
ungodly immoral path. The U.S. Constitution guarantees these individual rights
– even for the ungodly. HOWEVER, the Constitution does not guarantee or entitle
the ungodly and immoral to force their views or lifestyles on other Americans –
Christian or otherwise.
The height of bigotry is when America’s significant and huge
non-LGBT majority is forced to comply to the designs and accommodations of the
significant and tiny minority. I realize that is my opinion and I can hardly
wait for the few homosexuals and Leftists that will barrage me with disparaging
profanity.
God tells me to reject the lifestyle of the ungodly and that
works for me:
22 You shall
not lie with a male as with a woman. It
is an abomination. –
Leviticus 18: 22
NKJV
+++
13 If a man
lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an
abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood
shall be upon
them. – Leviticus 20: 13
NKJV
+++
16 For I am
not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,
[a] for
it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew
first and also for the Greek.
18 For the
wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
20 For since
the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even His eternal power and
Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because,
although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor
were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts
were darkened.22 Professing to be wise, they became
fools,
24 Therefore
God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor
their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the
truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile
passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against
nature. 27 Likewise
also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for
one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in
themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
28 And even
as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
32 who,
knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are
deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice
them. – (
Bold Emphasis is mine) Romans
1: 16, 18, 20-22, 24-28, 32
NKJV
I am using the AIM email as an intro and/or summary to the
report it is reporting which is by Peter LaBarbera. The LaBarbera Report looks
at real stats and facts which Homosexual activists obfuscate or downright lie.
JRH 8/20/16
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AIM Special Report:
Media Myths of the Homosexual-Transgender Agenda
Sent by AIM
Sent: 8/19/2016 9:11
AM
The mainstream media have promoted a number of myths about
homosexuality and transgenderism, including that being gay has a genetic
component.
A
new AIM Special Report by Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans
for Truth, explodes this and other myths that are harming American society by
helping to promote the acceptance of sexual lifestyles that are both unsafe and
immoral.
The LGBT media lobby is working overtime to convince
Americans that gays are a major force in America, and that there are
significant numbers of homosexuals and transgenders. In reality, these
individuals account for about 3 percent of the population, yet have an
oversized effect on popular culture and political correctness.
“Some researchers are coming forth with alternative theories
linking the development of adult homosexual identity to childhood trauma, e.g.,
incest between twins or child molestation,” writes LaBarbera in the AIM Special
Report. “Interestingly, two prominent openly homosexual TV personalities—CNN’s
Don Lemon and MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts—were sexually assaulted as boys by
homosexual adult predators.”
o
The assertion that 10 percent of the population
are LGBT is an unsupported myth.
o
Transsexual “sex reassignment surgeries” often
do not produce happiness, and many of these individuals consider suicide
post-operation.
o
LGBT activists are pushing radical “transgender”
ideology on children, even to the point of encouraging underage kids to get
body-destroying surgeries.
o
Children who are raised in homosexual and
transsexual households are suffering.
Instead of the media promoting this “alternative lifestyle,”
Americans desperately need the press to educate society about its inherent
risks.
For more information,
or to arrange an interview with Peter LaBarbera, contact Spencer Irvine at 202-364-4401, ext. 103, or preferably
by email at spencer.irvine@aim.org.
***********
Media Myths of the
Homosexual-Transgender Agenda
By Peter LaBarbera
August 19, 2016
Warning: This report contains some offensive descriptions
The purpose of this report is to expose and refute some of
the longstanding statistical lies and propagandistic myths of the LGBT
(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) activist movement. With media support,
homosexual and leftist activists now openly campaign to banish dissenting
conservative voices. This dangerous dynamic gives the homosexual-transgender
lobby nearly full rein to advance its agenda, which now includes:
o
Levying large fines to punish Christians and
traditionalists who do not want to participate with their small business in
homosexual “weddings”;
o
Criminalizing pro-heterosexual
change therapy for
sexually confused minors;
o
Using the government to force schools and
businesses to allow “transgenders”—e.g., men who think they are women—to use
public female (opposite-sex) restrooms and locker rooms;
o
Using LGBT “nondiscrimination” laws to mandate
that public schools and businesses punish anyone who does not adhere to
politically-correct transgender-inclusive language—such as using “zir” instead
of “her.” New York City now demands “respect” for
31 “gender identities,”
including “genderqueer,” “third sex” and “pangender”;
o
Taxpayer-funding for horrifying,
body-disfiguring “sex reassignment surgeries,” e.g., a woman having her healthy
breasts surgically removed to look like a flat-chested “man,” or a man having
his penis surgically destroyed to craft a makeshift “vagina”;
o
Allowing transsexuals into the U.S. military,
and paying for their destructive, gender-bending “surgeries” in the name of
“health care”;
o awash is the public in pro-homosexual propaganda that a
2011 Gallup poll found the average American “guesstimated” that a
whopping
25 percent of the population is “gay.” (Women
and people under 30 put the number even higher, at around 30 percent.)
