Posted on 07/16/2011 6:05:08 PM PDT by mandaladon
Friday night on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, the lead story was on a counseling clinic owned by presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and her husband. Cooper spoke of "allegations that the clinic engages in so-called reparative therapy," described by Cooper as "based on the theory that gay people can be turned into heterosexuals through a combination of prayer and willpower." The host's use of "so-called" set the stage for CNN political analyst Paul Begala to fulminate.
Using the word "crackpot" to characterize reparative therapy no fewer than nine times, Begala insisted Mrs. Bachmann should be interrogated:
BEGALA: She should be asked about this theory. She's a candidate for president. One out of 10 Americans is gay. She should be asked if she wants to lead a country where at least 10 percent of us are gay or lesbian, does she believe in this crackpot, bigoted theory that somehow there's something to be repaired in our brothers and sisters and sons and daughters who happen to be born gay?
Are "at least 10 percent" of Americans homosexual, to use a word that's not politically correct this season? In a word: no.
That figure, long used by activists, has been debunked repeatedly over the years. Obviously, no one can say with certainty what the actual numbers are, but one analysis that gathered data from four recent national and two state-level population-based surveys concluded that about 1.7 percent of the population are lesbian or gay. Another 1.8 percent of the population identify as bisexual.
The research came last April from the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, which defines itself as "a leading think tank dedicated to the field of sexual orientation and gender identity-related law and public policy."
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Is Begala a lesbian?
And the other 80% of us are what? Bisexual?/s
STUFF IT BEGALA.
I was thinking 2-3%. But when did the Dems EVER tell the truth?
Not even close. But at least 50% of those in that CNN studio (Cooper and Begala) are.
LOL, more likely, a pervert.
And 50% of us are taxpayers . . . so where’s your support for us?
Feces from the forehead.
He would know
He meant 10% of liberals.
In the Democrat Party, I’m guessing that 50% are!! They re all Deviants.
“STUFF IT BEGALA”
unfortunately, I think he’d like that!
So it’s never a choice, huh, Begala?
Explain then these divorced fathers in their 50s and older . . .
Well, just as in Chaucer’s Canterbury tales in the section on the Miller’s wife’s tale, I have a red hot poker for him. After all Begala seems to have a need to sizzle.
No he is a barney.
Good to know.
People like Michelle Bachmann and her husband are the only ones who love homosexuals enough to try to cure them of a destructive and unhealthy addiction. The Left wants them confined to that addiction, just as it wants blacks left in poverty and dependence.
Some of us are 0%. I don't know about the rest of you.
I'm ambidextrous. Don't tell my wife.
Begala Gay Too?
Why doesn’t CNN call itself the GayNews Channel (GNC?)
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