Step Right Up: Watch Concerned Women For America Pull Statistics Right Out Of Its Ass!
In an amazing feat of daring-do, Concerned Wome for America’s Janice Crouse trots out a litany of questionable, unsubstantiated and refuted statistics to demonstrate how being gay is just wrong, m’kay?
Right off the bat she claims gays and lesbians have a shorter lifespan—”gays generally have a loss of 20 years of lifespan.” Even if that were a valid statistic—and she doesn’t cite any study, of course—that doesn’t mean science is down on LGBTs.
Here’s just a few reasons why:
- Many gay lives were cut short because for years society did little about the AIDS epidemic.
- It’s been proven people in committed relationships tend to live longer. (They have someone to live for and someone monitoring their health.) With gay marriage not legal in most states, gays and lesbians are not encouraged to partner up.
- With douchebags like Crouse spitting venom at us, LGBT folks are more susceptible to depression and related conditions.
Crouse has got some pretty big problems with logic for a woman with a PhD in communications. But if you read this bio of the 68-year-old former Bush I speechwriter she’s more concerned with her conservative agenda than real facts.
We’re not going to take Crouse’s case apart claim by claim. Frankly we have more important things to do—like grout the tiles in our bathroom.
You left out my favorite point–even if it’s somehow mysteriously true that reality hates gays and strikes them dead 20 years early, there’s still nothing you can do about it, and certainly no proof that forcing yourself into celibacy or sham heterosexuality will make you live longer.
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Janice Crouse actively propagandized towards the “Kill-the-Gays” law in Uganda. She egged on US Evangelists and the Ugandan government when anti-gay ministers in Uganda were publishing the addresses of known gay people and exhorting everybody to hound and/or to kill them. One result of that policy was the murder of Ugandan gay rights activist David Cato. To read more about Crouse’s history, go here:
http://antigaybigotryscaresme......-kill.html
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Having a same-sex orientation does not reduce your life-span. However, the choices that you make as a person DO reduce your lifespan. Taking drugs, sniffing amyl, having promiscuous sex with total strangers…these are all recipes for a shorter life-span. Let’s not pretend that choices don’t matter.
These choices can apply to anybody. Let’s not pretend that we gays are immune to them.
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@jason: Although you have good intentions, you have missed the point here, namely, that the vicious anti-gay bigot Janice Crouse uses un-scientific statistics on gay people’s lifespans to make the argument that gay people should have no rights if they won’t pray to Jesus and pretend to be heterosexual.
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To add some more regarding No 11 – people are dumping on Janice Crouse because she is allegedly using “un-scientific statistics” in public announcements. Her PhD. is in
communications. You can bet that she is using statistics correctly internally – for purposes of evaluating the effectiveness of the group’s messaging.
Don’t underestimate her – if she has a PhD., she is not an idiot. My guess is that she was hired for her expertise – if you are trying to push something that is not really defensible, you need people with considerable expertise in her field. Similarly, the Nazi party made Joseph Goebbels, whose doctoral thesis was on 19th century romantic drama, their propaganda minster – most likely because he was very effective at it.
If Crouse is using flaky statistics for public consumption, it is because she knows how to package it so that most of the public will fall for it. Crouse doesn’t care if gays think she is an idiot – in fact she might prefer that they do because a good way to lose a war is to underestimate the enemy.
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I’m surprised that she did not mention Queerty’s piece about how gays secretly want to indoctrinate children. That has been cited on all the major anti-gay websites and has crossed the ocean where it is now being used by anti-gay forces in Africa. A real gay website would be dedicated to combating lies about gay people. Queerty creates new lies.
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Obviously, CWA is uninterested in truthfulness.