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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.
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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.
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Dan
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
I had to stop the first video at about 3:50. It was just too twisted. I have read the Pink Swastika and have found it to be a laughable web of lies, but one that is highly appealing to those who wish to believe that gays are a dangerous societal threat.
Lively has also suggested the the two Columbine killers were ruthless homosexuals. This charge can be found on Youtube. In fact, both of the killers were straight, as their online diaries showed. Eric Harris had a girlfriend and Dylan Kleibhold bemoaned his lack of a girlfriend.
What really shocked me in this video though is his assertion, out of nowhere and based on nothing, that the Rwandan genocide was perpetrated by super-macho gays. As far as I know, Lively has never even attempted to study the Rwandan genocide and has not published on it. Yet he feels free to make a public charge like that. If there was any doubt about his mendacity, this puts it to rest.
In fact, the Rwandan genocide was an entirely hetero affair. There is not one known or suspected gay member of the Interhamwe and if there had been, he would have been killed. Virtually every adult Hutu male in Rwanda is a married family man, just like Scott Lively. Indeed, the 1994 genocide involved Hutu men and women at every level of society. Whole neighborhoods turned on their Tutsi neighbors. Catholic priests led Tutsi into churches and then betrayed them to the Interhamwe. If you want to get a sense as to how it went down, read “Left to Tell” by Immacule Ilibagiza. She lived it and has been working with the UN to help the country recover. Needless to say, her detailed account has not one word about killer supermacho gays or for that matter, any gays.
Since the 1994 genocide was committed by ruthless heterosexuals, using Lively’s logic, all heterosexuals are actual or potential Interhamwe. When do we start rounding them up?
Evan
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Considering his audience, the Rwanda lie turns my stomach.
Truth Wins Out
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Ladies and Gentlemen, Scott Lively…
Box Turtle Bulletin has just thrown down the gauntlet with their debut of three videos which expose Scott Lively’s talks in Uganda. Lively, of course, is one of the primary American Evangelicals responsible for encouraging the “Kill the Gay…
Lynn David
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Makes me glad I don’t have the bandwidth to view his bile. But keep up the good work, BTB!
anteros
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
YUCK!
Why would so many people sit and listen to such crap? …and then digest it as though it were true?? …and then sit down to formulate laws based on… unbelievable! This is the same guy who tried to wash his hands clean by saying it would be racist to suggest that Ugandan legislators are too dumb or just incapable of coming up with this bill on their own. Well, if some Ugandans could host and entertain this guy and his crap… suck it all in wholeheartedly… and then repeatedly quote him with pride when discussing the bill… then racism aside, dumb people are dumb people.
Jafuf
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
I don’t understand why you constantly give this closet queen a pulpit to rant on?! It’s almost as if you’re promoting his insanity. I had never even heard of this moron until I started reading this bulletin. I wish you would devote more time to important people and issues.
Warren Throckmorton
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Thanks to BTB and XGW for this video. We had reports that he blamed Rwanda on gays but this makes it undeniable.
anteros
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
I’m glad that BTB is exposing him. Many people, especially in Uganda, are not aware of the kind of lunatics who inspired the anti-gay bill’s creation and how they inspired it. His lies and insanity need to be exposed so that we all know what we’re dealing with… Ugandans like Langa have been refering to this guy as an expert… people need to see what kind of “expertise” he’s been feeding his Ugandan audiences and its effect.
Great job BTB!
Tom Murray
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Thank you for continuing the work you do to shed light on the hate spewed by these right wing nuts.
anteros
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Ugandan pastors were dumb enough to present that Pink Swastika book in an attempt to justify/defend the bill. How disgusting.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Scott Lively « Queer Hatred
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
[...] Turtle Bulletin has just thrown down the gauntlet with their debut of three videos which expose Scott Lively’s talks in Uganda. Lively, of course, is one of the primary American [...]
Joe
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Jim, Timothy,
you guys have both done excellent work covering the developments in Uganda. It has been so encouraging recently to see governments and major news outlets like the New York Times finally catching on and beginning to speak out. THANK YOU.
Thank you particularly for posting these videos. I needed to see them to be shocked into the reality of the total lies and distortions people like Scott Lively have been presenting to the Ugandans (and others as we have learned through your other reports on his speaking with the “Watchmen on the Walls” group). I confess that as years have passed since I personally heard lies and distortions like these coming from leaders in the ex-gay movement, I had forgotten just how twisted and extreme some of the things they say can be–or how unquestioningly accepting some audiences still are of these lies. Wow. I really needed to see this. Lively really takes the cake in these videos with his descriptions of gays as “the kind of people you’d need to operate gas chambers”. Wow.
