“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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
That apology issued by the Cayman Islands tourism director to a gay American tourist who was detained by police after kissing his partner at a dance club has been called into question by the island’s Minister of Tourism.
“All of us in this room and most people in Cayman would agree that what happened in that incident at Royal Palms was offensive to most people in Cayman,” Mr. Clifford told an audience of about 25 people at the Webster United Church Hall in Bodden Town.
This appears to contradict an apology made by the Department of Tourism director Pilar Bush, whose apology to Chandler read, “What happened to you was an isolated incident and is not representative of Cayman.” Whether it is representative of Cayman or not may be questionable, but it appears to be representative of the very person in charge of Cayman’s tourist industry.
The RCIP has an internal investigation into the incident underway, and is seeking independent witnesses to the events at the Royal Palms night club. But since so far it appears that no local laws were broken, it’s unclear what information these witnesses could add to the investigation. This leaves the impression that this investigation is aimed more at digging up dirt on Chandler and his partner rather than the inappropriate actions of a police officer who had no grounds to detain Chandler.
- Discrimination on the basis of a perceived or actual gay orientation is penalized in most countries, right?
- Gay behavior(kissing, touching, holding hands, and things like that) are now becoming the real problem? Or does anti-discrimination also protect the behavior?
In response to Joel’s questions: NO. Many countries still have some form of legal penalty for sodomy. The British Commonwealths in the Caribbean were forced in 200 to decriminalize homosexuality.
Discrimination is NOT penalized in most countries, including the United States.
In the US, an individual can be fired, evicted, refused housing, harassed and many other “crimes” or forms of discrimination based on the perception of, or actuality of sexuality or gender identity.
Other countries can be worse. Generally western Europe, Australia/New Zealand and South Africa are the only concentrated areas where it is against the law to discriminated on such grounds.
Gay behavior is an easy target for police, gay-bashers, and others to impose there sexist beliefs. In some countries it is ok to be gay, just not to practice.
That’s kind of like saying it’s ok to be a pagan, a person of color, or a piano player, you just aren’t allowed to act like one.
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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.
Joel
May 7th, 2008 | LINK
THe SS kissing intolerance…
I have a few questions for the more informed.
- Most countries got past the sodomy bans, right?
- Discrimination on the basis of a perceived or actual gay orientation is penalized in most countries, right?
- Gay behavior(kissing, touching, holding hands, and things like that) are now becoming the real problem? Or does anti-discrimination also protect the behavior?
Kevin Barnard
May 8th, 2008 | LINK
In response to Joel’s questions: NO. Many countries still have some form of legal penalty for sodomy. The British Commonwealths in the Caribbean were forced in 200 to decriminalize homosexuality.
Discrimination is NOT penalized in most countries, including the United States.
In the US, an individual can be fired, evicted, refused housing, harassed and many other “crimes” or forms of discrimination based on the perception of, or actuality of sexuality or gender identity.
Other countries can be worse. Generally western Europe, Australia/New Zealand and South Africa are the only concentrated areas where it is against the law to discriminated on such grounds.
Gay behavior is an easy target for police, gay-bashers, and others to impose there sexist beliefs. In some countries it is ok to be gay, just not to practice.
That’s kind of like saying it’s ok to be a pagan, a person of color, or a piano player, you just aren’t allowed to act like one.
Kevin Barnard
May 8th, 2008 | LINK
200 = the year 2000.
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