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Unmasking the Religious Right War on Gay America January 1, 2013 | By Alvin McEwen

"…one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it ‘love’” – Matt Barber, Liberty Counsel (top) “ …a sexual disability preventing certain individuals from participating in the normal reproductive patterns of the human species.” – Maggie Gallagher, National Organization for Marriage (center) “I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States, because we believe that homosexuality is destructive to society.” – Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council (bottom)

This picture of openly gay former Congressman Barney Frank as a leering, groping TSA agent was someone’s idea of a bad joke. The person with the warped sense of humor is Peter LaBarbera, president of an organization called Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. LaBarbera’s group claims to be exposing the so-called menace that gays are to American culture and so-called Christian values. But his defense of these Christian values adds up to making wild charges against gays, posting pictures of half naked gay men, huge pictures of sexually transmitted diseases, or demeaning photos of gays like the one above in a sad attempt to throw out negative generalizations about the gay community.

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On his own, LaBarbera is a laughing stock, an object of amusement in the gay community who has given him the moniker of Porno Pete

labeling homosexuality as a threat to societal order and wellness. And what’s worse, they use the religious belief which designates homosexuality to be a sin as a free license to sugarcoat their tactics as mere “expressions of their personal religious beliefs” and label every question regarding these tactics as an “attack on their religious liberty” or an attempt to “silence” them.

However, he and his organization are a minor part of a large network of organizations. These groups include the Family Research Council, the National Organization for Marriage, the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family, and a myriad of federal and state- wide organizations which all claim to stand for America’s supposed Judeo-Christian heritage.

What these groups do is nothing new and it’s certainly nothing Christian or moral about it. When any group spreads propaganda, it’s always “in defense” of something and it usually scapegoats a group undeserving of such hostilities. Whether it be the defense of “Southern culture,” the “German homeland,” or “Judeo-Christian values,” it all adds up to the same thing - isolating an innocent group as the essence of evil and claiming that if only said group were put in its place, the world would be a better place.

But their idea of Christian values seem to rely heavily on forgetting the ninth commandment against bearing false witness because these groups have declared war on the gay community and their weapons are propaganda designed exploit fear and religious beliefs. Through a clever use of junk science, misrepresented scientific work, outright lies, or – as seen by LaBarbera’s photo of Frank – demeaning images, they work to stand as a roadblock to any advancement of gay equality by stigmatizing the gay community and falsely

It’s a big lie and unfortunately, no one tells the lie better than religious right groups.

A Hard Look at Anti-Gay Propaganda

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In 1986, a man named Dick Hafer published a comic book, Deathstyle, which claimed that the gay community was a danger to society. The comic book received a number of endorsements including one from former U.S. Congressman William Dannemeyer . It also heavily used junk science studies from a discredited researcher named Paul Cameron. Cameron had been dismissed from several medical associations for his poor research methodologies. And among others things, he claimed that gay men stuff gerbils up their rectums. While many may find the images in this book comically outdated, pay attention to what they imply. As the next few pages demonstrate, religious right groups continue to spin the same anti-gay propaganda as Hafer but with a bit more subtlety. This proves that when religious right groups accuse the gay community of atrocities and “bad behavior,” they are following an old framework of lies in which they simply have to fill in the details in order to appeal to preconceived negative notions about gays:

Gays Have Dangerous Sexual Habits 1986

2012 “The God of the Bible made the human sperm, the God of the Bible designed it and it was not designed to be emptied into an area that is filled with feces, there is nothing for it to germinate with, it will most certainly mean the extinction of the human race. My belief is that if the medical community would just step forward and just would share with the American people what happens to the male anus, the problems that homosexuals have with their rectums, the damage that is done, the operations that are needed to sew up their bodies if you will, and how many of the men don’t even give these stitches time to heal before they are back out there practicing that wicked behavior. Some are bleeders, men who are not turned off by ingesting the feces of other men.” – North Carolina pastor Patrick Wooden. Wooden was an ally of the National Organization for Marriage in the organization’s successful attempt to ban marriage equality in the state of NC.

