Randy Thomasson of Save California joined Janet Mefferd on Friday to discuss the Queer Studies minor at Cal State Fullerton, and the anti-gay activist called the program an “oxymoron.”
According to Thomasson, a sincere academic discussion of the LGBT community would show that no one is born gay and that people can simply change their sexual orientation and become ex-gays, “but they are dishonest so they are indoctrinating college students to think that homosexuality, bisexuality and transexuality is good and natural, maybe even for them.”
He went on to warn that the minor could spread like an “infection” through academia and will be “training up an army to become intolerant activists” who will work to undermine and extinguish “free speech” and “religious freedom.”
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Randy Thomasson
Mefferd: So we discovered recently Cal State Fullerton recently became the fourth Cal State to create a Queer Studies minor. It’s an interdisciplinary concentration that pulls courses from a variety of fields. Program coordinators say the minor focuses on norms and how they’ve changed over time and throughout different cultures, but they do acknowledge also that non-normative sexualities are a large part of the curriculum. Here with us for some reaction is Randy Thomasson, he’s president of SaveCalifornia.com. I didn’t know we had to study norms Randy, I thought norms were just something we all understood, I guess I’m just behind the times here.Thomasson: No you’re not, they say they can call themselves queer but you and I can’t; it’s amazing.
Mefferd: What do you think about this new program? Obviously it’s not the first college to do this and I know there are lots of lgbt programs all over the place. Queer Studies, what do you make of that?
Thomasson: It’s an oxymoron, it should be called the promotion of homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality. They’re not studying it, if they studied whether it was normal or not they’d have to hold a news conference or tell all the students, you know what, ‘there’s no “gay gene,” we’ve never found it, nobody has found it, Hamer didn’t find it, LeVay didn’t find it, we have noted there are thousands and thousands of former homosexuals and they’ve got families to prove it, they’ve got testimonies to prove it, we’ve seen that a huge amount of those of us in this lifestyle were sexually molested or had very bad relationships with our fathers or our mothers, and we see that this is something that can be changed, certainly with bisexuality. We acknowledge that transexuality, cross-dressing is not normal, cutting off healthy body parts is not natural, it takes a scalpel, and we have no evidence at all that this is a natural thing that people are born homosexual actually and it is a behavior. So we have to announce that as the findings of our study.’
If they were honest, that’s what they would do, but they are dishonest so they are indoctrinating college students to think that homosexuality, bisexuality and transexuality is good and natural, maybe even for them, but more so because the students that are interested in this are already relativistic because of the government school mentality they’ve been in through kindergarten through twelfth grade, probably. They are sitting ducks to become activists. So this is training up an army to become intolerant activists who want to trample parental rights, religious freedom, marriage, the Boy Scouts, property rights, business rights, medical doctorate rights, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, free speech, religious freedom. This is very dangerous, it is on several campuses in California, and yes I do believe that this is a wave. Because what do we have on most college campuses? Liberal administrators who allow this, so this is a fertile bed for an infection of Queer Studies that will not be studying anything that’s true but will be promoting a lie.
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wow…. how is such stupidity even stood for anymore?
he must have big callouses on his hands!
“Queer studies”?? wtf is this bullshit how about “Nigger studies”? only gays get to use queer…
In response to Randy Thomasson- Look up your damn history, gays and transsexuals have existed for years and it’s obviously not a gene or else straight parents would not have gay or trans kids. Post this on your wall if you believe being LGBT is not a choice but a state of mind.
Wow. And I supposed he is basing his allegations on the vast medical and psychological experience he derived as a 4th rate, fundy talk show host in Sacramento.
Me thinks ‘ol Randy is the back half of “oxyMORON” (which is also a word he misused, BTW).
He is right, there is a very dangerous queer infection, IN HIS HEAD !!!
Wow, all the rhetoric this guy speaks. Would be funny if it wasn’t so sickening. What an idiot.
Wow. Sorry transgender is a mental state its called ” gender identity syndrome ” look it up idiot and sorry I think u should live in a gay mans shoes cause a true gay who is not brain washed and bullied to be straight is how his brain is made so better look closer u might have more issues than trying to change the human race to think the same thing is not gonna work we fought for our rights for years we ain’t gonna stop now cause of what u think
Wow idiot comment on this if u disagree what Dumbass
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“According to Thomasson, a sincere academic discussion of the LGBT community would show that no one is born gay and that people can simply change their sexual orientation and become ex-gays…” If this proposition is true, then the converse is also true–that is, no one is born heterosexual and that people can simply change their sexual orientation and become ex-heterosexuals. Now THAT would be an ‘oxymoron’.
