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Correct, Not Politically Correct: About Same-Sex Marriage and Transgenderism
Is there anything wrong with same-sex marriage or transgenderism? Who could possibly be hurt?
Using sound reason and evidence—not religion—award-winning author Frank Turek shows that virtually everyone is hurt by same-sex marriage and transgenderism, even those who identify as LGBTQ. Turek provides concise answers to objections about equal rights, discrimination, being born a certain way, and the charge that people who disagree are homophobic or transphobic. He shows how the quest to obliterate all sexual distinctions is self-contradictory and how the march to transition children is producing horrific and irreversible consequences.
Turek’s message is direct but respectful—correct, not politically correct. It is a message we must not ignore.
Using sound reason and evidence—not religion—award-winning author Frank Turek shows that virtually everyone is hurt by same-sex marriage and transgenderism, even those who identify as LGBTQ. Turek provides concise answers to objections about equal rights, discrimination, being born a certain way, and the charge that people who disagree are homophobic or transphobic. He shows how the quest to obliterate all sexual distinctions is self-contradictory and how the march to transition children is producing horrific and irreversible consequences.
Turek’s message is direct but respectful—correct, not politically correct. It is a message we must not ignore.
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Published March 24, 2023
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Frank Turek
21 books306 followers"Frank Turek is an American Christian author, Christian Apologist and public speaker at universities, conferences, and churches. He is the author of two books, Correct, Not Politically Correct and Stealing from God, and co-author of two more with Norman Geisler, I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist and Legislating Morality. He hosts a call-in talk show called CrossExamined on American Family Radio. His television show, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, airs on the NRB Network.
Turek is a former aviator in the U.S. Navy, and has a Masters degree in Public Administration from George Washington University and a doctorate in Apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary. He has also taught classes in Leadership and Management at George Washington University."
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Turek is a former aviator in the U.S. Navy, and has a Masters degree in Public Administration from George Washington University and a doctorate in Apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary. He has also taught classes in Leadership and Management at George Washington University."
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August 1, 2023
Well-researched, common sense book
Frank Turek has done a great job showing how the LGBT movement not only harms the nation, but harms those who identify as LGBT. The last chapter on the Transgender Craze is especially good, showing that transgender persons are victims of doctors and drug companies who have abandoned their role as doctors and their Hippocratic Oath in order to push surgeries on people that end up ruining the health and happiness. Transgender persons need compassionate counsel, not surgery that mutilates them.
Frank Turek has done a great job showing how the LGBT movement not only harms the nation, but harms those who identify as LGBT. The last chapter on the Transgender Craze is especially good, showing that transgender persons are victims of doctors and drug companies who have abandoned their role as doctors and their Hippocratic Oath in order to push surgeries on people that end up ruining the health and happiness. Transgender persons need compassionate counsel, not surgery that mutilates them.
September 30, 2023
I go to a very liberal school even though I am a conservative. For many reasons, I have always been against people choosing to live a transvestite life. It doesn't mean I hate them, but it does mean that I disagree with their choice to live as someone they're not and are medically unable to be. However, as a Christian, I was perplexed about what I should think about homosexuality. Does it make me a homophobe if I do not support gay marriage? I never felt that gay sex was natural, but I was also told that people were born gay. This book has made up my mind. I have a gay friend and a bisexual friend. While I like them, I don't support the act of gay sex, mainly for medical reasons. This author captured my attention when he testified about losing a gay friend of his at 36 because he contracted HIV, leading to severe pneumonia that eventually killed him. 82% of all STDS come from male homosexual contact. There are also many dangers to homosexual sex for lesbians, such as hepatitis and breast cancer. Frank makes an excellent argument for his beliefs. Suppose we care about those who identify as LGBTQ. In that case, we should be lovingly telling them the truth instead of smothering them in unconditional feminine love, similar to what a mother has for her newborn child.
June 14, 2024
Turek makes great points with a secular viewpoint, proving why the normalization of same sex marriage will be detrimental to our society and future generations. however, i noticed he makes contradictions and logical fallacies along the way. i see where he is coming from, but the execution was not amazing.
July 28, 2025
This is going to be a long, LONG, dissecting review. If you want the TLDR; The book wants to plead ‘facts’ while blatantly obscuring them, and claims statements that no medical or scientific board would ever back in regards of how LGBT people should be treated by the government/society. This book is clearly a mark of the author’s own personal disgust and displeasure towards LGBT people and nothing more.
—-
I’ll divide this into separate parts, as the book itself is actually a compilation of separate publications wrapped in one.
