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Slouching Towards Kampala: Uganda’s Deadly Embrace of Hate
When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than two hundred posts to tell the story of one nation’s embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue to unfold. Check here for the latest updates.
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"
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.
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David Anthony
April 18th, 2008 | LINK
Burial plots? Good grief!
Talk about a government that doesn’t know how to mind its own business. Now it’s ordering people to provide unnecessary services to the dead!
Jason D
April 19th, 2008 | LINK
yeah, gays are supposed to just be left in the nearest recycling bin or out by the curb on tuesday.
David Anthony
April 19th, 2008 | LINK
No, silly, but burial isn’t a necessity in the first place.
Besides, if one cemetary doesn’t want to bury your corpse there are bound to be others that will gladly take it.
This is just a stupid law.
And talking about stupid, you need to get over your stupid ‘gays are perpetual victims’ attitude!
Jason D
April 20th, 2008 | LINK
you should probably start reading the Comments Policy if you want to be taken seriously on this website.
Timothy Kincaid
April 20th, 2008 | LINK
Whether or not burial is “a necessity” would depend on your religious faith. For those who require burial, it is definitely necessary.
Further, burial is not like a store – you can’t just open one up. Burial is strongly regulated and is, in most towns, nearly a monopoly. There are not “others that will gladly take it”.
If gay people are discriminated against in burial, they have few alternatives.
Whether one believes that government granted monopolies should be allowed to discriminate is, of course, your opinion. But clearly your knee-jerk reaction was not well thought out.
Trevor
April 21st, 2008 | LINK
I’m just waiting for one of the City of Colorado Springs’s largest employers to start the shrieking hysterics. I speak of course of: Focus on the Fagg…err “Family”. Oh wait let me tell you exactly how they’ll spin it (lie for Jesus about it).
“If this bill becomes law good, decent, law-abiding America loving Christians will be FORCED to hire filty, disgusting, child-molesting, Godless liberal hippy homosexuals as babysitters!”
And
“You’ll walk into church some sunday morning and discover some unelected, unaccountable judge has installed a homosexual as the new pastor!!!”
And finally
“This bill is designed to silence the speech of Christians (to preach bullshyte and lies about gays).”
Elizabeth Z
October 4th, 2008 | LINK
I’m a college student and I have a lot of friends, homosexuals, bisexuals and heterosexuals. I don’t want to sound intolerant in anyway, but Christains believe Homosexuality is a sin. If you don’t believe in sin, why are you worried so much about what the Christians think.
All sins are equally bad in the eyes of God and homosexuality is no worse then sleeping with a heterosexual partner before marraige.
I’m a christian and I believe that sexual orrientation is no reason to discriminate against a person for any service especially burial, I mean, come on.
I have a brother who is openly homosexual, and while I know he is sinning, I still love and support him. He know’s that I disagree with his lifestyle but we get along.
Lets get something straight here. Tolerance doesn’t mean that I believe what your doing is right, it means that we agree to disagree and not kill or antagonize each other.
People are getting a far distorted view of tolerance and it needs to stop. It’s getting to the point in our society were christians can’t hold any sort of moral standards without being seen as judgemental and intolerant. It’s wrong that I can’t believe that the homosexual lifestyle is sinful, but at the same time you can judge my religious views as ignorant and intolerant.
Lets learn to agree to disagree.
Love ya
Emily K
October 4th, 2008 | LINK
Sorry Liz, but you’re not going to be able to get away on the “agree to disagree” line.
part of the problem is that the quiet conservatives like you who “have someone they love who happens to be gay and support their ‘chosen lifestyle’” have been overtaken in volume by the James Dobson’s of the world. I’m talking about people who take their religion from the pulpit to the courtroom to try and make it legal to consider us no better than criminals. So then more forgiving voices such as yours are presumed to be hateful ones calling for our imprisonment; declaring us every kind of scapegoat, even when you are not doing that.
Now, you can say “a sin is a sin is a sin” all you want, but the loudest of your people aren’t screaming on the sides of the road in protest of easy divorce laws, nor are they berating openly or fighting for legislation against those who disavow chastity pledges (and it’s a BIG group.) Members of your group are blaming us (oh, and the “overall sexual culture”) for America’s economic crisis, we’re blamed for hurricanes, we’re blamed for 9/11, we’re beaten senseless and literally crucified on fenceposts and then questioned as to whether WE were the ones who provoked a “gay panic” response to cause our own murder. And the loudest among you are saying, tacitly, that we deserve all of the hardship we endure.
And the quiet conservatives who simply see us as “equal sinners” get drowned out.
Now, I’m probably one of the most moderate gay people on this blog. I say you have the right to say i’m sinning just like you have the right to say i killed your god (I’m Jewish.) You have the right to say to a congregation on the pulpit these things as well.
But when you look at what we have to deal with that comes from the loudest of your people – saying AIDS is from God, saying that a partner who dies horrifically is God saying “stop being gay,” saying we are sodomites intent on creating a public sewer sex culture, calling us “broken…” But worst of all: Not speaking out when one of us is brutally murdered for being gay, such as Lawrence “Larry” King – it makes one grow weary of discussion. (saying “murder is wrong” doesn’t cut it. We want an acknowledgment that we are singled out, targeted, and killed.) We’re frankly tired of being murdered and tired of being ignored, tired of being called “broken,” tired of having people tell us how much they “love us” – and many of us are just tired of being singled out as “sinners.” And BELIEVE ME – we are singled out.
Honestly, I would for everyone to just leave us alone.
Priya Lynn
October 5th, 2008 | LINK
Elizabeth said “It’s wrong that I can’t believe that the homosexual lifestyle is sinful, but at the same time you can judge my religious views as ignorant and intolerant.”.
No, you’re wrong Elizabeth. Its wrong to condemn those who harm no one. That’s what you do and that’s why your religious views are seen as ignorant and intolerant.
Elizabeth said “Love ya”.
Uh, no you don’t. If you loved us you’d recognize that your mischaracterization of us as wrong-doers is harmful, inapropriate, and you’d stop doing it.
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