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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com October 13, 2010
Perkins Blames Suicides on Gay Community
By Advocate.com Editors
TONY PERKINS WIKIPEDIA X390
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins recognized National Coming
Out Day by blaming recent youth suicides on the gay community in an online
column for The Washington Post.
In the Post’sOn Faith blog, Perkins wrote that the “homosexual movement”
was responsible for creating a sense of despair that drives some gay people
to suicide.
“Some homosexuals may recognize intuitively that their same-sex attractions
are abnormal — yet they have been told by the homosexual movement, and
their allies in the media and the educational establishment, that they are
‘born gay’ and can never change,” he wrote. “This — and not society's
disapproval — may create a sense of despair that can lead to suicide.”
Watchdog group Media Matters criticized the Post for giving the antigay
Perkins a platform, in what appears to be a tendency for the publication. | g********d
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发帖数: 4174 | 3 Posted on Advocate.com October 13, 2010
Mom Counters Perkins on Suicides
Sirdeaner Walker, whose son Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover killed himself in 2009
at age 11 after being subjected to bullying and antigay taunts, has an
essay in The Washington Post’s On Faith blog countering assertions made by
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins in the forum Monday, blaming
gay activism for suicides by young people.
“Mr. Perkins’ tactic, and that of others like him, is to use faith and
religion to divide us,” Walker writes in a piece published Tuesday. “They
seek to thwart efforts to deal with a problem at the heart of this current
crisis — anti-gay bullying and harassment. But Perkins goes further — his
‘facts’ are taken out of context and are, frankly, untrue.” For one thing
, she says, Perkins claims that there is no empirical evidence linking
antigay discrimination to higher rates of depression and suicide among LGBT
people, when in fact there is.
After her son’s suicide, Walker, who describes herself as “a devout
Christian,” became involved with the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education
Network and its efforts to end bullying in schools. Some friends and
relatives told her they thought GLSEN’s work controversial, but she is now
a GLSEN board member, and she has this to say about bullying:
“If schools perceive addressing anti-gay bullying as a controversial issue,
then they’ll continue the status quo of putting their heads in the sand
and hoping the issue takes care of itself . ... I know all too well that if
schools and society are unwilling to name the specific types of bullying
that occur most frequently, we will never get a handle on this problem.” | a***n
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