Where Were You 40 Years Ago? (Part 2)
US Senate Passes Hate Crimes Bill; Faces Veto Over F-22 Funding
Obama To NAACP: "Our Gay Brothers And Sisters Still Denied Their Rights"
TABC Chief Apologizes For Rainbow Lounge Raid, Says Agents Failed To "Follow The Damn Policy"
Follow Up on Brett Vanasdlen
Ft. Worth May Call For Expanded U.S Investigation Into Rainbow Lounge Raid
Demand Honesty - Sometimes You'll Get It
What Were You Doing 40 Years Ago Today?
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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.
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Every pastor knows that there are certain Sundays in which attendance will be high. Christmas and Easter, for example, will draw those who identify as Christian but generally find other things a higher priority at church time on Sunday mornings.
David
May 9th, 2008 | LINK
It is very simple.
Hutcherson is trying, desperately, to convince himself. Whether that is because he experiences same-sex attractions he does not want, or is fending off a consuming sense of guilt and shame over his overt bias, is almost irrelevant.
The laddie doth protest too much. No one who is psychosexually healthy spends that much energy focused on other people’s sex lives.
Buffy
May 10th, 2008 | LINK
Why is it that the RRRW thinks about gay sex more than gay people?
David
May 10th, 2008 | LINK
When people are hungry, what do they think about most of all?
When people are sleepy, tired, exhausted, what do they think about most of all?
People think most about, talk the most about, worry and obsess and project the most about
their own unmet needs.
Jim Burroway
May 10th, 2008 | LINK
David,
Unfounded speculations and rumors about an indivudual’s sexuality has no place here. If you have evidence, please share it. Otherwise, let’s leave this line of comment to the National Enquirer. Unlike the tabloids, our Comments Policy requires substantiation. This is what sets this web site apart from the others.
Piper
May 10th, 2008 | LINK
I live close to the church, and if I didn’t have a memorial service to go to tomorrow I might go to his service.
Oh, thats right I don’t believe that a few open-for-interpretation verses in the bible, which were speaking to specific people in a specific time, should dictate how I treat a large group of people! How silly of me to forget!
David
May 10th, 2008 | LINK
Interesting double standard Jim, why don’t you take it up with Tim?:
“Which makes me wonder: is Hutcherson completely obsessed with homosexuality, or is it the only subject that makes him a topic of discussion on blog sites and feeds his ego?”
In the meantime, there is a real pattern in human behavior - people tend to become obsessive about certain kinds of things - especially things they deny themselves, things they feel guilty about, and things they can never attain.
We need to recognize and talk about it, dig into the real why, the real emotion driving people like Hutcherson - ’cause theology ain’t it. Pussy-footing around the suppressed emotions (whatever they are) that actually drive their tirades just wastes everyone’s time.
I’m disappointed that you resorted to the standard RR trick of distortion and misrepresentation.
Jim Burroway
May 10th, 2008 | LINK
You can be disappointed all you want, but our comments policy stands. All I said is that we don’t trade in rumors and innuendo. How is that “resorting to the standard RR trick of distortion and misrepresentation” when, in fact, I’m arguing against it?
Jason D
May 11th, 2008 | LINK
“We need to recognize and talk about it, dig into the real why, the real emotion driving people like Hutcherson - ’cause theology ain’t it. Pussy-footing around the suppressed emotions (whatever they are) that actually drive their tirades just wastes everyone’s time.”
David, if you feel so strongly, please feel free to meet with Mr. Hutcherson to discuss with him directly. That’s about the only way you’re going to “dig into the real why”. I doubt you know his mind well enough to do anything in his absence except speculate, which at this point is bordering on mindless gossip and reinforcing the stereotype that there must be something wrong with being gay.
Baraeris
May 12th, 2008 | LINK
Jim, your comments policy is misapplied. Besides, you yourself DO trade in rumors and innuendo.
How about loosening up the reigns a notch or two? You’re going to make it as oppressive as a christian message board in here.
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