Family Research Council: Gay Elderly? What Gay Elderly?

Posted on: November 1, 2009 9:09 AM, by Ed Brayton

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The furiously anti-gay Family Research Council continues their long history of asinine homo-hate by attacking the Obama administration for setting up an agency to handle the issues of elderly gay people. You'll love this argument:

A $1.4 trillion deficit aside, HHS has set aside a quarter million dollars to launch the first-ever National Resource Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders.

They're complaining about spending $250 K because of a $1.4 trillion deficit. That's less than one one thousandth of a percent of the deficit. It's like saying, "Bill has $20,000 in credit card debt, yet he spent 50 cents on a newspaper."

Apparently, our nation is never too broke to advance a radical social agenda.

Oh, of course. Because helping elderly gay people is so radical.

The agency released a statement on the Center last week, saying its purpose would be to "help community-based organizations understand the unique needs... of older LGBT individuals and assist them in implementing programs for local service providers..." In the release, HHS regurgitates the Left's propaganda to justify the waste, claiming that "1.5 to 4 million" LGBTs are age 60 and older. In reality, HHS has no idea how many LGBT seniors exist. No one does!

And therefore....what? We don't know how many of any group exists in this country. We don't know how many Christians exist, how many men exist, how many homeless people exist, how many Hispanics exist, and so forth. We can do the best we can to estimate, but we can't count every single person in any large group. But so what? Even if it's only one million, would that mean those people don't matter?

And of course, you know they have to bring up the bogus gay death stats, right?

Of course, the real tragedy here--apart from the unnecessary spending--is that, given the risks of homosexual conduct, these people are less likely to live long enough to become senior citizens!

And they quote a bunch of stats showing that gays have higher rates of illness. Well, okay. That sounds like it should be an argument for coordinating social and medical services for them. And it should be. But since these are gay people, it just means they're evil and don't deserve any help.

Yet once again, the Obama administration is rushing to reward a lifestyle that poses one of the greatest public health risks in America.

Well yes, of course. Giving medical treatment to gay people is rewarding their "lifestyle" (whatever the hell that means). I wish they'd just stop all this bullshit pretense in trying to construct arguments for their position. Everything they say really just comes down to them yelling "EWWWWWWW, WE DON'T LIKE THEM GAY PEOPLE!"

The original article is

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/11/family_research_council_gay_el.php