{"id":13670,"date":"2007-11-21T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13670.html"},"modified":"2007-11-21T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T15:40:00","slug":"far-right-obsession-with-gays-just-isnt-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/far-right-obsession-with-gays-just-isnt-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right obsession with gays just isn’t healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the “Conservapedia<\/a>” was launched, I was convinced it was some kind of joke. Billed as a conservative rival to Wikipedia<\/a>, Conservapedia would be an ideologically pure, right-wing online collaborative encyclopedia. Of course, the site was so laughably right-wing, and so intentionally devoid of diversity of thought, it seemed obvious that this was some Onion-like parody.<\/p>\n

No such luck. Conservapedia is a real project, in which far-right visitors who aren’t terribly concerned about reality can find encyclopedia entries that reinforce a twisted conservative worldview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Conservapedia ranks the more than 45,000 pages in its database, offering a look at which pages are visited most. Here are the top 10<\/a>, as of this morning:<\/p>\n

1. Main Page\u200e [1,903,407]
\n2. Homosexuality\u200e [1,548,749]
\n3. Homosexuality and Hepatitis\u200e [516,892]
\n4. Homosexuality and Promiscuity\u200e [420,350]
\n5. Homosexuality and Parasites\u200e [387,906]
\n6. Homosexuality and Domestic Violence\u200e [354,383]
\n7. Gay Bowel Syndrome\u200e [346,296]
\n8. Homosexuality and Gonorrhea\u200e [331,234]
\n9. Homosexuality and Mental Health\u200e [279,931]
\n10. Homosexuality and Syphilis\u200e [265,186]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Christopher Orr noted<\/a>, “That’s right: More than three-quarters as many people have been to Conservapedia’s ‘Homosexuality’ page as have been to the front page, and over a fifth as many have looked up ‘Homosexuality and Promiscuity.'”<\/p>\n

It’s just not healthy for the conservative movement to be this<\/i> obsessed with homosexuality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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