Here’s hoping this video goes viral and gets picked up by more media outlets. I hope this, along with your other reporting on his “work”, leads to the eventual demise of his “ministry” and the spread of such malevolent lies. Great work on the video juxtaposing Lively’s statements with the actual facts. Through educating people with the TRUTH, may there one day never be an audience that would so blindly accept such a presentation.
Joe
David
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
I don’t know if there has been any violence as of yet because of this bill, but when and if there is, Mr Lively will have blood on his hands. The mind boggles at how he is able to say these things with a clear conscience. Thanks for the continued reporting, BTB.
Jean-Paul Bentham
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Historic footage. Scott Lively, remember that name.
BobbiCW
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Excellent report — thank you!
BILLOFTHEDESERT
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
This is unbelievably vile. We need to stand up to this threat. Many thousands will be victimized by this “movement” and lives will be lost, real people will die.
Uganda is a country that cannot afford to feed or employ its own people, yet it finds resources to pay for this? The West needs to monitor more closely how its aid is being spent.
And the U.S. in particular has a moral responsibility to rein in its religious crackpots who consider developing nations their playground. The Ugandan audience has obviously not been told that the ex-gay movement is not legitimate and that these views are not widely held in the United States.
David Batati is a politician on the move in the former home of Idi Amin. How quickly the world forgets.
David Blakeslee
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Excellent work Jim…
“He knows more than nearly anyone in the world on this topic.”
TheColu.mn » Blog Archive » The National: Anti-Trans Letterman Skit Insults Obama Appointee
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
[...] – Innocent, my ass! Scott Lively is caught on tape saying he dropped a “nuclear bomb” on the “gay agenda” when he spoke at an [...]
Hunter
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Write to the US State Dept. (address the letter to Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and send a copy to Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary – Bureau of African Affairs) and demand investigation into Scott Lively’s activities in Uganda. His efforts to promote violence against, and persecution of, people based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity are not limited to the present situation. The effort to foment a genocide against LGBTs is an ongoing global project, which he has been working on in Latvia, and Russia. He has been recruiting Russian evangelical Christians in Northern California for the effort as well. It is possible that he is breaking laws in the process. At the very least some of his foreign collaborators should be barred from the US as person who have engaged in persecution. Also write to the US Embassies in: Kampala, Uganda; Riga, Latvia, and Moscow, Russia, and demand investigation.
TampaZeke
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Scott Lively may be more dangerous in Uganda where this level of batshittery is swallowed hook line and sinker without hesitation but I honestly believe that, in America, he is much less dangerous than the Rick Warren’s and Joel Osteen, who sell their anti-gay poison in smaller doses and mixed with candy so that it doesn’t scream, “I’m a hateful extremist”, the way Lively does.
At least Lively is right up front about his hate. In this country, it’s the “kinder, gentler” bigot that we should be most fearful of.
Tina
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Hunter, I like your Do-Something-About-It approach!
Here’s my question: Is this something the State Dept would investigate?
Why?
I’m looking for some education on this. I’m sure there are actions we don’t take b/c we don’t realize that there is help available, or laws being broken.
Thanks!
Priya Lynn
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
You nailed it, Tampazeke
MikeinSF
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
This is exactly how genocides start. Demean and blame everything on a small minority.
Lively pulls an accusation out of his butt that gays were behind Nazism and uses a Nazi trick to get people to hate gays. Vile little circular argument.
Grant
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Another educational question: Does Amnesty International get involved with situations like this (pre-emptive calls to action before the law is passed), or do they only take action after such a law is enacted?
Scott Lively’s Unbridled Evil On Display | Asterisk
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
[...] sure Lively thought that was enough negative exposure for one week, but this morning Box Turtle Bulletin and Ex-Gay Watch sent shockwaves through the gay blogosphere, jointly releasing video of [...]
Matt Algren
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
I almost got physically sick this morning when I watched these videos. Thanks for putting them together and staying on this story.
Bill
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
All I can say is that heterosexuals should be thankful that LGTB citizens are a peaceful, gentle people.
Because they have no right to expect us to be for all they have done to us.
Because if we did to heterosexuals what they do to us, there would be no one left alive.
I often wonder what keeps LGTB citizens gentle and peaceful when we are abused so disgustingly on a daily basis. Perhaps heterosexuals could learn something from us in that regard, since they are, by and large, a very, very violent people.
All I know is that one day, humanity will weep at what they did to their very own LGTB offspring.
And if there truly IS a god, he already is.
Tina
January 6th, 2010 | LINK
Bill~ I hear ya!
