Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The love of bigots . . .

I know. The Catholic Church has a new Pope and he is as bad as the last one. Oh well, I wasn't all that surprised. What surprised me today is yet another reference to the "homosexuality/outlet plug reference." To those who are not familiar with this inane thing, it is yet another way as to how the religious right attempts to reduce lgbt relationships to that of sexual matters, like so:



Yet another demonstration of the saying, "the love of bigots is more dangerous than their hatred."

'NOM-bought black pastor group working hard for the money' and other Wednesday midday news briefs

Same old, same old anti-gay bigotry from NOM-bought black pastor shell group - William Owens and his wife have to earn their $40,000 from NOM somehow.

Video: Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) says gays have 'disordered relationships' - Oh brother. Here we go again. Why, if lgbts are bullies, are our relationships constantly attacked. What is this? The zillionth time? Okay forgive me for being snarky, but girlfriend's wig/weave is a bit more disordered than any gay relationship I've ever seen.

Fox’s O’Reilly Backtracks After Accusing Gay Colorado Lawmaker Of Protecting Child Molesters - O'Reilly's explanation for his slander and harassment are just as bad as his journalistic skills.

 Obama Evolves Even Further, Denies That State Marriage Bans Are Constitutional - Okay, all of the Larry Kramer wannabes hush up (for at least three minutes) and let the man slowly stick his head out of the turtle shell.

Gay College Student Made to Drink Holy Water to Be Cured of Homosexuality - Let me guess . . . it didn't work.

Anti-gay parenting study author casting his lot with NOM

Regnerus
If folks are hoping that Mark Regnerus will plead any mea culpa regarding new allegations about his anti-gay parenting study and how the anti-gay funders may have influenced it, I think the following announcement from Jennifer Roback of NOM's Ruth Institute should give an indication that as to why that probably won't happen:

Protect Marriage Conference in San Diego May 30

I wrote to you earlier about the Ruth Institute annual three day pro-marriage conference here in San Diego for university students and young adults, called, “It Takes a Family to Raise a Village,”  or ITAF.  I want you to know that the deadline for application is coming up on March 15th, later this week.  So please, please, tell your students, interns, seminarians or other young adults who would benefit from the  ITAF program that they need to get on with it and apply now!!

This seminar-style conference brings together young adults, 18-30, for an intense inter-disciplinary, inter-faith program that will help them make an informed and compassionate case for natural marriage, one man, one woman for life.  Our graduates have gone on to form clubs, start their own blogs, be guests on radio programs and write for established internet outlets. This year our conference is in a beautiful San Diego resort, the Town and Country. We’ll be hosting about 35 students and a dynamic panel of speakers.

This three day event is FREE for students and includes all the lectures, food, transportation in San Diego, lodging, plus a travel stipend to assist them in travelling to San Diego.

And guess who just happens to be one of the speakers at this "Protect Marriage" conference:

 Mark Regnerus, Ph.D. He is associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, and a research associate of the university’s Population Research Center. His areas of research are sexual behavior and family formation. He is the author of the important new work on adult children of parents who had same sex relationships. He is also the author of two books on the sexual behavior of teenagers and young adults.

To me, it's more fascinating that his study - the item which he is more famous, or infamous, for is conveniently not mentioned in his biography except for a vague reference.

 I should mention that Roback and other speakers of the conference, i.e. Robert Gagnon have been extremely vocal as to their objections not only of lgbt equality but gay parenting and same-sex households in general.

I think it's safe to assume that Regnerus no longer cares about faking objectivity when it comes to where he stands on the subject of gay parenting.

Related post - Time to twitter bomb the right, Boehner about the Regnerus study