The Daily Agenda for Friday, May 24
Boy Scouts of America Votes To Allow Gay Members, Retains Ban On Gay Leaders
Nevada House votes to reverse marriage ban
The Daily Agenda for Thursday, May 23
It's Not the Principle, It's the Prejudice
Congratulations Mitch!
Gay Couples Excluded from Immigration Bill Markup
How To Spot A Swivel-Eyed Loon
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.
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AJD
June 28th, 2010 | LINK
They’ve always hinted at it, from Maggie’s recent “We’re here, and we’re not queer” “joke” to the inclusion of Orson Scott Card on the board of directors.
Ben in Oakland
June 28th, 2010 | LINK
Timothy, I think this is WONDERFUL news. But that may just be me.
One of the very obvious things from the trial was the absolute lameness of what the anti-gays (and we all know that they are. WE don’t have to pretend!) had to say. When they could no longer rely on fear mongering gays-are-gonna-get-your-children innuendo, and had to produce some actual evidence and logic, they couldn’t do it. They didn’t even bring in Stanley Kurtz at all, and only obliquely referred to his so-called “work” (De-institutionalization, a nice way of saying homobigotry is so die-hard that people would rather destroy heterosexual marriage than overcome it. doesn’t say much for them! It’s the “Unit Cohesion” argument of Family-based heterosexism.)
So, given the paucity of their actual authority, they have to find something “new” (I.e., new to them) to say. It’s the same old story– gay people are hateful and despicable and hedonistic-and anti-family anti-social and on and on and on. Dehumanize and make us an enemy of our VERY OWN VALUES. Which of course, according to them, we don’t have. Their dehumanization of us is as circular as their reasoning.
But it’s just got itself a new outfit on. Now we wish to destroy heterosexual marriage because are so un and antihuman that we don’t care about anything except our selfish desires. We don’t care what destruction we will wreak on the Sagrada Familia. Note the subtle change of tense: it is given that not only will it happen, but that we want it to and will enjoy it supremely– because we’re not really like them, you know?
They portray themselves as actual moderates in tune with mainstream America, and wishing only to preserve marriage and family. (We know that is horseshit!) By aligning themselves, as they appear to be doing, with the anti-gays (publicly, at least) they are moving away from that patently false portrayal. Maybe this is where they are not very clear with themselves.
However, cynic that I am, since Mags does not impress me as being any better than she should be, or recalcitrant around a buffet bar, metaphorical or otherwise, and since I am fairly certain Mags knows better, I suspect that the real reason for this is probably there is more money and power opportunity in being anti-gay than there is being pro-marriage, which can subsume the latter easily. It plays better with the base and with the men with the money bags.
Personally, I applaud their move. Honesty is NEVER to be discouraged.
johnathan
June 29th, 2010 | LINK
Hell, why don’t they just link up with Fred Phelps and make their intentions really known?
John Doucette
June 29th, 2010 | LINK
“#never trust activists of the homosexual agenda – they are deceitful people who care only about themselves and not what’s best for society!”
Look who’s calling the kettle black. These people have their own agenda and it has nothing to do with what is best for society.
Bruce Garrett
June 29th, 2010 | LINK
You have to figure one of the biggest reasons why they don’t want their donor lists disclosed isn’t that they’re protecting those donors, but that they don’t want everyone to see what parts of the American sewer their money is coming from. I’m still assuming that nearly all of it is coming from the Mormon Church, but if half the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate group list was in there too it wouldn’t surprise me.
cowboy
June 30th, 2010 | LINK
Though I haven’t seen the documentary: 8: The Mormon Proposition, there are discussions about the various points made in the movie. On pro-gay Mormon websites (yes, folks, there are some Mormons who are for gay equality) there has been discussion on how the Mormon Church secretly called upon their most favored (wealthy) Saints to contribute to the California Proposition 8 fund.
It was well publicized that WordPerfect co-founder Alan C. Ashton gave a matching million dollars to Proposition 8 while Bruce Bastian (the other founder of WordPerfect) gave a million bucks to counter the Proposition 8.
I’m not sure I’ll be surprised at who is on the list of donors that made gays unable to marry in California. Many Mormons would proudly wear that badge of honor.
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