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
The Daily Agenda for Wednesday, May 22
House of Commons officially passes marriage equality
British Commons Approves Marriage Equality Bill
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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Ben in Atlanta
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
And we see once again what cowards haters are.
Punk!
BlackDog
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
This guy is a bitch, pure and simple.
He seems a bit um…pretty, too. I was expecting someone a bit more…masculine? I guess. Not only that, but the first time I ever saw his name, I thought “Bradlee Dean” must be a girl. Every other GUY I’ve ever known or even heard of with that name spells it “Bradley” and I knew a girl named “Bradlee” in Catholic school in California. I only remember her because of the unique name.
Why do all the really, really anti-gay ones end up making you wonder if they’re really secretly gay? They can’t ALL be like that, can they?
Ben In Oakland
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
I’m beginning tohave my suspicions, BD.
Hyhybt
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
Possible Newt Gingrich influence? Anyone who quotes what I said is lying?
Priya Lynn
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
That was a good one Hyhybt.
Bernie
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
Coward! I can’t wait till he makes himself look like an ass in court.
BlackDog
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
He’s already making himself look like an ass by filing what’s obviously a frivolous lawsuit. With any luck he may get fined for wasting the court’s time…all she did was show HIM saying exactly what he said. How exactly is that actionable? If YOU said it, and you are known to have said it, and someone quotes you or shows a video of you or both…YOU still are responsible for having shot your mouth off and said dumb shit.
BlackDog
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
@ Ben in Oakland: It seems like a statistical impossibility, yet the evidence keeps piling up…
elaygee
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
This hitler in waiting can wait a little longer because good people like Rachel Maddow shine the disinfecting light of day on them.
Tim Stewart
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
Did anybody miss Jones’ statement of “fact” that children are being taught “fisting” in elementary schools?
Tone
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
That voice was enough to make me stop the clip about ten seconds in. That and I didn’t want to hear Ms. Dean whine about those damn liberals and their human rights and how they are so mean to bigots.
BlackDog
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
@ Tim: How do statements like that make any sense, even to them? In this day and age you’d think parents would complain…
And in this litigious and politically correct day and age, I’ve heard of and seen schools (especially ELEMENTARY schools) go out of their way to be so inoffensive I’m surprised anything gets taught…oh wait a minute…often much of substance doesn’t…for just that reason.
So how does that work exactly, since notes and permission slips get sent home for much more innocuous things than that and there’s an opt-out for almost everything?
Oh wait, these assholes won’t be satisfied until schools teach kids about religion…theirs only…and there IS no opt-out for that. Oh…wait…that would be illegal.
That’s probably their real problem.
Timothy Kincaid
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
BlackDog,
In May 2000, there was a conference in Massachusetts for sexual minority high schoolers. During a question session, one student asked “what’s fisting” and another student answered. The presenters clarified and corrected that student’s answer.
Ergo, it is a fact that children are being taught fisting in elementary school. Within a few more years it will probably be a “fact” that homosexual activists are teaching fisting and using child volunteers for illustration.
As long as they can squeeze some tiny crumb of basis for their bizarre accusations, then it really isn’t lying, you see.
Stefan
July 28th, 2011 | LINK
The Born Again Christian movement is a complete joke, and this is an example of such.
Ryan
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
I think every gay man in American should be able to sue this tool for saying that we “on average” molest 117 children each before we’re caught.
Hyhybt
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
Anybody else here proud, then, to be far below average?
Rebecca Ashling
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
Assuming that gay men make up, at a conservative estimate, 1% of the US population, then Mr Dean is implying that 351 million children are molested before their abusers are caught. The population of of the USA is some 300 million. The conclusion? Simple arithmetic is beyond Mr Dean’s intellectual capacity. He is stupid as well as bigoted. Extremely stupid.
BlackDog
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
@ Tim K.
Well then, as a kid who spent a couple years in Catholic school, I’m quite sure I was “taught” a lot of things by my fellow students that we’d of gotten in hella big trouble for if any of the nuns or teachers would of found out.
By the standard of “fact” that they’re using, I was “taught” that sometimes girls like girls, I was “taught” how to properly smoke a cigarette, and I was “taught” a lot of street smarts and stuff like that. I had my first little girlfriend, got into (and won) my first fight, and a lot of other stuff like that.
All of this “teaching” came from other students, the actual teachers taught the things they were supposed to, like facts about history and math and science.
All of this in a school that required specifically sectarian prayers to God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit and that was just how you started off the day.
Christian schools…and in my opinion Christianity…have fallen kinda far since.
Lymis
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
“Mr Dean is implying that 351 million children are molested before their abusers are caught. The population of of the USA is some 300 million. The conclusion? Simple arithmetic is beyond Mr Dean’s intellectual capacity.”
That would assume each child is only abused by a single gay predator. You’re not allowing for overlap. Or slave camps. Or something.
Donny D.
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
Wow, this Bradlee Dean creep says some really hateful, ugly, irrational stuff.
If the suit isn’t tossed out of the system quickly, I hope Rachel Maddow countersues and wins big bucks from him, or otherwise wins brutally punitive damages.
Donny D.
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
Part of why I said what I did above is that I don’t believe that people should be able to intimidate anyone by suing them for making reference to plaintiff’s easily accessible public statements.
Ryan
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
Well, in America you can sue anyone for any reason. I don’t see this getting far, though. I’m sure it’s just a PR stunt by this creep, anyway.
Timothy Kincaid
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
BlackDog,
ah for the good ol’ days… sigh
Blair Martin
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
Ummm… this radio/tv host – what part of stupid is he? He makes repeated remarks about people just can’t say what they like yet he dropped that totally ridiculous and unsubstantiated claim about 7 year olds and fisting? As for Bradlee Dean and his *cough* “buddy” (oh there is a lot of denial in those two…) what a load of pathetic nonsense, especially demanding that should they win this case that they get to tell the court HOW that money is to be paid and then along with the ex drug experimenter jock (*thinks* was Jabba the Hutt a jock in his younger days?) denounce Maddow and MSNBC as “arrogant”! Please…. oh, and tell a mere foreigner, how much reach does someone like this Alex Jones have? In our country if anyone made that sort of claim (the fisting one) on air, they’d be off air before they’d finished their shift. (I gotta read this “First Amendment” of yours…)
WMDKitty
July 29th, 2011 | LINK
@Black Dog — Oh, yeah. He’s a pretty boy, all right. Such a pity, too!
Donny D.
July 31st, 2011 | LINK
Maybe he was when he was younger with that beautiful long hair. His porky late youth/early middle age face doesn’t do much for me.
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