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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!
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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Pat Boone has definitely gone over the edge. In his latest outrage at WorldNetDaily, Boone tut-tuts the recent massacres at Mumbai, and draws a direct line of connection between that terrorist operation and demonstrations against Prop 8:
Bruno
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
I find it funny that these religious nutjobs of all persuasions brand LGBT folks as “sinners,” when they lie their asses off each and every day. Pat Boone may have a surprise waiting for him in his afterlife.
Lynn David
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
I read this before I saw your article, Jim, and I couldn’t help but think Boone was due a LaBarbera!
These wingnut are only writing for their own efficacy now. How anyone can believe such an article, I cannot imagine. Though I am sure that someone somewhere for the freepers or some forum is posting this article). More’s the pity.
cowboy
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olbermann gave Patt Boonee the Worst Person Award yesterday.
It is satisfying this 1950s bobby-sock-wearing-fan crooner got nailed on a national cable show but I still maintain the LaBarbera Award has more prestige.
I put Mr. Boone in the same barrel as Donny Osmond. Why do some people give these Has-Beens any credence?
HappyCat
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
I had to look up who Looney Boone is, well, was. He must have been, a, sleeping when Loving vs. Virgiania took place.
A very good pick for the LeBarbera award.
Mattymatt
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
But this is how conservatives REALLY FEEL — they actually believe that gays are as bad as a slaughter.
We have a responsibility to correct misperceptions about us, but what can we do in the face of such ignorance? I guess the best we can do is try to prevent broken people like Pat Boone from breaking other people.
So in that respect, yes, I suppose the best strategy would be trying to silence our opponents. Because they are dangerous lunatics.
Timothy Kincaid
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
Mattymatt,
I’ve got to disagree with you. Most conservatives don’t think gays are as bad as a slaughter. This is just extremism from a loon and truthfully the wackier they get the better it serves our quest for equality.
And you’ll not get me to sign on to any effort to silence Boone or prevent him form speaking.
Kimberly
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
Just one quick question–where are “he raging demonstrations in our streets, in front of our churches and synagogues, even spilling into these places of worship, and many of these riots turning defamatory and violent? Have you not seen the angry distorted faces of the rioters, seen their derogatory and threatening placards and signs…”
Did I miss that? All the protests I have seen are peaceful. The only acts of violence have been in the words of the religious right.
David C.
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
To Mattymatt:
I believe the thing to do is let the loons honk out whatever ravings they choose.
We, on the other hand, continue to expose those ravings for what they are, and let the rest of the world judge for itself.
Our job is really pretty easy, just tell the truth all the time.
I’ll repeat some advice I recently posted in this forum:
One of our strategies in the battle for hearts and minds has to be shining a light on tactics the [enemies of gay rights] use to vilify and denigrate gay people in this country and elsewhere. No lie, distortion, liable, or slander against a gay person or organization may go unchallenged. We need to define the vocabulary, appropriating the terminology of our detractors if necessary, to expose their hypocrisy.
St. James
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
Anyone who believes gay folk are behaving badly in the aftermath of Proposition 8 needs to read this link about the oppression and indignities that gays have been subjected to in the past, and which still continue far too often:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_LGBT_people
Rick
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
Pat Boone is irrelevant.
grantdale
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
A well deserved award for someone who’s long been on the shortlist. Much of that screed being the same tired claptrap we’ve come to expect, one section was however truly eye-poppingly stupid:
Slavery was abolished … these true rights were not obtained by threats and violent demonstrations and civil disruption [] but by due process, congressional deliberations and
appropriate ratification. This was democracy in action, not mob rule. [] rights are earned and won in a deliberative, legal way – at the polls.
How on earth could ANY American not know that slavery was only abolished after 600,000 people had died in a Civil War???
God almighty. What a plonker.
Regan DuCasse
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
All the ‘truth’ about gay people coming from people like Pat Boone?
Like the truth about black people coming from the Citizen’s Council and the Klan, or the truth about Jews coming from the Nazis.
Pat Boone was never at ANY of the rallies, or townhall meetings or BEFORE Prop 8, was even at issue…what’s the difference between what Boone or LaBarbera say now, or then?
He’s reporting from rumors he heard from cowards hiding behind computer monitors.
Had any of them shown up where we were, no one would have recognized them from the rest of the crowd.
No, I resent this misrepresentation and comparison to what happened in Mumbai.
Gay people in Islamic countries get EXECUTED, even if they are kids!
THEY don’t even participate in the jihad where THEY live. They aren’t allowed in.
How do we write him and call him on his obvious LIBEL.
cd
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
It‘s rather amazing how gay rights groups have gone from being pathetic losers to devious lisping sissies to violent rioters and murderous terrorists in the extremist conservative “mind“ in a matter of weeks.
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. And then….“ :-)
John
December 9th, 2008 | LINK
At the risk of being a bit too picky…were there any major (or not so major) demonstrations directed at synagogues, or was that just thrown in there to sound ecumenical???
John D
December 10th, 2008 | LINK
In response to John:
To the best of my knowledge, there haven’t been any protests at synagogues, but why would there be? Jews voted against Prop 8. While the Orthodox are against same-sex marriage, the other streams (which make up the bulk of American Jews) support marriage equality.
Pat’s trying to sound ecumenical. But it’s just another case where he’s wrong.
B Boyak
December 12th, 2008 | LINK
Pat Boone, the NEW Anita Bryant!!
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