Sunday, April 19, 2009

Religious Propaganda Rears Its Ugly Head to Continue Assault on Gays



The video clip is an example of religious propoganda. It stinks of the anti-Communist propaganda from the 50's. My favorite part occurs when the narrator, he of the noble voice, attempts to manipulate scientific inquiry by stating that "all the while, it is the gays who have the highest rates of alcohol abuse...and suicide." In this statement he implies that the sins of alcohol abuse and suicide are consequences of "the gays'" sexual choices...when we have only correlational evidence of these relationships, which we cannot use to infer causality. Therefore, it is just as likely (actually far more likely in my opinion...but I digress) that problems such as substance abuse and suicide are actually factors that follow, not from the state of being gay, but the state of being oppressed by an entire society to some extent, but by these right-wing anti-gay fanatics in particular.

Shame on this video!!

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