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.
News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric
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David Roberts
April 4th, 2011 | LINK
One can only hope Guisti doesn’t procreate.
Timothy Kincaid
April 4th, 2011 | LINK
Well that is surprising. Seven a.m.? I can’t imagine working up that much anger that early in the day.
Regan DuCasse
April 4th, 2011 | LINK
How come our side has all the proof in the world of being threatened with all manner of things, not least of which is things like custody of each other and the children in a crisis?
Acute threats like this are proven by way of how much street violence there has been against gays and lesbians.
And although our opposition SAYS they get threats, they can’t come up with any evidence of it, nor attribute it to GAY people necessarily.
In a court of law, there has been no evidence that gay people threaten ANYTHING.
What will be done with THIS evidence of threats against gay folks?
Erin
April 4th, 2011 | LINK
Hey, why don’t we do what NOM and FRC does and send this to the media and put it on pro-gay propaganda sites, and paint them all with a broad brush like they do to us when an LGBT person or ally lashes out at a homphobe?
Julian Morrison
April 4th, 2011 | LINK
Got to love how “god” is basically this dude’s sockpuppet.
Richard Rush
April 4th, 2011 | LINK
When harassment, persecution, bullying, intimidation, threats, or terror occur in America, much more often than not, it comes wrapped in holy-book quotes, not the rainbow flag.
Tone
April 4th, 2011 | LINK
Well I didn’t listen to the whole clip. I saw no need to subject myself to any more than the first few seconds. I made a promise to myself that in 2011 I would not listen to crazy people.
Tony P
April 4th, 2011 | LINK
Sheesh, you’d think he’d have heard of a SkypeOut only account.
It transmits (012) 345-6789 as the CLID.
Lindoro Almaviva
April 4th, 2011 | LINK
I propose every time NOM or anyone of their ilk starts complaining about religious bigotry we play this and make sure we post it right on their sites.
dave
April 5th, 2011 | LINK
This is what religion does to people.
john dixon
April 5th, 2011 | LINK
Wow, Looks like someone forgot to take his meeds that morning. And buddy you are going to have to realize that the bible was written by “Man” not god. Some of the things that were written n them days may have suited “Mans” needs and don’t forget there are allot of reasons why the churches added and deleted passages to the bible. And also the bible was has many things in it if we are to take it literally, this world would be half populated because of so many crimes against God. I love these self ordained bedroom preachers.
BlackDog
April 5th, 2011 | LINK
That guy looks creepy.
Lincoln Dem
April 5th, 2011 | LINK
That fellow is sure to encounter certain non-procreative attention from the other inmates. Hopefully then he will learn to keep his mouth shut.
Kentucky Mikie
April 5th, 2011 | LINK
In response to Lincoln Dem… The remainder of this comment is in violation of our comments policy and has been deleted. Expressions of approval of violence are prohibited. –JB
werdna
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
Prison rape isn’t funny.
enough already
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
No, werdna, prison rape isn’t funny.
Neither is threatening democratically elected law makers.
Some knee-jerk, politically correct, double-plus righteous people have no sense of perspective and no sense of humor.
At all.
werdna
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
enough already-
I’m not defending Guisti in any way. I think that it’s entirely appropriate that he is jailed for his threats.
However I also find the all too common tendency of some (particularly in the US) to joke about sexual violence in prison entirely distasteful. The fact that sexual violence is endemic in US prisons is a source of shame for our country. I feel no glee imagining even the most despicable homophobe being raped. And of course, it’s not older, straight guys like Guisti who are most likely to be victims, it’s trans-folks, it’s gay or bi men, it’s juveniles housed in adult populations… That’s the perspective that I think is relevant here. You are free to laugh it up if you prefer.
Priya Lynn
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
I’m with you Werdna. Its extremely disappointing that so many people take delight in the thought that criminals may be raped in prison, prison is the punishment, rape isn’t supposed to be part of it. Perhaps half of prison inmates are there for non-violent victimless drug offenses, not only shouldn’t they be in prison, the most certainly shouldn’t be raped yet people like those above are all too willing to look the other way and allow not just criminals but innocent people to be raped as well.
Guisti deserves jailtime, but two wrongs don’t make a right, no prisoner deserves to be raped. People who take delight in such thoughts lean towards criminality themselves.
Priya Lynn
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
Also, while Guisti threatened the plantiffs with eternal torture, that’s no different than what a lot of preachers and anti-gays do everyday and most people here would vehemently insist they not be punished for that.
Jim Burroway
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
I have edited Mike Kentucky’s comment. Approval of violence is against our comments policy. My apologies for not catching this sooner.
Paul J. Stein
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
Praise The Lord!
enough already
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
Ah, yes, the humorless PC police have arrived on the scene.
Sigh.
I don’t approve of physical violence, either, so don’t try to shove me into that position.
In fact, the overdrawn reaction (“You are free to laugh it up if you prefer.”) is just as un-politically correct as my noting the humor of the original comment.
But that was not acknowledged nor will it be…there’ll just be another round of “evil white cis-gendered gay male” dared to get uppity and permit himself an opinion.
Speaking strictly for myself, I have no problem whatsoever with seeing those Christians who hate us receive exactly those punishments which they would like to see done to us.
Priya Lynn
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
“Enough” said “I don’t approve of physical violence, either, so don’t try to shove me into that position…[I'm]noting the humor of the original comment.”
Finding that comment humorous isn’t far off from approving of that kind of violence, its certainly not disapproving of it. Saying its humorous is to trivialize the concern, to literally call the concern laughable. There’s nothing humorous about rape.
“Enough” said “Speaking strictly for myself, I have no problem whatsoever with seeing those Christians who hate us receive exactly those punishments which they would like to see done to us.”.
I on the other hand have a very big problem with that. Many such Christians would happily see me eternally tortured, a punishement that greatly exceeds any conceivable crime, a punishment I would never wish on anyone. When you say you’d have no problem with that, you have become the monster you condemn.
enough already
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
Yup, just like I said.
Priya Lynn,
Nobody who has read even one of your exchanges with a cis-gendered white gay here can have the least bit of doubt as to the depths of your disdain for us.
So give it a break, huh? Your exploitation of this matter to gain brownie points is so made up, only another double-plus political correctness cop would believe your crocodile tears.
And yes, now that you mention it, I do wish upon those Christians who hate us exactly all the things which they want for us.
enough already
April 6th, 2011 | LINK
Honesty!
That’s the first time you’ve every actually spoken to me from your heart instead of this artificial, politically correct tone of poorly concealed disgust. I can’t abide you either.
And yes, it was funny. Something can be recognized as funny without being encouraged.
Unless, of course, one is trés PC.
As for those Christians who hate us, why pretend? I am constrained by the limitations of this blog’s rules in expressing myself fully, but it is absolute truth that the depth and breadth of my fury, the passion of my just anger, the raging desire I feel to see them experience what they wish upon us was born the day they first tied me up and used their psychological torture methods on me to try to break my will.
They failed in that. But they brought forth an implacable enemy.
Some of us have good reason to bear those Christians who hate us no good will. If you want to make this into a dog fight, be my guest. Personally, now that we’ve both made our positions clear, I suggest you ignore me in future and I shall ignore you.
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