From: rjones@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rex A. Jones)
Subject: Maurey Povich on Thurs (RE: Adoption and we're no good)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 20:26:19 GMT

The Maurey Povich show with the Lesbian from Florida who wanted to be
a foster mother for HIV kids, and the conservative/fundie expert from 
hell went something like this...

Woman is on screen telling how in FL she could not be a Foster Mother
because she was a Lesbian.  She told of how things were cool until the
case worker saw the bedroom with only one bed (and understanding that 
there were two adult women living in the home).  The case worker suggested
that the woman lie (including having separate beds), and the woman refused.
On comes the expert from hell.  She says how all research shows, and every-
body knows, that gays can't be good parents.  Maurey does not challenge this.
The expert from hell rants on and on. once the crowd shows support for the 
Foster-ee, the expert goes on to say that it isn't about this only woman.
It's about the fact that gays tend to molest kids...particullarly gay men 
(what was most interesting to me was that it seemed that the Foster-ee
didn't seem to disagree with this statement).  It was then that the expert
from hell started quoting that all research showed that gays were only
2% of the population (I think this was in response to a point that most
child molestation was done by hets and not by gays by like 98% to 2%).
The expert from hell stated that by definition all me who molest boys are
in fact gay (not predators or pedophiles, etc).  After they take a
commercial, they bring on the families with gay parents.  This goes pretty
much as expected, with the kids saying they were happy, and the expert
saying that they shouldn't be....After another commercial, they bring
a gay father out from the audience and he points toward his daughter and
says she has a good upbringing in a loving family.  The expert from hell
has an all-time face and says how shocked she was that the man would 
subject his daughter to national tv, and how she knew that the daughter
had to support her father (even before the daughter said anything).  It
was stunning to say the least.  There was some more for about 10 mins, 
and then Maurey went to the second half of the show "Women who are 
stunningly beautiful, hate themselves because they aren't perfect, and
want to be on my show to complain about it."

First off, as usual, the fundie/conservative came off very badly.  Are we
surprised?  When she said that there were many people in line for the HIV
kids, even Maurey reacted in disbelief.  The Foster mother-ee told of how
her local Foster care groups were begging people to accept the children.

Secondly, where has this gays as 2% been published?  The only other person 
I've seen using it (actually persons) have been Pat Robertson and Bob Dornan
(good company, eh).  Is this research that has eminated from Robertson's
"university", or from Liberty U?  Is it just fundie trash?  Is it from 
legitimate unbiased researchers?  Is it just a number the fundies have pulled
from out of their bag of hatred?  I've never seen that number published
anywhere (although I have heard other fundies/conservatives disparage the
Kinsey 10%).  Oh well....