Gay genes and straw men - One News Now makes it so easy
Pams House blend Aug 07 08crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
A permissive tactic of the anti-gay industry is the straw man argument.
This is attributing a weak argument to the lgbt community so when said argument is refuted, they can point and say "see how the radical homosexuals can't give good arguments to justify their behavior."
For an example of this tactic, I turn to that "bastion of fairness," AFA's One News Now: One of the untouchable dogmas of the homosexualist movement is the assertion of the existence of a "gay gene" -- or a genetic marker that causes same-sex attraction. The assertion of a genetic factor in homosexual preference has never been demonstrated by scientists, and now at least one prominent campaigner in the British homosexual movement has admitted this fact. Full story...
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