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Featured Reports

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

Daniel FettyThe 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.

Ugandan Gov’t Poised to Take “Stern Action” Against Gays

Jim Burroway

March 26th, 2009

This morning’s Uganda Pulse reports this worrying development:

The government has threatened to take stern “action” against promoters of homosexuality and lesbianism in Uganda.

The State Minister for Ethics and Integrity, Dr. James Nsaba Buturo said today that the government is working on stern modalities to fight homosexuality especially in schools.

This follows a petition by parents under the Family Life Network NGO claiming that homosexual promoters are very active in Uganda and are luring students into the practice with cash gifts and promises to needy students from unstable or poor families.

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 which the group described as unnatural and anti Christian.

Dr. Buturo says the government is going to act swiftly to stop what he calls “moral corruption” of vulnerable Ugandans, especially children into homosexuality.

He says the practice of same sex relationships is illegal in Uganda and unacceptable to the people of Uganda. The minister did not however specify which stern action was to be taken, given that the High Court ruled last year that all Ugandans, including homosexuals and lesbians are accorded the same rights and freedoms by Uganda’s constitution.


BTB’s complete coverage of recent anti-gay developments in Uganda:
Oct 16: Does Exodus Support Criminalizing Homosexuality?
Oct 15: Human Rights Watch, Sexual Minorities Uganda Condemn Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Oct 15: Here It Is: The Text of Uganda’s Proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Oct 14: Uganda Parliament Takes Up Anti-Gay Bill Adding Death Sentence and Bans on Free Speech”
Sep 15: Draft Anti-Gay Bill Circulating In Uganda
Jul 26: Uganda Parliament To Take Up Bill Banning LGBT Free Speech
Jul 6: Sports Figure Latest Victim Of Ugandan Anti-Gay Offensive
Jul 3: Uganda May Ban All LGBT Advocacy
Jun 1: Nazi Comparisons
May 14: Uganda’s Anti-Gay Campaign Snares LGBT People and Rival Pastors, Tabloid Promises More “Outings”
Apr 24: Uganda Anti-Gay Activists March, “Storm Parliament”
Apr 20: Alan Chambers Addresses Developments In Uganda
Apr 19: Uganda’s Public Vigilante Campaign Is Now In Full Swing
Apr 17: Uganda Government Attacks Human Rights Groups for “Promoting Homosexuality”
Apr 19: Uganda’s Public Vigilante Campaign Is Now In Full Swing
Apr 17: Uganda Government Attacks Human Rights Groups for “Promoting Homosexuality”
Apr 10: Uganda Columnist: “Happy Easter …Irrespective of Sexual Orientation”
Apr 6: Uganda Press Crank Up “Predator” Rhetoric
Apr 3: Uganda to Ban LGBT Advocacy?
Apr 2: Exodus Maintains Month-Long Silence Amid Ugandan Gov’t Calls For LGBT Arrests
Apr 2: Press Release from Ugandan LGBT Advocacy Group
Mar 31: Forced Outings Continue As Uganda LGBT Advocates Allege Oundo Is In It For The Money
Mar 31: Uganda Activist Cites Disbarred “Therapist” As Authority on Homosexuality
Mar 30: Uganda Situation Continues To Deteriorate; Exodus Washes Their Hands
Mar 27: Videos Surface of Ugandan Activist Stirring Anti-Gay Fervor; Fears of Violence Grows
Mar 26: Ugandan Gov’t Poised to Take “Stern Action” Against Gays
Mar 26: The “Ex-Gay” Star of the Uganda Anti-Gay Campaign
Mar 25: More on Uganda Anti-Gay Vigilante Incitement
Mar 25: Another Anti-Gay Vigilante Campaign May Have Begun In Uganda
Mar 23: Schmierer’s & Lively’s Uganda Talks Continue to Reverberate
Mar 17: Lively Defends Forced Therapy Proposal
Mar 16: Commentary: When Good Men Do Nothing
Mar 13: Sanctimony Alert
Mar 13: Scott Lively and Alan Chambers Respond to Questions About Uganda Conference
Mar 13: Exodus Applauds Schmierer’s Part in Uganda Conference
Mar 12: South African LGBT Advocates Condemn Exodus
Mar 12: Ex-Exodus Minister Condemns Uganda Conference
Mar 12: Ugandan Conference Leaders Call For Another Meeting While Pushing Pedophilia Theme; Exodus Continues Silence
Mar 11: Open Letter To the Exodus International Board of Directors
Mar 10: Scott Lively: The Gay Agenda Is “To Turn The Whole World Gay”
Mar 9: Exodus Removes Link To Scott Lively From Its Web Site
Mar 9: EU Group Condemns Ugandan Conference
Mar 8: Uganda Anti-Gay Conference: Day Three — Gays Blamed For Rwandan Genocide & Pedophilia; More Exodus Ties To Holocaust Revisionism
Mar 6: Uganda Anti-Gay Conference: Day Two
Mar 6: Exodus’ Silence About Uganda: Day Five
Mar 6: Exodus Board Member Participates In Uganda Conference Calling For Forcing Gays Into Conversion Therapy
Mar 5: Anti-Gay Conference Kicks Off In Kampala
Mar 5: Warren Throckmorton Speaks Out Against Uganda Conference
Mar 5: International LGBT Group Expresses Concern About Uganda Conference
Mar 2: Anonymous Ugandan Blogger Wants Answers From American Anti-Gay Activists
Feb 24: Exodus Board Member Joins Nazi Revisionist At Uganda Conference

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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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