The
actual percentage of homosexual men, lesbians and bisexuals in the U.S.
population is just 2.3 percent (see below).
The 10 Percent Myth
The “10 percent” myth is one of the most enduring propaganda
claims of the homosexual activist movement. Concocted in the late 1970s
by
Bruce Voeller, founder of the
National Gay Task Force (predecessor of today’s
National
LGBTQ Task Force), it was accompanied by the slogan, “We Are
Everywhere.”
Thus, just as “gay” militants pressured and bullied
America’s mental health professionals to remove homosexuality from the list of
mental disorders in 1973, they greatly exaggerated the homosexual population to
expand their political power in subsequent years. And the media duly cooperated
by promoting the statistical sham. For decades American reporters treated the
10 percent claim—a misreading of deviant, pioneering
“sexologist” Alfred Kinsey’s discredited
research—as fact, using it to “report” huge numbers of alleged
homosexuals in society.
The 10 percent myth served its purpose of projecting
enormous “gay” political strength when the movement was still weak. But study
after study came up with estimates of the homosexual-bisexual population under
5 percent. A
massive 2014 survey of
35,557 Americans by the federal National Center for Health Statistics dealt a
death blow to the Ten Percent claim. It found that only 1.6 percent of those
polled identified as “gay or lesbian,” while 0.7 percent said they were
“bisexual.” In 2011 the pro-LGBT
Williams Institute at UCLA estimated
that 0.3 percent identified as transgender. Thus a combined estimate for homosexuals,
bisexuals and transgenders in America is around 3 percent.
Born Gay?—No Way
Another popular “gay” activist myth is the notion that
homosexuals are “born that way.” This convenient narrative—stoked for many
years by LGBT advocates—takes morality out of the homosexual debate by
suggesting that homosexuals are not responsible for their sexual behaviors
because “being gay” is a genetic part of “who they are.”
From a scientific perspective, however, the “born gay”
myth—like its bogus “10 Percent Gay” counterpart—has fallen on hard times. In
the 1990s, talk of a “gay gene” was all the rage after then-closeted homosexual
researcher Dean Hamer published a
media-ballyhooed 1993 study
in the journal
Science purporting to find a “genetic marker”
for male homosexual “orientation.” But
Science could not replicate
its own study, and
other attempts failed as well. Now genetic
homosexuality is no longer in vogue, although the
possibility of a “gay gene”
still excites reporters.
The most serious blow to the “gay gene” theory has come from
identical twin studies. Once used to promote the idea of inborn homosexuality,
they are now widely seen as demonstrating the opposite.
Dr.
Neil Whitehead, one of the world’s leading conservative researchers
on the issue states:
“From six studies (2000-2011): if
an identical twin has same-sex attraction the chances that the co-twin has it
too, are only about 11% for men and 14% for women.”
“Because they have identical DNA [concordance on sexual
orientation it] ought to be 100 percent”
Dr. Whitehead told OrthodoxNet.com.
Childhood Trauma and “Gayness”
Finally, some researchers are coming forth with alternative
theories linking the development of adult homosexual identity to childhood
trauma, e.g., incest between twins or child molestation. (Interestingly, two
prominent openly homosexual TV personalities—CNN’s
Don Lemon and
MSNBC’s
Thomas Roberts—were sexually
assaulted as boys by homosexual adult predators.)
A 2015 study led by Keith Beard and published in the journal
Cogent Psychology found
that, “Same-sex sibling incest also significantly increased the likelihood that
participants would self-identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or questioning
(rather than homosexual).”
Notably, the authors of the study took pains to issue a
gay-affirming disclaimer: “Our results were consistent with the idea that the
sexual orientation of adults cannot be changed.”
Is it not cruel to tell a man who was raped as a boy by an
adult pervert—or seduced into incestuous sex by an older brother—that he is now
destined to be stuck with a deviant and immoral sexual identity for the rest of
his life? With so many ex-“gays” like
Dennis Jernigan proclaiming
freedom from past homosexuality, how can anyone—journalist, gay activist or
scholar—claim that adults cannot change their “sexual orientation?”
The “Born Gay” Myth Is Still Popular
Tragically, despite growing evidence to the contrary, about
half of Americans surveyed still believe that homosexuals are “born that way,”
according to a
2015 Gallup poll. Gallup has
polled on this and other homosexual issues every year since 1977. In that
initial year, only 13 percent of Americans believed people were “born with”
homosexuality while 56 percent cited a person’s “upbringing and environment” as
the main causative factors. By 2013, those findings were reversed, and a record
51 percent of respondents believed homosexuals were born with that inclination
while a record low of 30 percent cited environmental factors.
