By GottaLaff
Please feel free to enlighten this Commenter (who unsurprisingly called him/herself "Anonymous"), since they made the request:
GottaLaff, please, by all means enlighten us on the "fact" that we all need to accept? I know plenty of Gays and some are very pleasant and others are mean spirited and militant about their cause. What does that prove? Nothing. Here's a fact for you. The act of homosexuality is unnatural, science proves that. Here's another one for you, less than 2% of the population is gay, however gays account for 1/3 of all child molestation cases. Please refute my views with fact and not the normal gay rhetoric. Thanks.How very disheartening that there are people like this who are not only uneducated on the subject, and misguided, but don't source any of their own "facts", yet demand that I refute them with real ones.
I'd be happy to do the research and provide links, and will at some point, but I am otherwise occupied at the moment. Care to assist me until my load lightens a little? When there's a cry for help, as there is here, I like to do what I can to accomodate.
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"Here's a fact for you. The act of homosexuality is unnatural, science proves that."
Just curious...was that "fact" put together by hetrosexuals?
Us homo types don't think that it's unnatural at all!
;-)
Go YOU, Anon!
It's no more unnatural than hetero love. When did Anon realize he/she was hetero (if he/she is), and how would he/she go about changing that?
Hmmm? Go to Homo School? Because, apparently, it's just that easy to do.
Why bother trying to enlighten a troll?
If you want a place to start, however, the best internet source might be the blog, Beyond Homophobia, run by Dr. Gregory Herek. It's even got a point-by-point scientific refutation of these unfortunately allegations by fundies. BTW, although the stereotype is quite old, much of it has been "scientifically supported" by "research" funded and published by the Family Research Council.
Thanks, Clancy. I'm rushing this a.m., couldn't look up a thing.
"I know plenty of Gays and some are very pleasant and others are mean spirited and militant about their cause."
Wow, that's funny because I know plenty of HUMAN BEINGS who are very pleasant and others are mean spirited and militant about their cause. I know which category YOU fall into, too.
And there's this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/07/01/notes070109.DTL
"Confirmed: God is slightly gay
Just ask the animals. As soon as they stop having all that homosexual sex"
Did they go to gay school too?
I went to gay school, but I flunked out.
And here I always thought you were so damn smart.
I never could get a good grasp on the materials.
:)
Why does being gay excuse you from not serving in the military?
When being shot at it, it really doesn't matter if you prefer Tom or Tina.
Here's a great report on a study from UC Davis about just this issue:
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html
It appears that this is part of Dr. Herek's work as well.
Clancy is correct. The anonymous poster is citing Family Research Council studies.
Thank you MarkieBee... too bad this Commenter was a hit and run.
They seem to care nothing about the truth.
Let's look at this mathematically...
Hold on there. We can't.
So 2% of the population is gay? That's 6 million people...but we're assuming what exactly? Those who are openly gay? Those who are open AND those still closeted?
There were around 80,000 reports of child molestation in 2005 (Wiki'd that). So we are to believe 27,000 are linked to homosexuality? But what about the unreported cases?
The subsets are too hard to rectify. Comparing 1 in 50 to 1 in 3 might be more worthwhile if the groups were similar in size, but there is no way we can realistically come up with a simple yet viable math equation to compare these groups.
Don't even let me get to the fact that homosexuality exists in other animals. It might not be natural (1 out of 2 animals) to be homosexual, but it is certainly not 100% unnatural.
First of all, anyone that leaves an anonymous comment is plainly demonstrating their cowardice.
If this "ignoranonymous" should return here, they should educate themselves and ask any doctor about homosexuality.
See excertp below from the Merck Manual (The reference guide for all doctors):
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Homosexuality: Homosexuality has not been considered a disorder by the American Psychiatric Association for > 3 decades. About 4 to 5% of the population identify themselves as exclusively homosexual for their entire lives. Like heterosexuality, homosexuality results from complex biologic and environmental factors leading to an ability to become sexually aroused by people of the same sex. Like heterosexuality, homosexuality is not a matter of choice.
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec15/ch203/ch203a.html
In fact, I encourage this "anonymous" person to consult a psychiatrist about their own attitudes about homosexuality. It could be a repressed tendency they are trying very hard to run away from.
Maria
that picture is just HOT!
My wife has PTSD from being molested as a very young child by her father; a HETEROsexual, and many of his pedophile friends; all HETEROsexual.
The problem isn't homosexuality. It is a culture that closes its eyes to a very serious problem by decrying that it is a caused by "those other people."
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