Prayers for Bobby
Study Identifies Link Between Rejecting Parents and Negative Health Among LGB Youth
New DNC Chair No Friend of LGBT Rights
Sean Kennedy's Murderer Up For Early Parole
Loss for Anti-Gay Ex-Episcopalians
FRC, Focus Battle For Soul of the GOP
Christian Reconstructionist Decries "Christian Bashing"
Vandals Strike Pro-Gay Catholic Church
Featured Reports
David Benkof: Behind the Mask
At first glance, David Benkof appears to be a young gay man who believes that same-sex marriage will damage the institution of marriage, that there are better options for gay couples than marriage, that the community should join him in prioritizing other more pressing issues, and that the marriage discussion is harming the efforts of gay couples in red states to get recognition for their unions. He also claims that he’s a gay columnist, that he speaks for an influential collection of gay thinkers, and that he is part of the gay and lesbian community and that he shares our goals and dreams. But none of that is true.
“Repeat After Me”: The Reparative Therapy Echo Chamber
The April 2008 edition of the pay-to-publish vanity journal Psychological Reports featured a new report from NARTH. Written by NARTH president A. Dean Byrd, past president Joseph Nicolosi, and Richard W. Potts, the report carries the unwieldy but self-descriptive title, “Clients perceptions of how reorientation therapy and self-help can promote changes in sexual orientation.” While the title describes what the authors meant to show — how clients describe the benefits of reparative therapy — the report itself actually illustrates something very different: the ex-gay movement’s remarkable ability to instill an almost robot-like parroting of ex-gay rhetoric among their clients.
Testing the Premise: Is MRSA The New Gay Plague?
The Toronto Star said that a new study “discover[ed] a new strain” of a super-bug “hitting gay men.” Headlines in Britain screamed, “Flesh-eating bug strikes San Francisco’s gay community,” and anti-gay extremists across America spread the alarm that gays were introducing another plague into “the general population.” But there was a small problem with all of this: None of it is true!
Paul Cameron’s World
In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that “[Paul] Cameron’s ‘science’ echoes Nazi Germany.” What the SPLC didn”t know was Cameron doesn’t just “echo” Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution’s architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a “plausible idea” in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.
From the Inside: Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out”
On February 10, I attended an all-day “Love Won Out” ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.
Prologue: Why I Went To “Love Won Out”
Part 1: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Part 2: Parents Struggle With “No Exceptions”
Part 3: A Whole New Dialect
Part 4: It Depends On How The Meaning of the Word "Change" Changes
Part 5: A Candid Explanation For "Change"
Part 6: The Science Of "Love Won Out"
Part 7: The Politics Of "Love Won Out"
Part 8: Hope For Parents Who Struggle
The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths
At last, the truth can now be told.
Using the same research methods employed by most anti-gay political pressure groups, we examine the statistics and the case studies that dispel many of the myths about heterosexuality. Download your copy today!
And don't miss our companion report, How To Write An Anti-Gay Tract In Fifteen Easy Steps.
Testing The Premise: Are Gays A Threat To Our Children?
Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.
Straight From The Source: What the “Dutch Study” Really Says About Gay Couples
Anti-gay activists often cite the “Dutch Study” to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.
The FRC’s Briefs Are Showing
Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family “Research” Council.
Review: The Gay Report
When Karla Jay and Allan Young published The Gay Report in 1979, it quickly a favorite source of statistics for many anti-gay extremists. But before you accepts these statistic at face value, you should examine the inner workings of this survey very carefully. What you learn might surprise you.
Daniel Fetty Doesn’t Count
The FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics aren’t as complete as they ought to be, and their report for 2004 was no exception. In fact, their most recent report has quite a few glaring holes. Holes big enough for Daniel Fetty to fall through.
News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric
Posts 
Posts via daily email:
Heather Haney
March 13th, 2008 | LINK
Please sign the petition to get Sally Kern out of Office. Forward to all your friends, post on your blogs!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/request-to-terminate-sally-kerns-position-house-of-representatives
Truth Wins Out
March 13th, 2008 | LINK
[...] joins others who greatly exaggerate claims that Kern has received death threats (which, while objectionable, are beside the point). [...]
