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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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We have previously discussed how President-Elect Obama’s selection for his inaugural invocation, Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, has sought to meddle in the current internal affairs of the Anglican fellowship in Africa. He has, on the international stage, sided with those who are anti-gay.
Jonathan Justice
January 11th, 2009 | LINK
What a loon!
The breathlessly positive framing in the CT posting makes it even funnier. As I have suggested elsewhere, Warren has an affiliation problem where the people he affiliates with perform so badly that it raises questions about the doctrinal positions his writing and home church work would seem to be trying to advance. In this case he is in deep with a bunch of folks whose scandals would inspire Mark Twain more than St. Paul. Here he is, egging on a civil war in a denomination that is a lot better at advancing its purposes than he would appear to be at advancing his. I mean, what could be more unexceptional than an invocation at the Inauguration delivered by an Episcopal Bishop? Gene, Katherine, and Desmond are all such nice people, and so good at what they do. Meanwhile, Rick Warren is not holding up well under scrutiny, and the Team Obama invite is looking less and less like a favor. The Feast of The Epiphany has come and gone, and the guy is still twisting in the wrong wind.
Duncan
January 12th, 2009 | LINK
Whilst I disagree with Mr Warren and the anti-gay congregation on the schismatic issue, and I suspect his motives may more expansionism than charity, I do not see that his offer is unethical in principle. He may be encouraging a schism, but that just might be what the Anglican church needs. Open separation could be better than lasting, repressed conflict. And the anti-gay faction will be with like-minded people (problematic, but a church is not the best place for debate over a bitterly divisive issue). The congregation should not be forced to compromise its bigotry to keep its place of worship.
Richard W. Fitch
January 12th, 2009 | LINK
Duncan: The matter is not as simple as you seem to believe. Unlike Baptist or Methodist or other congregational denominational forms, the EC-USA is a hierarchical structure with certain similarities to RC. When a parish/diocese becomes a part of the national church it accepts the canons of the church which state that the local level holds its property and assets in trust for the greater church. It is somewhat like turning your finances over to a stockbroker. You trust him to manage your money. If he goes to another profession, he must return your assets to you.
Gary
January 12th, 2009 | LINK
Contrary to Fitch’s implication, United Methodist Church assets are held in trust by local congregations on behalf of the United Methodist Church.
Mainline protestant denominations are under attack by well-funded neoconservative groups, created and governed by people who are often not even members of these churches. The Institute for Religion and Democracy coordinates such attacks, attempting to silence the liberal or progressive voices of the churches on a variety of social issues. Read about IRD at:
http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v20n1/clarkson_battle.html and at http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1496.html.
grantdale
January 12th, 2009 | LINK
Warren’s nauseating ‘bio’ of Akinola in TIME is available. The distorted presentation of the ‘Muslim-Christian clashes’ barely describes the violence that has killed hundreds, if not thousands. Far from confronting such a tribal mindset, Akinola is the perfect example of fundamentalism; ‘Third World’ or otherwise.
Of course, one might wonder what the heck TIME was thinking in having a Southern Baptist minister write a bio for Akinola in the first place. (Perhaps Richard Dawkins could write the one about Warren? Just a thought…)
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