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Gays Have Diseases With Which They Infect the Heterosexual Community 1986

2006 Gay marriage will “encourage children to experiment with homosexuality. This will put more kids at risk for HIV, hepatitis A, B and C, ‘gay bowel syndrome,*’ human papillomavirus (HPV), syphilis, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases.” – Gay Marriage is not only wrong, it’s destructive – Robert Knight, draftsman of federal Defense of Marriage Act *Gay bowel syndrome does not exist.

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Gays Want “Access” to Children for the Purpose of “Recruiting” or Molestation 1986

2010 and onward “The homosexual activist lobby is an insatiable beast . . . they absolutely want to turn our public schools into indoctrination centers . . .” – Matt Barber, Liberty Counsel. (shown) “While activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two. … It is a homosexual problem.” – FRC President Tony Perkins, FRC website, 2010 “I disagree with the assessment that there’s no solid social science research behind the connection between homosexuality and pedophilia*. I believe the research is strong. I believe it is impeccable.” – Bryan Fischer, American Family Association #Major medical and mental health groups, including the American Psychological Association, have said that homosexuality and pedophilia are NOT linked.

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Passing Pro-Gay Laws Will Cause Havoc 2010

1986

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Gays Have a Natural Tendency Toward Violent Behavior 1986 2010

"So Hitler himself was an active homosexual. And some people wonder, didn't the Germans, didn't the Nazis, persecute homosexuals? And it is true they did; they persecuted effeminate homosexuals. . . And Hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious enough to carry out his orders, but that homosexual solders basically had no limits and the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on whomever Hitler sent them after. So he surrounded himself, virtually all of the Stormtroopers, the Brownshirts, were male homosexuals.” – Bryan Fischer, American Family Association

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Religious Right Cherry-Picking Often Elicits Complaints One major difference between Hafer’s propaganda and propaganda spread by groups like the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, Focus on the Family, the National Organization for Marriage, etc is that the latter relies heavily on scientific studies. However, whenever you watch, hear, or read religious right spokespeople citing research to prove their negative theories about homosexuality and the gay community, it’s important to note that these individuals are not scientists or researchers. Often times, they have no degrees in sociology, psychiatry, pediatrics, or any other field dealing with physical, sexual, and mental health of the gay community. And despite the fact that they may have titles such as “policy expert” or policy analyst,” they are not on a news program to offer credible analysis. What they offer via interviews and published works are falsehoods which they create through underhanded tactics such as cherry-picking. Cherry-picking is deliberately misusing passages from credible scientific work to provide a negative view of the gay community, even if the original study offers the exact opposite view. An example of this would be Family Research Council spokesman Peter Sprigg’s published work, The Top Ten Myths About Homosexuality. One of the points Sprigg makes is that homosexuality in itself is a “negative lifestyle.” He provides proof from a pro-gay medical source (the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association - GLMA) to claim that gays and lesbians have a natural problem with depression, anxiety, and drug abuse. However, Sprigg omits that the GLMA also said that these negative behaviors are not indicative of being a gay or lesbian but rather are triggers as a result of homophobia, discrimination, and a lack of a good social support system. And there is also this example from Sprigg’s organization: Studies indicate that the average male homosexual has hundreds of sex partners in his lifetime, a lifestyle that is difficult for even "committed" homosexuals to break free of and which is not conducive to a healthy and wholesome atmosphere for the raising of children. A. P. Bell and M. S. Weinberg, in their classic study of male and female homosexuality, found that 43 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with five hundred or more partners, with 28 percent having 1,000 or more sex partners – Homosexual Parenting: Placing Children at Risk When you read that, you get the impression that gay men are generally promiscuous. However, looking at all the facts behind this study, one would see it as another example of deliberate misinterpretation. Alan Bell and Martin Weinberg’s study was compiled in the early 1970s. They used the study to write the book Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity among Men and Women. In Homosexualities is this statement: “. . . given the variety of circumstances which discourage homosexuals from participating in research studies, it is unlikely that any investigator will ever be in a position to say that this or that is true of a given percentage of all homosexuals.” The Family Research Council isn’t the only religious right group to misrepresent scientific work. This is proven by the many times in which physicians, professors, and researchers have complained publicly about how their work has been distorted to give a falsely negative view of the gay community. The following are a number of these individuals. And their 8

