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What Are Little Boys Made Of?
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.
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 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.
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.
News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric
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Richard W. Fitch
July 22nd, 2009 | LINK
I’ll have to keep in mind that the next time someone throws an unwanted kiss my way I have the right to put a bullet through the back of their head.
Burr
July 22nd, 2009 | LINK
Especially if it’s a girl.. then I can claim “straight panic”.. right? right??
Yeek
July 23rd, 2009 | LINK
“But kid’s brains are undeveloped! That’s why every 14 year old murders everyone who pisses them off!”
Blah blah blah…..
Pomo
July 23rd, 2009 | LINK
This is just not a good situation. I want Mcinerey punished but I work with children/teenagers and a 14 year old is not an adult. No matter how horrible the crime I don’t think it’s a good idea to start trying 14 year olds as adults. I don’t have a better idea of how to deal with these types of situations but he’s a kid. A kid who did something wrong and has many issues but life in prision isn’t the answer.
Pender
July 23rd, 2009 | LINK
I’m glad the gay groups officially oppose trying him as an adult for PR reasons, but between you and me and the internet, I hope they lock the little bastard up and throw away the key.
Timothy (TRiG)
July 23rd, 2009 | LINK
What’s the actual effect of trying a child as an adult? What does it, practically, mean?
Should Thompson and Venables have been tried as adults?
TRiG.
L. Junius Brutus
July 23rd, 2009 | LINK
“I want Mcinerey punished but I work with children/teenagers and a 14 year old is not an adult. No matter how horrible the crime I don’t think it’s a good idea to start trying 14 year olds as adults.”
In which case he would get out within seven years (by the time he’s 21). So we should let someone get off easy who shot a classmate in the back of the head and fired once again at him to make sure that he was dead, someone who announced to other classmates that he wanted to kill this kid, someone who was a neo-Nazi, someone who had earlier bragged that his father had guns and that he could kill anyone who crossed him. Evidently, that’s someone you would want out within 7 years, especially after he’s brutally murdered someone.
“A kid who did something wrong and has many issues but life in prision isn’t the answer.”
“Something wrong”? We’re not talking about doing “something wrong”, like hitting a classmate. We’re talking about murder. Life in prison is absolutely the answer – it will punish this guy, prevent this guy from ever killing again, deter other psychos, and give justice to the victim (who lost his life).
Let this guy rot in prison for the rest of his life – he deserves nothing less, nor anything more.
L. Junius Brutus
July 23rd, 2009 | LINK
“I’m glad the gay groups officially oppose trying him as an adult for PR reasons”
If it was a malevolent prosecutor (who doesn’t think that people should be punished for killing gay people), he would have used it as an excuse to not try him as an adult. These organizations exist to provide for equality for gay people. They do not exist to lobby for the rights of people who kill gay people. Hence, they shouldn’t have meddled.
Regan DuCasse
July 24th, 2009 | LINK
EXACTLY, Brutus!
The facts here are, that McInerney was a bully, a boy who learned early to settle a conflict with VIOLENCE. This is an issue to blame his parents over.
McInerney, had skills enough with said firearm to load it, bring it to school concealed and then shoot a classmate he’d been threatening, in the BACK of the head…TWICE.
Then he hustles out of the school. That’s beyond premeditated.
I’m sick of people portraying L. King as the aggressor. All things considered, what ELSE could King do? He didn’t have it in him to be VIOLENT himself.
He didn’t get a weapon or assault McInerney, even in self defense. All the media talks about is how provocative King was for wearing feminine accessories and how wrong the school was for indulging that.
Oh…PUHLEEZE!
Oh SO dangerous! A boy who likes lip gloss, as opposed to a boy who likes guns.
It’s a typical, unfair and common stereotype to portray ANYONE gay as sexually aggressive. As imposing and invasive. These are the sorts of brainwashing buzz words that convince everyone that gay people are so out of control, they can’t be near ‘normal’ people.
You all know this is true.
Gay victims of horrible violence almost NEVER are discussed as completely innocent, even if ambushed by a carload of thugs, no gay panic defense is ludicrous enough.
Lawrence King is discussed as if, as Brutus said, somehow asking for a beating or worse.
McInerney was looking for a target. And since society puts the bull’s eye on the backs of gay folks, it’s no leap of logic that King was the easiest to spot. And lessening the lives of gay people in the minds of the young, King was easily and tragically expendable.
Give that boy fifty years to life. He’s dangerous and old enough to be a skilled and cold blooded killer. I don’t even have an issue with jailing dangerous guys like this until 25, then giving them the needle.
Justice isn’t served enough even with life in prison. King was a good and talented kid. HE wasn’t dangerous, despite having it as hard as McInerney, King chose blowing kisses over violence.
What’s the lesson to teach kids about THAT?
I’m still sick and mad over the release of Sean Kennedy’s killer after less than two years.
Justice is still elusive in these cases, and that is SO, so wrong for so many reasons!
Timothy (TRiG)
July 24th, 2009 | LINK
On the bolded portion (deterring other psychos): no, it won’t. Psychos don’t think like that. That’s what makes them psychos.
TRiG.
L. Junius Brutus
July 24th, 2009 | LINK
“On the bolded portion (deterring other psychos): no, it won’t. Psychos don’t think like that. That’s what makes them psychos.”
I referred to anyone who would attack a gay person for that reason as a “psycho”, regardless of whether that person would officially fit the label of “psychopath”.
As a matter of fact, we have a historical example of whether psychos are deterred or not. After juries finally started convicting people for the crime of lynching, there was a steep drop in the number of lynchings. There are people who won’t be deterred, but giving this guy will deter as many people as possible and send a strong message that you can’t get away with murder just because your victim happens to be gay.
Pomo
July 25th, 2009 | LINK
BRUTUS, he is not a guy, he is a boy. Thats the difference. At 14 you are just beginning to figure out your own morality, sexuality, a whole list of things… At 14 you’re highly influenced. After he pays his penalty he needs to be rehabbed. No one deserves to pay for the rest of their life for something they did at 14. Even though Larry King didn’t have the choice.
Thats not justifying his actions but its also not wasting two lives. One young life wasted is enough for me. Let him do his time and educate him.
Burr
July 25th, 2009 | LINK
And hopefully he can educate others..
L. Junius Brutus
July 26th, 2009 | LINK
“At 14 you are just beginning to figure out your own morality, sexuality, a whole list of things… ”
Yeah. Commit a savage and premeditated murder at age 14? Who hasn’t done that?
“After he pays his penalty he needs to be rehabbed. ”
Seven years is a penalty for shooting someone in the back of his head? No, life in prison is the appropriate penalty.
“No one deserves to pay for the rest of their life for something they did at 14. ”
“Something they did” does happen to be a vicious, cold-blooded murder. It’s not stealing a candy bar, it’s murdering someone. Even though you proclaim that people are only trying to figure out morality at age 14, most people at age 14 know that murder is… something bad. The fact that you want to unleash this little monster upon society once again blows my mind – even aside from the obvious injustice.
“Thats not justifying his actions but its also not wasting two lives. ”
Nope, he wasted his own life by pulling the trigger on someone else. Stop trying to blame others for “wasting” this vicious murderer’s life.
Tommy
July 26th, 2009 | LINK
I’m definitely not a fan of prison rape, nor am I someone to make light of it. But given the circumstances, I would totally not mind if McInerney learns about it the hard way.
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