Such data shows the tremendous, suffocating power of the
media to drive the “gay” debate. Now the same media are working overtime to
mainstream transgenderism, which is also said to be
an
innate condition.
Homosexuals Can Change
There is no truth despised by homosexual activists more than
the simple reality that people who once lived as “gay” or lesbian (or
“transgender”) can change and live honorably according to the natural, created
purpose of their bodies before God. Homosexual activists continue to assert
that people cannot change their “sexual orientation”—ignoring the many testimonies
of people like
Stephen Black and
Dr. Rosaria Butterfield who
have overcome the pull of homosexuality in their lives. See this
Mastering
Life Ministries website for video testimonials of
ex-homosexuals. Notably, ex-“gays” rarely get serious treatment in the
media—rewarding the lobby efforts of powerful LGBT media pressure groups
like
GLAAD.
Now the pro-homosexual lobby, including leftist allied
groups like the
Southern Poverty Law Center—mislabeled
as a “
civil rights group” by news
organizations—have taken it up a notch by pushing for state and national laws
to
ban pro-heterosexual change therapy for minors. Such
anti-freedom laws now exist in California, Oregon, New Jersey, Illinois,
Vermont and the District of Columbia. President Obama has endorsed a federal
bill designed to ban so-called “conversion” (change) therapy for minors. This
highly dangerous legislation would curtail the freedom of parents and
children—including those victimized by homosexual predators—to pursue the
healthy change they desire.
Dangerous “Sex Reassignment” Surgeries
Walt Heyer is a
former transsexual who
went through “male-to-female” “sex reassignment surgery” to become his female
alter ego (“Laura”). Heyer was not “born transgender” but instead the childhood
victim of some tragic circumstances—including a grandmother who dressed him up
in fancy dress when he was a little boy. Now he has regained his natural male
identity and urges gender-confused men not to go through the radical operations
and hormone therapy to pursue a fantasy. See Heyer’s website,
SexChangeRegret.com.
Heyer cites the
testimony of Dr. Paul McHugh,
the Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, who shut down the university’s “sex reassignment surgery” program
after studying the outcomes of men who went through the “sex change” operations
compared to those who did not. Wrote McHugh in 2014:
“Most of the surgically treated
patients described themselves as ‘satisfied’ by the results, but their
subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn’t have
the surgery. And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since
producing a ‘satisfied’ but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason
for surgically amputating normal organs.”
Transgenderism Harms Children
Dr. McHugh saves his most devastating critique for those
adults who would foist radical transsexual surgeries and hormone treatments on
the very young and
gender-confused teenagers (emphasis
added):
“Another subgroup consists of young
men and women susceptible to suggestion from “everything is normal” sex
education, amplified by Internet chat groups. These are the transgender
subjects most like anorexia nervosa patients: They become persuaded that
seeking a drastic physical change will banish their psycho-social problems.
“Diversity” counselors in their schools, rather like cult leaders, may
encourage these young people to distance themselves from their families and
offer advice on rebutting arguments against having transgender surgery. Treatments
here must begin with removing the young person from the suggestive environment
and offering a counter-message in family therapy.
“Then there is the subgroup of very
young, often prepubescent children who notice distinct sex roles in the culture
and, exploring how they fit in, begin imitating the opposite sex. Misguided
doctors at medical centers including Boston’s Children’s Hospital have begun
trying to treat this behavior by administering puberty-delaying hormones to
render later sex-change surgeries less onerous—even though the drugs stunt the
children’s growth and risk causing sterility. Given that close to 80
percent of such children would abandon their confusion and grow naturally into
adult life if untreated, these medical interventions come close to child abuse. A
better way to help these children: with devoted parenting.”
To echo Dr. McHugh’s warning, the American College of
Pediatricians, a pro-family alternative to the reliably pro-homosexual American
Academy of Pediatricians, recently put out an outstanding statement, “
Gender Ideology Harms Children,”
which includes among its points:
o
Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones
can be dangerous…
o
According to the DSM-V [the APA’s diagnostic
manual for mental disorders] as many as 98 percent of gender confused boys and
88 percent of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex
after naturally passing through puberty.
o
Children who use puberty blockers to impersonate
the opposite sex will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence. Cross-sex
hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with dangerous health risks
including but not limited to high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke and
cancer.
o
Rates of suicide are 20 times greater among
adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in
Sweden which is among the most LGBTQ—affirming countries.
o
Conditioning children into believing that a
lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal
and healthy is child abuse.