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complaints prove the same notion that the demeaning statements and graphics on pgs 2-7 do. Religious right groups do not operate on facts, but preconceived inaccuracies about the gay community. Worse than that, through their bastardization of legitimate research, they diligently exploit these inaccuracies; a most un-Christian tactic: 1. A Nicholas Groth

2. Dr. Carol Gilligan

June 10, 2002

Dear Dr. (James) Dobson,

Timothy J. Dailey, Ph.D. FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL 801 G Street N.W. Washington, DC 2001

I am writing to ask that you cease and desist from quoting my research in the future. I was mortified to learn that you had distorted my work this week in a guest column you wrote in Time Magazine. Not only did you take my research out of context, you did so without my knowledge to support discriminatory goals that I do not agree with.

Dear Dr. Dailey: On the web site www.frc.org you reference my work in your article on “Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse”. I am writing you to object to my name and research being associated in any way, shape, or form to lend legitimacy to the views proposed in your paper.

What you wrote was not truthful and I ask that you refrain from ever quoting me again and that you apologize for twisting my work. From what I understand, this is not the first time you have manipulated research in pursuit of your goals. This practice is not in the best interest of scientific inquiry, nor does bearing false witness serve your purpose of furthering morality and strengthening the family. Finally, there is nothing in my research that would lead you to draw the stated conclusions you did in the Time article. My work in no way suggests same-gender families are harmful to children or can’t raise these children to be as healthy and well adjusted as those brought up in traditional households. I trust that this will be the last time my work is cited by Focus on the Family.

If you are, in fact, familiar with my research, you must realize that my studies have indicated that homosexual males pose less risk of sexual harm to children (both male and female)—from both an absolute and a percentage incidence rate—than heterosexual males. Your statement that “the evidence indicates that disproportionate numbers of gay men seek adolescent males or boys as sexual partners” appears to come from the assumption that if an adult male is attracted to a male child, this adult male’s sexual orientation is ipso facto homosexual. Since your report, in my view, misrepresents the facts of what we know about this matter from scientific investigation, and does not indicate that my studies on this topic reach conclusions diametrically opposed to yours; I would appreciate your removing any reference to my work in your paper lest it appear to the reader that my research supports your views.

Sincerely, Carol Gilligan, PhD, New York University, Professor

Yours truly, A. Nicholas Groth, Ph.D.

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3. Dr. Robert Garafalo

other religious right groups for distorting his report on sexual orientation and at-risk behavior among gay youth. The groups used Dr. Garafalo’s study in a 1998 full page ad as proof that homosexuals are substance abusers and all-around violent people. Garofalo contended that his research was saying that when gay teenagers abuse drugs or contemplate suicide, it is because of the homophobic society they face. - Boston doctor says ads distorted his work on gays, The Boston Globe , Aug. 4, 1998

“It’s a complete misrepresentation of my work. It was taken completely out of context. It comes to a complete opposite conclusion of what the paper actually said.” – Massachusetts pediatrician Robert Garafalo blasting the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, and 13

