ADDENDUM::'Gay cure' group attempts to defend their debunked twin billboard | Gay Star News

'The billboard speaks to the scientific fact that to quote the American Psychiatric Association, "there still remains no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biological etiology for homosexuality,"' Quinlan claimed to World Net Daily.

'There is zero evidence that a person is born a homosexual. In fact, Dr. Francis Collins of the human genome project with the National Institute of Health, who was appointed by President Clinton to do the project said homosexuality was "not hard-wired".'
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'The reason we see so much of a proliferation of homosexuality in our society now is because we live in a sex-saturated culture,' Quinlan continued.

'The first century church thrived in a hyper-sexualized homosexual culture in an age of sexual anarchy. So can the 21st century church. We do not need to compromise our message in order to bring homosexuals into the church or accommodate them.'

I'll just leave this fine bit of information here,,,

• Dr. Eric Vilain, Professor of Human Genetics, Pediatrics and Urology at UCLA, and the Director of the Institute for Society and Genetics: “All sorts of traits that are clearly genetic do not show 100% concordance [in twins].,,,"
• Dr. Marc Breedlove, Michigan State University, Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience says that sexual orientation is likely to be influenced by several genes, although more research needs to be done to identify them,,,
• Dr. Simon LeVay, author of Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation: And these identical twins share pretty much 100% of the same genes,,,and to the extent a trait like sexual orientation is genetically influenced, you should see a higher agreement in sexual orientation between those pairs of twins who are identical compared with those who are fraternal. And that’s what you find.

'Gay cure' group attempts to defend their debunked twin billboard | Gay Star News

ADDENDUM::Lawmaker responds to anti-gay billboard with bill to ban ‘ex-gay’ therapy for minors – LGBTQ Nation

A Virginia state lawmaker says he will bring a bill before the 2015 General Assembly aimed at banning gay-to-straight conversion therapy on LGBT youth.

The announcement by Del. Patrick Hope (D-Arlington County) comes just days after a controversial billboard was erected along a Richmond interstate by a group that supports the practice.

“There’s is no on/off switch for sexual orientation, and putting this bill in is necessary to send that message,” said Hope.

The bill would prohibit licensed healthcare professionals from performing the controversial therapy (also referred to as “reparative therapy) on minors.

Hope says “ex-gay,” or conversion therapy, is based on the false assumption being gay is a mental disorder.

Proponents of the treatment argue that bans limit freedom of speech, and infringes on the rights of parents to treat their children as they see fit.

But Hope, and the medical community, disagrees.

Lawmaker responds to anti-gay billboard with bill to ban ‘ex-gay’ therapy for minors – LGBTQ Nation

PFOX Humiliated After Billboard Twin Turns Out to be Gay and Not a Twin | TWO Care

This is the original story concerning the PFOX billboard to which I silently said to self, "Betcha he is gay and not a twin." Besides the flaws in their understanding of the science, Besen makes this important point, "It is important to point out that PFOX’s billboard uses the words “we believe,” which show that the group’s leaders view science as a matter of faith rather than fact, to be distorted and twisted for political ends, notes TWO.

So it came as no surprise when the attached hit my feed,,,

It turns out, however, that the model used on the billboard was a stock image of a South African man, Kyle Roux, who today spoke up and claimed that he was gay and not a twin.

“This latest episode solidifies PFOX’s reputation as a gutter organization that is more than willing to scrape the bottom of the barrel to promote a discredited myth,” said Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “These dishonest hucksters are impervious to fact and peddle the fiction that people can pray away the gay. No matter how many times they are humiliated or proven wrong, they keep pathologically lying, in their effort to fool as many people as possible.”

Today, the model that was misrepresented said he found the billboard distasteful and was “shocked” to be used in such a hateful and disingenuous way:

“I was obviously quite shocked, so that why I decided to send you guys an email saying hey, I’m that guy in that billboard,” he wrote to Richmond’s NBC-affiliate Channel 12. Roux sat for the photo-shoot a decade ago and hadn’t thought much of it since. The images were for a stock image service. He said he was told they’d be used for corporate advertising and publicity materials. “It just seems like there no place in today’s world for an organization that is promoting this as being some kind of deviant or distasteful lifestyle, because I’ve lived my life openly gay and happy for my entire life,” Roux said.

PFOX Humiliated After Billboard Twin Turns Out to be Gay and Not a Twin | TWO Care

Fewer Than Ten People Show Up For Ex-Gay Pride Event That Expected to Draw 'Thousands' | Right Wing Watch

Yesterday, American Family Radio’s Sandy Rios spoke to Ex-Gay Pride Month organizer Christopher Doyle about today’s ex-gay lobby day on Capitol Hill. Doyle, who was organizing the since-canceled Ex-Gay Pride banquet at the Family Research Council, complained in an interview with the Christian Post that “un-American” LGBT rights advocates have “shut us out,” explaining that “because of all this homo-fascism and indoctrination in the media, ex-gays aren’t given a fair shake.”

Rios confidently predicted that “thousands of ex-gays are descending” on Washington for a press conference planned for today at the Supreme Court. She lamented that when she led Concerned Women for America the media refused to hear “our ex-gay friends” because it “undermined the whole effort of the homosexual lobby.”

Doyle told Rios that “tens of thousands” of ex-gays exist but are “in the closet because of fear, shame and threats from gay activists.”

Well, despite the expectation that “thousands of ex-gays” would partake in Ex-Gay Pride Month, fewer than ten people showed up for the big event.

Fewer Than Ten People Show Up For Ex-Gay Pride Event That Expected to Draw 'Thousands' | Right Wing Watch