Religious Right Historian David Barton: Schools ‘Force’ Students ‘To Be Homosexual’
Barton wrongly cites the ACP as ‘the leading pediatric association in America’ and then repeats its anti-gay rhetoric, arguing that courses against bullying and that affirm non-heterosexual orientations are simply ‘indoctrination.’
Discussing how schools should attend to LGBT students, Barton said: ‘If you’ll just let this develop naturally, they’ll end up being heterosexual unless you force them to be homosexual.’ He goes on to say, ‘Let it run its course. If you let it run its course it’s gonna turn out normal and natural unless you guys intervene and make the unnatural stuff natural, it’s gonna run its course.’
Barton goes on to say that classes that promote a positive view of the LGBT community and condemn bullying will cause more students to become gay in the same way anti-suicide courses supposedly made more students commit suicide:
