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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
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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
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Daniel Fetty Doesn’t Count
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Things are not going well for the good people of First New Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Houston. First their church building mysteriously burnt down and then there were some rather peculiar allegations against their pastor (Houston Chronicle)
Regan DuCasse
June 20th, 2010 | LINK
Oh, not just him. Every known anti gay commenter, which is half of them, over at TownHall would have a field day.
The pickin’s have been slim anyway. The won’t let the Jesse Dirkishing story go, and blame gay people for the lack of coverage compared to Matt S. Problem with that case is several reasons:
1. It involved a juvenile from a dysfunctional family. THEY didn’t cooperate with the media, and when kids are involved, members close to the case are gagged.
The biggest TownHall wag, Mike Adams (a criminologist prof no less). Went on about THIS case…
2. The case involving a Duke University assistant professor and his partner and the child they adopted.
Adams keeps repeating this story, as do those who comment on the thread, of course as if representative of what happens if ANY gay men are around children. And again, Adams inferred a conspiracy to cover up this case.
However, there was the inconvenient scandal of a Regent University (yes, the school founded by Pat Robertson) assist dean AND his wife, brutally sexually abusing their THREE adopted daughters. And it was only on the local news, but conviction occurred recently this year.
And nothing, nothing was reported in any conservative media that we know of.
Now, far be it from us, to suggest or infer that because heterosexuals abuse children (sometimes their own), and murder them too, that ALL heterosexuals should be carefully investigated, screened and educated on children before they become parents…let alone, MARRIED.
Right?
Far be it from anyone in the mainstream media to even suggest, that the reason crimes committed by gay people to the extent of such violence and abuse isn’t reported so much, is because it’s rare.
And far be it from anyone to suggest that heterosexuals committing it, isn’t covered enough, because there aren’t enough reporters to do it, it’s so extensive.
This is why I get so infuriated and frustrated at the very people making claims of ‘protecting children’ aren’t interested in ALL adults who are abusers.
They aren’t interested in profiling them, or engaging even CMEC (Center for Missing and Exploited Children) to know what the typical abuser is really like.
A so called criminologist like Mike Adams, did a HUGE disservice and was unethical to foster such bias in his reporting on who abuses children and in what way.
He was unworthy of his university teaching position, and no intelligent law enforcer could EVER consult with him or tap his expertise.
He has the mentality of a Jim Crow state sheriff. Convinced that all black men have unnatural sexual attraction to white women, and not any more restraint than a chimp and worked to assure the public that each black man was guilty, with no evidence, or due process.
A criminologist should concern themselves with the forensics (truth seeking) of a case, and personal opinions remain neutral as evidence warrants.
That guy is a nightmare for sex abuse profilers everywhere.
And in a former Jim Crow state like North Carolina…he’s maintaining and terrible legacy, only he’s smearing another minority to do it.
It might interest you all to know, that Essence magazine, a black woman’s fashion and culture mag, has twice in the last few years, had articles about black ministers who abuse the females in their congregations.
There have been some pretty potent scandals around mistresses and paying for luxuries for them.
Or who are physically abusive to their wives and children.
In a way, there is the power and material comfort that tempts seduction, either way.
And in a predominantly black neighborhood, the ‘man shortage’ exacerbates that.
Sorry this is so long, but this reminded me of stuff I’ve read about for years…and that straight folks got a lot of dirty laundry out on the line.
TampaZeke
June 20th, 2010 | LINK
Why would the little fact of their heterosexuality get in the way of LaBarbara blaming this on gay people or claiming that the culprits were, if fact, gay?
That wouldn’t be unusual for LaBarbara at all.
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