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Boy Scouts of America Votes To Allow Gay Members, Retains Ban On Gay Leaders
Nevada House votes to reverse marriage ban
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It's Not the Principle, It's the Prejudice
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Gay Couples Excluded from Immigration Bill Markup
Featured Reports
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.
News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric
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tonykw
December 19th, 2008 | LINK
You don’t invite a pedophile to a childrens’ birthday party!
You don’t invite an arsonist to a Fourth of July party!
You don’t invite an armed terrorist on board the aircraft that you are flying in!
SVSprinkle
December 19th, 2008 | LINK
I agree. I had my room reserved, and two friends going with me. Now, we cannot go, given the right-winger Obama has invited to pray at his inauguration. I was really looking forward to this, but, once again, it appears LGBT people may still be used as pawns in a larger political game.
For theological reasons, I am opting out.
Hank
December 19th, 2008 | LINK
I’m have to boycott too.
HappyCat
December 19th, 2008 | LINK
I hope every LGBT person and LGBT supporters boycott Obama’s Inauguration.
Rick Warren is the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan of Anti-Gay.
What part of this does Obama not understand?
Bill Ware
December 19th, 2008 | LINK
I intend to watch the inaugurating, all of it including the invocation. As a military academy graduate I remember the first principle of war, “know your enemy.” I want to here every word Rick Warren says.
Attmay
December 20th, 2008 | LINK
If they want the Bible to be the law of the land, then they can move to Iran. We don’t want them in the United States of America.
I wasn’t going to watch the coronation anyway.
MIchelle
December 20th, 2008 | LINK
I’m not prior military but I agree with Bill. “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”. To further elaborate; It’s Obama’s future policies I’m interested in and, if nothing else, the Christian zealots can’t say they didn’t have their chance to speak or weren’t invited to the “party” which would just give them more to whine about.
Though, of course, being a gay “married” native Californian from Orange County, there’s no way I can watch the inauguration without getting ill, but then again, I moved away from the US to get away from all the hate of the last 8 years so I can only hope that America becomes “the Land of the Free” and someday maybe I can return.
It was sad to watch California (my former home) appear as part of the “redneck nation”. But freedom does allow even the most evil amongst us a voice if nothing else, and being free (at least here overseas), I can choose not to listen. Hopefully this is just part of Obama “reaching across” that table.
grantdale
December 20th, 2008 | LINK
So do we Timothy.
We wish we could say the same thing about the conviction of your new President.
He was the best of two choices, right?
Time will tell.
Time. Will. Tell.
RomeoandJoe
December 20th, 2008 | LINK
Obama is screwing the people who voted for him in order to intice the people who didn’t vote for him! Hillary would not have done it. Obama might as well invite David Duke and Louis Farrakhan –make it a three sum! We will watch and check on this WARren character — he must have molested someone or eaten shrimp – forbidden in his bible — or perhaps kept a slave — permitted in his bible!
David C.
December 20th, 2008 | LINK
Perhaps some of us in our rush to judgement of Obama have become a victim of our own paranoia. There is another perspective for us to consider here.
Bob Leahy
December 20th, 2008 | LINK
“I was looking forward to hearing a speech by the new President about his vision of a new America and an end to the politics of division where one group is pitted against another.”
Surprise! Now we are all seeing the start of this vision of a new America. This is what happens when people vote for a candidate whose entire platform was “change.” What does change mean? He never specified it – and no one ever asked. We thought it meant change to be more inclusive of gays. This minister doesn’t quite advocate burning gays at the stake. Perhaps he’d like to use a barbeque.
Obama spent more than 10 years attending a church listening to another religious idiot. Everyone wrote it off, and said, “Well, he was just sitting there.” Right. You don’t sit there for a decade if you don’t agree with what the minister is saying.
The last time I looked, Christ never said a word against gays. He did say a lot about loving your enemies. I guess that isn’t in these ministers’ version of the Bible.
Duncan
December 21st, 2008 | LINK
The “religious idiot” that Mr Leahy mentions is welcoming to gay couples and they are often seen holding hands in his church. So I have heard.
And while this is disappointing coming from Mr Obama, would Mrs Clinton (“She has a difficult relationship with the truth”) be any better?
Timothy Kincaid
December 21st, 2008 | LINK
Until presented with evidence I will not take as fact that there are gay couples that hold hands at Saddleback. Please link to a first hand source.
AdrianT
December 21st, 2008 | LINK
I would urge LGBT people, rather than boycotting, to consider being there and making that disgust known at the event – in a civil manner – a chorus of ‘shame on you!’, or turning one’s back en-masse, rather than simply not being there. The whole world will be watching you after all.
It seems to be a tradition that after every single election, the winner declares he will reach out as much as possible to the opponents. The goal of achieving unity for unity’s sake is obscene, when it compromises the quest for justice.
Duncan
December 23rd, 2008 | LINK
Sorry for the delay.
The only source I know is a column from The Economist magazine, though I generally consider these as factually reliable:
Lexington column, “Wright’s wrongs”.
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=3856663&story_id=11294480
Available without subscription.
Timothy Kincaid
December 23rd, 2008 | LINK
Duncan,
I misunderstood your previous comment. I thought that you were saying that gay couples attend Rick Warren’s church and hold hands. That was the source of my skepticism.
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