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And Yet Another Study Shows Homophobes Are Closet Cases

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We need to make this point over and over.   This should become common knowledge so our unfortunate closet case brethren will think twice before they publicly work to deny us our rights.  Anyone who is actively promoting anti gay policies should be assumed to be a self-loathing closet case.    Via RawStory: People who have negative feelings toward homosexuality often have secret attractions to the same sex — and are more likely to have grown up in households that forbid homosexual feelings, according to a recent study. A research team from the University of Rochester, the University of Essex, England, and the University of California in Santa Barbara  found  that “[h]omophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires.” “Individuals who identify as straight but in psychological tests show a strong attraction to the same sex may be th...

NewsFlash: Many Homophobes Are Self Loathing Closet Cases

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Via Huffington Post : George Alan Rekers, a prominent anti-gay activist was caught with a male escort he found on Rentboy.com, which is exactly what it sounds like. I'm shocked I tell you...shocked by this study...not! From Psychology Today: .. .Sigmund  Freud , theorized that people often have the most hateful and negative attitudes towards things they secretly crave, but feel that they shouldn't have. If Freud is right, then perhaps men who are the most opposed to male homosexuality have particularly strong  homosexual urges for other men.... In this study, they attached a device that measures arousal of the penis to each participant and showed them gay porn....guess what happened?   ...Heterosexual men with the most anti-gay attitudes, when asked, reported not being sexually aroused by gay male sex videos. But, their penises reported otherwise. Homophobic men were the most sexually aroused by gay male sex acts. I guess you...

Fox News Viewers Less Informed Than People Who Watch No News!

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Screen cap of Fox New deliberately confusing climate with weather There are also 6 previous  studies on   global warming ,   health care ,   health care a second time , the   Ground Zero mosque , the   Iraq war , and the   2010 election * that show Fox New viewers are the least informed of all.  This current study shows that people who watch no news at all are more informed than Fox News viewers.  That's a great accomplishment for Fox because, in my opinion, this is actually their goal.  The don't want their viewers informed...they want them convinced.  And that is a huge difference! Via CrooksAndLiars.com: I know it will shock every reader of this blog to discover this, but  this groundbreaking study  proves what we've all known: Watching Fox News will make you stupid. Or keep you stupid. Or something. What it won't do is inform you. As Christian Finnegan pointed out to David Shuster on Countdown, Fox Ne...