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Tue Dec 13, 2011, 09:21 AM Dec 2011

Janice Crouse – another phony expert of the religious right

http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2011/12/13/janice-crouse-another-phony-expert-of-the-religious-right/

The following video is a perfect demonstration of the slick ways so-called religious right experts pass along propaganda and lies about the lgbtq community:
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Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America has done this sort of thing before. Last year in fact.

And just like that time, she does not say where she got her statistics. It’s probably because she either relying on junk science or distortions of legitimate science.

When it comes to legitimate science, religious right phony experts, like Ms. Crouse here, have been known to take convenience sample studies – i.e. studies taken at STD clinics or studies in which the authors have indicated cannot be taken to generalize about the entire gay community – and distort them to demonize lgbtqs in mass.
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