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Family Research Council Calls for Criminalization of Being Gay

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Is this Barry Goldwater’s party? On the heels of a bizarre poll that shows that Republicans almost unanimously want to bar openly gay men and women from teaching in government schools, we get a strange and scary outburst from Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council.

Peter S. Sprigg is Senior Fellow for Policy Studies at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. Mr. Sprigg joined FRC in 2001, and his research and writing have addressed issues of marriage and family, human sexuality, the arts and entertainment, and religion in public life. And tonight, in the year 2010, Mr. Sprigg called for the criminalization of homosexuality:

Matthews: Do you think we should outlaw gay behavior?

Sprigg: Well, I think certainly..

Matthews: I’m just asking, should we outlaw gay behavior?

Sprigg: I think the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas which overturned the sodomy laws in this country was wrongly decided. I think there would be a place in this country for criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior.

Matthews: So we should outlaw gay behavior?

Sprigg: Yes!

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New Poll: 47% Believe Being Gay is a Choice

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

A poll of 1,001 American voters has found that almost half believe being gay is something people choose. The research found that 47 per cent of respondents thought homosexuality was a choice, while 46 per cent opposed gay marriage. It was carried out by polling institute Angus-Reid.

Fifty-three per cent of respondents in this poll approved of the measure, while 37 per cent were opposed and ten per cent were undecided. Marriage was more contentious, with 46 per cent opposed to full equality. Forty-three per cent were in favour while one per cent were unsure.

The respondents who were most in favour of gay marriage tended to be cohabiting, single or widowed people. Married, separated and divorced people were less in favour.

Full Story from Pink News: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/12/18/poll-suggests-almost-half-of-americans-believe-being-gay-is-a-choice/

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What Does Being Gay Really Cost?

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

The authors of a widely discussed article published in The New York Times, “The High Price of Being a Gay Couple were the main attraction at a panel discussion at New York’s Gay Center on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. Finance reporter Tara Siegel Bernard and colleague Ron Lieber estimated the additional expenses incurred by two hypothetical gay couples over a fifty-year period, compared to the same expenses incurred by two hypothetical heterosexual couples. The worst-case couple would earn a combined $70,000 annually. The best-case scenario couple earned a combined $160,000.

The article, which was highly praised by mainstream and gay readers, examined every detail of how the lack of legal union and other legal restrictions wreaks secret havoc on our financial well being.

Two months and 900 fictional tax returns later, Bernard and Siegel emerged with a wide-ranging profile which shattered the myth that gays are more financially robust and advantaged than their heterosexual peers. The two reporters (who are heterosexual), detailed the metholodology of how they crunched the numbers.

Full Story from Edge Boston: http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=99842

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Being Gay in the USA Can Cost Couples Up to $467K Over a Lifetime

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Much of the debate over legalizing gay marriage has focused on God and Scripture, the Constitution and equal protection.

But we see the world through the prism of money. And for years, we’ve heard from gay couples about all the extra health, legal and other costs they bear. So we set out to determine what they were and to come up with a round number — a couple’s lifetime cost of being gay.

It was much more complicated than we initially imagined, and that’s probably why we’ve never seen similar efforts. We looked at benefits that routinely go to married heterosexual couples but not to gay couples, like certain Social Security payments. We plotted out the cost of health insurance for couples whose employers don’t offer it to domestic partners. Even tax preparation can cost more, since gay couples have to file two sets of returns. Still, many couples may come out ahead in one area: they owe less in income taxes because they’re not hit with the so-called marriage penalty.

Full Story from the SF Sentinel: http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=44644

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