Debunking Anti-Gay Myths
I was inspired to post this following a report on anti-gay materials sent to 14,000+ schools by the “American College of Pediatrics”. Sounds legit, right? Well…it’s actually about a dozen or so douchebags people who left the American Academy of Pediatrics in a huff when the AAP decided same-sex parents were worthy of the same support as heterosexual parents.
Anyway, the materials included a distorted and curiously amateurish rip-off of the Academy’s “Just the Facts” publication (full pdf file here. If you’re not familiar with the original, it’s a somewhat dry but exceptionally objective overview of sexual orientation topics geared toward educational professionals).
Basically, the American College of Pediatrics version was a rehash of the same slanted arguments that anti-gay people and groups use when they’re trying to sound professional and scientific (basically, the sort of pseudo-logic you find in Intelligent Design).
- “Homosexuality is a Choice” — this is the stickiest wicket of the bunch. You’ll find extremists on both sides who have studies and statistics that ‘prove’ their point. The closest thing to the truth is that Dr. Francis Collins, no less than the Director of the Genome Project, has clearly identified a genetic component to homosexuality. The catch is that it’s not a light switch set to “gay” or “straight”; it merely provides a much greater likelihood — which is enough of a gray area for anti-gay propagandists like the “American College of Pediatrics” to claim that homosexuality is not genetically-determined. By that logic, hair and eye color is a choice, too…
- We’ll continue this later. I feel the irrational desire to punch a pediatrician…but that’s not right. Not even if living a pediatrician lifestyle increases the risk of developing homophobia (and we’ve got the statistics to prove it!).
This kind of discrimination is really disgusting.
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