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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.
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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?
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Paul Cameron’s World
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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
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Part 5: A Candid Explanation For "Change"
The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths
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Straight From The Source: What the “Dutch Study” Really Says About Gay Couples
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Review: The Gay Report
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Daniel Fetty Doesn’t Count
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Conservative columnist Cal Thomas is most definitely against same-sex marriage, and more broadly he has little good to say about the gay rights movement (”They have taken advantage of a morally exhausted nation…”). He is pretty sure that the court decision in Iowa will “dismantle the foundations of our nation” and open the floodgates to polygamy. But with all that, he knows when the party’s over:
David
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
I wouldn’t think the evangelical community and those wanting to “save traditional marriage” crowd so hypocritical if they were addressing the demise of heterosexual marriage within their own ranks. How can a minister advocate protecting heterosexual marriage when he divorces his wife and marries her best friend because God told him to, and then stays in the pulpit and on tv. To me it seems more of a money making ploy, because as soon as they tell you how bad the “gay menace” is and how much money they have they hit you up for a donation.
Attmay
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
Yikes. He should have never have shaved his mustache.
These people spent so much time pointing out non-existent specks in others’ eyes when there were redwood logs in their own. It’s a wonder anyone gave them credibility on any issue.
Ben in Oakland
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
“To those on the political and religious right who are intent on continuing the battle to preserve “traditional marriage” in a nation that is rapidly discarding its traditions, I would ask this question: What poses a greater threat to our remaining moral underpinnings? Is it two homosexuals living together, or is it the number of heterosexuals who are divorcing and the increasing number of children born to unmarried women, now at nearly 40 percent?”
Good for him. At least he was willing to tell the truth, and stop blaming gay people for what heterosexuals have been doing to The Holy Family.
His conclusion, however, was unfortunate. It is not that the political system has not been working, it was working all too well, fueled by hate and bigotry and religious intolerance, rather than knowledge, compassion, and progress.
Prop. 8 is the perfect example. It barely passed, and would never have passed has its supporters not resorted a campaign of lies and fear mongering, and had our side not run a campaign from the dark recesses of the closet.
What Mr. thomas is saying is that the tide is inexorably turning, and he doesn’t like it one bit. But barring a coup, maybe it’s time for good Christians to stop seeking the speck in their gay brothers’ and sisters’ eyes and start noticing the logs.
I find it interesting that while Mr. thomas is willing to accept heterosexual repsonsibility for the immorality of what they do to their families, somehow we immensely powerful and ever resourceful gay people have manged to pick on a morally exhausted nation like the bullies we clearly are, forcing them to abandon all principle or morality or something because They Just Couldn’t Take It Anymore.
Bad homos. Bad. Bad. Bad.
Or as I like to put it, heterosexuals behave badly, and gay people bear the blame or the punishment. but it’s a little twisted here, because heterosexists-rightwingers-homophobes-whathaveyou are acknowledging their responsibility. but they still want to blame gay people, because they are not behaving how they think they ought to, which is not about minding their own marriages, but about blaming gay people for every ill in society.
David Phillips
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
All of that pissing and moaning, and he doesn’t have the courtesy to spontaneously combust for a finale??!! Glad to see one wingnut has come to his senses partly re sustaining married couples; now, if he’d just get over the hating.
Rick R. Reed
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
However couched, it’s still nice to see that the more common sense marriage “problem” to work on is not keeping apart two people who love one another, but helping those who have already made the commitment sustain it.
Alex
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
Did anyone else find it ironic that an anti-gay columnist compared the situation in Iowa to a musical?
Pender
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
What’s hilarious to me is that he holds up Harold Hill from the Music Man as a model citizen for calling out corruption and degradation — when Hill was basically a scam artist trading on the town’s irrational hysteria to take advantage of them.
What an unintentionally perfect summary of the professional anti-gay organizations of America.
Ben in Oakland
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
brilliant, pender. send that to Mr. thomas
Richard W. Fitch
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
I only read Cal Thomas’ column AFTER I’ve taken my blood pressure medicine. He is one of the most smug, arrogant and condescending people in print. He did such a good job of stating the conditions, why the hell couldn’t he have stated the logical conclusion????
David C.
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
Perhaps because by doing so, he would have provided all that was needed to complete refutation of many if not all common arguments against same-sex marriage, and that attribution of moral decline to the extension of full civil protections to gay people was fallacious from the beginning.
Ben in Oakland
April 7th, 2009 | LINK
Davcid: that is what I was trying to say. thank you for making it clear.
Lynn David
April 8th, 2009 | LINK
At least he’s pragmatic; would that all the rest would be so.
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