Other complaints include: National Institute of Health director Francis Collins, who called out religious right groups for falsely claiming that he stated sexual orientation is not hardwired by DNA. Six researchers of a 1997 Canadian study (Robert S. Hogg, Stefan A. Strathdee, Kevin J.P. Craib, Michael V. Shaughnessy, Julio Montaner, and Martin T. Schehter), who complained in 2001 that religious right groups were distorting their work to claim that gay men have a short life span. The authors of the book Unequal Opportunity: Health Disparities Affecting Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States (Professors Richard J. Wolitski, Ron Stall, and Ronald O. Valdiserri), who complained that their work was being distorted by Focus on the Family. University College London professor Michael King, who complained that the American Family Association was distorting his work on depression and suicide in LGBT individuals. University of Utah professor Lisa Diamond, who complained that religious right groups distorted her research on sexual orientation. Dr. Kyle Pruett, Ph.D., a professor of child psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, who has also complained that Focus on the Family distorted his work. Dr. Robert Spitzer, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, who has consistently complained that religious right groups distorted his study to claim that the LGBT orientation is easily changeable. In 2012, Spitzer apologized to the gay community for the original study which religious right groups were distorting. Judith Stacey, Professor of Sociology at New York University, who has had to, on more than one occasion, cry foul over how religious right groups distorted her work on LGBT families. Greg Remafedi, Professor at the University of Minnesota, who has complained several times about how religious right groups have distorted his work.

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Lack of coherence If you put the majority of religious right claims about the gay community together in an attempt to find cohesion, you would find many contradictions: Gays are sick people: •

“Facing the reality that you have unwanted homosexual feelings can cause tremendous turmoil - especially if those feelings conflict with deeply held values, beliefs and life goals. We know what it's like. We've been there.” – People can change” webpage



“Their [gay] minds are perverted, they’re frankly sick people psychologically, mentally, and emotionally.” – Bishop EW Jackson

Yet almost all gays make lots of money: •

“You know, I saw yesterday how much -- how much money the homosexual community has. I mean, good gracious, the average homosexual makes four times more than I do . . . I mean, they're not -- these people are not in poverty or hurting or denied or anything else.” – Donald Wildmon, American Family Association

Gays are only a small part of the population: •

“Relying on three large data sets: the General Social Survey, the National Health and Social Life Survey, and the U.S. census, a recent study in Demography estimates the number of exclusive male homosexuals in the general population at 2.5 percent and exclusive lesbians at 1.4 percent.” – Family Research Council in its inaccurate brief “Homosexuality an d Child Abuse”

Yet gays “control” the culture: •

“Homosexual activists in many ways, drive our culture, they decide what’s going to be in a movie, we see all the portrayals, homosexuals are the most positively portrayed in the movies and on television.” –Peter LaBarbera, Americans for Truth

Gays “bully” all of those who oppose them: 

Gay Marriage Advocates Use Political Intimidation to Stifle Research – a headline of an article in the conservative magazine, Crisis - August 7, 2012



“Instead, what we have is the gay Gestapo who go out and try to intimidate morally, economically, professionally, and personally anyone who speaks out against the homosexual agenda.” – Jeffrey Kuhner, The Washington Times

Gays “Recruit” children: 

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vast percentage of those who enter the homosexual life do so after having been sexually initiated by an older person of their sex—be it consensual or not—it usually has the feel of enticement or seduction.” – Kevin McCullough, The ‘Gay’ Truth, May 30, 2003 •

“. . . Folks who cannot reproduce want to recruit your children. What we are facing is a radical force of people who want to change what America looks for the next twenty years . . .” – Bishop Harry Jackson

And are plotting to either destroy or change America and “silence” Christians: •

“In history, there has never been a civilization that has embraced homosexuality and has turned away from traditional fidelity, traditional marriage, and traditional child-rearing and has survived. . . So you say, what’s going to happen to America? If history is any guide, the same thing is going to happen to us.” – Pat Robertson



“Those special gay rights would require Christians not to speak against –would require us Christians not to speak against homosexual rights . . . because if we did, we could be charged with bullying or censored for it.” – Buster Wilson, American Family Association



“Through a carefully crafted, decades-old propaganda campaign, homosexuals have successful cast homosexuals - many of whom enjoy positions of influence and affluence - as a disadvantage minority” – Matt Barber, Unmasking the “Gay” Agenda