Parts I-IV, on gay marriage, published 2008-
Here, the book opens with how an old friend of the author had came out as gay, and then later died of AIDS. The author’s reaction?
“Could his family have prevented this?”
Classy.
The author then launches into a spiel about how ‘natural marriages’ (humans existed before many different marriage rituals, but I digress) are about how it “civilizes men…How many married men do you know who rove in street gangs?” and “protects women…[from] uncommitted men”.
This is punctuated by this:
“Without the natural family…social chaos will soon follow.”
While throughout the book ‘natural family/marriages’ are mentioned, there’s no serious discussion about how many ‘natural marriages’ were arranged, forced, abusive, or were largely about political and economic power.
The author, obviously, only ever mentions instances of child brides and incest when saying that gay marriage will ‘cause’ these things to be popular. The book won’t mention that these are always arranged by straight people, often with religious motives and pardoned by republicans when bills try to end them, but whatever.
The author seems to believe that marriage is only about reproduction, which will leave many scratching their heads. Plenty of married couples don’t get kids, right?
“Yes, but we’re not talking about douglas exceptions…In other words, marriage of a man and a woman is fundamentally about reproduction and good of children and the civilized society.”
So then it isn’t about having kids if people can get married and not have kids.
Don’t women have a say in whether or not they’re treated like literal incubators?
“All books are designed for reading, even if some of them are never read.”
While the above statement is in regard to marriages and not women’s bodies, I have to wonder…
The book then pivots to AIDS and STDs. Mind you, this portion of the book was made long before the excellent strides made in medicine both for safe sex and for treatments for HIV. The author does not hide the contempt, however:
“Moreover, there are thousands of innocent heterosexuals…who have contracted STDs via sexual contact with bisexuals.”
Implying, of course, that the ‘innocent’ straight people are being infected by ‘guilty’ bisexuals, as though anyone ever deserves to suffer from an illness that has no morals.
This is also coupled with:
“Lesbians have the richest…risk factors for breast cancer…”
There’s an implication here that being a lesbian automatically means that you’ll get breast cancer, when in actuality the risks are weight gain, drug and alcohol use, and not getting screenings when necessary. While the citation here says lesbians have an increased risk, it doesn’t not specify why, and I had to go look out on my own the actual causation.
The book pleads the case that not only are gay people sick and crazy, but they also don’t even want to get married:
“…and remember…96 percent of them do not get married when given the chance.”
This statement is made multiple times throughout and is only through one citation of a census back in the 1980s in Sweden.
As of the 2023 US Census, married gay couples double that of unmarried gay households (USA Census, Same-sex couple households). Even in later portions that were written long after gay marriage became nationwide, the author does not make any amendments to reflect reality.
The book also begs the reader to look at conversion ‘therapy’ as an option.
Robert Spitzer, a doctor who advocates for LGBT people, said conversion therapy works! Only no, he later retracted his survey and said that his critics were right in that its flaws were profound and there was no way to follow up with its participants.
Exodus is a growing, powerful community of ex-gays! Only wait, many of its participants and leaders came forward to say it made their lives worse and they didn’t actually change their sexuality.
There’s no follow-up from the author looking into how these have quickly changed since the original publication, but that would require actual research and stepping outside of one’s bubble to actually learn something.
The author doesn’t seem to understand that marriage has an important role in terms of having it on paper- Power of attorney. Countless gay couples during the AIDS crisis couldn’t visit their loved ones if families demanded them gone. Countless gay widowers watched as families took their loved one’s bodies, possessions, and healthcare away from them. Being married gives the power for partners to advocate for each other in sickness and death, and the author flippantly assumes that gay people think of it as a toy, as if straight people ‘deserve’ it simply because they can *maybe* make a child. Be real.
—-
Part V, gay marriage wins, published 2016-
So, gay marriage is now recognized nationwide…now what? The sky hasn’t fallen, the streets aren’t covered in fire, and the world has kept turning. The author seemed to have panicked as time continued on and the country didn’t collapse, because he quickly turns topics from gay marriage to “The philosophy of the classroom is atheistic.”
The author goes on a strange rant about how the founding fathers were Christian and thus the nation should uphold Christian values (cleanly ignoring that the founding fathers were also slave owners who forced slaves to get pregnant). Thus, the author is frustrated that public schools don’t have designated prayer time and Christian practices.
