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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
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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
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Emily K
May 6th, 2008 | LINK
YEEEESSSS!!!!! I’ve been WONDERING what happened to him! He posted such an indoctrinated response post LIA on his blog, saying he won’t let sexuality control him or whatever, now finally my curiosity is satiated, this is wonderful. I have high hopes.
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Bruce Garrett
May 6th, 2008 | LINK
I was there for that interview, and Morgan and Zach let me photograph it, with the understanding that Morgan would retain the copyright to the photos.
What you have to understand about that first blog post of his after he got out of LIA, is that he’d been very effectively isolated from what was going on outside LIA’s walls. All he knew of the protests was what he saw on the drive in and out of LIA, and what he was told. When all you have is the LIA point of view for eight long weeks…and if you’ve ever read that rule book Zach posted you get an idea of how thorough the control is…it’s going to be hard, even if you’ve got a smart mind and can think for yourself, not to sound a bit like LIA when you first walk out the door. And the immensity of the response to his plea for help really seems to have stunned him. The poor kid didn’t want to be the center of an international media storm…he just wanted to live his life.
Picture a teenager being tossed into a situation where their deepest feelings, their most hidden emotions are being dragged out of them and put on a table for everyone to see and criticize…right at the time in their lives when they’re just starting to cope with their own budding sexuality. Picture being locked into that for almost an entire summer. Then suddenly you’re out, and now it seems like the whole entire world wants to pry into your head and heart too. That’s kinda what happened to him.
It’s heartening, and says a lot about him, that he managed the aftermath as well as he did. He’s a good kid, with a good heart, and he’s in college now and doing well. But I don’t think he’ll ever be as public about what happened to him as Lance Carroll became. I’m glad he’s had a chance to get some of this off his chest, and put his own words out there. But I don’t think you’ll be seeing him making any big public pronouncements. The sense I have always had from him is he never wanted to be in the spotlight. That may seem a bit surprising considering what he put on his MySpace blog, until you realize that when he posted his plea for help he only thought he was calling to his friends on MySpace. People even now have trouble realizing that anything you post online, even if it’s just in the comments of a blog post like this one, can usually be seen by the whole internet.
Regan DuCasse
May 7th, 2008 | LINK
Everytime I get an Exodus youth newsletter and the plans that they have for their outreach, I can’t help but think of all our friends who were trapped like butterflies in the Exodus net.
My teeth set on edge every time I see the words ‘unwanted homosexual attraction’ or ’struggling with same sex attraction.’
First of all the arrogance assumption right there is no form of charitable understanding and outreach.
It’s a predatory exploitation of social and political bigotry.
And young people are the easiest targets because they have the most underdeveloped understanding of themselves and how to communicate their own needs.
Zach Stark reached out for help FROM the definitive controlling nature of this sort of outreach towards gay folks exclusively.
What’s so sad is, Zach KNEW who he was, and his parent’s didn’t and Exodus couldn’t care less, either way about that.
And that’s what bothers me the most, WHY what gay people know for and about themselves is of such little importance and that the usual suspects behave as if gay people have no right or information and experience that should trump THEIRS.
L. Junius Brutus
May 7th, 2008 | LINK
I am so glad Zach is OK and happy with his own sexuality. Even though he seemed very comfortable before he entered LIA, his response after he got out of it seemed like he was destined for an unhappy life.
I can’t wait until we can see the entire interview.
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