The Southern Poverty Law Center recently published it’s Winter 2010 Intelligence Report which in included a piece by Evelyn Schlatter and Robert Steinback debunking 10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked.
The ten myths tackled are,
- Homosexuals molest children at far higher rates than heterosexuals.
- Same-sex parents harm children.
- People become homosexual because they were sexually abused as children or there was a deficiency in sex-role modeling by their parents.
- Homosexuals don’t live nearly as long as heterosexuals.
- Homosexuals controlled the Nazi Party and helped to orchestrate the Holocaust.
- Hate crime laws will lead to the jailing of pastors who criticize homosexuality and the legalization of practices like bestiality and necrophilia.
- Allowing homosexuals to serve openly would damage the armed forces.
- Homosexuals are more prone to be mentally ill and to abuse drugs and alcohol.
- No one is born a homosexual.
- Gay people can choose to leave homosexuality.
