Posted on 08/22/2016 10:18:46 AM PDT by HomerBohn
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:
Levying large fines to punish Christians and traditionalists who do not want to participate with their small business in homosexual weddings;
Criminalizing pro-heterosexual change therapy for sexually confused minors;
Using the government to force schools and businesses to allow transgenderse.g., men who think they are womento use public female (opposite-sex) restrooms and locker rooms;
Using LGBT nondiscrimination laws to mandate that public schools and businesses punish anyone who does not adhere to politically-correct transgender-inclusive languagesuch as using zir instead of her. New York City now demands respect for 31 gender identities, including genderqueer, third sex and pangender;
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;
Allowing transsexuals into the U.S. military, and paying for their destructive, gender-bending surgeries in the name of health care;
Encouraging young people to adopt opposite-sex gender identitieseven going so far as encouraging underage children to take hormones to offset pubertyin a futile attempt to become the opposite sexor worse: allowing minor boys and girls to have their sexual organs surgically mutilated to appear like the opposite-sex; and
Teaching very young childreneven kindergartnersto accept homosexuality and the radical transgender idea that they can choose a gender identity that does not match their biological sex.
So 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 todays National LGBTQ Task Force), it was accompanied by the slogan, We Are Everywhere.
Thus, just as gay militants pressured and bullied Americas 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 claima misreading of deviant, pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinseys discredited researchas 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 narrativestoked for many years by LGBT advocatestakes 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 mythlike its bogus 10 Percent Gay counterparthas 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 Sciencepurporting 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 worlds 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 personalitiesCNNs Don Lemon and MSNBCs Thomas Robertswere 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 pervertor seduced into incestuous sex by an older brotherthat 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 anyonejournalist, gay activist or scholarclaim 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 persons 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 orientationignoring 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 mediarewarding 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 Centermislabeled as a civil rights group by news organizationshave 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 childrenincluding those victimized by homosexual predatorsto 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 circumstancesincluding 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 Heyers 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 universitys 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 didnt 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 Bostons Childrens Hospital have begun trying to treat this behavior by administering puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerouseven though the drugs stunt the childrens 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. McHughs 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:
Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous
According to the DSM-V [the APAs 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.
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.
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 LGBTQaffirming countries.
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 householdsand 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 Stefanowiczs testimony of life with her promiscuous gay dad, and Denise Shicks 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 administrations 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 nations blood supply. It is as if the many thousands of stories over the last few decades including those about the AIDS crisisshowing the high correlation between Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) and various diseaseshad never been published. Consider these facts from the Centers for Disease Control CDC (emphasis added):
HIVIn 2011 an astonishing 94 to 95 percent of new HIV cases among males ages 13 to 24 were linked to MSM (Men who have Sex with Men).
Syphilis84 percent of new syphilis cases were linked to MSM in 2012effectively making it the new gay disease.
HepatitisNew research shows that gay men who are HIV-positive and have multiple sex partners may increase their risk for Hepatitis C.
ShigellosisAnyone 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 childrens picture books like Daddys 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 medias 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.
A perverted phony president who announces that the disgraced White Hut will hire as many 'transgendered' nut cases as can be shoved into the White Hut and its annex.
Lies on top of lies, multiplied by lies. The Homo-Nazi agenda has been folded where it truly belongs into the Democrat Party. Exclude God and adopt "reprobate mind" (dementia)...that is the present day Leftist Democrat agenda.
This one always gets me. It's impossible for a 'gay' person to become straight, yet it's perfectly normal for a man married for years, with children, to suddenly decide he's gay.
There is no such thing as homosexuality: There is no functional form of the sex act that can take place between two persons of the same sex.
A more accurate term would be homoeroticism: the eroticization of intimate contact between two persons of the same sex.
You are right.
It’s a bizarre way for two perverts to achieve a filthy animalistic orgasm. The ingestion of fecal matter is a necessary component of their sexual behavior.
No wonder they get sick and no wonder many kill themselves.
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LOL! They give a whole new literal meaning to the old insult, “Eat sh!t and die!”
“There is no such thing as homosexuality.”
Let’s call it what it is: coprophilia.
Defined as a fetish in which a person is sexually aroused by the sight, smell, and taste of fecal matter.
You talk about s__t.
Sounds like a winning strategy so far.
Here’s the correct link for this story:
http://barbwire.com/2016/08/22/media-myths-homosexual-transgender-agenda/
Thanks.
I don’t know how I did that.
It’s only the link to the picture of the faggots bravely totting their flag that reminds one of vomit, down the boulevard.
No prob. Happens to many of us who post a lot.
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