#2884: Lakita Garth

Lakita Garth is a rapper, former beauty queen and self-proclaimed “sexpert” affiliated with Ron Luce’s militant, fundamentalist organization BattleCry. A slightly more accurate job description would be “professional slut shamer”. She is at least a tireless speaker, and has presented her ideas to large groups of youths; she has also testified before Congress about abstinence only programs – yes, we know, but you’ll hardly find anyone with relevant qualifications to defend the ideas she defends. Garth’s main project is to promote abstinence and “purity” through racist and sexist stereotypes and shameless lying. As Garth sees it, “Lies” is female, “Truth” is male, and women who engage in sex outside –strictly patriarchal – marriages can aptly be termed “flea-males”, for “if you lie down with dogs …”

 

Ostensibly, Garth is concerned about STDs. She isn’t really, but pretending to be concerned about STDs comes across as more easily marketable than Nazi-like ideas about purity based on angry religious fundamentalism. And abstinence is the only means to avoid STDs since “condoms don’t work”. This is false.

 

Garth also tends to lament the fact that things she don’t like isn’t banned for everybody, and bemoans the fact that judges in the US aren’t required to study the Mosaic books of the Bible. She has apparently also written a book, The Naked Truth: About Sex, Love And Relationships Student Guide, but we struggle to find (or to want to find) much information about it.

 

Diagnosis: Fundie moron. It is unclear whether anyone listens to her. Still.