The author then strangely posses a fictional scenario to get mad at-
“So if you’re a believer who is upset that life is not being protected…that mentioning God in school (unless He’s Allah) results in lawsuits…”
Now, no public school should force non-practicing students to participate in religious activities…which is exactly why public schools don’t enforce Christian practices anymore. Students of all religions should be able to participate in school regardless of their own spiritual activities. The author’s blatant racism by calling on a scenario that, as far as no citations can say, never happened is abhorrent.
Tangent, but the book at one point says that South Korea is better than North Korea because South Korea has Christianity (??????), even though the author complains about the USA (which has majority Protestant and Catholic, whereas South Korea is majority irreligious). What the hell ahaha.
—-
Part VI, on trans people, published 2023-
So, at this point, it’s clear the author just wanted to barf up whatever conservative outlets spoon fed him and didn’t want to do any research outside of that. Let’s go through the bingo card-
- platforms Michael Brown (conspiracy theorist and was accused by multiple women of sexual harassment)
- Cites Lisa Littman’s ‘study’ (a wildly debunked and biased survey via anti-trans parents with no peer review)
- Cites conservative advocacy groups (such as ACPeds) more than actual scientific boards, if at all
- Says non-Christian trans people should follow the bible
- Says ‘correcting’ intersex children and infants via forced hormones and surgery is okay, whereas trans people wanting HRT or surgery is bad
- Says that all cultures throughout human history has only ever recognized two genders and that any variation or interpretation that is different is wrong
And just to add a little more racism, he looks at a study that discusses how Indigenous traditions (such as having a consistent sleep cycle with the sun and doing communal exercises like dance) are beneficial and then says this:
“…This means your future doctors from this school have pledged to consider a “healing dance” on par with proven cures we’ve discovered through the scientific method!”
Not at all what the study said, but sure.
—-
“When we pause long enough to set aside emotion and look at the facts…”
Sure, we’ll just ignore that “children living with two same-sex parents fare just as well as children residing with two different-sex parents.” (Child Well-Being in Same-Sex Parent Families, 2015) to instead say gay couples make children’s lives worse.
We’ll say gay people are mean and can’t reproduce and so they shouldn’t get married, even when awful or infertile straight couples are gladly given the privilege.
We’ll ignore that no conversion therapy works and instead makes things worse. We’ll ignore that every other citation in this book is through a conservative media outlet or political group and not from an actual study.
Because that’s how facts work.
—-
I’ll divide this into separate parts, as the book itself is actually a compilation of separate publications wrapped in one.
Parts I-IV, on gay marriage, published 2008-
Here, the book opens with how an old friend of the author had came out as gay, and then later died of AIDS. The author’s reaction?
“Could his family have prevented this?”
Classy.
The author then launches into a spiel about how ‘natural marriages’ (humans existed before many different marriage rituals, but I digress) are about how it “civilizes men…How many married men do you know who rove in street gangs?” and “protects women…[from] uncommitted men”.
This is punctuated by this:
“Without the natural family…social chaos will soon follow.”
While throughout the book ‘natural family/marriages’ are mentioned, there’s no serious discussion about how many ‘natural marriages’ were arranged, forced, abusive, or were largely about political and economic power.
The author, obviously, only ever mentions instances of child brides and incest when saying that gay marriage will ‘cause’ these things to be popular. The book won’t mention that these are always arranged by straight people, often with religious motives and pardoned by republicans when bills try to end them, but whatever.
The author seems to believe that marriage is only about reproduction, which will leave many scratching their heads. Plenty of married couples don’t get kids, right?
“Yes, but we’re not talking about douglas exceptions…In other words, marriage of a man and a woman is fundamentally about reproduction and good of children and the civilized society.”
So then it isn’t about having kids if people can get married and not have kids.
Don’t women have a say in whether or not they’re treated like literal incubators?
“All books are designed for reading, even if some of them are never read.”
While the above statement is in regard to marriages and not women’s bodies, I have to wonder…
The book then pivots to AIDS and STDs. Mind you, this portion of the book was made long before the excellent strides made in medicine both for safe sex and for treatments for HIV. The author does not hide the contempt, however:
“Moreover, there are thousands of innocent heterosexuals…who have contracted STDs via sexual contact with bisexuals.”
Implying, of course, that the ‘innocent’ straight people are being infected by ‘guilty’ bisexuals, as though anyone ever deserves to suffer from an illness that has no morals.
This is also coupled with:
“Lesbians have the richest…risk factors for breast cancer…”
There’s an implication here that being a lesbian automatically means that you’ll get breast cancer, when in actuality the risks are weight gain, drug and alcohol use, and not getting screenings when necessary. While the citation here says lesbians have an increased risk, it doesn’t not specify why, and I had to go look out on my own the actual causation.
