• Homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals cannot be easily identified. These are behaviors that can (and do) change and fluctuate.
• Our laws and our Constitution protect all Americans now; they do not specifically address these behaviors or the perception of these behaviors because they are behaviors not immutable characteristics that cause economic deprivation and powerlessness.
• The community that practices these behaviors wants their behavior legitimatized; adding these behaviors to law does that.
• These laws would give special protection to those who practice these behaviors. Homosexuality isn't what someone is, it is what they do.
• Claims that say that there is a "gay gene" or that the behavior cannot be helped or changed are not substantiated by science. The few studies that do exist have not been replicated ... a key to scientific hypothesis.
• The claims of "hate crimes" against this community have been exaggerated to pass these laws giving special protection to those who practice homosexuality. In 2007 the FBI reported that a total of 1265 total incidents occurred in the entire U.S. and that number mostly involves the offenses of assault or intimidation. In fact, a large percentage of the incidents reported involve crimes perpetrated against homosexuals by homosexuals. These crimes are already punishable under law.
• The goal in passing these laws is to silence any objection to a lifestyle that carries extreme health risks to those practicing it and to the community at large.
• When sexual orientation is added to law, the conclusion must be that all sexual behavior is equally valid. There are no good or bad choices, just inclinations.. What we must ask legislators is where does it stop? By what legal boundaries is behavior limited?
• When an impediment is introduced to the moral order by the implication that all sexual behavior is equally valid, protections for the institutions of marriage and family are threatened.
• Religious exemptions and exemptions for fraternal orders such as the Boy Scouts are ultimately worthless. A District of Columbia human rights commission ordered Georgetown University, a Catholic college, to violate church doctrine and sponsor a pro-homosexual group on campus. A court agreed, saying the District's "sexual orientation" law overrode the school's religious freedom.
• In Portland, Maine, city officials recently canceled a grant for a Salvation Army meals-on-wheels program for senior citizens because the Salvation Army won't provide marital benefits to homosexual employees, thus running afoul of the city's "sexual orientation" law. When the ordinance was introduced, it was portrayed as a way to ensure that "people won't be fired for being gay," but it is now being used to promote "gay marriage."
• The first victims of any "sexual orientation" laws, despite proponents' protestations to the contrary, is the Boy Scouts, who have good reason to deny leadership to males who are attracted sexually to males. Regardless of language in the ordinances and laws the Boy Scouts of America who have the right to set their own membership standards have been under continual attack for resisting demands for inclusion.
• In September, 2002 the Berkeley, California City Council pulled the low-cost lease for city dock space for the Sea Scouts, saying the group is associated with the Boy Scouts and thereby violates the city's "sexual orientation" law.
• In June, 2001, the District of Columbia's Commission on Human Rights fined the Scouts $100,000 and ordered them to reinstate two openly homosexual leaders. The decision was overturned in court, but the Scouts had to pay heavy legal fees.
• In Broward County, Florida, in March 2001, the Scouts were forced to sue after county commissioners barred their access to public schools in the fall of 2000.
• More than two dozen chapters of United Way have cut off the Scouts, and at least 369 school districts with a total of 4, 418 schools in 10 states have taken action against the Scouts, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. (GLSEN)
• "Sexual orientation" does not necessarily just mean homosexuality; however, it is an umbrella term for numerous sexual behaviors, including paraphilias, which are sexual disorders. According to the therapeutic manual of the American Psychiatric Association, there are at least 20 distinctive sexual variations of "sexual orientation," and possibly more. It could include:
• A man dressing as a woman
• A woman coming to work in man's clothing
• A person of indeterminate sex who insists on using either the men's room or the women's rest room
• A person of either sex who indulges a taste for extreme sexual promiscuity and pornography during work hours despite being charged with representing the company's tone and character
• A man who frequents prostitutes while on business trips and claims it is none of the company's business despite the company's image
• Within the past few years, most major homosexual activist organizations have added "transgender" discrimination to their list of causes
• Bi-sexuality
• Trans-genderism: an umbrella term including transvestitism, drag queen/kings, and trans- sexualism
• Pedophilia
• Trans-sexuality
• Voyeurism
• Exhibitionism
• Fetishes including fantasies
• Public exposure of genitals
• Gender identity disorder which is "a strong and persistent cross-gender identification, which is the desire to be, or the insistence that one is, of the other sex," along with "persistent discomfort about one's assigned sex or a sense of the inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex."
• Other paraphilias that are too offensive to list

Concerned Women for America of Kansas
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Shawnee Mission, KS 66207
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Email: director@kansas.cwfa.org
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