The Sex Lies Of The Religious Right

January, 1996

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." —John F. KennedyThey lie. When Jimmy Swaggart ranted at the cameras in his televangelical tent that sex education classes promoted incest, it was a lie. When Jerry Falwell told followers of his Good Time Gospel show that "homosexuals know they are going to die and they are going to take as many people with them as they can," it was...