Children of Homosexuals and Transgenders Suffer
Homosexual activists rely on “gay”-authored research with
sloppy methodology to claim that there is “no difference” between homosexual
and normal, mom-and-dad households—and sometimes assert that “gay”-led
parenting is superior to the traditional variety. But again,
the facts suggest otherwise.
Writes
Jamie Bryan Hall, citing the
work of Catholic University sociology professor Dr. Paul Sullins, who analyzed
data from the federal National Health Interview Survey from 1997 to 2013:
“Controlling for child sex, age, and race and parents’
education and income, Dr. Sullins finds that children of parents in same-sex
relationships fare significantly worse than those of opposite-sex parents on
nine of 12 measures of emotional or developmental problems and their use of
mental health treatment. In general, children of parents in same-sex
relationships are about two to three times more likely to experience such
problems.
In his most extensive statistical analysis, in which he also
takes into account relationship stability, stigmatization, and parents’
psychological distress, Sullins finds the prevalence of emotional problems
among children living with same-sex parents to be 4.5 times as high as among
children living with their married biological parents, three times as high as
children living with a married stepparent, 2.5 times as high as those with
cohabiting parents, and three times as high as children with a single parent.”
There are now many moving firsthand testimonies available
from men and women who grew up in homes with homosexual or transsexual parents.
See Dawn Stefanowicz’s testimony of
life
with her promiscuous “gay” dad, and Denise Shick’s story of living
with a selfish,
cross-dressing father.
Homosexuals and Health Problems
In every area of life, “gay” activists apply their
egalitarian formula to posit a moral equivalence between homosexuality and normalcy
(heterosexuality). But what
Dr. Sullins wrote in 2004
remains true today:
“Like abortion, homosexuality is
associated with increased problems of mental health and distress. Though rarely
acknowledged in popular media or discourse, emerging epidemiological evidence
in the past decade has clearly established a link between homosexuality and
mental illness or emotional problems.”
The Obama administration’s successful campaign to allow male
homosexuals to donate blood has exposed how the LGBT lobby is more concerned
about scoring another “gay rights” win than protecting our nation’s blood
supply. It is as if the many thousands of stories over the last few decades
including those about the AIDS crisis—showing the high correlation between “Men
who have Sex with Men” (MSM) and various diseases—had never been published.
Consider these facts from the Centers for Disease Control
CDC (emphasis added):
o
Hepatitis—“New research shows
that gay men who are HIV-positive and have multiple sex partners may increase
their risk for Hepatitis C.”
o
Shigellosis—“Anyone can get
shigellosis but it is recognized more often in young children. Those who may be
at greater risk include children in daycare centers, foreign travelers to
certain countries, institutionalized people
and people exposed to human feces through sexual contact.”
More than 25 years ago, Americans were shocked as “gay”
activists and educators introduced children’s picture books like
Daddy’s
Roommate and
Heather Has Two Mommies to indoctrinate
children into accepting homosexual behavior and “gay families” as natural and
harmless. Now a new generation of very young children is growing up with picture
books like
My Princess Boy (
available at Walmart.com) that
popularize and glamorize extreme gender confusion.
Unless citizens demand an end to the media’s incessant
promotion of the gay and transgender agenda, it will be too late to return
America to a state of sexual sanity, in which the health and well-being of our
children is protected, instead of being undermined.
Helpful Websites
Mastering Life Ministries—Features
dozens of heart-warming ex-“gay” video testimonials and is founded by former
homosexual David Kyle Foster; a Christian site that also contains resources on
overcoming: sex and porn addiction, child sexual abuse and transgender
confusion
CDC has a site on STDs and Gay & Bisexual Men—The
federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is strongly
pro-homosexual, but its reports provide ample evidence on the relationship
between homosexual/bisexual behavior and disease. Start
here.
RobGagnon.net—A site by Prof. Robert Gagnon, a leading
authority on the Bible and homosexuality
Help 4 Families—A transgender resource, a Christian
ministry to families of transsexuals headed up by Denise Shick, whose own
father desired to be a woman
mygenes.co.nz—Dr. Neil Whitehead’s “My Genes” website; a
leading site presenting academic research debunking genetic homosexuality; Dr.
Whitehead is the author of
My Genes Made Me Do It: Homosexuality and
the Scientific Evidence
Public Discourse—Witherspoon
Institute site with excellent essays on homosexuality and gender issues
Heritage Foundation—Heritage Foundation discusses family
and marriage issues; has excellent public policy research
AmericansForTruth.org – Americans For Truth About
Homosexuality (AFTAH) reports on and confronts the homosexual/transgender
agenda.
____________
Peter LaBarbera is
president of Americans For Truth About
Homosexuality (AFTAH.org), and a former reporter for the Washington Times. He can be reached
by email: americansfortruth@gmail.com
