On yesterday’s program, David Barton asserted that one way to win the fight against gay rights is to start talking about how “reprehensible” homosexuality is going into graphic details on the theory that it will gross people out and educate them about what is really going on.
On today’s broadcast, dedicated to discussing the possibility that the Boy Scouts might lift the ban on gay scouts and/or scout leaders, Barton and co-host Rick Green again asserted that as part of this battle, anti-gay activists need to inform people about how “reprehensible and disgusting” homosexuality really is:
Green: Just yesterday on the program with Father Frank, you were describing at the end of the program just like what Representative [Bill] Dannemeyer had read on the House floor in describing just how graphically disgusting these activities are in the homosexuality community. And I think a lot of folks who are kind of siding with them on this Scout fight again, do not realize what they’re approving to go camping with their ten and eleven year old boys.
Barton: Yeah, people have an image of what they think sexuality is and, you know, that can come from movies or come from other sites as well, but when you get the specifics of what homosexuality activity is, even decent people find that absolutely reprehensible and disgusting. And that’s why when Representative Dannemeyer said “hey you Democrats are trying to promote this, let me read what you’re promoting, even Democrats got grossed out and tried to censor the Congressional Record and get that stuff taken out because it was so disgusting.
That is probably a good point to make Rick. While we think of this as being tolerant and whatever, no, you do need some details to realize what we’re facing here and it’s not what you think it might be. Get some details on it.