The book pleads the case that not only are gay people sick and crazy, but they also don’t even want to get married:
“…and remember…96 percent of them do not get married when given the chance.”
This statement is made multiple times throughout and is only through one citation of a census back in the 1980s in Sweden.
As of the 2023 US Census, married gay couples double that of unmarried gay households (USA Census, Same-sex couple households). Even in later portions that were written long after gay marriage became nationwide, the author does not make any amendments to reflect reality.
The book also begs the reader to look at conversion ‘therapy’ as an option.
Robert Spitzer, a doctor who advocates for LGBT people, said conversion therapy works! Only no, he later retracted his survey and said that his critics were right in that its flaws were profound and there was no way to follow up with its participants.
Exodus is a growing, powerful community of ex-gays! Only wait, many of its participants and leaders came forward to say it made their lives worse and they didn’t actually change their sexuality.
There’s no follow-up from the author looking into how these have quickly changed since the original publication, but that would require actual research and stepping outside of one’s bubble to actually learn something.
The author doesn’t seem to understand that marriage has an important role in terms of having it on paper- Power of attorney. Countless gay couples during the AIDS crisis couldn’t visit their loved ones if families demanded them gone. Countless gay widowers watched as families took their loved one’s bodies, possessions, and healthcare away from them. Being married gives the power for partners to advocate for each other in sickness and death, and the author flippantly assumes that gay people think of it as a toy, as if straight people ‘deserve’ it simply because they can *maybe* make a child. Be real.
—-
Part V, gay marriage wins, published 2016-
So, gay marriage is now recognized nationwide…now what? The sky hasn’t fallen, the streets aren’t covered in fire, and the world has kept turning. The author seemed to have panicked as time continued on and the country didn’t collapse, because he quickly turns topics from gay marriage to “The philosophy of the classroom is atheistic.”
The author goes on a strange rant about how the founding fathers were Christian and thus the nation should uphold Christian values (cleanly ignoring that the founding fathers were also slave owners who forced slaves to get pregnant). Thus, the author is frustrated that public schools don’t have designated prayer time and Christian practices.
The author then strangely posses a fictional scenario to get mad at-
“So if you’re a believer who is upset that life is not being protected…that mentioning God in school (unless He’s Allah) results in lawsuits…”
Now, no public school should force non-practicing students to participate in religious activities…which is exactly why public schools don’t enforce Christian practices anymore. Students of all religions should be able to participate in school regardless of their own spiritual activities. The author’s blatant racism by calling on a scenario that, as far as no citations can say, never happened is abhorrent.
Tangent, but the book at one point says that South Korea is better than North Korea because South Korea has Christianity (??????), even though the author complains about the USA (which has majority Protestant and Catholic, whereas South Korea is majority irreligious). What the hell ahaha.
—-
Part VI, on trans people, published 2023-
So, at this point, it’s clear the author just wanted to barf up whatever conservative outlets spoon fed him and didn’t want to do any research outside of that. Let’s go through the bingo card-
- platforms Michael Brown (conspiracy theorist and was accused by multiple women of sexual harassment)
- Cites Lisa Littman’s ‘study’ (a wildly debunked and biased survey via anti-trans parents with no peer review)
- Cites conservative advocacy groups (such as ACPeds) more than actual scientific boards, if at all
- Says non-Christian trans people should follow the bible
- Says ‘correcting’ intersex children and infants via forced hormones and surgery is okay, whereas trans people wanting HRT or surgery is bad
- Says that all cultures throughout human history has only ever recognized two genders and that any variation or interpretation that is different is wrong
And just to add a little more racism, he looks at a study that discusses how Indigenous traditions (such as having a consistent sleep cycle with the sun and doing communal exercises like dance) are beneficial and then says this:
“…This means your future doctors from this school have pledged to consider a “healing dance” on par with proven cures we’ve discovered through the scientific method!”
Not at all what the study said, but sure.
—-
“When we pause long enough to set aside emotion and look at the facts…”
Sure, we’ll just ignore that “children living with two same-sex parents fare just as well as children residing with two different-sex parents.” (Child Well-Being in Same-Sex Parent Families, 2015) to instead say gay couples make children’s lives worse.
We’ll say gay people are mean and can’t reproduce and so they shouldn’t get married, even when awful or infertile straight couples are gladly given the privilege.
We’ll ignore that no conversion therapy works and instead makes things worse. We’ll ignore that every other citation in this book is through a conservative media outlet or political group and not from an actual study.
