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10 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN and LESBIANS Dissecting the Claims Used by the Hard-Line Religious Right to Demonize the LGBT Community 10 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN AND LESBIANS Dissecting the Claims Used by the Hard-Line Religious Right to Demonize the LGBT Community A SPECIAL REPORT BY THE Southern Poverty Law Center Montgomery, Alabama www.splcenter.org heterosexual because “he often finds adults of either sex repul- sive” and often molests children of both sexes. Regressive child molesters are generally attracted to other adults, but may 10 MYTHS “regress” to focusing on children Battling the ‘homosexual agenda,’ the hard- when confronted with stressful situations. Groth found that the line religious right has made a series of majority of regressed offenders incendiary claims. But they’re just not true were heterosexual in their adult relationships. BY EVELYN SCHLATTER AND ROBERT STEINBACK The Child Molestation Research and Prevention Ever since born-again singer and orange juice pitchwoman Anita Bryant Institute notes that 90% of child helped kick off the contemporary anti-gay movement more than 30 years molesters target children in ago, hard-line elements of the religious right have been searching for ways their network of family and to demonize homosexuals — or, at a minimum, to find arguments that will friends. Most child molesters, therefore, are not gay people prevent their normalization in society. For the former Florida beauty queen lingering outside schools wait- and her Save Our Children group, it was the alleged plans of gays and les- ing to snatch children from the bians to “recruit” in schools that provided the fodder for their crusade. But playground, as much religious- in addition to hawking that myth, the legions of anti-gay activists who fol- right rhetoric suggests. lowed have added a panoply of others, ranging from the extremely doubtful MYTH # 2 claim that homosexuality is a choice, to unalloyed lies like the claims that Same-sex parents harm gays molest children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws children. will lead to the legalization of bestiality and necrophilia. These fairy tales are important to the anti-gay right, because they form the basis of its claim THE ARGUMENT Most hard-line anti-gay orga- that homosexuality is a social evil that must be suppressed — an opinion nizations are heavily invested, rejected by virtually all relevant medical and scientific authorities. They from both a religious and a polit- also almost certainly contribute to hate crime violence directed at homo- ical standpoint, in promoting the sexuals, who are more targeted for such attacks than any other minority in traditional nuclear family as the America. What follows are 10 key myths propagated by the anti-gay move- sole framework for the healthy upbringing of children. They ment, along with the truth behind the propaganda. maintain a reflexive belief that same-sex parenting must be harmful to children — although the exact nature of that sup- gist Paul Cameron, the most leading researchers on preju- posed harm varies widely. MYTH # 1 ubiquitous purveyor of anti- dice against sexual minorities, THE FACTS Homosexuals molest gay junk science, has been a reviewed a series of studies and No legitimate research has children at far higher rates major promoter of this myth. found no evidence that gay men demonstrated that same-sex than heterosexuals. Despite having been debunked molest children at higher rates couples are any more or any less repeatedly and very publicly, than heterosexual men. harmful to children than hetero- THE ARGUMENT Cameron’s work is still widely Anti-gay activists who make sexual couples. Depicting gay men as a threat relied upon by anti-gay orga- that claim allege that all men The American Academy to children may be the sin- nizations, although many no who molest male children should of Pediatrics in a 2002 policy gle most potent weapon for longer quote him by name. be seen as homosexual. But statement declared: “A grow- stoking public fears about THE FACTS research by A. Nicholas Groth, ing body of scientific literature homosexuality — and for win- According to the American a pioneer in the field of sexual demonstrates that children ning elections and referenda, Psychological Association, abuse of children, shows that is who grow up with one or two as Anita Bryant found out “homosexual men are not more not so. Groth found that there gay and/or lesbian parents fare during her successful 1977 likely to sexually abuse chil- are two types of child molest- as well in emotional, cognitive, campaign to overturn a Dade dren than heterosexual men ers: fixated and regressive. The social, and sexual functioning as County, Fla., ordinance bar- are.” Gregory Herek, a professor fixated child molester — the ste- do children whose parents are ring discrimination against gay at the University of California, reotypical pedophile — cannot heterosexual.” That policy