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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 500 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.
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.
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.
Lindoro Almaviva
May 28th, 2009
I love it! I have been having discussions in several boards and people just don’t get it. Sometimes I just wish something like this would happen for real so people see for themselves the cruelty inherent in their neighbor when it comes to being different.
Congratulations to the people involved in this video. They have managed to show it with humor.
Ken
May 28th, 2009
Very funny. I know this is a short film but probably won’t help change anybody’s mind. Attacking the bible really turns those people off instantly.
The real issue that needs to be addressed is the children.
We need to saturate the media with commercials and stories about the children of same sex couple speaking out for their families.
The religious right is hung up on procreation and a male/female parental role models. Let the children, teenagers, and young adults raised by gays & lesbians speak for us, show they are productive members of society, and deliver the message of tolerance.
This particular video might have been more effective also showing and elderly couple or infertile couple who can’t have children being hauled away. Most conservatives believe marriage is for procreation only.
Dan
May 28th, 2009
there is that little issue of the threesome at the end… That’s kind of plays right into the right wings mantra.
Timothy Kincaid
May 28th, 2009
Ummm, Dan,
Are you refering to the teenager and his two moms?
Grant
May 29th, 2009
Don’t worry, Dan, I thought they were a threesome too. Oops.
Well, um, those Moms will be flattered! Hopefully!
Ben in Oakland
May 29th, 2009
This video nailed it.
As I wrote in an editorial piece that was published in several newspapers:
How would you feel if you had to ask 16 million people for permission to marry your beloved? How would you feel if the love and commitment your bear your beloved would be, at best, diminished and devalued as unimportant? Or at worst, denigrated as sick, sinful, and dangerous, and such a threat to family, freedom, and society, that a constitutional amendment must be passed to protect them? How would you feel if someone had the power to make your marriage disappear?How would you feel if you were told that second-class citizenship was good enough for you? There is a name for it when the majority imposes on the minority that which it would not accept for itself, and that name is not The Golden Rule.
Dan
May 29th, 2009
oops… my bad! I really did think it was a threesome! I don’t judge one way or another btw, to each his own.
Priya Lynn
May 29th, 2009
I thought it was a group marriage as well.
Richard W. Fitch
May 29th, 2009
I guess I’m glad I was watching fullscreen. It was fairly obvious that the male in the middle was too young to be the mate of the two women.
jim
May 29th, 2009
Well Done!
Over the top? Yes. That’s good.
Absurd? Yes! That’s good.
Will it change people’s minds about same sex marriage? I dunno.
Eric
June 7th, 2009
Ken, your point about children and procreation is utter rubbish. If that were a true concern of the gay marriage opponents, they would also opppose rights for single parents and marriage for infertile couples.
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