Hungry? Well, you’re in luck: The New Yorker’s Family Research Foundation has cooked up a giant heaping helping of copypasta.
NYFRF wrote four “sample letters” that they’d like their supporters to copy and send to newspaper editors around the state. The goal: stopping marriage at all costs. And look at what they’re willing to say in order to do it:
Legalizing gay “marriage” would encourage even more homosexual behavior, which is inherently unhealthy. The rising numbers of sexually-transmitted diseases in the homosexual community (despite years of education about “safe-sex”) demonstrates this truth. Gay “marriage” will lead to increased healthcare costs and taxpayer expense.
Wow that certainly is cause for concern! Or at least, it would be if it was true, which it is not.
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We don’t even know how to begin unpacking this hot mess. Legalizing gay marriage causes more “homosexual behavior”? Really? Because we have spent a lot of time in the Castro, where gay marriage was banned in 2008, but there is more homosexual behavior going on there than the laws of space and time should even allow.
Also, nice try with the “increased healthcare costs.” Too bad the research says that legalizing marriage would generate $400 million.
Meanwhile you can help get New York’s marriage bill passed: call legislators, donate cash, join a phonebank, and set up a Friendsetter campaign to recruit your friends.
Damon
…Surely stronger commited relationships would lead to less STDs as people tend to be exclusive in marriage.
Kamuriie
So, they think that gay people are reckless and increasing the spread of STDs, but then they assume that other gay people are piously waiting until marriage to have sex? That’s the only way gay marriage could result in “more.” Absolutely moronic argument..
Patrick
I thought people had less sex when they got married.
brett
These people really need to grow up and accept change. Science changed, equal rights expanded to include those of color and now all we ask is that we have the right to marry. When you look at the bigger picture, not too much to ask is it.
Eric
Lol. I couldn’t help but laugh. An increase in STDs? Increased health care costs? How? Also, I love how a supposed “increase in STDs” is automatically blamed on the homosexual community. I’m pretty sure Sexually Transmitted Diseases don’t care who they infect. I’m also pretty sure that straight people can get ’em too. Just saying. Not to mention that if marriage becomes legal (which it is ridiculous that it isn’t and that the only arguments behind not legalizing it all some kind of basis in religion) more monogynous relationships will form and thus reduce the spread, or at least keep between the two partners. Also, how they figure that gay marriage will spread STD’s? You have to have sex with someone who isn’t infected in order to give it to them. What, are there just roaming bands of homosexual men and women just breaking into homes and fucking everything in sight to spread disease? Yeah, don’t make me laugh.
Ignorance is bliss, but only for the ignorant.
Frank
To quote Robin Tyler’s sentiment (don’t know her exact words): If you want gay people to stop having sex, let them get married! Duh.
The rubbish-logic these folks put out is unbelievable, but that people actually believe it is astounding. And they wonder why we’ve been known to accuse them or their followers of not being particularly bright.
tazz602
Not only does married usually mean less sex – but usually sex with the same partner which would lessen the spread of any diseases.
What’s even more laughable – have they looked at Africa where the majority of HIV cases are hetero – should African nations then ban Heterosexual marriage using the same twisted logic?
Jeffree
Silly “Family Research Foundation” needs to bone up on their logic & math: The outcome *most* strongly tied to increased marriage rates is……increased divorce. No other statistical correlation comes close!
When NYFRF and their bed-buddies NOMI (National Organization for Marriage Inequality) decide they REALLY want to strengthen het-marriages, all they need to do is make adultery & divorce illegal.
Then, they can stop worrying about the tiny threat posed by same-sex marriages!
bob
After talking to gay bigots, I’ve come to the conclusion that their basic issue is that gay people make them think about sex, and thinking about sex is bad. So, we’re bad because we make them think about sex.
Marriage is beside the point.
holly
Ok first of all: pretending for a moment that gay people cause more std’s than strait, wouldnt marriage lessen the problem. 2nd-gay people causing more std’s than strait ppl is TOTALLY rediculous. and 3rdly, there is scientific proof that butt sex actually is healthy and helps prevent prostate cancer so once again biggoted jerk-offs WRONG!!!!
Plaintom
Well at least they are consistent, faulty science and faulty logic.
marriage means less sex
The family research people have ZERO credibility
ANd last time I checked being married usually means monogamy which in turn actually decreases the spread of disease.
And why would these right wingers want government intrusion in anyones lives. I thought they wanted government out of our lives. Oh wait a minute, I guess the exception is for gays and for those wanting abortions. The hypocricy is sickening.
ANd I hope Americans are smart enough to realize that but somehow I doubt it.
McMike
Why isn’t anyone suing NOM for defamation?
Shannon1981
@McMike: Good question. The stuff they are claiming here is beyond outrageous.
Shannon1981
The first thing I think when I read this nonsense is that there MUST be lines they are crossing legally. Defaming one person is grounds for a lawsuit, much less an entire community. They are spreading blatant lies. Period.
Robbie K
Being from Canadaland yes homo-like behaviour did indeeed explode all over the place, it was fun until well I got it in the eye but I digress…
Jeffree
I wish HRC & GLAAD would fight fire with fire. NOM, NYFRF & their bed-buddies flat out *lie* via articles, letters to editors, brochures, blogs & TV spots.
Gloves off, I say: expose those lies. They get their false studies and fake experts pasted all over media, and we collectively seem to have no recourse other than naming them as “hate groups.”
That’s a good start, but it’s not enough.
We’re not reaching social moderates, LGB-affirming churches aren’t drowning out the fundies, and the most pro-LGBT part of the population (people under 30-ish) doesn’t get out to vote like their elders.
I’m sick of hearing that polls show more & more Americans “support” marriage equality, because that support means NADA if people don’t care enough vote, and if they don’t off their easy chairs to out-number and out-smart the haters.
/rant over !
FlopsyMopsyCT
@Jeffree: I think what you say is very on-point. Part of the problem is that these egregious fabrications about homosexuality are disseminated by a wide variety of religious, fundamentalist groups that have a wide reach, whereas the rebuttals given out by homosexual rights advocates don’t seem to have nearly the reach. Here in MN, we just had the amendment go on the ballot and I fear much of what happened in CA is going to happen here. Simply put, most people are greatly under-educated on matters pertaining to homosexuality and I think gay rights groups need to figure out a way to get their rebuttals to misinformation and lies out in a large-scale manner. Really what I’d like to see is a really excellent speaker and advocate of same-sex marriage publicly challenge all those bad arguments;someone with an arsenal of data and facts who can rip such arguments to shreds. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ve seen a gay MLK quite yet. If you go to boards like Catholic Online, they are littered with people that hear these things from religious groups and believe them. People think NARTH is one of the most credible research groups out there, even though its members are constantly banned from testifying in courts and before congressional bodies. People think HIV/AIDS is a gay disease that doesn’t affect heterosexuals. People think that homosexuals actually choose to be homosexual, like something off a menu. They believe these things strongly. I think the gay community needs to find a way to get those views out with with the same volume as the opposition to combat those opposing views and lies.
Bryn Lunt
Lets have some more gay sex that is what I say!