"No on 8" Afraid to Mention Children of LGBT Families

As the post mortem continues concerning the Proposition 8 debacle in California, it turns out that one possible failing in the campaign to stop Proposition 8 was that it failed to feature ads with LGBT families. Why this failure? Because of the fear that the Christianists, Mormons, and Catholic hierarchy would smeared gays with allegations tying homosexuality to pedophilia. This technique of using the gay haters of using the "p" word (as one blogger referenced it) is beyond despicable because real mental health experts have long known that being gay has NO correlation to pedophilia. Far more molestations of children are done by HETEROSEXUALS, but truth and honesty have never been a hallmark of the Christianists and their allies.

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I find the allegations of pedophilia utterly ridiculous and it shows the true foulness of our Christianist enemies that they knowingly make the claim even though they know it's false in the hope of deceiving the ignorant and uninformed. Having been married, fathered children, and passed as straight for 24 years, I never cease to be amazed at the deliberate and dishonest effort to depict gays as pedophiles. Meanwhile, straight men - who do most of the child molesting - take their young daughters and their young female friends all about, go on camping trips (e.g., Indian Princesses), and no one ever raising the least concern that something amiss might occur. Put a gay or lesbian in the mix, however, and suddenly that individual is viewed as a predator. It's sick and it's disgusting. Here are some highlights from the San Francisco Chronicle:

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Stringfellow, who organized No on 8 religious events in the East Bay and San Francisco, said the No on 8 campaign's talking points initially didn't have language to address religious groups. In addition, he said, No on 8 campaigners were told by strategists not to discuss children, an issue that has particular significance for family-oriented religious groups.

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Missed opportunities Stringfellow believes the campaign was afraid it would get smeared by allegations tying homosexuality to pedophilia. But he believes it was wrong to avoid the subject of children because gays and lesbians are just as capable as straight people of being good parents. "When the Yes on 8 folks talked about children, we really didn't have anywhere to go with it," he said.

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Stringfellow said the No on 8 campaign was wrong to downplay lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples in advertisements. "It's not going to be normalized if you hide over here in the corner," he said. "There's nothing wrong with talking about love between two individuals."