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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
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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
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Review: The Gay Report
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Daniel Fetty Doesn’t Count
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elaygee
July 26th, 2011 | LINK
Bachmann is going to run out of TV stations she will talk to soon
Priya Lynn
July 26th, 2011 | LINK
For her to respond to the question about “exgay” “therapy” by saying her clinic deals with job creation is one of the most pathetic dodges I’ve ever heard.
Lost Choi
July 26th, 2011 | LINK
All this craziness in the Bachmann campaign could give a person a headache … oh wait, it already did! How are those migraines going, Michele?
Regan DuCasse
July 26th, 2011 | LINK
This just proves how reluctant the anti gay are when it comes to dealing with the press that isn’t fawning all over them and asks hard questions. If this is how they are going to react to hard questions on THIS subject, imagine how it’s going to be with serious world affairs and the challenges THAT is going to bring.
Pathetic dodges or complaining that the press is picking on them is weak and cowardly.
And our nation could never afford weak and cowardly leadership.
It’s quite apparent that putting one’s religious beliefs and affiliations in front as if a sufficient show of character is a bad move. Even THAT doesn’t imbue anyone with courage, smarts or virtue.
Hunter
July 26th, 2011 | LINK
It’s the Sharron Angle school of press relations — and we saw where that went.
Soren456
July 26th, 2011 | LINK
It’s the Sharron Angle school, for sure.
But I think it’s also something else less obvious but more obnoxious. It’s treating the press as if the press were just another interest group, like the Humane Society or Girl Scouts, and no more important than any other group.
If this is true (and I think it is), and if it develops, it signals a fundamental and negative change in political regard for the public right to know.
The unwritten but very real watchdog role of the press, all but abdicated by the press itself since the early 90s (or before), is perhaps the only bulwark the public has against the overweening greed and self-interest that characterize much of public service today, and which succeeds by not being exposed.
Just as the rabbis in New York yesterday displayed an ineffable arrogance toward representative American government, this growing new treatment of the press, and Bachmann and Angle themselves, suggest an hostility to public knowledge that is even more dangerous to the country than their election.
BlackDog
July 27th, 2011 | LINK
Public knowledge? I’d go a bit further and say that the Sharron Angles and Michelle Bachmanns of our political systen have a general hostility to knowledge, period.
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