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
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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.
News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric
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Timothy Kincaid
August 26th, 2010 | LINK
It’s worth noting that Molly’s “gay friends” consist of some guy who he knew through a theater crowd. Not exactly what you or I would call a “friend”.
L. Junius Brutus
August 26th, 2010 | LINK
Hell, the misrepresentation has spread to AFP: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iyxmjNLH6o69kaFrcez0tmc7V7cA
“In Uganda, a drastic anti-gay bill has been met with criticism from Western states and rights group, notably for imposing the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” in cases of rape of a minor by a person of the same sex, or where one partner has HIV.”
justsearching
August 26th, 2010 | LINK
I can’t stand this self-designated “freedom philosopher” (whatever the hell that means in this context). It’s odd in the video that in one moment he can do be a condescending “OMG i like cock, am i like going to hell?” impersonation of this supposed “friend” and thirty seconds later act as if this individual and he had an intimate, emotional moment together as they both contemplated the fact that the gay guy was going burn in hell. I think the story is scripted bullshit.
justsearching
August 26th, 2010 | LINK
And Tim, you’re right, when one is such a brazen dick as this guy, acquaintances will have to do if you want be able to count any friends.
KZ
August 26th, 2010 | LINK
I’m betting the first time Mitchell told a homosexual s/he is going to hell, s/he just laughed in his face.
Hasselback supporting marriage equality, Coulter speaking at a GOProud event, Glenn Beck shrugging his shoulders at the Prop 8 decision… it’ll be interesting watching LaBarbera and the rest of the virulently anti-gay crowd become even more ‘wackadoodle-ish.’
Scott
August 26th, 2010 | LINK
Oddly I was out in front of a bar a few weeks ago and somebody passing told me (in all seriousness) “you know you’re going to hell right”?
I just said “yep, see you there”.
He didn’t quite know what to say.
Rev Ray neal
August 27th, 2010 | LINK
These extreme fundamentalist Christians actually do believe what they say. It’s been so ingrained into them by others that they fail to think about what they are saying or how it sounds to others. Actually when one really reads what Jesus is recorded as saying this kind of crap isn’t defensible. Most of Jesus’ warnings were for the fundamentalist Bible interpreters of his day…and our modern day Bible fundamentalists sound an awful lot like the ancient Sadducees, Pharisees, Levites, and Priests that Jesus had to contend with. Or doesn’t anyone else notice this?
Mike
August 27th, 2010 | LINK
I noticed he’s now taken to wearing long sleeve shirts in his videos to hide his tattoos, which will result in Mollsy burning hell (well, at least according to his bible).
Mihangel apYrs
August 27th, 2010 | LINK
I often wonder how these people avoid having their noses smeared across their faces. Or are they only loudmouthed in the safety of a studio?
L. Junius Brutus
August 27th, 2010 | LINK
Most gay people also don’t know how to argue with fundamentalists. They have “answers” for the most popular objections to their conduct. For example, why they do not oppose eating shellfish. That’s because the “ceremonial” law was repealed.
It is far better to talk about divorce. When asked why they exhibit such extreme animosity toward homosexuality, while (almost) none toward divorce, they can only muster a weak: “Well, that’s because divorced people aren’t forming lobbies to influence public policy and demand acceptance.” To which you will say: “That is because divorce *is* accepted, and divorced people aren’t targeted, assaulted and/or murdered, discriminated against and disadvantaged the way gay people are. Moreover, is the ferocity of your resistance to ‘sin’ really determined by the actions of the ‘sinful’?” This exposes them as hypocrites, because they can’t rely on the intellectual consistency that remain intact with the shellfish-argument.
Maurice Lacunza
August 27th, 2010 | LINK
I watched that dispicable clip by Ilumanati Pictures. He said that it is God’s Word that gays be put to death. He challenged the viewer to show him in God’s Word if he was wrong. Well, I looked; and this is what I found:
First, I am quoting from gotquestions.org:
“The Old Testament law is a unit (James 2:10). Either all of it applies, or none of it applies. If Christ fulfilled some it, such as the sacrificial system, He fulfilled all of it.”
Second, from the man Jesus who is the Christian’s God:
Matthew 22:37–40 (NIV)
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Timothy Kincaid
August 27th, 2010 | LINK
“It is far better to talk about divorce.”
Perhaps, perhaps not. Some will tell you, “oh i do oppose divorce”. A better choice might be to ask them about usury.
The Bible – old and new testaments – condemns usury in the harshest terms. It even defines usury as being as little as 1% interest. Evil evil evil. No excuses, go-to-hell kinda sin.
Yet I don’t know a social conservative with neither a credit card, car loan, nor mortgage.
L. Junius Brutus
August 27th, 2010 | LINK
“Perhaps, perhaps not. Some will tell you, “oh i do oppose divorce”.”
Well, then it is fair to ask why they aren’t doing anything to make divorce illegal, or why their church doesn’t bar people who have been divorced from membership, or why they don’t seek to “reform” divorcees by getting them back to their original partners, or why they aren’t as vocal about divorce, or why they don’t do a host of other things that they do to gay people. Of course, the fact that they claim that homosexuality and divorce are both “sins” shows how hypocritical and intellectually inconsistent they are in treating these two cases so differently, even though MANY MORE people are divorced.
“A better choice might be to ask them about usury.”
Interesting. I’ll try that some time.
Maurice Lacunza
August 27th, 2010 | LINK
Don’t forget that trimmed beards, eating shellfish and having tattoos are also sins punishable by death or dismemberment. These Christians aren’t really worried about the LAW; they are justifying their bigotry.
steven
August 28th, 2010 | LINK
Typical of this country. Does any one remember Idi Amin and ‘his’ genocide.
Priya Lynn
August 28th, 2010 | LINK
Junius said “They have “answers” for the most popular objections to their conduct. For example, why they do not oppose eating shellfish. That’s because the “ceremonial” law was repealed.”.
Then I ask them where in the bible it sasy the “ceremonial law was repealed. Then they try and go into an abstract argument about how even though it doesn’t say it was repealed it actually was. That’s when I hit them up with Jesus saying “Its easier for heaven and earth to pass than for one jot or tittle of the law to fail. At that point they have no response other than to rather childishly claim the bible doesn’t mean what it says.
Mykelb
August 29th, 2010 | LINK
I tell people like Molly to keep their religiously based bias to themselves and that they are no friend of mine. I emphatically refute their hogwash with the backup of the AMA, APA, and science.
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