“replace the lies with truth” » Blog Archive » Active Christian Media Reprints Lies Regarding Death Threats, but why?
March 13th, 2008 | LINK
[...] reported yesterday that the talk and rumors of death threats to the Oklahoma Elected official were exaggerated. The Tulsa World, an Oklahoma newspaper reported yesterday, along with the Oklahoman who also [...]
a. mcewen
March 13th, 2008 | LINK
Here is the part of the Focus on the Family piece that gets me:
“Besides, if I had a cup of water for every time some journalist, pundit or elected official compared evangelical conservatives to the Taliban, I could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.”
Well when you say that gays are trying to harm two-year-olds and don’t provide any proof of your charges, are we supposed to congratulate you? Give you an award?
I suppose that’s the game plan they are going to take. Never mind about her comments, just the lie that she received death threats.
We can probably expect a piece in One News Now any day now.
Emproph
March 14th, 2008 | LINK
Sally Kern on “militant homosexual activists”:
Gary Schneeberger, vice president for media relations at Focus on the Family Action, on the approval of Kern’s statement’s:
They’re worse than homosexual activists I tell ya. Worse!
Willie Hewes
March 14th, 2008 | LINK
‘What is truly outrageous is that a Christian elected official can be vilified over simply speaking about the Bible’s view of homosexuality.’
OK, seriously, where in the Bible says it that homosexuals are worse than terrorists, that they are after our children, or that societies that embrace homosexuality are to be wiped out in, you know, a couple decades?
Chapter and verse, please.
XGW Digest: March 14, 2008 | Ex-Gay Watch
March 14th, 2008 | LINK
[...] gays/terrorists comparisons as “quibbling”; Kern claim to have received death threats unsubstantiated; thankfully, Kern doesn’t represent all Oklahoma [...]
Rob
March 18th, 2008 | LINK
I find it amazing that within Sally’s speech she blasted the so-called “Gay Agenda”, but as yet, no one has called her to task on HER radical agenda. To help clarify things, I give you Sally Kern’s Agenda (satire)
7:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Hate gays
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. - break (read another chapter of Mein Kampf)
10:45 a. m. - 12:30 p.m. - Hate Muslims
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Visit Mr Serge’s House of Hair. (thank God he knows his place, and isn’t one of those “uppity dandy’s”)
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Generalized hate
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Break (browse through “Gay Conspiracy Theory Monthly”)
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Introduce bill to rename Oklahoma “Jesusland”
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. - Find some children. Poison minds.
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Hate anyone who isn’t exactly like ME
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Book “Sally Kerns’ Hate-o-Rama” speaking tour.
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. - Send love note to Rev. Fred Phelps (he’s just dreamy)
5:15 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Hate Muslims and Gays evening gathering.
11:00 p.m. -11:15 p.m. - Thank MY Jesus (not that pansy “Love everybody” Jesus, but the “hate everybody who isn’t like ME” Jesus) for another productive and fulfilling day.
Stefano
March 19th, 2008 | LINK
This story of Sally Kern simply becomes more bizarre by the day.
From Tulsa World
[Emphasis mine]
Now the Thomas More Law Center has issued a news release asserting that Kern was secretly taped. First, Kern is an elected official. Second, Kern herself has said this was a public event. The spin of the Thomas More Law Center to paint Kern as a beseiged Christian being persecuted and other distorted lunacies trul is breathtaking. (But in reality, nothing new from them we haven’t all heard before.)
http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=63
Stefano
March 19th, 2008 | LINK
And why the h*** does she need legal representation for in order to meet with “two or three people representing the gay and lesbian community”????
Sally Kern: More Exodus Connections and Divine Appointment | Ex-Gay Watch
April 20th, 2008 | LINK
[...] And even though local investigators determined that none of the “death threats” were really threats, this is used by Black to again compare the outrage of gay people to terrorism. In order to [...]
Reality Check - Defending the Truth
December 23rd, 2008 | LINK
[...] probe by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. (After pouring over 26,000 emails, OSBI found not one threat.) Now Sally Kern’s husband, a Baptist minister, is saying that gays should be forced into [...]
Leave A Comment