Gay Groups Angered At Schwarzenegger's Dr Laura Invitation
by Mary Ellen Peterson 365Gay.com San Francisco Bureau
Posted: October 27, 2005 5:00 pm ET
(San Francisco, California) California LGBT activists are incensed that radio talk show host Dr. Laura has been invited to participated in a conference on families organized by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Calif. First Lady Maria Shriver.
The 19th Annual Conference on Women and Families is scheduled for Thursday, October 27, 2005 in Long Beach. The conference honors women and families for their leadership and activism.
Laura Schlessinger, who does not hold a medical degree but uses the term doctor, regularly attacks gays on her nationally syndicated radio show.
In 1998 she called gays "a biological error".
"If you're gay or a lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex. The fact that you are intelligent, creative and valuable is all true," she said. "The error is in your inability to relate sexually intimately, in a loving way to a member of the opposite sex it is a biological error."
She has equated homosexuality with pedophilia and in 2000 said, "The well-funded and well-connected homosexual activist movement has become the McCarthyism of the 21st century."
Schlessinger was invited to speak at the conference by Schwarzenegger a month after he vetoed legislation that would have permitted same-sex marriage in the state. (story)
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