Your last sentences reminded me of the Langston Hughes poem “I, Too, Sing America”
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed–
I, too, am America.
Scott Lively bragged that he had delivered a ‘nuclear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda « Coreys Views
January 7th, 2010 | LINK
[...] Burroway, at Box Turtle Bulletin, (1) who has done a considerably thorough amount of work chronicling the anti-gay events in Uganda, [...]
Vidéo: Le discours à l’origine de la loi homophobe en Ouganda | Yagg
January 7th, 2010 | LINK
[...] Box Turtle Bulletin (BTB), un site américain qui recense et analyse les actes d’homophobie, et Ex-Gay Watch, un autre blog d’infos gays, viennent de récupérer les vidéos du discours de Scott Lively, l’un des trois activistes évangélistes américains à s’être exprimés pendant la conférence anti-gay qui s’est tenue à Kampala, capitale de l’Ouganda, du 5 au 7 mars dernier. Le montage réalisé par BTB met en regard la rhétorique de Scott Lively et ses répercussions, et dénonce les contre-vérités du prédicateur. [...]
Heartland
January 7th, 2010 | LINK
Extremely important work. Serious props to BTB.
Heartland
January 7th, 2010 | LINK
PS: So, is Peter LaBarbera down with this guy?
CPL
January 7th, 2010 | LINK
One relatively minor complaint: I wish you would create these videos with no music. The music is, to put it plainly, manipulative. It makes the videos more like TV commercials than dead-serious information. Lively’s words are disturbing in their own right and should speak for themselves.
anteros
January 7th, 2010 | LINK
I think it comes down to personal preference. I didnt click on the links to the longer/unedited versions, did they also have music? If BTB’s versions of these videos weren’t edited, no music, just Lively live and raw… I dont think many of us would get through the first minute of any of those videos. These videos need to be watched by as many people as possible. While I can’t stand the way tele-evangelists use soppy piano and violin music to soften up their audiences, especially when asking viewers to generously sow partnerships/gifts/seeds… this is different. The music and comments give these video clips a more palatable documentary feel. Great job BTB!
Evan Hurst
January 7th, 2010 | LINK
I think it’s good that the compilation videos were done the way they are.
Not everybody has the stomach for wading through the unedited crazy.
Straight “Experts”: It’s ALL about YOU (except when it’s not) «
January 9th, 2010 | LINK
[...] on their blogs). Rachel picked it up from the always insightful (and hopefully inciteful) Box Turtle, and Box Turtle shares kudos with Ex-Gay Watch for the video [...]
Rich
January 9th, 2010 | LINK
TampaZeke I couldn’t agree more that “In this country, it’s the “kinder, gentler” bigot that we should be most fearful of.” However Lively seems to have found the perfect audience for himself in Uganda and from what I’ve heard in parts of Russia too.
Thanks Box Turtle Bulletin for wading through the muck and filth of such anti-gay bigots to help keep us informed. Everyone needs to hear what these anti-gay activists believe in their own words.
Rich
January 9th, 2010 | LINK
I do believe its very important for people to hear what people like Livey have to say since it exposes them for what they are. Its speeches like the one he gave in Uganda that I believe our Canadian hate speech laws were designed to attack, speeches like that have real world consequences and he is definitely inciting violence against LGBT folk. I’m a little conflicted on the whole hate speech issue since I believe in zero censorship and free speech however genocides start with words not violence, it takes speech to make people believe that others are sub-human and a threat to society that must be eliminated. Its a fine line to draw but I think Livey’s speech steps over the line in the context of Uganda at least.
Josh Thomas
January 10th, 2010 | LINK
I’m very impressed by your latest work concerning Scott Lively in Uganda, and have posted your first, “most important” video on my Episcopal Church prayer site.
Homophobes have tried to steal our members, parishes and whole dioceses in favor of Gay-hating Anglicans in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria and the United States, but we are resisting them. We have one openly-Gay bishop (New Hampshire) and have just elected our first Lesbian bishop as assistant in Los Angeles.
Doubtless I’ll get a few angry e-mails because of your video, but I have one reply: STFU.
Please accept my congratulations for providing proof of a murderous conspiracy among so-called Christians. And may Jesus have the last laugh. God loves us; that’s why we’re so gentle, smart and kind.
Just like you. Again, congrats on a very important scoop.
Douglas Foster: Black, Gay and Indisputably African « Akinola, Repudiate Anti-Gay Violence
January 10th, 2010 | LINK
[...] Chilling videos here of Scott Lively’s violence-inciting lies from Box Turtle [...]
