Christian conservative group Focus on
the Family believes people have assumed a gay identity to make a
political statement.
Glenn Stanton, director of family
formation studies at Focus, explained his take on Janet Mefferd's
radio show.
“First of all, we need to understand
that 'gay' and 'lesbian' really are – to use the language of
feminist studies people – a cultural construct,” said Stanton.
“'Gay' and 'lesbian' are very new kinds of things. Yes, there's
always been homosexuality in human experience, but it was typically
something that heterosexual … did to another person.”
“'Gay' and 'lesbian' are really sort
of sociological or political statements or identifications. … It's
the signing on to a political sexual sort of agenda… There are lots
of people who have homosexual or same-sex orientations that just
don't identify themselves as 'gay' or 'lesbian' because again 'gay'
or 'lesbian' is a social political sort of identity.”
“Being 'gay' or being 'lesbian' is a
thing that's only been present in maybe the past 50 years or so,”
he added.
(Listen
to the entire segment.)
(Related: Linda
Harvey: Gays not protected by constitution because they're not
people.)