Coburn's Chief of Staff said this: "Tell little boys that porn will make them gay"

[LynneSin]

Seriously, does the GOP take stupid-pills or what?
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http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/gop-senators-aide-tell-little-boys-that-porn-will-make-them-gay/

GOP Senator's aide: Tell little boys that porn will make them gay

Michael Schwartz, chief of staff to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), has an interesting theory: If you tell little boys that looking at pornography will make them gay, maybe they won't want a copy of Playboy.

Schwartz attempted to explain this claim during a pep talk on "the new masculinity" at the Values Voter Conference last week, reported ThinkProgress. During his presentation, Schwartz asserted that all the pre-adolescent boys he has been associated with "speak badly" about homosexuality, which he implied to be somehow positive.

He added that a friend of his once claimed that all pornography is homosexual, because it turns one's sexual urges "inwards."

Here's an excerpt from The Washington Independent:

“Pornography is a blight... It is a disaster. It is one of those silent diseases in our society that we haven’t been able to overcome very well. Now, I may be getting politically incorrect here. And it’s been a few years, but not that many, since I was closely associated with pre-adolescent boys, boys around 10 years of age. But it is my observation that boys of that age have less tolerance for homosexuality than just about any other class of people. They speak badly about homosexuality. And that’s because they don’t want to be that way. They don’t want to fall into it.”

Schwartz told the crowd about Jim Johnson, a friend of his who turned an old hotel into a hospice for gay men dying of AIDS. “One of the things he said to me,” said Schwartz, “that I think is an astonishingly insightful remark… he said ‘All pornography is homosexual pornography, because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards.”

There were murmurs and gasps from the crowd. “Now, think about that,” said Schwartz. “And if you tell an 11-year-old boy about that, do you think he’s going to want to get a copy of Playboy? I’m pretty sure he’ll lose interest. That’s the last thing he wants! You know, that’s a good comment, it’s a good point, and it’s a good thing to teach young people.”
ThinkProgress added:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Porn doesn't make people gay.

It makes them misogynist gang rapists. Apparently.

:crazy:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. I have NEVER been a misogynist gang rapist. I have never raped a gang.

so there.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. We can't say that for sure. Maybe the gang was forced into retracting it's story.

"I got real drunk so me and that guy from the Backstreet Boys raped a gang."

-Chairman Agnostic.

There, see? Proof.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. sounds suspiciously like a Lot of biblical stories I've read.

Ergo 90 proof sum

[Gman2]

4. Sounds like a personal confession.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. It sure does at that, doesn't it?

Of course, consider the source. Which is the party of diapers? Hookers spanking US Senators? and so much more.

I remember when the Hustler publisher promised to out a bunch of GOPers. Whatever happened to his plans?

[GodlessBiker]

6. Being gay is caused by a toad or small dwarf living in a person's stomach, not by porn.

I mean what century are these people living in?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. not tiny little stones masquerading as witches made of wood

which cause men's penises to fall off because of too much gay porn-based masterbation? While wearing mommy's bra you stole 22 years ago?

[GodlessBiker]

8. That is a competing theory with these people.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. Wow. They allow a competing theory.

how large minded of them.

[infidel dog]

11. Weird, weird people. Thank St. Thomas Paine I live in a blue state.

[immoderate]

12. Will a small glance at a Playboy just make them like Broadway musicals?

--imm

[Touchdown]

13. On the contrary, gay men make the porn industry profitable.

Lesbians not so much, but U-Haul does good business with them.:P

[LeftinOH]

14. Only fundies consider Playboy to be porn. Furthermore, one suspects they are

WELL aware (ahem) of what *actual* porn is- but they choose to utilize the media-friendly name 'Playboy' because its so innocuous.

[ikri]

15. Even if it did make boys gay

There's not a teenage boy on the planet who wouldn't take the chance anyway.

If Schwartz looked at porn as a teenager but "lost interest" and privately thinks that he's gay then I hate to break it to him, but it wasn't the porn, he was probably never interested in naked women anyway he just didn't know it then.

[sentelle]

16. Seems like only Ashcroft got it right.

Wasn't it Ashcroft who used to talk about the danger of Onanism?
Playboy might have guys engage in that, but I doubt it a homosexual pasttime.
Next thing you know, they'll talk about growing hair on palms.....

Maybe thats why the Goopers are so messed up, they equate masterbation with homosexuality.

to quote Woddy Allen, don't knock masterbation, its sex with someone you love.

[11 Bravo]

17. The stupid pills are actually a placebo. They were natural fucking idiots to begin with.

[YoungAndOutraged]

18. My I.Q. dropped by 1/4th just from reading that

This might possibly be the single most stupid thing any human being has ever said in the history of the world. This is one of those statements that only come around every thousand years. I'll never regain the intelligence I lost just from reading this. As far as stupid statements are concerned, nothing I've ever heard comes anywhere close to this.

[NoPasaran]

19. Playboy turns boys gay?

Only if they read the articles.