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Church of Scotland allows ministers in relationship
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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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penguinsaur
February 6th, 2010 | LINK
They’ll fly people to Africa to tell government ministers and huge crowds gays are evil sinners who want to rape your children. But opposing gays being jailed isn’t given any more effort than a press release and interviews with blogs.
Kevin Andrews
February 6th, 2010 | LINK
Coe and his minions are not likely to make any type of anti-hate comment. These Cults of Jesus Inc are entirely dependent upon the demonization and vilification of “the other” to keep pumping money and mindless sheep into their flocks.
That we have the likes of Inhoffe, Grassley, Edwards and Sanford within this fold is enough to mount an investigation for high crimes and treason. That Inhoffe would and has traveled to Uganda to endorse the kind of hate and fear-mongering spewed by the Cults of Jesus Inc and endorse the likes of Scott Lively who bills himself as “America’s number one expert on homosexuality” and is identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center speaks volumes to the real intent of this “Fellowship, the C-Street Family.
TAX THE CHURCH.
Jeff Sharlete’s book “The Family” is just the tip of the iceberg of this Cult of Jesus and it’s politics, manipulation and hate mongering around the globe to feed their flocks of ignorant hate and fear mongers.
Mykelb
February 6th, 2010 | LINK
I take what these treachorous homophobes say with a grain of salt. They all need to be investigated by the CIA since they have engaged in international treaty breaking and held accountable for their treasonous actions.
Lynn David
February 7th, 2010 | LINK
Gotta keep hope alive.
It was sorta good to get Coe’s word down on this but I think the person that should have been saying those very same words was James Inhofe. The Oklahoma Senator elected on ‘god, guns and gays’ is the person most often mentioned in the Family/Fellowship to have taken Uganda under his wing. Though it appears that Inhofe was not at that October Ugandan prayer breakfast when Bahati uncovered his bill. Sharlet on Maddow’s show had earlier said he may have been, but told me over at Throckmorton’s that he was not. Even so, I can imagine Inhofe commmiserating with an early Fellowship associate like Bahati about the US no longer having sodomy laws.
However, Sharlet did say that several members of the Fellowship from America had expressed disapproval of the bill as early as that prayer breakfast (or possibly before?). Oddly, enough Bahati believes the opposite. Sharlet quoted him as saying, “I don’t know the reasons why he’s saying he told me that when he didn’t tell me that unless he says he’s telling me now.” Sharlet’s thought are that the Family member may have thought about his objections to the bill at the time but not have voiced an objection until later. Thus remembering their objections all along.
Further Sharlet had this to say about Bob Hunter’s objection:
I guess sometimes it pays to raise your voice and have a little eye twitch going to really get your objections across.
David Blakeselee
February 7th, 2010 | LINK
Lynn David,
It is important in such communication to match the emotion and the content…people overwhelmingly interpret body language over content…
In therapy, it has been established several times, that a neutral therapist is often viewed as endorsing the client’s insights and assertions.
I would opt for running around the room with my hair on fire…throwing a few “WTF” around.
Wayne Besen
February 8th, 2010 | LINK
Until Coe gets off his a** and films a Warren-like video, than he supports the bill 100-percent, as far as I’m concerned.
It is great that Warren T. asked and he should be commended. But, Warren is not the New York Times, ABC News or even YouTube.
We need a clear public statement and genuine transparency. Not a clandestine back-room conversation that allegedly took place. A private assurance is essentially meaningless and will do little to thwart the bill in Uganda.
Heck, even Obama and Clinton made a public statement. Is Mr. Coe so self-important and his ego so enormous, that he thinks he’s better than the President and Secretary of State?
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