Because that’s how facts work.
June 18, 2024
The issue with this book is not that it isn’t largely true or well-intentioned. The issue is that it has nearly a zero percent chance of creating any change. Undoubtedly all of the positive reviewers fully agreed with the author already. It likely has few negative reviews, as opponents wouldn’t get past the opening pages. Love is a winning combination of truth and grace, but he fails to practice grace - not that it’s easy with issues this divisive. Ultimately, I wouldn’t recommend this to someone in hopes of turning their opinion less favorable to these issues, as it would likely just embolden and anger them. It will also do the same for those who agree with the author. So… what’s the point?
January 15, 2025
This is just hate speech.
This book is just hate speech pretending that it isn't hate speech because it's delivered in a measured and even tone. Unfortunately for the author, the tone is not what makes something hate speech, the words are. When not citing debunked studies the author just straight up lies or quotes someone else who was proven to be straight up lying. Author also whines a lot about how he got fired for publishing hate speech under his government name because consequences for thee but not for me
This book is just hate speech pretending that it isn't hate speech because it's delivered in a measured and even tone. Unfortunately for the author, the tone is not what makes something hate speech, the words are. When not citing debunked studies the author just straight up lies or quotes someone else who was proven to be straight up lying. Author also whines a lot about how he got fired for publishing hate speech under his government name because consequences for thee but not for me
May 29, 2024
Well researched and a lot of great content. Love Frank Turek and I had the pleasure of hearing him speak at the Unshaken conference 2024. I found the book to be a little repetitive and combative. I definitely agreed with everything he said and found the statistics alarming but helpful. I highlighted a lot and would definitely recommend this book but again, the tone and repetitive nature was a little off putting for me.
December 29, 2024
Freaking Excellent!
I always purchase a Kindle version first (borrow from Kindle Unlimited if available). If the book moves me, I mean REALLY moves me, causes me to think, reconsider and propels me to action, I’ll buy the hard copy for my library and to loan out. Needless to say, I’m buying the hard copy. This book will shake you to your core. You, your friends, relatives and everyone you know needs to read this book.
I always purchase a Kindle version first (borrow from Kindle Unlimited if available). If the book moves me, I mean REALLY moves me, causes me to think, reconsider and propels me to action, I’ll buy the hard copy for my library and to loan out. Needless to say, I’m buying the hard copy. This book will shake you to your core. You, your friends, relatives and everyone you know needs to read this book.
February 24, 2024
excellent discussion
I liked the way the points presented were displayed from his prior book till what is going on in the present day. It just gave more credibility to his arguments against same sex marriage and how it is effecting cultures today. Turek did not come off as judgmental in his presentation but presented facts.
I liked the way the points presented were displayed from his prior book till what is going on in the present day. It just gave more credibility to his arguments against same sex marriage and how it is effecting cultures today. Turek did not come off as judgmental in his presentation but presented facts.
November 4, 2024
Thought provoking & should be required reading
Frank Turek does an excellent job of breaking down his thought processes into managable bite-sized pieces. Thoroughly executed with well researched references to back up all of his points, Mr. Turek has won this reader over hands down. I am looking forward to reading his next book -
Frank Turek does an excellent job of breaking down his thought processes into managable bite-sized pieces. Thoroughly executed with well researched references to back up all of his points, Mr. Turek has won this reader over hands down. I am looking forward to reading his next book -
November 4, 2023
Great Information
This book addresses both same sex marriage and transgenderism. The author presents pros and cons from each side. The author also gives the correct information even if it is not politically correct. The truth is in this book. It is a must read.
This book addresses both same sex marriage and transgenderism. The author presents pros and cons from each side. The author also gives the correct information even if it is not politically correct. The truth is in this book. It is a must read.
January 15, 2024
profound and compelling reasoning
Many who are “For” or “Against” LGBT, provide weak anti/religious standpoints. However, Frank Turek hits this topic head-on. He removes emotion and presents facts.
Many who are “For” or “Against” LGBT, provide weak anti/religious standpoints. However, Frank Turek hits this topic head-on. He removes emotion and presents facts.
May 27, 2023
Facts upon facts. This was a great book.
October 5, 2023
A bit repetitive, but I think that was intentional to drive home the points being made. Very good and concise yet thorough.
May 23, 2024
Everyone needs to read this book.
July 5, 2024
Absolutely correct! The alphabet mafia and their supporters are lying to the world and themselves. This wickedness must end!
April 8, 2025
Excellent! Must read for everyone. I think I highlighted more parts than I left unhighlighted.
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