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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.
News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric
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Douglas
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
So like the Democratic Party–they woo gay voters with flowers and candy, take us out to dinner, and then rape us in the back seat of the car on the way home.
Lynn David
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
Yeah, and by 2010 we’ll be another wedge issue. Though the wedgees won’t be as big any more.
BTW Jim. You had a site advertisement for federalmoneysite.com/republican.html - “Free Grants for Republicans?” - a Google ad. I think these are nothing but scam sites. Do you have any control over these ads?
Boo
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
So you’re saying these 3 senators are sort of the HRC of the New York Legislature?
L. Junius Brutus
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
Good luck at throwing out a legislator because he opposes gay marriage, let alone because he supports gay marriage but wants to move slowly.
K
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
This is absolutely positively more fallout from the Prop 8 loss in California. Once again, the fundegelical victory in California has spooked Democrats.
tristram
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
K is absolutely correct. This is a direct and INEVITABLE result of the California debacle. Everyone, from Obama to your city councilor is going to be very careful pushing gay-friendly measures of any sort. And in many states the theofascists are gearing up to try to take back adoption rights, employment and hate crimes protections and other recent lgbt gains.
a. mcewen
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
I don’t think its a drastic as that, tristam. While it is true that some form of prohibiting gay adoption will be a wedge issue in the 2010 election, I don’t see the religious right having as much success as they did in the 2004 election with gay marriage.
And Obama by nature is a cautious individual. He will be pushing for pro-gay laws and such but will try to establish consensus first. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is a good example.
I would like more info on how they are going to try and push back against employment protections though.
K
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
a. mcewen:
How will they push back against employment protections? If by “they” you mean the religious right, here’s how:
They will say that having to hire and work with homosexuals is against their free exercise of religion, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. They will say that being banned from saying what they think about homosexuals violates their free speech rights, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
They’ve been using these arguments increasingly in recent years when fighting off state and local anti-discrimination laws and ordinances. And, politicians being the lily-livered chicken-shits they are, more often than not these arguments succeed.
In other words: Obama and the Democrats in Congress will not take on civil rights of any sort for LGBTs unless and until they are ready to take on the religious right in a very big way. And, after the California fiasco, Democrats will think very carefully before they move forward.
a. mcewen
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
I hear what you are saying but I am asking do we know of any specific plans by the religious right to do this.
In my state of South Carolina I know for a fact that they are going to try and push that unmarried couples adoption thing (which by the way has anyone heard whether or not anyone in Arkansas will challenge this in the courts), but I am not aware of any definite plans to try and turn back anti-discrimination employment ordinances. This is not to say that it will not be a plan in the future.
But you touched on a good point, K. If we, as a community, are aware of their talking points, what are we doing to counter them now in this lull period rather than wondering whether or not Democrats will be afraid to stand up for us. Are we assembling ourselves, educating ourselves, or starting any type of resistance to combat possible rollbacks on job discrimination?
I’m of the opinion that our allies will be on our side if we are as vocal and as aggressive in pushing our points as the religious right are in pushing theirs.
L. Junius Brutus
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
K, I don’t think it has to do with Prop. 8 specifically. It’s that one of these members threatens to vote with the Republicans if the Democrats will put up gay marriage for a vote.
Buffy
November 29th, 2008 | LINK
“We care about your rights, but now is just not the right time. Maybe after the presidential election…the midterm election…after we get some more representation in Congress…after….after…”
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, never now. Sure they take our money and our votes, but they never pay up when we ask for action.
Needless to say this is exactly why my wife and I both left the Democratic party recently. We were sick of constantly giving them our money and votes and getting nothing in return but promises of “maybe next time”.
Louie
November 30th, 2008 | LINK
Disgusted with Republicans.
Disillusioned with Democrats.
I thought I would give Libertarians a try and then they select Bob “Mr. DOMA” Barr as their Presidential candidate!!!
There is no viable third party. Because the Democrats and Republicans put aside their differences to assure that no third party makes it into “their” debates.
Until their duopoly on American politics is abolished, we will never have true “change” in this country.
cd
December 1st, 2008 | LINK
I wouldn’t be so pessimistic. For one thing, New York state government is in a huge pile of fiscal trouble that would have taken priority anyway. Second, iirc New York voters give SSM majority support or close to it: it’s not a true wedge issue.
Two more Republican state Senators representing otherwise Democratic districts in the Hudson Valley seem on the verge of resigning. The declared votes for SSM in the chamber are all Democratic, but (with a single exception) only Democrats from greater NYC and the Hudson Valley. So far.
All NY state Senators are up for elections in ’10 again afaik, and it’s quite clear now who to target and where to pick up votes for SSM.
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