Michelle Duggar robocall tries to rally opposition to Fayetteville’s anti-discrimination proposal | Fayetteville Flyer

Ya know, I have no issue what so ever with Michelle Duggar using her celebrity status to speak on issues that are of no concern to her. For the most part I have no issue that she comes from a biased religious POV, that is her right. But I do have issues when what she spouts is utter bullshit and lies. I am not talking distortions or hyperbole to make a point, I am talking the outright use of falsehoods to create fear and hatred. She sounds like a parrot of Paul Cameron.

Legitimate scientists have identified and described in detail multiple fundamental flaws in the ISIS study's methodology and statistical analysis, any one of which would be enough to destroy its credibility. But still, to this day, Cameron's 1983 survey serves as the religious right's primary wellspring of anti-gay fear mongering.

"Whenever frightening claims about homosexual sex habits or child molestation are reported in pamphlets, videotapes or other materials, chances are the information has been taken from this single study," writes David Williams, director of the Kentucky Gay and Lesbian Library and Archives, who tracks the use of Cameron's statistics. "As propaganda, it has taken on a life of its own. As information, however, it's stunningly useless."

The same year Cameron conducted the ISIS survey, he released a separate study claiming that homosexuals are "10-20 times more likely than heterosexuals to molest children," a startling figure that still frequently pops up in hard-right religious sermons and AM radio screeds.

Cameron based that finding on a 1978 study by Nicholas Groth, the highly respected director of the Sex Offender Program at the Connecticut Department of Corrections. Groth had interviewed 175 convicted child molesters and found that more of them had molested boys than girls. Cameron's statistic is derived from the false assumption that men who molest boys are gay, despite the fact that Groth's original study found that none of the men identified himself as homosexual. Instead, the pedophiles were either heterosexual outside of their criminal behavior or were what Groth termed "fixated pedophiles with no interest in sex with adults."

I need to re-evaluate this lying for Jesus schtick, sounds like it is a lucrative means of making a living. Wonder how much the Reich would pay a de-converted, bipolar ex-junkie lesbian Pentecostal to re-convert and join the speakers tour? Oh wait, I actually have morals.

Michelle Duggar robocall tries to rally opposition to Fayetteville’s anti-discrimination proposal | Fayetteville Flyer