Yes Karen. Didn’t you know that we “choose” to be treated like crap, get beaten & abused and have our civil and constitutional rights taken away? ( As Randy’s fantasy girl would say, “you betcha!”. ;) )
how stupid, I used to get angry with people like this now I just laugh at them because they are retarded.
He’s such a hypocrite. I guess he’s never heard of the Golden Rule?
Let me guess, this “Male” was allowed to reproduce also? It has taken my father and I year’s to get used to the idea that his 1 and only daughter is a Lesbian. My father get’s the Genetic’s of me being a Lesbian. My father also thought that since it skipped him that it would skip me also. Well, year’s later I came out and we are repairing our relationship with eachother. My father also defend’s me to other “Bible” thumping family member’s! I did not choose to be a Lesbian, it was genetically choosen for me. I am very proud of who I am and my father is very proud of me and love’s me the same or more than ever! So this idiot and his “There’s No Gay Gene” is full of crap! Oh, and these “Ex” Homosexual’s need to get a clue, everybody is who they are to be in life, Themselve’s!
Why do groups like this promote hate when we are already hated on????
The only dangerous infection around here is his stupidity.
Homosexuality is very much natural. Even animals engage in it.
Though of course, whether it’s natural or not doesn’t matter.
Natural does not always equal right and unnatural does not always equal wrong.
What matters is the outcome. And there is nothing harmful about being gay.
This man…his stupidity is astounding. I’m surprised he even knows how to tie his own shoelaces. It doesn’t matter whether certain behaviours are natural or not. What matters is that a persons actions are not harmful. And there is NOTHING harmful about being gay, lesbian or whatever.
i worked at a place here in texas where i was called gay,queer and faget. I ask a lawyer what i could do about this and he said ” you gays have no rights at all” its men like that lawyer and this man that give humanity a bad name. I feel sorry for them that they have to go through life soooooo miserable.
He’s got the moron portion right, with regards to himself.
I love this bit ”…So this is training up an army to become intolerant activists who want to trample parental rights, religious freedom, marriage, the Boy Scouts, property rights, business rights, medical doctorate rights, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, free speech, religious freedom. This is very dangerous…” Is this guy for real??? Does he actually listen to what he’s saying??? I know I’m not from the U.S (I’m Canadian) but i thought Free speech,religious freedom etc was for EVERYBODY in your country… personally, I think that guy should be disposed off in a Very painful way…but that opinion…
California, needs to be saved alright. From Randy Thomasson.
When will these homophobes be called the bullies that they truly are? Their bigoted lies are verbal bullying. When anti-bullying laws and policies are promulgated, lying smears such as this homophobe need to be included as criminal-bullying. Then they can scream oppression.
The thing you have to realize, folks is the fact that many of these fundamentalist churches (and I use the term loosely!) engage in cult indoctrination tactics. They use intimidation, pressure and isolation to turn a perfectly intelligent human into an automaton no longer able to reason or use their intellect.
Why? Because if someone is intelligent, that means they will be able to see through their malarky and rank bigotry and leave the church.
It’s also why fundamentalism (no matter what faith) is anti-education — because they retain power easier when the people are deliberately stupid and ignorant.
It’s why some of these loudmouths like Thomasson can’t fathom these basic truths like gender and sexuality — because it was drilled into his shrinking intellect that *everything* that doesn’t come from the head of some fundie church means it’s not according to *their* perverted interpretation of gad and the bible, and is thus evil, demonic, demon-posessed, ad nauseum.
I am bisexual so for me it is tottaly a choice.
Do I think I was born this way?
No.
I developed an apreciation for females after being seduced one day.
It is a choice for me who I bed with.
And know what?
That is ok.
I have a right to choose to do whatever I want to do with my body with anouther consenting adult. Sex is fun and one of my rights.
No one has a right to insist that I walk away from sin. I do not believe in societies god. Society has no right to impose on me or anyone else laws bassed on religous belief.
I am sorry that I refuse to offer my body and soul to the god that is curently popular.
No man or god can rightfully lay claim to my body.
When I choose to sleep with a woman…tough luck on the religous nutbags. They have no right to interfer with my bedroom.
its obvious homosexuality terrifies him.. his actions speak as if he has a little gay seedling brewing in his heart and mind with uncertainty of how to handle it.. he chooses to not see the research that has already been done and still in the making about our community. for being a public speaker without doing ur homework on the matter you know nothing about is failing.. not only to himself but also to his believers.. step down as a public figure thomasson.. sit down mister and get educated.. ya just lost 50 point of being a respectable man.. thanks for playing tho.. the end.
Randy, uh? Something tells me that ‘Randy’ has never been close to randiness … and will never be. Randy, honey, not to worry … nobody cares what you and your little friend think. Nobody. Move along now. Thank you. Oh, and take your little friend along too.
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