'Hazards of Homosexuality' Flier Distributed at Values Voter Summit
A flier promoting a book on the "health hazards of homosexuality" was distributed to guests at Values Voter Summit where President Trump spoke.
by John Paul Brammer / Oct.13.2017 / 4:15 PM ET
A flier distributed at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., on Friday that promoted a book titled "The Health Hazards of Homosexuality" prompted outcry when photos surfaced on social media.
The flier was given out to attendees at the gathering where President Donald Trump spoke in complimentary tote bags that also included a sticker saying, "I don't believe the liberal media."
MassResistance, a group based Massachusetts that identifies itself as "a pro-family activist organization that educates people to help them confront the attacks on the traditional family" on its website , created the fliers to promote the book by its founder, Bryan Camenker.
A request for comment from MassResistance was not immediately returned. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated MassResistance a hate group since 2008.
According to its preface, the book "aims to alert the public — especially young people and their parents — on the serious physical and physiological health dangers inherent in adopting a 'gay,' lesbian or bisexual (GLB) identity."
The book says the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide, made "sodomy a right and a legitimate basis for marriage."
It also claims homosexuality is a mental disorder and the truth is being suppressed by "the homosexual lobby and their allies," including the "radicalized" entertainment industry, press and educational establishments.
The book touts an official endorsement from a Dr. Paul Church, where he is listed as "Urologist, Asst. Clinical Professor of Surgery (part-time), Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts, October 2016." A spokesperson for Harvard Medical School told NBC News that Church has not been affiliated with the school since December 2015.
Church was fired in January 2016 from his position as a urologist at Beth Israel Deaconess, one of Harvard’s affiliated hospitals, for sending anti-gay emails to staff.
Trump received a standing ovation at the Value Voters summit, which was organized by the Family Research Council (FRC), when he said in his remarks Friday that Americans "don't worship government, we worship God."
He became the first sitting president to address the annual gathering of evangelical conservatives, a powerful bloc that helped propel him to the White House in November.
According to its website, the FRC "does not consider homosexuality, bi-sexuality, and transgenderism as acceptable alternative lifestyles or sexual 'preferences'; they are unhealthy and destructive to individual persons, families, and society."
LGBTQ advocate groups condemned Trump's appearance at the summit.
"This morning, addressing a gathering of some of the most extreme anti-LGBTQ activists in the country, Trump once again legitimized hate speech and vowed, again and again to write discrimination into law by pushing laws focused on religious exemptions," Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, a media watchdog group, said in a statement, adding that religious exemption laws serve to legalize discrimination.
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MassResistance and the FRC spewing the usual garbage. And of course, Trump supports their lies and misinformation (because that's all he knows).
Says you. Of course you think anything that doesnt confirm to your narrow view of the world is garbage. It seems too that you somehow think that things must be cleared through you or those like you.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center designates just about every group to the right of Chairman Mao as a hate group. They gave no credibiity.
They have a lot more credibility than you do.
The FBI doesnt think they are credible.
Link
And what makes you think I care whether you think I am credible or not. Frankly your opinion and $5 will get me a cup of coffee a Denny's. It only costs $3 dollars without your opinion.
That link states the reasons why the FBI doesn't cite the SPLC data anymore and it has NOTHING to do with their credibility. But you knew that because it's been posted here ad nauseam, yet you and yours keep linking the same BS over and over again.
Isn't that enough?
Maybe because it usually is. Eginnj's views tend to be more logical and enlightened.
If the shoe fits.
Neither do you. And Dulay's follow up post only proves it.
No!
No they tend to be liberal BS.
It usually doesn't
I'll ask you the same thing. What makes you think I give a rats fat patoot what your opinion is?
That's your problem then.
No, they are logical and enlightened. The fact that you seem to defend the FRC and massresistance speaks volumes about you.
But this time it does.
I couldn't care less if you do or not. but then, eginnj did cite a fact. You, not so much.
And defending antifa says and blm says alit about the left and none ot it is good.
No as I said before, ecpose facts and the truth to a liberal and it is like tossing a vampire into the sunlight.
What does antifa and BLM have to do with anything? You seem to be trying to turn this into a left vs. right thing. The issue is about MassResistance and the FRC.
Here's a fact: Massresistance and FRC are both well known hate groups, especially with regards to homosexuality, among other things. So again, your defense of them speaks volumes about you! And your generalization about liberals not only shows a bias on your part, as well as an ad hom attack, but it only further demonstrates your lack of credibility!
Seeing how most onthe left says that anyone that does not fully embrace the homosexual agenda or even comes close to saying it is an abnormal lifestyle is consixereda hate group i am not surprised you think so. Of course many if not most liberals beleve that anyone and anything that beleve exactly like they do is hateful and deplorable.
Did you miss the part where I said i don't give a rats ass about your opinion.?
I don't know anyone who says that. But then, what word is best used toi describe those who think gays should be discriminated against or treated as second class citizens?
Nice sweeping generalization.
Did you miss the part where I said I couldn't care less?
And next you are going to tell me that you are pure as the driven sniw and have never done that.
Oh yeah i forgot. I don't believe you on that either.
I see you can't refute my statement.
that could be said about people from both sides of the aisle, correct ?
could you please post some links to prove this ? i have not heard of this yet, so i would like to see those official statements.
Also, please include what the "homosexual agenda" is - i still can't find that anywhere
E.A So what does the CDC says about " High Risk Activities " and where does Oral and Anal Sex rate?>
The FACT is that the USA has a very low percentage of ALL HIV/AIDS patients worldwide, and on a worldwide basis, the overwhelming majority of HIV/AIDS patients are heterosexual men.
Male gays are by nature promiscuous and continue to indulge in unsafe sex in spite of potential consequences.
Lesbians don't have this problem
Indeed - it seems that people with dicks are the real problem regardless of their sexual orientation.
There’s only a problem if you don’t know what do with it.
That's refuted by the data coming from South Africa.
HIV prevalence among South African women was nearly twice as high as men, 25% of new infections are women between 15-24, 360,000 children (aged 0 to 14) were living with HIV and 2.3 million children in South Africa have been orphaned by HIV and AIDS.
From those numbers, they know what to do with it, they just aren't doing it safely...
Given that HIV is overwhelming a heterosexual disease in most of the world, it seems that straight guys are indeed the biggest problem.
One would think that everyone participating at the Values Voter Summit would have already read Bryan Camenker's book. After all, they've been selling this clap trap for 8 years now, so they should have it memorized.
So what is the Highest risks and do people have a right to know?
It's ironic that you ask this question and then post CDC data. Your own comment proves that CURRENT empirical data is easily available to the general pubic.
The attempt to sell an outdated, ideologically biased book isn't about giving people information, it's about intentionally dispensing misinformation and lies.
Some further FACTS that can not be denied!
Maybe I'm being dense but what does this chart show ?
E.A See what Shepboy posted above repeating has no merit! 3.1 Shepboy
If it is still Not Clear see what your local Hospital/Clink/Medical Centre have to say on those numbers
If Trump favors MassResistance, when is he going to actually do something to help other than talk?
Trump has already done a number of things to harm LGBT folks so he clearly endorses the vile agenda of hate groups like MassResistance and the FRC.
E.A " Vile Agenda " so Lies about Pathogens infections deaths cause effect are not " Vile " interesting!
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Please stop spamming this article with other articles.
E.A Interesting so Countering FACTS are Spamming? Who would have thought, many thanks!