Jeffress: Gays Can't Be Monogamous

Robert Jeffress misrepresents a Dutch study to claim that gays can't have monogamous, long-term relationships

[notaniceguy]

@christo930 now u know it's difficult to post links on youtube. but the study looked at casual relationships amongst gay men years. a requirement to be in the study was that you had to have been at least two relationships during a six month period. Naturally that means gay men in monogamous relationships were already omitted from the study.

[AdamTh]

Click the RWWBlog link and go to their website. RWW details exactly how Jeffress misreps that study.

From RWW:
In a sermon earlier this year called “What to Say to Those Who Are Gay, ” Jeffress cited a study from the Netherlands to bolster his argument that gays are incapable of having long-term, monogamous relationships. As Jim Burroway notes, the study of gay men in Amsterdam was conducted in the 1980s and the 1990s and was far from representative of the gay community
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[vbxjbjrvn]

@Ranokian

To post links, do it as follows:

1. chop off everything up to and including the w w w

2. replace the dot after the last w with the letters DOT

It works for me - hope that helps : )

Box Turtle Bulletin on the Dutch study - box turtle bulletin DOT com/Articles/000, 003 DOT h t m

[cjm]

can you imagine being married to that? not exactly a happy dude. or when his kids get asked " what does your dad do"? "he talks about gay sex a lot"!

[Ranokian]

Ok I was wrong, the guy turns out to be a priest. He is still lying trough his teeth.

[Ranokian]

@christo930
Well I cant post a link here, you tube wont allow it. However, this is the search string for google:
The contribution of steady and casual partnerships to the incidence of HIV infection among homosexual men in Amsterdam.
The website is "The official journal of the International aids society."
The study was NEVER intended to investigate how long gay relationships last. It never intended to say anything about gay marriage or relationships of gays in particular.

[christo]

Does anyone have a link to this study? If it's being misrepresented, we should be able to see it for ourselves.

[AdamTh]

(CONT)
….and was far from representative of the gay community as it “was heavily weighted with HIV/AIDS patients, excluded monogamous participants, was predominantly urban, and consisted only of those under the age of thirty.” Furthermore, study participants didn’t have the right to marry since marriage equality wasn’t enacted in the Netherlands until 2001.

[ChrisOrDavid]

This guy is supposed to be from Texas. Str8 people in Texas listen to this Mary? You're kiddin me.

[EntinludeX]

Wait, ZombieJesus guy is mythbusting?

[ratnadeepghosh]

i am a gay and i am monogamous. dont know about others.

[aestevalis]

I'm guessing Jeffress knows first-hand how much of a myth this is.

[samsam]

im gay and i agree with him truth hurt guys

[ws]

80 percent of heterosexual couples have admitted to cheating on their spouses at least once in their lifetime. 80. I'm a christian and if I hear another christian freak out over the "sanctity of marriage, " i'm going to flip out. let people marry whoever they want.

[UnregisteredChaos]

Just because YOU are not monogamous, doesn't mean the rest of the gay community is the same as you.

[samsam]

are you kidding me !! i don't even believe in such thing called open relationship !! im monogamous but the majority of gay men are not : (

[FreedomRequiresWingsFRW]

"It's a myth... It's a myth"... hang on. What's religion made up of again?

[Ranokian]

@5355vbxjbj76rvn Thank you! I'll keep it in mind.