Publicizing the Enemy « Leave it to Seaver
January 11th, 2010 | LINK
[...] More at Towleroad and original reporting at Box Turtle Bulletin [...]
Ugandans, American Evangelicals, & the Soft Bigotry of Liberal Expectations : Jenn Q. Public
January 11th, 2010 | LINK
[...] the Ugandan event was permeated by the unmistakable stench of hatred and bigotry. There is even video evidence of Scott Lively at the Ugandan conference describing gays as serial killers, child molesters, and [...]
Brad
January 12th, 2010 | LINK
Scott Lively (Scott Deadly?) is a very disturbed person. Anyone “protesting” so loudly is indeed trying to camouflage some very “dark” secrets. The real tragedy is the severe harm he is promulgating onto people who have not harmed him.
American activists involved in Uganda's kill the gays bill - Religion and Philosophy - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Atheism, God, Universe, Science, Spirituality, Faith, Evidence - City-Data Forum
January 12th, 2010 | LINK
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Truth Wins Out
January 15th, 2010 | LINK
Robert Knight Defends Scott Lively Against Mean New York Times…
I’m fighting the temptation to type out a bunch of exclamation points and various other characters, paste the hyperlink, and hit post.
But no, let’s look at this. Robert Knight of Coral Ridge Ministries, and former Concerned Woman for Amer…
Ugandan kill-the-gays bill part 13: Now it’s the imprison-the-gays-for-life bill » Being the Change I Wish to See
April 8th, 2010 | LINK
[...] msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyHere is the link to Box Turtle Bulletin with a lot more of Scott Lively’s videos. Lively equates gays to sociopaths, Nazis, mass murders, serial killers, and the cause of the [...]
Lively, Schmierer, and Brundidge: Hypocrites « National Association for Research & Therapy of Hypocrisy
May 23rd, 2010 | LINK
[...] that Uganda is trying to pass a hugely Draconian anti-gay bill. But based on this video from Box Turtle Bulletin of the anti-gay conference in Kampala, Uganda on March 5-7, 2009, I say Lively knew exactly what [...]
Ugandan Tabloid Headline: Hang Them! « Reality Bong
October 25th, 2010 | LINK
[...] Lively’s “nuclear bomb” on Uganda has exceeded all his hopes and dreams. Anti-gay witch-hunts and violence have [...]
What the anti-gay sociopaths have wrought |
January 12th, 2012 | LINK
[...] here. Public opinion has decisively turned against them. Make no mistake; if sociopaths like Scott Lively had the opportunity to put us and our allies to death in America, they would do so in a [...]
LGBT Struggles for Human Dignity and Equal Rights in Uganda « Fedcan Blog
March 14th, 2012 | LINK
[...] Lee Brundidge of International Healing Foundation, traveled to Uganda to speak at a seminar called Exposing the Homosexual Agenda. Remember, Uganda is a country where homosexuality is already illegal. Videos of Lively at the [...]
LGBT Struggles for Human Dignity and Equal Rights in Uganda « Kalendenator
March 19th, 2012 | LINK
[...] Brundidge of International Healing Foundation, traveled to Uganda to speak at a seminar called Exposing the Homosexual Agenda. Remember, Uganda is a country where homosexuality is already illegal. Videos of Lively at the [...]
GOP Congressman Key Speaker At ‘We Will Not Be Silenced By Faggots’ Tea Party Rally | The New Civil Rights Movement
April 16th, 2012 | LINK
[...] the Gays” movement in Uganda. In fact, he bragged in 2009 he’d detonated ”nuclear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda.” What he opened was a pandora’s box of hate that reverberated through the [...]
Why we must attend the SMUG v. Scott Lively Lawsuit in Court January 7, 2013 | O-blog-dee-o-blog-da
December 23rd, 2012 | LINK
[...] Lively bragged that he had created a “nuclear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda.” Oh, and don’t believe the rumors from the BBC or the AP or even Lively’s latest [...]
Anti-gay Pastor Scott Lively radio face off provides insight into lies | O-blog-dee-o-blog-da
January 13th, 2013 | LINK
[...] I was reminded of a comment I had seen from Jim Burroway a couple years back : ‘Is it any wonder Ugandans want to kill gay people?‘. Perhaps Jim was cherry picking too. But I doubt it. He had the full tapes. It is [...]
Anti-gay Pastor Scott Lively radio face off provides insight into lies | Daily Queer News
January 14th, 2013 | LINK
[...] from normalcy” I was reminded of a comment I had seen from Jim Burroway a couple years back : ‘Is it any wonder Ugandans want to kill gay people?‘. Perhaps Jim was cherry picking too. But I doubt it. He had the full tapes. It is the [...]
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