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Miami Beach, FL — Truth Wins Out today called on Renew America's Chairman Alan Keyes to dismiss Guy Adams, the group's deputy national grassroots director, after he made hateful and defamatory remarks against the gay and lesbian community on an Internet radio show. Adams' comments linking homosexuality with infant pedophilia reached "a deplorable new low in gay bashing," said TWO's Executive Director Wayne Besen. 

On Aug. 2, Adams appeared on "The Right View," an Internet radio show hosted by Neo-Puritan operative Stacy L. Harp. While discussing the recent Gay Games, a sporting event for the GLBT community that recently took place in Chicago, Adams made his outlandish comments:

"The newest thing in Chicago, it's becoming a trend, and you're gonna find this hard to believe...sex with infants," Adams said, without offering evidence to back his preposterous and offensive claim. "It's not enough that they have...you know when you engage in perversion, and homosexuality is perversion, we don't hate the gays mind you, we don't hate them, we hate what they're doing...pretty soon that perversion is like addiction, it's not enough, so you need to graduate to something else. You need to move on. So now they're having sex with animals, a small group that's getting bigger, sex with infants, sex in the street in Chicago out in the open, it's just getting more and more perverted."

"The slurs by Adams are a shameful attempt to dehumanize an entire community and he has taken anti-gay propaganda to a disgraceful nadir," said Truth Wins Out's Executive Director Wayne Besen. "These remarks are intended to incite hatred and Alan Keyes should make it clear that Renew America does not support such rhetoric by immediately distancing the group from Adams."

Aside from working with Renew America, Adams claims to be a law enforcement officer and was Keyes' bodyguard in the 2004 Senatorial elections. His comments were part of an onslaught of mendacious anti-gay rhetoric spewed on the radio show, according to Besen. Early in the interview Adams dismissed the contributions of GLBT people to society by saying, "what contributions, AIDS, pornography?" He also referred to gay people as "a very angry and violent group when confronted with the truth."

"It seems there are no moral boundaries the anti-gay industry won't cross in its efforts to distort the lives of gay people and propagate malignant myths," said Besen. "We must be vigilant because each day this right wing extreme pumps divisive and destructive political poison into the mainstream, leading to prejudice and persecution."

Truth Wins OUT is a non-profit think tank and advocacy organization that counters right wing misinformation campaigns, debunks the ex-gay myth, and provides accurate information about the lives of GLBT people.

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