The Daily Agenda for Thursday, June 20
BREAKING: Exodus International is Shutting Down
Liveblog of Exodus Conference
First Impressions Ahead Of Exodus 2013 Conference
Arizona group to put marriage back on ballot
Exodus International Issues Apology, Hints At Further Developments Tonight
Ex-Gay Leader Sentenced For Criminal Sexual Assault of Male Clients
Andrew Comiskey Doesn't Believe In Apologies
Featured Reports
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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It turns out that Carrie forgot – in her desire to support Biblical Marriage – that suing your former employer after they’ve invested money into the contract you breached can result in them suing you right back. (E Online)
Leonard Drake
October 27th, 2009 | LINK
HAHAHAHA!!!
AdrianT
October 27th, 2009 | LINK
If No On 1 Maine want to take a lead on any issue, they may do well to pick this.
Burr
October 27th, 2009 | LINK
No that’d be silly and a little too schadenfreude and picking on a specific person, who oddly people still sympathize with (mostly because they don’t know the whole story). She has nothing to do with the Yes on 1 campaign or Maine..
David C.
October 27th, 2009 | LINK
No title, not career, and a rocky future awaits this foolish young woman. She is getting what she bargained for, unfortunately she was not smart enough to recognize that fact when she started down this path. Sad, but I won’t be shedding a tear for her as she learns a very hard lesson about prejudice and its purveyors.
Johnson
October 28th, 2009 | LINK
Carrie should have known better than to join ranks with the likes of Maggie Gallagher. When she is no longer useful to Maggie and NOM, she is finished. Gallagher cares about one thing and one thing only–the Six Figure annual (42% of all donations NOM rakes in)salary that she pays herself.
Regan DuCasse
October 28th, 2009 | LINK
Yep, she got into bed with a sleazy political campaign. If she has handlers, and it would seem she does, nobody is a winner here, are they?
It goes like this: the more an organization or individual gives over to trying to slam gay people for every little thing, it’s ugly and a career built on gay bashing is one built on quicksand.
The anti gay have less and less pretty, youthful spokesfaces. They especially don’t have celebrity appeal for equality like we do.
Maggie G, Brian Brown, of NOM…Peter LaB and Matt Barber and even Harry Jackson (who reminds me of Barber in blackface), are becoming more and more unattractive specifically because of how much time and money they are spending on such a small target.
Aren’t they also the ones that think homosexuals are an insignificantly miniscule minority?
So why press conferences and engaging Miss CA….for political action taking place in MAINE?
You all are right. She’s not going to be of much use to them, eventually.
NOM is going to have to answer to a lot, when it’s all said and done.
Betcha they’ll try very hard not to…
Brennin
October 28th, 2009 | LINK
“Someone needs to tell Carrie, ‘Girl, you’re being used. When they no longer have a use for a blond bimbo victim of the evil gays, they will kick you to the curb and you will have no one at all to turn to.’”
Polish your crystal ball, Kincaid, ‘cuz it ain’t workin.’ (Although, I expect this sort of thing from a guy who is so mired in delusion, that he thinks the oxygen-depleting parasite Harvey Milk was a hero.)
Christopher Waldrop
October 29th, 2009 | LINK
And what exactly is your argument, Brennin? Harvey Milk stood up for equal rights, while Prejean has been a supporter of prejudice, in spite of being frequently incoherent. It appears the only reason NOM keeps using her is because she’s the best she’s got–which says a lot about the organization.
werdna
October 29th, 2009 | LINK
@Timothy-I’m not sure it’s really accurate or honest to keep trying to tie NOM to Prejean at this point. NOM have pretty publicly distanced themselves from Prejean–they’ve already “kicked her to the curb”–so why keep suggesting they’re secret pals or that NOM is secretly using her? As wrong as NOM is, you should at least give them credit for realizing that Prejean is an unstable mess who did them no good.
If you have some concrete evidence of their continuing to work together, let us know about it, otherwise, try to stay current and ease up on the unfounded innuendo…
Richard W. Fitch
October 29th, 2009 | LINK
Brennin: I can only wonder who here is delusional. Both the Gov. of CA and the US Pres. have honored Harvey Milk for his contributions to the gay civil rights movement. On the otherhand, Ms. Prejean as the pretty face of NOM would perpetuate unjust discrimination and if allowed institute an American fundamentalist theocracy. Carrie’s place in history is as artifical as her ‘enhancements’.
Frank
November 1st, 2009 | LINK
Maybe we’re going about this wrong. If we paid for Maggie Gallagher to get liposuction, a gastric band, and fake tits she might be able to get a life and stop bothering us.
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