August 22, 2008
Speaking of those lying gasbags at the Family Research Council…
…and we were — Alvin asks:
Noting the FRC’s latest toxic missive claiming that “Homosexuals are less likely to enter long-term partnerships, less likely to be sexually faithful, and less likely to remain committed for a lifetime,” Alvin writes:
I have just emailed the Family Research Council asking where did they receive this information regarding gay marriage. …My guess is that they used a study completed in the Netherlands by one Dr. Maria Xiridou. If this is the case, they took the study out of context big time.
You see, the 2003 published study’s objective was “to access the relative contribution of steady and casual partnerships to the incidence of HIV infection among homosexual men in Amsterdam and to determine the effect of increasing sexually risky behaviours among both types of partnerships in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).”
The study only looked at casual relationships amongst gay men and was completed before same-sex marriage was legalized in the Netherlands.
Read more at the link.
Filed under: Family Research Council, HIV/AIDS, Homophobia, Radical Religious Right
