Right Wing Watch has a piece on the far right Christianists' effort to challenge the popular Wikipedia. The concept was the brain child of teacher, Andy Schlafly—son of the famous anti-gay culture warrior Phyllis Schlafly (who herself has a gay child) - because of Wikipedia's alleged bias against America and Christianity. In contrast, Concervapedia is obsessed with right-wing politics, evolution, and homosexuality. In spite of the ridicule, Schlafly and his minions are still at it today. Eagle Forum just released a video promoting Conservapedia as an affirming alternative to the Wikipedia world (and the real world that most of us with more than moronic intelligence live in). I cannot even imagine living in the delusional world of these un-Christian people. Here's highlights of what Conservapedia says about the "Homosexual Agenda"
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The homosexual agenda, or homosexual ideology, consists of a set of beliefs and objectives. The ideology and goals, as explained further below, include restricting free speech, obtaining special treatment, distorting science, and interfering with freedom of association. It is an agenda that gay rights activists set in the late 1980s, in a book called After the Ball, where they laid out a six-point plan for how they could transform the beliefs of ordinary Americans with regard to homosexual behavior — in a decade-long time frame: "The agenda of homosexual activists is basically to change America from what they perceive as looking down on homosexual behavior, to the affirmation of and societal acceptance of homosexual behavior." [1]
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In terms of the "choice myth" being an important underpinning to the Christianist effort to deny equal civil legal rights treatment to gays and why Exodus and "ex-gay ministries" are essential, Conservapedia says in parts as follows (note: while making the false statement that sexual orientation is a choice, many additional derrogatory statements are made about gays, including more than 50 year old studies on homosexuality in other cultures):
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In respect to the issue of homosexuality and choice, given the existence of ex-homosexuals and given the existence of human cultures where homosexuality has apparently not existed, the position that homosexuality is ultimately a choice in individuals or at the very least can be a choice in individuals has strong evidential support. In addition, given that the homosexual population has significantly higher rates of many diseases and the homosexual population also has significantly lower rates of various measures of mental health it can be strongly argued that engaging in homosexual acts is a bad choice for individuals. Another other factor that makes engaging in homosexual acts a bad choice for individuals is the significantly higher rates of domestic violence in homosexual couples. In addition, according to experts homosexual murders are relatively or quite common and often homosexual murders are very brutal. Also, the homosexual population has a greater propensity to engage in illegal drug use.
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As I have said before, it is important to know one's enemies and their false propaganda in order to refute their lies.
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