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What Are Little Boys Made Of?
In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for “cross-gender disturbance” in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers. This story is a stark reminder that there are severe and damaging consequences when therapists try to ensure that boys will be boys.
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 500 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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So far this presidential campaign season has seen a markedly reduced emphasis on cultural issues. Unlike George Bush’s efforts to define his distinction from John Kerry by the extent to which he reviled gay couples and sought the restriction of their rights, Sen. John McCain has mostly avoided any reference to gay couples and has, at times, seemed almost apologetic for his views.
AJD
September 15th, 2008 | LINK
“He told about 1,000 people that marriage was created and defined by God, just as the Mona Lisa was created by Leonardo da Vinci.”
Such a comical adventure in illogic. I actually considered registering as a Republican just to keep Huckabee from winning the primary.
I don’t think it’s hard to imagine at all that he would have supported the prosecution of Da Vinci. He does, after all, have a history of associating with Christian Reconstructionists.
Duncan
September 15th, 2008 | LINK
Had Huckabee won he would had done worse than McGovern. He lost the primaries because he could not expand out of his electoral niche, and that is almost entirely Republican. He’d have been the Democrats’ dream.
tristram
September 15th, 2008 | LINK
Talk about setting a low bar! McCain goes on one of the top-rated daytime talk shows and sounds ‘almost apologetic’ that he doesn’t think the lesbian host should be able to share in a wide range of rights, responsibilities and benefits of American citizenship because of her sexual preference. That’s like Michael Phelps sounding almost funny on SNL.
The only executive decision McCain has made thus far was his choice of a running mate. And all the gay-baiting rightwing talkshow hosts and Christianist leaders are ecstatic. They know they’re going to get their culture war without having to live with Huckabee’s economic heresies. And there’s a damn good chance they’re going to have one of their own in the Oval Office in the near future.
Michigan-Matt
September 16th, 2008 | LINK
tristam, no offense, but Phelps is another studpuppy Michigan Wolverine so you might want to step cautiously in those piles you usually leave behind… ggggr (and a wink).
I’m glad that MikeHuck-a-Boom is headed for the political scrap heap. He was an extension of the values-driven, divisive politics of the ol’ GOP. Good riddance.
McCain is a fresh start for the GOP. Unlike Huck-a-Boom, McCain’s the nominee because of open primaries and the huge influence of non-GOPers and political independents and GOP moderates in the primaries. Groups that Hick-a-Boom could have never courted.
These quotes, tho’ not the worst I’ve seen from Mike Huck-a-Boom, demonstrate why a moderate-to-liberal, maverick GOPer like McCain was the best choice ever. If it had been Huck-a-Boom, we’d be talking about how many gayGOPers and moderateGOPers were heading over to BarryO’Biden (yikes)… instead, all the talk is about the hordes of angry Hillary gals stampeding to the McCain-Palin banner and victory.
Swampfox
September 16th, 2008 | LINK
I am glad to say that I had the honor to vote against Huckabee when he ran for Republican nomination. I guess that we are all going to have to put up the poor man, he is relatively young.
Timothy Kincaid
September 16th, 2008 | LINK
Michigan Matt,
Please do not use derogative nick-names here. thanks.
L. Junius Brutus
September 16th, 2008 | LINK
No substantive difference between these two. McCain will pursue the exact same policies that Huckabee would, appoint the same type of judges (those who do not believe in constitutional rights). As a matter of fact, I wish he were the nominee, and that he would campaign for Proposition 8, that would only hurt it because of his unpopularity there, as well as hurt his own campaign, because he would focus on this issue when people are focused on things that actually affect their own lives.
Michigan-Matt
September 17th, 2008 | LINK
It’s curious to me that the ending line of the BTB article ran a bell, but I just couldn’t place it.
“And anything can be justified when you’re protecting the future of the universe.”
And then it hit me while waiting to fill up the Hummer, that line is exactly why many farRight types found Al Gore’s personal mission to save the Earth from global warmists so repugnant and self-righteous.
Like Huckabee, Al Gore also thought more of himself than the voters did. Like Huckabee, Al Gore pressed his singular vision for a new world order upon all those who would listen –and even forcibly on those who would not.
Like Huckabee, Al Gore was a keen manipulator of the media and tapped into a marginal, fringe segment of the political elites in order to gain traction for his strident agenda.
Like Huckabee, Al Gore played to the honest sentiments of the public while acting in a manner completely different from the message he was preaching –you know, the GulfStream jets with just him on board, the massive energy consuming mansion in Nashville, the limo awaiting and running the a/c and engine while he lectured others inside the hall about “sacrafices for the betterment of Earth” and, who could forget, the scam of buying carbon offset credits like Papal Indulgences for the energy-consumptive challenged?
That’s why that line triggered a deja vu moment.
Only now it’s Mike Huckabee that can “… justif(y anything) when you’re protecting the future of the universe.”
Who’d have thought: Al Gore and Mike Huckabee sharing a dually appropriate moment in time?
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