And while generating all of this mayhem, gays still manage to find time to have all sorts of mind-boggling wild sex with multiple partners: •

“One study determined that homosexual males have from between 20 to 106 sexual partners per year. It’s no wonder that homosexual men account for over 50% of all hepatitis cases, and still account for over 50% of all AIDS cases despite the fact that they only make up 1-3% of the population.” – Matt Barber, The Gay Agenda vs. Family Values, December 12, 2004



“Fidelity is almost unheard of in homosexual relationships; the average number of partners for each person is eight. These relationships are not open—they are wide open. A homosexual publication, The Advocate, reports that 57 percent of its homosexual readers claimed they had sexual relations with 30 or more partners. Twentynine percent of their readers had anonymous bathhouse sex. A 1991 study of homosexual men in New York revealed an average of 308 sexual partners per man.” – Supremes Ruled Wisely: Arizona Can’t Afford Same Sex Marriage, The Arizona Conservative



“Homosexual activists claim their lifestyle, which in some cases includes thousands of sexual partners, should be sanctioned, protected, and granted special rights by society. Would you critique this stance?“ – a question on the Focus on the Family web page



“If you isolate sexuality as something solely for one’s own personal amusement, and all you want is the most satisfying orgasm you can get—and that is what homosexuality seems to be—then homosexuality seems too powerful to resist. The evidence is that men do a better job on men, and women on women if all you are looking for is an orgasm.” – Paul Cameron, Family Research Institute

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Final Word What needs to be taken away from this booklet is that religious right propaganda about the gay community is just that – propaganda. It is neither rooted in fact nor Biblical faith. The vile accusations that so-called family-oriented groups lodge against the gay community are no different than those lodged against African-Americans by white supremacists groups or accusations lodged against the Jewish community by anti-Semitic groups. They are all preconceived notions rooted in fear and lies. The only difference being that anti-gay propaganda is sometimes mistaken as “personal deeply held religious beliefs” and expressions of the Christian faith. And this dodge is very successful. According to watchdog site Media Matters, via its subsidiary Equality Matters, religious right groups have credibility in the press. Family Research Council head Tony Perkins appeared on cable news networks 56 times during the 2012 GOP primary. In addition, he has been lauded by newscasters as “honest” and “one of the country’s top family values conservatives.” Naturally, his past comments about the gay community rarely come up and his organization’s misuse of research never comes up. Also, Perkins’s organization and several others, including the National Organization for Marriage, have worked with state and federal legislators in crafting anti-gay laws. In addition, the Family Research Council, the National Organization for Marriage and other groups, such as Concerned Women for America, are generally invited to testify in front of Congress as if they are credible experts. Lastly, members of Congress are frequently guests of the American Family Association’s radio programs. In response to this, opinions in the gay community run the gambit from not caring to deeply concerned that these groups are given even one small shred of credibility. However, the thing not present in these opinions – the most vital thing – is a suitable plan to publicize religious right lies and tactics. Other than a small number of bloggers, the gay media hasn’t really taken the initiative to inform the community or the mainstream about the prevalence of religious right propaganda. There seems to be a dismissive disinterest in devoting real time to this endeavor. Other than GLAAD’s excellent Commentator Accountability Project created last year, the majority of work comes from non-gay publications such as Rolling Stone or Mother Jones or organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center, which took the risky initiative to designate some of these religious right organizations as hate groups in 2010. But ultimately, publicizing and combating religious right propaganda is the responsibility of the gay community and this includes our magazines, newspapers, and our television channels, such as LOGO, our media figures, organizations, and especially individual members of our community. However, until that initiative is taken, until the gay community stresses the need to combat religious right propaganda, nothing will change. Period.

