Topic: CNSNews.com
NewsBusters is not the only Media Research Center division who's been more anti-gay than usual this week. CNSNews.com has ben making its own contributions:
A June 23 article by Penny Starr headlined, "Hillary Clinton Urges State Department Employees to Let Teens Know It's Okay to Be Homosexual." Starr doesn't explain why she apparently believes this to be a bad thing.
A June 23 article by Fred Lucas headlined "Obama Expands His Pro-Homosexual Agenda by Regulation, ‘Interpretation’." Lucas seeks comment only from anti-gay groups, who predictably "criticized the White House for handing out 'political favors' to the homosexual lobby – and vastly expanding presidential power in the process." He made no apparent effort to obtain reaction from the Obama administration or anyone else in response to the criticism.
Meanwhile, back over at NewsBusters, it was happy that the MRC's Dan Gainor was allowed to spew his anti-gay rhetoric on CNN, but complained that it "presented Gainor’s view as the abnormal one." Well, Dan, paranoiacally claiming that "Hollywood has done a great deal of work causing acceptance in American culture for homosexuality" isn't exactly a mainstream view.
In the unsigned post attributed only to "NB Staff" (afraid to put a name on your hate, boys?), NewsBusters then tries to dehumanize the children of gays through faulty math:
Assume for a moment that a full 250,000 children live with gay parents. They would represent 0.003 percent of the 72.4 million children counted in the 2000 Census. The number itself is extremely small, and it’s not even close to proportionate. Commonly cited estimates guess 10 percent of the population is homosexual.
NewsBusters forgot to move the decimal point over on their calculator: 250,000 is actually 0.3 percent of 72.4 million, not 0.003 percent. And the proportionality argument is utterly irrelevant.
