Above, a pamphlet from the infamous Save Our Children campaign in Dade County, Florida, in 1977, led by Anita Bryant: the Big Lie that's been told and retold down to this very day by Christianists - who like to keep the real sexual abuse story hidden away, not talked about . . . oh no. That would be too embarrassing for a lot of straight men.
With his usual excellent logic - and the plain, provable facts - Rob Tisinai exposes the vicious lies in this great video, with source references at the end.
See also the very well documented report at Box Turtle Bulletin, "Are Gays a Threat to Our Children?"
Of course, being gay - or being any other minority, for that matter - doesn't make you an automatic saint, of course not. But neither does it make you an automatic monster. We are human beings just like our straight brothers and sisters - a mixture, just like them, of good and bad and indifferent. No better, no worse: human. And now it's time for these lies to stop.
Send this on to someone you love who has never gotten these vile old myths about gay people completely out of their heads.
P.S. - Read Rob's touching story about growing up gay, and learning to hide it behind a "nice-guy" image, so he'd be liked - not hated. I think many of us can relate to that one.
4 comments:
You could get just the same from our Daily Mail.
I love intelligent Gay Men!
This was excellent. I checked out his site. Thanks.
Frank - yes, intelligence has its own beauty.
Mark - glad you liked.
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