Homophobe math fail

[ck4829]

The mainstream scientific community rejects the Religious Right’s assertion that gays and lesbians can change their sexual orientation to become heterosexual: the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychiatric Association all deny the effectiveness, safety and ethics of ‘ex-gay’ reparative therapy.

But that doesn’t stop right-wing activists from citing and exaggerating the claims of small, fringe organizations in order to bolster their support of reparative therapy and claim that such “therapy” has extensive backing in the medical community.

Today, Liberty Counsel heads Mat Staver and Matt Barber, who according to their official biographies have no background in psychology, dedicated their Faith & Freedom radio show to assailing the American Psychological Association, arguing that they have more psychological expertise than the APA. Staver pointed to a small, Christians-only psychological group has “the most definitive, most recent research that’s come out that says change is possible” for gays and lesbians.

Liberty Counsel even declared that the American Association of Christian Counselors is “larger than American Psychological Assn”:



http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-rights-spin-science

The APA has more than 154,000 members.

154,000 is more than 50,000.

[Scuba]

1. Being gay is natural....

....it's hating gays that's a lifestyle choice.

[Orrex]

2. In this era of fair and balanced reporting...

When the MSM has a story about these gay cures, they seldom include the disclaimer that the "science" behind the "cure" is bullshit.

Instead, they run it simply as one of their "all opinions are equally valid" pieces.

[izquierdista]

4. Let's see them use "so-called"

in front of 'reparative therapy' like they stick it in front of 'global warming'. The presence or absence of the "so-called" modifier reveals all the built-in bias.

[Fearless]

3. Awkward!

[NMMNG]

5. They're no good at logic or science

so why would they be any good at math?

[One_Life_To_Give]

6. Don't confuse them with facts

Can't let pesky things like facts get in the way of bigotry.

[ATLdemocrat]

7. When 1+1+1 = 1

It's easy to see how 50,000 is more than 154,000