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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.
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 450 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This flyer was distributed during a recent Chicago counter-protest against members of the “God hates fags” Westboro Baptist Church. Food for thought:
God Hates Figs flyer (Click to enlarge)
[Hat tip: Dan Savage]
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Pomo
March 14th, 2009 | LINK
ha!
Timothy Kincaid
March 14th, 2009 | LINK
Well if God hates figs, then it certainly justifies my hating figs, doesn’t it?
lurker
March 14th, 2009 | LINK
If god hates figs, why did he create them in the first place?
AlexM
March 14th, 2009 | LINK
Doesn’t matter, it’s in the bible. Which, of course, means that not only should good Christians avoid eating figs, but we should make laws against the eating of figs as well. Hmmmm . . . perhaps Constitutional amendments, as well. . .
Richard W. Fitch
March 14th, 2009 | LINK
The WBC/Phelps’ Clan recently has been met with some very creative counter-protests both at Univ Chicago/Hyde Park and several communities in MA where they were protesting, among other things, The Laramie Project. There was even a “Phelps-A-Thon”. One school being protested asked counter-protesters to give money for a local teen gay org. If this keeps up, the Phelps may become their own worst enemies in promoting better understanding and compassion for the LGBTQ community.
Lynn David
March 15th, 2009 | LINK
Of course! Now I get why that monkey had to die in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!”
grantdale
March 15th, 2009 | LINK
Nobody hates figs. They just think they do.
Timothy, you just haven’t had our green fig chutney on a slice of grilled ham. A little bit spicy, a little bit fruity and, well SURPRIZ, a little bit hammy.
There is nothing wrong with figs.
I bet you must have awful hidden memories of being toilet trained. Right?
“Oooh my God Harold, the Boy hasn’t gone between 6:45am and 7:15am … we best be giv’g him some of that fig syrup!!! And from the look on his round face… lot’s of it! Gizz me The funnel and The stick…”
Of course, we diverge.
In our area people so much love their figs that they put netting all over … just to protect them. Otherwise birds go a pecking, and that will always ruin a good fig. A thoroughly pecked fig is not a good fig.
But just ripe, and popped in an oven with a wafer of prosciutto, a slice of melon and squige of balsamic on a warm night together with a glass of good chilled Chardonnay… oooh my gawd, it’s the 1980′s all over again. And thank heavens we’re listening to Mel & Kim at the same time.
Seriously, who could hate figs?
bill miller
March 16th, 2009 | LINK
what can one expect from toothless illiterate christians?
KZ
March 16th, 2009 | LINK
Does this mean that if I eat a fig newton, I’m risking eternal damnation? Because fig newtons are really good.
Todd
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
And shrimp. Don’t forget about shrimp!
http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/
Lowell Bartholomee
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
Lynn, the monkey died in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” And it was from a poisoned date. Which proves that you must avoid figs and never, ever date.
We must immediately sanction Great Britain. Their figgy pudding is the worst attack on Christmas the world has yet seen.
God Hates Figs « Yes, Let’s Talk About This
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
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Rev Bob Borden
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
Normally I am at the head of the line when it comes to humor as a non-incendiary weapon against the Evil One. But Phelps group, the so-called Westboro Baptist “Church,” is so Satanic, so evil, so deranged, so warped, and so inhuman that I will eschew even humor in dealing with them. To even mention their name, or that of their Fuher, is to give them far too much free publicity. The only thing good I know about them is that, like raspberry seeds, they shall pass!
CAB
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
“If god hates figs, why did he create them in the first place?”
Because shut up, that’s why.
Kelly
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
so the Fig Leaf bikini is out this season?
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
It’s obvious that God made the fig for the leaves to cover human’s nasty bits.
Izak
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
This is a commonly misunderstood Bible story. God does not hate all fig trees, but a very specific fig tree. God cursed that fig tree, and the tree withered and died. God really doesn’t have a beef with the countless other fig trees that continue to thrive and produce delicious figs for people and monkeys and fig-eating bats to enjoy.
Though I hear that God does really hate pubic lice.
Peter
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
There really are no figs. Just pears with a self-image problem who THINK they are figs.
Tim
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
I really, really, hate figs; but I love fags!! Especially nice, cute ones. But I don’t care how good looking a fig is. I will still hate it…and I’m not even Christian.
Loganotron » God Hates FIGS
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
[...] OMG. This is so so so so so awesome. [...]
Timothy Mulligan
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
Friggin’ figs!
Monk-in-Training
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
I want a copy of that flyer!
Hilarious.
Deb
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
it’s a figleaf of your imagination
Eddie89
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
I’m Gay and I LOVE FIGS!!!
So, I suppose that I will burn in hell twice as much!
Hmmm, fire roasted figs. Haven’t tried that one, yet.
Oh, and I also eat shrimp, lobster, oysters, clams, ham and cheeseburgers.
And I own a wool/cotton blend sweater.
Yeah, I’m going to be burning for eternity x10!
SonMade
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
I had a date with a fig. Turned out to be a prune. The pits.
Sam, Nanti-SARRMM
March 17th, 2009 | LINK
Well, Jesus did curse the barren fig tree, so I guess it is true.
Cristy Li
March 18th, 2009 | LINK
I have written a couple posts last year about these simple minded RACISTS.
http://cristyli.blogspot.com/2008/08/anti-asian-church-to-defy-court-order.html
What are you thinking supporting them?
Are you (and those leaving comments supporting Westboro Baptist Church prejudices) Anti-Asian Bigots too?
You are who your friends are.
Regards,
Cristy Li
CristyKaiRuiLi@gmail.com
Timothy Kincaid
March 18th, 2009 | LINK
Ummm… I think Cristy is a bit confused.
Jim Burroway
March 18th, 2009 | LINK
Maybe she just doesn’t give a fig.
Eddie89
March 18th, 2009 | LINK
Perhaps Cristy doesn’t understand our use sarcasm in our comments.
Flavorwire » What’s on at Flavorpill: Links that made the rounds in our office.
August 4th, 2010 | LINK
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