Anti-gay group hands out leaflets that compare gay marriage to “sharia law’, claim that children of gay couples are eight times more likely to be abused and that gay people are more prone to cancer.

The Alliance for the Defence of the Family and Marriage (ADFAM), an initiative based in Ireland to “promote and defend the traditional family” have been handing out horrific leaflets to the public, that make outlandish claims based on completely unfounded statistics.

According to reports, the leaflets were distributed by ADFAM‘s Seamas DeBarra at the RDS, Dublin over the weekend.

Read the full leaflet, which was downloaded from their official website, below:

Campaign Leaflet

Why Should I Vote Against Same-Sex “Marriage”?

1) Only a man and a woman can produce children. Same-sex “marriage”
is a confidence trick. An estimated 0.3% of the overall population will avail of it,
if legislated for. It tends to be very short-lived, and promiscuous. Frequently,
same-sex pairs don’t even live together. Only 1/10 of the countries of the world
allow it.

2) If you vote for it, you are doing active homosexual persons no favours. They will
still contract cancers earlier in life. The average life expectancy of those
in same-sex relationships is 60 years. Statistically they are subject, more
than average, to HIV, alcoholism, illegal drug abuse, depression, and suicide.

3) Only a minority will want to adopt children anyway, but research shows
that children, who are adopted by couples/pairs other than by man + woman
couples, are subject to 8 times more harm, and are 50 times more likely to die
of injuries inflicted on them. A child is best raised by his/her own mother
and father.

4) Voting for same-sex “marriage” is like voting for Islamic-State-style
‘sharia law’. It is giving in to a very small minority. In this case, the very small
minority will dictate what marriage means. Persecution of Christians surely
will follow, and it will become a crime to teach and preach Christian morality.
This has already happened elsewhere.

5) The Vatican document Considerations Regarding Proposals (2003) says that it is
‘gravely immoral’ to vote for same-sex “marriage”.

Unsurprisingly, after being posted on Twitter the group came underfire for their blatently homophobic leaflets.

I ripped up the leaflet I was handed (in the RDS). @HelenORahilly @ianmccourt Here is it in full: pic.twitter.com/LVJqksxKpF

— Grace O’ Reilly (@graceyosmiley) February 21, 2015

The group responded by stating that they do not condoned any sort of violence against LGBT people.

The producer of the vile leaflet #ADFAM “condemns all acts of abuse or violence” against gays. That’s so reassuring. pic.twitter.com/QjKSy2xRFE

— Helen O’Rahilly (@HelenORahilly) February 23, 2015