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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 two hundred 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!
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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
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Posts via daily email:Archbishop Celestino Migliore said the Vatican opposed the resolution because it would “add new categories of those protected from discrimination” and could lead to reverse discrimination against traditional heterosexual marriage.
KZ
December 2nd, 2008 | LINK
“I think that this sort of flawed and inconsistent reasoning is just instrinsically disordered.”
LOL!
Peace
December 2nd, 2008 | LINK
“objectively” so.
Buffy
December 2nd, 2008 | LINK
Translation:
If Teh Gays are given equal rights who will we have left to legally discriminate against?
Narc
December 2nd, 2008 | LINK
Honestly, my first reaction to this post was to think “Barney Frank really shouldn’t wear hot pink.”
David C.
December 2nd, 2008 | LINK
How do you fight stuff like this? This is just objectively vile and repugnantly stupid.
The official Catholic Church has been a plague on many thinking people since its inception. Is anyone really surprised at this kind of reasoning coming from them?
The Catholic Church hierarchy is opportunistic and certainly not above forming alliances with other religions it has in the past actively sought to extinguish by force, just so it can advance its particular kind of “morality”. You can probably count on them doing so again.
By now everybody should be forming a clear picture in their minds of the kind of enemies we are facing.
William
December 3rd, 2008 | LINK
Doesn’t the Vatican realise how it’s undermining its own credibility by taking a stance like this?
It’s this kind of stupidity that makes me, as a Catholic, profoundly ashamed of my church.
Lynn David
December 3rd, 2008 | LINK
This stance by the Catholic Church is as dumb and wrong-headed as that of their stance against condom use to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa.
The proposal by France is not going the normal route via the “Third Committee” on Human Rights. Instead France is introducing a “political declaration” – distinct from either a “resolution” or a “declaration” – which need not be voted upon. Any member state can propose a political declaration, which other countries may then join, before sending it to the Secretary General. Political declarations are nonbinding, but they may reappear in a more definitive format later. Thus a resolution on the Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty, which passed the Third Committee last year, first appeared under the guise of General Assembly political declaration.
The Third Committee is made up of member states which are African, Arab or from Oceania which more often than not criminalize homosexuality.
Duncan
December 3rd, 2008 | LINK
It reminds me of James Dobson’s railing against Lawrence vs Texas. As you say, it is not even consistent with what else they say, they simply oppose it because it feels wrong, and rationalize it afterwards. They are against penalizations on a case by case basis but cannot be seen making a principle of it. It would give the wrong impression.
By the way, is it not misleading to use quotation marks around a translated word? It would also help if you included a link to the editorial.
MAPerez
December 3rd, 2008 | LINK
Of course, the Catholic Church will not Decriminalize Homosexuality. They need some one else to persecute. Let’s see in the past they had the Jewish faith, the Protestants, the Muslims and most recently they had the natives of North, South and Central America. Too me it seems like the Catholic Church just loves to have blood on its hands. Yes they are really Pro-Life aren’t they?
homer
December 3rd, 2008 | LINK
I am not going to listen to the opinions of someone wearing a pink cape. Now if he had a black cape and fangs, I might pay attention.
Dave
December 3rd, 2008 | LINK
Are gay activists going to protest the Roman Catholic Church?
There have been protests here directed against the Mormon Church for opposing the legal recognition of same-sex marriages. That seems to be far less anti-homosexual to me than opposing a non-binding resolution calling for the end of criminal punishments for homosexual acts.
IN all fairness, if we don’t see protests directed against the Roman Church of the kind that were made against the LDS Church, gays should have to answer why they hold Mormons to a higher standard than Catholics.
Jim Burroway
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
Dave,
Mormons make up only about 2% of the California electorate, yet they contributed at least 40% of all funds raised to pass Prop 8. If the Catholic Church had cajoled their members to give the way the LDS leaders did theirs, they would have raised, at a minimum, twelve times what the Mormons did.
Meanwhile, leaders of the LDS church also held leadership roles in Prop 8 in a way that Catholic leaders did not.
The protests at LDS temples reflect the very prominent role that LDS leaders chose to actively lead and finance the Pro-prop 8 campaign. Yes, you bet, if the Catholic church had played such a prominent, public role, they’d be a target as well.
The reason we hold Mormons to a higher standard than Catholics is because the Mormons chose to participate at a MUCH higher standard. By chosing to get way out in front of this political campaign, they invited the attention they got. That’s the nature of politics. No one is immune from that.
St. James
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
The UN rsolution is an admirable step forward in the establishment of human rights. The opposition of the Catholic Church is regrettable, in fact, their whole approach is seriously flawed as well as inhumane. It may take another century or two to get the church to come into the real world of contemporary thought (if ever).
LINKS OF INTEEST:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_laws_of_the_world
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/uploads/rcp.html
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=60752
Dave
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
Jim,
You completely miss my point.
The Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church are more respected and have more clout on human rights matters than the various governments that criminalize homosexual acts.
The Vatican is in the position to play the same role in opposing the resolution that the LDS Church played in in promoting the passage of Prop 8. If it does play such a role in defeating the resolution, shouldn’t the Catholic Church get the same treatment as the Mormons got?
Jim Burroway
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
Well, to be honest, I suppose we have to pick our battles. Right now, the biggest battle on our plate is marriage in California. It may be a selfish selection — marriage in California vs. gays in Iran — but then I don’t exactly Christians making a big deal over Darfur or the Chaldeans in Iraq during the past election either.
But let’s pose it this way. If the Catholic Church had played the role that Mormons did against my own fellow American citizens, then yes, I’d be at the front of the line.
mike/
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
“Intrinsically Disordered Opposition…”
i love it. this was a concept i heard the nuns and priests use when i was in catholic school. i always thought that “intrinsic” was a church doctrine until i found it in the dictionary.
have you also read that the good archbishop Migliore admitted that the Vatican previously opposed a U.N. motion dealing with rights and benefits for the handicapped, because it did not include “anti-abortion” language?
oh, that’s “intrinsically disordered”. isn’t it…?
not to mention hypocrisy.
one of the best decisions i ever made was leaving the church. actually, i think they forced me out with their actions. the hypocrisy and idiocy turned me into what some people identify as an “existential atheist”. well, i identify that way also.
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