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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
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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Lindoro
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
Wait, can she marry her dogs, since she is heterosexual?
Bill Ware
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
As much as we may get some psychic relief from pointing out these failures in “traditional marriage,” they really do little to promote our cause.
First, it’s far better to promote the benefits of gay marriage to the couple, their families and society as a whole than it is to highlight the failures of those who are allowed to marry now. This is part of the great failure of the No on Prop 8 campaign in California. They failed to show the benefit of gay marriage to all, not even having gay couples and families in their ads.
Second, “they” look at this couple and all they see is how relaxation of the laws involving marriage over the decades have led to perversions like this. This only reinforces their impetus to make sure further changes, like the “perversion” of gay marriage, don’t further erode their precious marriage ideals.
In other words, they blame proponents of gay marriage and their forebears for their own decadent ways! So pointing out failures in heterosexual marriages like this does us no good at all.
a. mcewen
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
Actually it can be useful. On my blog, I pointed out the ordinary day-to-day routines of the Florida family in the middle of the gay adoption case and compared it to a case of the 17-year-old child who ran away from captivity in a hetereosexual family. Then I took comments from Free Republic and various religious right sites as they jumped up to attack the same sex family.
It put everything in an interesting perspective.
Jason D
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
Bill Ware said: “As much as we may get some psychic relief from pointing out these failures in “traditional marriage,” they really do little to promote our cause.
First, it’s far better to promote the benefits of gay marriage to the couple, their families and society as a whole than it is to highlight the failures of those who are allowed to marry now.”
Why can’t we do both? To me, the point of these kinds of posts is an answer to the “marriage between a man and a woman is sacred” argument. Clearly not all marriages are created equally, but it’s hard to say a gay couple that pays their taxes and obeys the law is LESS deserving of legal recognition than a couple that holds a child captive for over a year and a couple that has photographed sexual encounters with dogs and drunk children. All of which is illegal.
“Second, “they” look at this couple and all they see is how relaxation of the laws involving marriage over the decades have led to perversions like this.
What on earth does beastialty, having sex with drunk minors, and kidnapping have to do with relaxation of laws involving marriage? Please, Bill, point to me what about no-fault divorce and legalized interracial marriage made these two examples possible yet still illegal?
This only reinforces their impetus to make sure further changes, like the “perversion” of gay marriage, don’t further erode their precious marriage ideals.”
How does it do that? No changes to our marriage laws made these situations possible, and again, these examples are of ILLEGAL things that LEGALLY WED straight couples are doing.
elaygee
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
These two miscreants live less than 10 miles away form me physically and probably a million miles away ethically. I’m sure these too didn’t vote (not even in between dog sex times) of course but if they did, you betcha they’d vote against Gay marriage casue its wrong to them.
Alex H
December 4th, 2008 | LINK
My, my, my, my, my!
I thought this was the same couple that had the 15-year-old boy shackled, but this is a new pair!
Heaven forbid that we gays should taint these lovely heterosexual marriages with our filth!
The humane society better give those dogs STD tests, because Mrs. Maldonado doesn’t look too clean.
Sapphocrat
December 5th, 2008 | LINK
I’m with Alvin and Jason D — that’s why I’ve been doing Conservative Babylon for the past five years.
I’ve branched out into a series of YouTube videos called “A Salute to Traditional Marriage”; e.g., Richard Ramirez can rape and slaughter a grandmother in her bed, drink the blood of children, and while away his remaining days on Death Row, and he can still get married (and, in fact, he did).
There are some things that must be said. This is one of them.
P.S. Speaking of legally-wed heterosexual couples who allegedly got it on with dogs (and their killer white-supremacist trainer), let’s not forget Marjorie Knoeller and Robert Noel. (At least she’s rotting away in prison now for the mauling death of Diane Whipple.)
Bill Ware
December 5th, 2008 | LINK
Mud slinging may seem like fun, but it only leaves everyone dirty.
Jason D
December 5th, 2008 | LINK
Bill, this isn’t mudslinging.
From Merriam-Webster Online:
: one that uses offensive epithets and invective especially against a political opponent
That hardly characterizes this article.
Bill you just don’t get it. These idiots will probably go to prison, get out, and still be married. Their relationship is still legal, despite how totally screwed up in the head they are.
What does it say about a country when it lets murderers, child abusers, even child molestors get married and have kids and yet two men are completely out of luck because their relationship isn’t “good enough”?
No mattter how many dogs this woman has sex with and photographs, no matter how many minors she sleeps with and photographs, no matter how many times these idiots go to jail — their relationship is still considered more worthy of legal recognition than mine or yours or any other gay couple’s relationship.
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