Friday, August 5, 2011

The Religious Wrong: A Plethora of Falsehoods



There is so much wrong with this video, hence this post's title. Let's start at the beginning.

As to the whole GOProud/CPAC thing, I think that deserves its own post (i.e. about gay conservative groups) which I will hopefully get to in the next few days, so I'll leave that alone here).

As to that "infallible" argument on homosexuality and human health (4:45), there are a couple of problems with that:

-That blood donation ban was implemented and perpetuated based on prejudices and stereotypes not on facts
-All donated blood is tested...ALL OF IT...no matter where/who it comes from, hence, the ban is unnecessary (Source)
-Saying that the ban is proof of need for the ban is circular reasoning and does not hold water

People also said the Titanic was unsinkable. So much for that in both cases.

The claim that he makes saying that Reuters says that gays comprise 2% of the population is, in my opinion, patently bogus. The main reason for me saying this is that there are some people who, for whatever reason, will not under any circumstances identify themselves as LGBT. The only way we would ever know an even quasi-accurate figure as to how many people are LGBT would be if we lived in a world where there were no anti-gay stigma. Until that happens, there is no reason to believe ANY study saying that X% of people are queer. This is such a basic notion that I'm not sure how much weight should be given to that article as a whole.

Fischer says at the end of this video that public policy should be guided by science. Well, the American Psychological Association just endorsed marriage equality based on years of research, so maybe he will be for marriage equality too, right? Fischer doesn't really believe in facts, or the consistency of his own statements, so maybe not.

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