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How They See Us: Unmasking the Religious Right War on Gay America is an online booklet compiled, researched, and edited by Alvin McEwen with layout by Van Le. Special thanks to: Joe Sudbay of Americablog Eddie Thompson and Jayson Myers Scott Wooledge of http://www.memeographs.com and https://www.facebook.com/memeographs People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch The Southern Poverty Law Center Equality Matters Truth Wins Out The webpage Comics With Problems GLAAD’s Commentator Accountability Project For an online copy of ‘How They See Us,’ go to http://tinyurl.com/n5e7nk4 Citations not included in the index are available as hard copies in Mr. McEwen’s personal files. Mr. McEwen also retains a hard copy of Deathstyle in his personal files. Alvin McEwen is a 42-year-old African-American gay man who resides in Columbia, SC. McEwen's blog, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, and writings have been mentioned by Americablog.com, Goodasyou.org, People for the American Way, PageOneQ.com, CNN.com, MSNBC, The Washington Post, Media Matters for America, Crooksandliars.com, Thinkprogress.org, Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, Newsweek, and Foxnews.com. In addition, he is also a contributor to Pam's House Blend, the Huffington Post, LGBTQ Nation, and Alternet.org. He is the 2007 recipient of the Harriet Daniels Hancock Volunteer of the Year Award and the 2010 recipient of the Order of the Pink Palmetto from the SC Pride Movement as well as the 2009 recipient of the Audre Lorde/James Baldwin Civil Rights Activist Award from SC Black Pride. In addition, he is a two-time nominee of the Ed Madden Media Advocacy Award from SC Pride.

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Index (all citations not included in the Index are retained as copies in Mr. McEwen’s personal files) Page 1 Comment by Matt Barber taken from Liberty Counsel May Lead Pullout of CPAC if Homosexual Group GOProud Remains as Co-Sponsor, Americans for Truth webpage, December 15, 2009 Comment by Maggie Gallagher taken from GLAAD Commentator Accountability Project Comment by Peter Sprigg taken from Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg Wants To Throw You In Jail, Box Turtle Bulletin, February 2, 2010 Picture of Barney Frank taken from Americans for Truth webpage, December 12, 2010 wild charges against gays - LaBarbera: Tammy Baldwin 'Hardly a Role Model,' Lacks 'Healthy, Wholesome Behaviors', Right-Wing Watch, November 14, 2012 posting pictures of half naked gay men – Various blogs on the Americans for Truth webpage including ‘Slavery’ and Public Nudity Return to San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair 2009, Americans for Truth webpage, September 29, 2009 huge pictures of sexually transmitted diseases - Medical Records Reveal Diseases and Maladies Associated with ‘Gay’ Sex and Homosexual Behavior, Americans for Truth webpage, February 19, 2012 demeaning photos of gay men - Did Barney Frank Find More Fulfilling Work at TSA?, Americans for Truth webpage, December 12, 2010 Page 2 Porno Pete – Dan Savage explains the origin of Porno Pete, The Advocate, November 20, 2012 Page 3 Paul Cameron – Intelligence File, Southern Poverty Law Center been dismissed – Paul Cameron Fact Sheet , http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_cameron_sheet.html stuff gerbils up their rectums – Anti-Gay Quotes from Paul Cameron , http://www.wiredstrategies.com/cameron.html th

Comment by Patrick Wooden taken from Patrick Wooden, Gay Men Need Butt Plugs, Ontop Magazine, January 18 , 2012 ally – North Carolina’s Anti-Marriage Leader has an anal obsession, Right Wing Watch, January 18, 2012 Page 4 Comment by Robert Knight taken from Gay Marriage is not only wrong, it’s socially destructive, Concerned Women for America webpage (article updated June 22, 2009) gay bowel syndrome – Gay Bowel Syndrome Struck From Textbook, Jon Garbo, December 21, 2004 Page 5 Comment by Matt Barber taken from Barber: Gay Rights Advocate Throwing Children Under the Bus, Right Wing Watch, December 12, 2012 Comment by Tony Perkins taken from Intelligence File, the Southern Poverty Law Center Comment by Bryan Fischer taken from Bryan Fischer Connects Gay Men and Pedophilia, Lesbians and Breast Cancer, The Huffington Post, September 11, 2012 Major medical and mental health care groups . . . – 10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Intelligence Report, Winter 2010 Page 7 Bryan Fischer’s comment taken from AFA’s Fischer Outdoes Himself, Right Wing Watch, May 25, 2010

