It is clear that once David Barton adopts a new talking point, nothing is going to stop him from repeating it, no matter how many times it is pointed out that the claim he is making is demonstrably false.

Barton demonstrated this again several times recently when he repeated his false claim that Wesleyan University does not offer separate housing for male and female students.

He made this claim earlier this week in a meeting that was broadcast on Periscope, asserting that “there is a Christian college up in Connecticut—Wesleyan College—[that] offers dorm housing for 15 gender identities and male and female aren’t options.”

Barton made the same false assertion again the other day when he appeared on the “Contending For The Faith” program and declared that “we have a Christian college in the northeast United States, a Christian college that has dorm housing based on 15 different sexual identities; it doesn’t offer male and female.”

As we noted the first time we heard Barton make this claim, it is entirely false, as the Wesleyan website makes perfectly clear: