12/30/13: SaveCalifornia.com Urges Boycott of Rose Parade
SAVECALIFORNIA.COM NEWS RELEASE
December 30, 2013 -- For Immediate Release
SaveCalifornia.com Urges Boycott of Rose Parade
'Live gay wedding' turns family-friendly parade into political stunt
SEE THE BOYCOTT ALERT & ACTION STEPS HERE
Sacramento, California -- A leading pro-family organization, SaveCalifornia.com, is calling for a boycott of the Jan. 1 Rose Parade due to its in-your-face promotion of homosexual "marriage" to children.
"Many parents and grandparents are appalled that the Rose Parade is being turned from a family-friendly parade into an offensive political stunt forced upon children who are watching," said Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, which promotes moral virtues for the common good. "SaveCalifornia.com is urging dads, moms and grandparents to boycott the Rose Parade, cancel plans to watch or attend, voice their opposition to tournament officials, and not do business with sponsors listed at tournamentofroses.com."
"The Rose Parade was founded upon the reality of God's beautiful creation of flowers and plants that decorate exquisite floats, to the delight of children and families," Thomasson said. "Now, with a 'live gay wedding' on a float, the Rose Parade has turned against God's natural design of sex and family, confusing children and offending parents."
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation float will feature a "live wedding" between two homosexual men. "Children watching will be taught that homosexual behavior is good and normal, when it's not biologically based, results in a high rate of HIV/AIDS and other STDs, and squashes religious freedom, free speech, and other constitutional rights," Thomasson said. (Source: SaveCalifornia.com's "Not Born This Way")
"The float's slogan, 'Love Is The Best Protection,' is false advertising that hurts children," Thomasson said. "The fact is, the promotion of homosexual behavior, including same-sex 'marriages,' in our culture has increased sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. And male homosexuals in 'committed' relationships are notorious for having 'open relationships,' which enlarge the circle of transmission."
DOCUMENTATION FROM MYTH 10 OF "THE TEN TOP MYTHS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY," PUBLISHED BY FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL (2010): http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF10F01.pdf
Myth No. 10: Homosexual relationships are just the same as heterosexual ones, except for the gender of the partners.
Fact: Homosexuals are less likely to enter into a committed relationship, less likely to be sexually faithful to a partner, even if they have one, and are less likely to remain committed for a lifetime, than are heterosexuals.
Homosexual men and women are far less likely to be in any kind of committed relationship than heterosexuals are. A 2006 study by researchers at UCLA concluded:
We found that lesbians, and particularly gay men, are less likely to be in a relationship compared to heterosexual women and men. Perhaps the most outstanding finding is also the most simple-that over half of gay men (51%) were not in a relationship. Compared to only 21% of heterosexual females and 15% of heterosexual males, this figure is quite striking.(77)
Secondly, even homosexuals (especially men) who are in a partnered relationship are much less likely to be sexually faithful to that partner.
» A Dutch study of partnered homosexuals, which was published in the journal AIDS, found that men with a "steady partner" had an average of eight sexual partners per year.(78)
» A Canadian study of homosexual men who had been in committed relationships lasting longer than one year found that only 25 percent of those interviewed reported being monogamous. According to study author Barry Adam, "Gay culture allows men to explore different . . . forms of relationships besides the monogamy coveted by heterosexuals."(79)
A 2005 study in the journal Sex Roles found that "40.3% of homosexual men in civil unions and 49.3% of homosexual men not in civil unions had 'discussed and decided it is ok under some circumstances' to have sex outside of the relationship. By comparison, only 3.5% of heterosexual married men and their wives agreed that sex outside of the relationship was acceptable."(80)
Finally, research shows that homosexual relationships tend to be of shorter duration and much less likely to last a lifetime than heterosexual ones (especially heterosexual marriages). A 2005 journal article cites one large-scale longitudinal study comparing the dissolution rates of heterosexual married couples, heterosexual cohabiting couples, homosexual couples, and lesbian couples:
On the basis of the responses to the follow-up survey, the percentage of dissolved couples was 4% (heterosexual married couples), 14% (heterosexual cohabiting couples), 13% (homosexual couples) and 18% (lesbian couples).(81)
In other words, the dissolution rate of homosexual couples during the period of this study was more than three times that of heterosexual married couples, and the dissolution rate of lesbian couples was more than four-fold that of heterosexual married couples.(82)
myth 10 - footnotes
77 Charles Strohm, et al., "Couple Relationships among Lesbians, Gay Men, and Heterosexuals in California: A Social Demographic Perspective," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, (Aug 10, 2006): 18. Accessed at: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p104912_index.html
78 Maria Xiridou, et al, "The Contribution of Steady and Casual Partnerships to the Incidence of HIV Infection among Homosexual Men in Amsterdam," AIDS 17 (2003): 1031.
79 Ryan Lee, "Gay Couples Likely to Try Non-monogamy, Study Shows," Washington Blade
(August 22, 2003): 18
80 Sondra E. Solomon, Esther D. Rothblum, and Kimberly F. Balsam, "Money, Housework, Sex, and Conflict: Same-Sex Couples in Civil Unions, Those Not in Civil Unions, and Heterosexual Married Siblings," Sex Roles 52 (May 2005): 569.
81 Lawrence Kurdek, "Are Gay and Lesbian Cohabiting Couples Really Different from Heterosexual Married Couples?" Journal of Marriage and Family 66 (November 2004): 893.
82 Ibid., 896.
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