SCRIBE DAN SAVAGE OPINES

Okay, Pat Robertson said this on his 700 Club show that homosexual  men are "made:"

"I am not at all persuaded that so-called homosexuals are homosexuals because of biological problems. There may be a very few, but there are so many that have been made homosexuals because of a coach or a guidance counselor or some other male figure who has abused them and they think there's something wrong with their sexuality. So you need to get deep into why he is what he is, instead of just saying, 'Well, he's a homosexual so how do I handle him, and how do I be Christian?' Well, I think you ought to tell him, 'Listen, son, you know, here's what the Bible says about this, and it's called an abomination before God, so I've got to tell you the truth because I love you'...I mean, if somebody's on their way to hell, they'll -- I mean, you've got to love them to rescue them."

So scribe Dan Savage sets up the question and opines:   if these kids are coming out gay--who in the fundamentalist Christian homesteads are producing them?:

Boys are "made homosexual," Robertson says, "because of a coach or a guidance counselor or some other male figure... abused them."

As a thought experiment let's concede the point: homosexuals are made, not born (with the exception of the few of us with "biological problems"). Who do you suppose is making homosexuals out of kids from fundamentalist Christian homes? Alen Keyes has a gay kid, Randal Terry has a gay kid, Dick Cheney has a gay kid, Phyllis Schafley has a gay kid. Seattle's Capitol Hill is crawling with gay teenagers and young adults who grew up in—and escaped from—their fundamentalist Christian homes. The documentary For the Bible Tells Me Soprofiles numerous kids from fundamentalist Christian families who grew up to be gay.

Who's raping all these Christian kids?

Not openly gay people. Fundamentalist Christian parents don't allow their children hang out with openly gay men and women. Openly gay men do not get hired to work as a guidance counselors at fundamentalist Christian middle schools; out lesbians do not get hired to work as coaches at a fundamentalist Christian high schools; openly bi graduate students don't get to serve as dorm captains at fundamentalist Christian colleges. So it isn't out gay men and women—openly gay coaches and counselors and youth pastors—who are raping all these Christian kids and leaving them "confused" about their sexualities. Most fundamentalist Christian kids have never met an out gay or lesbian person. Which can only mean...

All these Christian kids are being raped by straight-identified, nominally-Christian coaches and counselors and youth pastors and dorm captains.

If you buy into Robertson's theories on origins of homosexuality then you have to embrace a highly unflattering picture of Christian America. If Pat is right then all those fundamentalist Christian churches, schools, counseling programs, and summer camps—the whole parallel Christian universe—are teeming with sexual predators. That Christian day care center? An extremely dangerous environment for children. That Christian summer camp? The hunting grounds of countless child rapists. That youth group at the mega-church? Ditto. That football team at a Christian high school? No responsible parent would let her child try out for one.

Christian America: a bad place to raise your kids.

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