Lord Monckton has returned. After claiming gay people have up to 20,000 sex partners, the anti-gay conservative is back with more falsehoods, like the probability that a gay person’s marriage “will last for more than a few weeks or months is vanishingly different from zero.”
Lord Christopher Monckton made headlines last week when he claimed that gay people have 500-1000 sex partners, and up to 20,000 in their lifetimes. The former UKIP deputy leader who was a special advisor to the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher issued his hysterical rant on the uber-conservative US website World Net Daily, where he is a weekly columnist.
Now, Monckton has returned with more of his anti-gay hysteria. He is using the case of an Australian lawmaker’s homophobia to further his lies about the LGBT community. Councillor Rosalie Crestani, Monckton writes, has drafted a resolution she insists the Australian city of Casey should adopt.
A few claims Monckton, via Crestani, makes that today are easily debunked:
“28 per cent of homosexual males had sexual encounters with 1000 or more males over a lifetime”
“four homosexuals in five said that more than half of their sexual partners were strangers”
“1100 sexual partners were the mean for homosexual males and that some reported as many as 20,000 different sexual partners”
“almost half of all male homosexuals had engaged in sex with more than 50 partners in the previous six months”
“more than a quarter of male homosexuals had 11-50 partners over the previous six months”
Many of these claims, and others, are from a Kinsey Institute book first published in 1978, Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men & Women. That book also included this disclaimer, according to LGBT blogger Alvin McEwen: “given the variety of circumstances which discourage homosexuals from participating in research studies, it is unlikely that any investigator will ever be in a position to say that this or that is true of a given percentage of all homosexuals.”
But the anti-gay right doesn’t bother with facts, do they?
Even if those statistics were valid and true, they are from a study four decades old.
Monckton takes the opportunity to use Crestani’s false “facts” to attack the LGBT community.
“How and why have we allowed the so-called ‘gay’ community to fool us into thinking we should ‘celebrate’ their deathstyle when – in their own interest – we should be warning everyone of the medical risks of the extreme promiscuity that is the custom among them?,” Monckton asks.
And why are some states allowing them to “marry†when the probability that the “marriage†will last for more than a few weeks or months is vanishingly different from zero?
And why, oh why, do a few nations allow them to adopt and bring up children? Do we not care more for our innocent little ones than that?
Pity the LGBT community cannot file a class action lawsuit.
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