Bob Unruh promoted a right-wing legal group’s lie in a Feb. 17 WorldNetDaily article:
A lot of leftist moves have been made by Congress in recent years. A law that allows spying on Americans. Another that feds have used to target and jail pro-life protesters. A mandate to buy a consumer product, health insurance, dictated by bureaucrats.
Then there are all the reinterpretations of the law, or its attached definitions, that claim Congress, when it was adopting nondiscrimination legislation 50 years ago, intended for the word “sex” to mean “gender identity.”
But now there’s a new threat, and analysts charge it is worse than anything else that has come down recently.
“This is evil,” explained a report from Liberty Counsel, whose legal team has fought the LGBT ideology in many cases already.
The proposed law, in fact, would “protect” pedophiles, along with those people who claim to be one of the estimated 550 “philias.”
The problem is the pending “Equality Act,” which all Democrats in the House already have supported.
Liberty Counsel — and, thus, Unruh — is lying. Pedophilia is already outlawed, and the Equality Act would do nothing to change that; the bill would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Unruh then threw in an unrelated diversion:
The report cites a case involving a man who calls himself a woman and was working in a childcare center.
He was caught molesting a baby girl, but plea-bargained result in the case included no jail, the report said.
“If HR 15, the so-called ‘Equality Act’ passes, we’ll see a lot more cases in which these confused abusers are given a virtual ‘pass’ on their sex crimes, because HR 15 seeks to protect more than 550 sexual deviancies, including pedophilia,” Liberty Counsel’s report said.
In fact, the prosecutor pointed out that the offender had already spent more than 300 days in jail, “primarily in solitary confinement,” prior to entering a guilty plea, and that prosecutors “did not believe that we had enough evidence” to support a stronger sentence, given “contradictions” among alleged witnesses.
Unruh and Liberty Counsel then played the Kinsey card:
The report, from Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver, explained, “The evil Dr. Alfred Kinsey of Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction has caused incalculable damage.
“As you may recall, Table 34 of Kinsey’s 1948 book, Sex and the Human Male, documented the sexual abuse of children and babies as young as 5 months old. … Kinsey claimed that the screams of the abused children were ‘proof’ that children and even babies ‘enjoyed’ being sexually abused.”
That interpretation comes straight from discredited anti-Kinsey researcher Judith Reisman, who had falsely portrayed Kinsey as encouraging or even participating in the acts depicted in Table 34.
Unruh quotes nobody other than Liberty Counsel in his article, meaning that he’s simply re-writing a press release and couldn’t be bothered to fact-check anything in it. That’s the epitome of lazy journalism.
Presenting easily disproven lies as “news” further destroys what little credibility WND has left, giving readers no reason to trust it — and, thus, no reason for it to remain in business.