A leading group fighting against
Washington Governor Chris Gregoire's plan to legalize gay marriage
has promoted the claim that gay parents molest their kids, media
watchdog EqualityMatters.org
reported.
The Family Policy Institute of
Washington (FPIW), which is headed by 30-year-old Joseph Backholm,
has already begun to mobilize against the measure, which cleared the
Washington Senate on Wednesday by a wider margin than expected.
The National Organization for Marriage
(NOM), the nation's most vociferous opponent of marriage equality,
has already stated that it would partner with FPIW to put the law on
the ballot in November.
Promoted on FPIW's
website is an article by George Dent Jr., a professor of law at
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, titled No
Difference?: An Analysis of Same-Sex Parenting, in which Dent
claims that “high rates” of gay parents molest their children.
“Due in part to promiscuity,
homosexuals have high rates of disease. Gay men became more cautious
about sex after the onset of AIDS, but infection rates soon rebounded
to their former levels. Gay men also suffer disproportionately from
many other diseases. The tendency of male homosexual acts to spread
disease may help explain the revulsion many people feel about them.
Lesbians also suffer high rates of suicide, mental illness and drug
and substance abuse. Although many homosexuals brag about the
absence of gender discrimination in their relationships, those
relationships are often abusive.”
“The high rates of child sex abuse
among homosexuals and bisexuals are also a cause for concern. At the
least, given the uncertain effects of homosexual parenting, the
children raised by homosexual couples are being treated as guinea
pigs, which is troubling.”
Dent also alleged that gay parents turn
their their kids gay: “There is evidence that children raised by
homosexuals are more likely to engage in homosexuality and to feel
confused about their sexual identity.”