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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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KZ
March 26th, 2009 | LINK
“The Executive Director of Family Life Network, Stephen Langa told journalists in Kampala that many children had been psychologically tortured and traumatized by experiences of homosexuality…”
Does he have reliable evidence to back this claim?
AJD
March 26th, 2009 | LINK
KZ, it doesn’t matter if he has evidence any more than it mattered whether Hitler had evidence that the Jews caused Germany’s economic crisis in the 20s and 30s. The point is, this sort of thing whips people up into a frenzy.
I’m going to say this again: Everybody here needs to contact their representatives in Congress NOW.
We could have a real-life pogrom on our hands, and the Americans who helped to instigate it need to be held accountable if that happens.
L. Junius Brutus
March 26th, 2009 | LINK
More “love, compassion and charity” coming from Christian fundamentalists. Once again, they show that the only things that they love are hatred and persecution.
Lynn David
March 27th, 2009 | LINK
The reliable evidence the FLN’s Langa has is Oundo. So if Oundo has gone over to Christianity why isn’t he doing the right thing and turning himself into the police, confessing his crime and doing his time.
Since he isn’t, it is obvious that Langa has no evidence.
grantdale
March 27th, 2009 | LINK
Oundo has all the hallmarks of confession-by-terror. All else aside.
If I was gay, and in Uganda, I wouldn’t be pissing around with Oundo’s obvious lies. He’s saying them for a reason, but those lies would put me in danger. Who could care if Oundo is a liar — what matters is what he therefore enables. What Oundo speaks will result in the death of people.
And where… where…
Where is that filthy coward Alan Chambers? Where is his whiney, pathetic voice in all this???
That filthy organisation he runs sent people to support this abuse.
He makes a weak statement in private to us, but fails to condemn what Exodus allied itself to. He makes excuses for the worse type of inhuman abuse.
Alan Chambers sits at home in Florida in air-conditioned comfort next to his coldly-political wife and his adopted children and watches a Nemo DVD … and pretends not to know what his organisation has caused.
We never had any respect for Alan Chambers, personally. He is a fraud (and he’s allowed to be).
But now, he’s an excuse for terror.
I’m sorry if we sound so hot on this — we are personally in contact with people from Uganda*. They are terrified. They cannot go home*. Or they wish to leave home* They think they, or people they know, will be murdered by a ‘Christian’ mob. The situation has become dramatically worse in the past few weeks — ever since Exodus allied itself with a thug.
And yet, Alan Chambers sits at home — silent — watching a Nemo DVD and wondering which shopping mall to visit tomorrow. Such is life, when you live next to Disney Land.
We hope he’s proud of all he has achieved. He did it on the raw, broken backs of people’s misery.
They buy his silence.
His silence means terror, for others.
We thank God that Alan Chambers doesn’t have a conscience.
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* redacted etc, for obvious reasons.
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ps sorry for the heat, Jim, Timothy et al. We’ve had news from a Ugandan in (a large city in Europe) that has shocked the living daylights out of us. And that’s not easy to do. The police in Uganda do have a list of names, it appears, and have had for several weeks — the high profile names will be on trial (eventually), the lesser will be left to the mob (eventually). And we all know what ‘the mob’ will mean. We feel absolutely powerless, even given the vagaries of the Ugandan justice system.
If not for the fact we’ve gained business contacts all over the World over the years (and therefore can talk without identifying anyone), we too would be even more circumspect to protect others. The situation is dire. We have no respect for Exodus, but if ever there was ever a time they needed to be called upon to make phone calls — it is now. Now.
This situation is what American taxpayers have paid for. You trained the terrorists and paid their wages, and now they are in the community causing terror.
Jim, Timothy et al; we know how much this matters to you — but we implore you to again and again contact anyone you may think can help. The situation is rapidly running out of control.
Timothy Kincaid
March 27th, 2009 | LINK
grantdale,
If you would like to share the story from the Ugandan – in a disguized manner if necessary – please email.
Thanks
grantdale
March 27th, 2009 | LINK
Timothy, did do after the post (ditto Jim).
We have asked for permission to release any details if possible, but the situation sounds extremely dangerous at present. We do trust the source. This is not something we wish to fool around with given the consequences, and we know none of you here will wish to either. Not that we doubted it, but what we’ve heard has more than confirmed what has already been said at BTB.
For all the crap we complain about in our communities, nothing compares to this. We realise we are really are feeling quite sickened from what we have heard over the past few week, and it may be showing.
We think everyone knows what we mean, and it hurts.
Thanks Timothy and Jim etc — your efforts do mean an awful lot to everyone. Us included.
Strange, True & Religious : Conference in Uganda by 3 professional anti-gays from U.S. sets off strange feeding frenzy as pastors accuse rivals of gayness, miracle faking and human sacrifices
May 16th, 2009 | LINK
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cathy
May 17th, 2009 | LINK
its not biblical for man to have sexual relations with a fellow man. homosexuals and lesbians are a very big thhreat to our children in society and therefore the ugandan government should establish healthy centers where by such people can be catred for. thanks
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