state- people. Discredited psycholo- Davis, who is one of the nation’s be considered homosexual or ment was reaffirmed in 2009. The American Psychological THE FACTS his Family Research Institute, ulently anti-gay founder of Association found that “same- No scientifically sound study specifically a 1994 paper he co- Abiding Truth Ministries and sex couples are remarkably has linked sexual orientation or wrote entitled, “The Lifespan of Abrams is an organizer of a similar to heterosexual couples, identity with parental role-mod- Homosexuals.” Using obituaries group called the International and that parenting effective- eling or childhood sexual abuse. collected from gay newspapers, Committee for Holocaust Truth, ness and the adjustment, The American Psychiatric he and his two co-authors con- which came together in 1994 development and psycholog- Association noted in a 2000 cluded that gay men died, on and included Lively as a member. ical well-being of children is fact sheet on gay, lesbian and average, at 43, compared to an The primary argument Lively unrelated to parental sexual bisexual issues that “no specific average life expectancy at the and Abrams make is that gay orientation.” psychosocial or family dynamic time of around 73 for all U.S. men. people were not victimized by Similarly, the Child Welfare cause for homosexuality has On the basis of the same obit- the Holocaust. Rather, Hitler League of America’s official been identified, including histo- uaries, Cameron also claimed deliberately sought gay men for position with regard to same- ries of childhood sexual abuse.” that gay men are 18 times more his inner circle because their sex parents is that “lesbian, gay, The fact sheet goes on to say likely to die in car accidents than “unusual brutality” would help and bisexual parents are as well- that sexual abuse does not heterosexuals, 22 times more him run the party and master- suited to raise children as their appear to be any more preva- likely to die of heart attacks than mind the Holocaust. In fact, heterosexual counterparts.” lent among children who grow whites, and 11 times more likely “the Nazi party was entirely up and identify as gay, les- than blacks to die of the same controlled by militaristic MYTH # 3 bian or bisexual than in children cause. He also concluded that male homosexuals through- People become homosexual who grow up and identify as lesbians are 487 times more likely out its short history,” the book because they were sexually heterosexual. to die of murder, suicide, or acci- claims. “While we cannot say abused as children or there Similarly, the National dents than straight women. that homosexuals caused the was a deficiency in sex-role Organization on Male Sexual Remarkably, these claims Holocaust, we must not ignore modeling by their parents. Victimization notes on its web- have become staples of the their central role in Nazism,” site that “experts in the human anti-gay right and have fre- Lively and Abrams add. “To the THE ARGUMENT sexuality field do not believe quently made their way into far myth of the ‘pink triangle’ — the Many anti-gay rights propo- that premature sexual experi- more mainstream venues. For notion that all homosexuals in nents claim that homosexuality ences play a significant role in example, William Bennett, edu- Nazi Germany were persecuted is a mental disorder caused by late adolescent or adult sexual cation secretary under President — we must respond with the some psychological trauma or orientation” and added that it’s Reagan, used Cameron’s statis- reality of the ‘pink swastika.’” aberration in childhood. This unlikely that someone can make tics in a 1997 interview he gave These claims have been argument is used to counter the another person a homosexual or to ABC News’ “This Week.” picked up by a number of anti- common observation that no heterosexual. However, like virtually all of gay groups and individuals, one, gay or straight, consciously With regard to Schumm’s his “research,” Cameron’s meth- including Bryan Fischer of the chooses his or her sexual ori- study, critics have already said odology is egregiously flawed American Family Association, entation. Joseph Nicolosi, that he appears to have merely — most obviously because as proof that homosexuals a founder of the National aggregated anecdotal data, a the sample he selected (the are violent and sick. The book Association for Research and biased sample that invalidates data from the obits) was not has also attracted an audience Therapy of Homosexuality, said his findings. remotely statistically repre- among anti-gay church leaders in 2009 that “if you trauma- sentative of the homosexual in Eastern Europe and among tize a child in a particular way, MYTH # 4 population as a whole. Even Russian-speaking anti-gay you will create a homosexual Homosexuals don’t Nicholas Eberstadt, a demog- activists in America. condition.” He also has repeat- live nearly as long as rapher at the conservative THE FACTS edly said, “Fathers, if you don’t heterosexuals.
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