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Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Apr. 25th, 2006 12:28 amQuiet day. Too quiet. The big bad news; Paul Cameron managed to slip a study by a peer-reviewed journal, to which I have to ask, who the hell read this thing?! The claim, by the way, is that homosexuality is contageous. The "source data" is a culling of some people mentioned in three books he bought off Amazon. No, really. That's it. This is genuinely bad, because while his scientific work is still not science, but fraud, this makes it just a little harder to discredit him as completely.
But now, today's news:
Caribbean hate crimes against gay and lesbian people becoming endemic;
South Carolina Republicans push to make adult sex toys illegal;
Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM to push for new anti-"indecency" broadcast legislation in Congress;
FotF blasts DNC chair Dean's comments on church politicking;
Campus group at University of California/Hastings loses (so far) fight to discriminate against GBLT people and also on the basis of religion while keeping state money; FotF outraged, of course, says the ruling and schools involved are "turning discrimination on its head";
Federal appeals court upholds 10 Commandments display, and lower court ruling;
FotF complaints about the "King and King" book other groups were complaining about in the previous CWU;
Michigan Republican Party endorses initiative effort to define legal personhood as beginning at conception, banning all forms of abortion and defining it as either homicide or manslaughter, depending upon circumstance;
Mitt Romney continues to win points with fundamentalists; this time, it's diverting funding for "abstinence education"; this is Family Research Council's ACTION ITEM to thank him;
American Family Association version of the Christian student group wanting to discriminate against people on the basis of religion and sexual orientation but still get state funding, calls the ruling discrimination against the club;
The AFA also has a version of the "King and King" story;
AFA trumpets New Zealand study - refused by a large number of journals - that women who have abortions are more likely to have mental illness issues; this smells funny, I'd like to dig into it some more but it's late right now;
AFA claims British gay men and lesbians make thousands more than straight men and women; they talk about an Advocate survey; I suspect that what they've done is taken the readership of an upscale gay magazine and compared them to the population at large, which is akin to taking the readership of, oh, Forbes or The New Yorker comparing it to the population at large, which is to say, completely invalid. But that's what they did here in the US (and repeated it endlessly ever since) so I imagine they're doing it again in the UK, too;
Very annoying news: notorious anti-gay activist Paul Cameron, "researcher" and author of "The Death Penalty for Homosexuality," somehow slipped a study through a peer-reviewed journal. His data source: three books he bought on Amazon. His conclusion: homosexuality is contageous. Who the hell peer-reviewed this?; pointer from Thom at Elfintech;
A longer article on the same story; again, what you're looking at here is "how to get results you want by selecting your data to give you the results you want." Pointer again from Thom at Elfintech.
( Articles and excerpts inside )
But now, today's news:
Caribbean hate crimes against gay and lesbian people becoming endemic;
South Carolina Republicans push to make adult sex toys illegal;
Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM to push for new anti-"indecency" broadcast legislation in Congress;
FotF blasts DNC chair Dean's comments on church politicking;
Campus group at University of California/Hastings loses (so far) fight to discriminate against GBLT people and also on the basis of religion while keeping state money; FotF outraged, of course, says the ruling and schools involved are "turning discrimination on its head";
Federal appeals court upholds 10 Commandments display, and lower court ruling;
FotF complaints about the "King and King" book other groups were complaining about in the previous CWU;
Michigan Republican Party endorses initiative effort to define legal personhood as beginning at conception, banning all forms of abortion and defining it as either homicide or manslaughter, depending upon circumstance;
Mitt Romney continues to win points with fundamentalists; this time, it's diverting funding for "abstinence education"; this is Family Research Council's ACTION ITEM to thank him;
American Family Association version of the Christian student group wanting to discriminate against people on the basis of religion and sexual orientation but still get state funding, calls the ruling discrimination against the club;
The AFA also has a version of the "King and King" story;
AFA trumpets New Zealand study - refused by a large number of journals - that women who have abortions are more likely to have mental illness issues; this smells funny, I'd like to dig into it some more but it's late right now;
AFA claims British gay men and lesbians make thousands more than straight men and women; they talk about an Advocate survey; I suspect that what they've done is taken the readership of an upscale gay magazine and compared them to the population at large, which is akin to taking the readership of, oh, Forbes or The New Yorker comparing it to the population at large, which is to say, completely invalid. But that's what they did here in the US (and repeated it endlessly ever since) so I imagine they're doing it again in the UK, too;
Very annoying news: notorious anti-gay activist Paul Cameron, "researcher" and author of "The Death Penalty for Homosexuality," somehow slipped a study through a peer-reviewed journal. His data source: three books he bought on Amazon. His conclusion: homosexuality is contageous. Who the hell peer-reviewed this?; pointer from Thom at Elfintech;
A longer article on the same story; again, what you're looking at here is "how to get results you want by selecting your data to give you the results you want." Pointer again from Thom at Elfintech.
( Articles and excerpts inside )
