Iowa ‘Family’ Group Compares Homosexuality To "Second Hand" Cigarette Smoke

Few groups and individuals are bigger liars than the so-called "pro-family" and "Christian" organizations and their adherents who oppose civil legal equality for LGBT Americans. No lie is too big or too vile when it comes to their agenda of slander and denigration. As noted often on this blog, the unfortunate thing is that few in the mainstream media ever challenge their lies and smears against LGBT citizens. Instead, deference and special rights are afforded to down right nasty individuals who subscribe to the Nazi anti-Jew propaganda model of trying to depict gays as a menace to society and public health. The foul haters now working to amend Iowa's constitution to obliterate all recognition of same sex couples is clearly cut out of this cloth and would have the ignorant and simple minded that homosexuality is dangerous in the same manner of second hand cigarette smoke. Oh, and we are highly diseased as well. These folks surely make Anne Rice's disavowing of Christianity look like the path to righteousness in comparison. Think Progress, relying in part on Jeremy Hooper's work looks at the poison being peddled in Iowa. Here are some highlights of the "facts" about homosexuality that the Iowa Family Policy Center is disseminating:
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– Reduces life expectancy by about 20-35 years.
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– Homosexuals are 20x more likely to be abused by partner than heterosexual.

– CDC reports cancer rate is 90x higher in homosexual men – while smokers is only 10-30x.
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– Yes, they CAN change! (Sept. 1, 2009 NARTH report).
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[Bob Vander] Plaats and the Iowa Family Policy Center, which is a subsidiary of the Family Leader, have a long history of anti-gay bigotry. In June 2010, the Iowa Independent reported that Iowa Family Policy Center president Chuck Hurey called a group of pastors who supported same-sex marriage “confused at best and blatantly evil at worst.” Earlier this year, Family Leader official Danny Carroll predicted same-sex marriage in Iowa will lead to polygamy and Plaats himself compared gay unions to incest.
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Of course, none of these "facts" are true. But when does the truth ever get in the way of such "godly Christians?" Given this face of Christianity, it's no wonder that the younger generations increasingly identify themselves as having "no religion."