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Page 8 The Top Ten Myths About Homosexuality – Top Ten Myths About Homosexuality is a Huge Homophobic Fraud, The Huffington Post, July 6, 2010 (disclosure – That article was written by Alvin McEwen, the author of this booklet). Homosexual Parenting: Placing Children at Risk - http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/DaileyGayAdopt.php Page 9 Dr Carol Gilligan’s complaint taken from James Dobson slammed by professor for distorting her research in Time magazine article on Mary Cheney’s pregnancy, Truth Wins Out, December 14, 2006 Dr. Robert Garafalo’s complaint taken from Boston doctor says ad distorts his work on gays, The Boston Globe, August 4, 1998 Dr. Francis Collins’ complaint taken from Francis Collins rebukes the American College of Pediatricians: A Closer Look, Warren Throckmorton, April 19, 2010 Six researchers – Gay Life Expectancy Revisited, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 30, Issue 6 authors – Researchers say Focus on the Family distorted book on gay health, Truth Wins Out, June 16, 2009 Professor Michael King’s complaint taken from Researcher: Lifesite News and One News Now Misrepresent Our Research, Box Turtle Bulletin, September 24, 2008 Complaints taken from Professor Lisa Diamond, Dr. Kyle Pruett, Dr. Robert Spitzer, and Professor Judith Stacey all taken from respectmyresearch.org Complaint from Professor Greg Remafedi taken from University of Minnesota professor’s research hijacked, Citypages, May 26, 2010 Page 11 E.W. Jackson’s comment taken from E.W. Jackson: Gays and Lesbians are ‘very sick people psychologically, mentally, and emotionally,’ Right Wing Watch, October 25, 2012 Donald Wildmon’s comment taken from AFA’s Wildmon proposed a hypothetical tour of gay bathhouses, repeated misinformation on average gay incomes, Media Matters, March 16, 2006 Peter LaBarbera’s comments taken from LaBarbera: ‘Homosexual Activists’ are ‘doing to Christians’ what ‘Nazis used to do to the Jews, Right Wing Watch, December 12, 2012 Jeffrey Kuhner’s comments taken from Kuhner: ‘Gay Gestapo’ will have opponents ‘burnt at the stake, Right Wing Watch, December 24, 2012 Kevin McCullough’s comment taken from The ‘Gay’ Truth, World Net Daily, May 30, 2003 Page 12 Bishop Harry Jackson’s comment taken from Bishop Harry Jackson: Gays want to recruit your children, LGBTQ Nation, August 3, 2012 Pat Robertson’s comment taken from Robertson: God will destroy America for marriage equality, Right Wing Watch, June 27, 2011 Buster Wilson’s comment taken from Wilson: Obama acts like ‘junkyard dog;’ ‘homosexual practitioners’ may soon censor pastors, Right Wing Watch, October 24, 2012 Matt Barber’s comment taken from Unmasking the ‘Gay’ Agenda, Renew America, February 13, 2008 Page 13 Equality Matters – Cable News Networks Relied on Hate Group Leader for Primary Election Coverage, Equality Matters, November 28, 2012 he has been lauded – How A Hate Group Leader Used Primary GOP Coverage To Become A Star Political Commentator, Equality Matters, December 5, 2012 Rolling Stone – The Holy War on Gays, Rolling Stone, March 18, 1999 Mother Jones – You Can’t Equate Your Sin With My Skin, Mother Jones, September/October 2012 issue as hate groups in 2010 – Family Research Council labeled ‘hate group’ by SPLC over anti-gay rhetoric, Talking Points Memo, November 24, 2010

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