Exodus International Issues Apology, Hints At Further Developments Tonight
Ex-Gay Leader Sentenced For Criminal Sexual Assault of Male Clients
Andrew Comiskey Doesn't Believe In Apologies
Murkowski makes three
Massachusetts GOP Senate Candidate goes to Pride
The Daily Agenda for Wednesday, June 19
Another Exodus Conference Is Upon Us. Let's Review.
For Our Opponents: Talking to Your Kids About Same-Sex Marriage
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
Posts 
Posts via daily email:
luiz
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
David in Houston
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Perhaps the rainbow means that gays are the “chosen” people by God, to bring down the truly evil in this world who think they are doing God’s bidding, but are in fact working for Satan, such as Scott Lively.
…or Scott Lively is a completely insane religious nutjob, that goes out of this way to find any religious text to validate his chosen homophobia.
Tough choice.
cowboy
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Newsflash: Scott Lively is a nutcase. We have the proof.
So.. Why does he get so much attention? He should be purchasing a plane ticket to Uganda any day now? SPLC has certified him as a nut and people still send him money?
Put him right in front of the media and let him explain his implied wish: to make all gays invisible.
Nutcases shouldn’t have that much power.
Priya Lynn
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Lively said “In the space of just half a century this tiny [10%] of the population have made themselves a global political power with greater influence in the courtrooms and legislatures of the world than the Church of Jesus Christ.”.
That’s so far from reality its absurd – nothing wields more power in courtrooms and legislatures than christianity. I don’t know whether Lively is doing the standard lying when he says this, or if he actually thinks any trivial gain by gays is some massive dimunition of christianity’s influence.
His thinking the acceptance of gayness is a sign of the endtimes shows two things. He thinks his side has lost without supernatural assistance and he fantasizes about the total destruction of the earth as revenge for that loss.
Darina
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Poor heterosexual me, I feel so unchosen! Now was it God or Satan who didn’t chose me? I’m a little confused. :)
I only hope my country is too secular for this particular kind of madness if he decides to pay us a “tourist” visit… but on the other hand I’m afraid even secular homophobes can learn from him.
JimInMa
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
“When I was born homosexuality was illegal throughout the entire world.”
Ummm, yeah right.
Something not being apparent or acknowledged is NOT the same thing as being illegal.
That would make air illegal, because you don’t see it and don’t think of it every second of the day. You also can’t breathe without it.
iDavid
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
“In the space of just half a century this tiny [1-3%] of the population have made themselves a global political power with greater influence in the courtrooms and legislatures of the world than the Church of Jesus Christ.”.
Well heck. We ARE EVERYwhere. And the most primary focus when starting a public business? Location!-Location!-Location!
Gotta love the marketing ability of mother nature on this one.
TampaZeke
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Actually, I think he’s right. I think we ARE seeing the beginning of the end times for hateful, bigoted Christianity’s reign of terror. And not a moment too soon for my taste!
How ever you define “end times” one thing is certain. The world will be a better more peaceful place once the fundamentalist Christians are gone. If the fundamentalist Jews and Muslims follow shortly thereafter it will be heaven on earth!
iDavid
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Homosexuality was not “illegal when I was born” butt-f*cking was. Big difference.
homer
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Why should Christians be afraid of the End Times? If they are so convinced that they are going to heaven, you would think they would be happy about it. My guess- most of them know it is a crock of crapola.
Sammy
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
@ iDavid Google sodomy / homosexual acts law repeal and you’ll see that even if taken in that context Mr. Lively’s statement is false.
Ben in Atlanta
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
A late nineteenth century word does not and can not exist in the Bible.
Why do Paulists, who may very well have been gay himself, insist that homosexuality is a sin?
Lively seems content to stand in for the Father of Lies.
Let him.
Timothy (TRiG)
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Surely homosexuality was already legal in the Netherlands, Indonesia, and Thailand, at least?
TRiG.
Timothy Kincaid
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Yes, but…
The absolute control over the shared social conscience and standards of decency that once was the church’s to wield is gone. Now they are but one voice in the conversation and it is this loss of authority that frightens Lively and feeds his paranoia.
Rather than recognize that the church’s loss of societal authority is the result of their arrogant misuse of their power and failure to fulfill their role as advocate for the less fortunate, Lively looks for some other reason.
And God letting Satan use homosexuals to bring on the end times is as useful as any other “reason” which allows him not to look too closely at himself.
Joe In California
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Love all the rantings… It’s better than watching a Jerry Springer clip… Oh the entertainment!
Please let’s rid ourselves of DOMA and let up fly that rainbow flag even higher!
William
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
“When I was born homosexuality was illegal throughout the entire world.”
When Lively was born, there were plenty of countries where homosexual behaviour was not illegal, including France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Italy. I am amused, but not surprised, to see someone who claimed in one of his Ugandan discourses to know possibly more about homosexuality than anyone else in the world airing his appalling ignorance in this way. Not that anyone but a nincompoop would regard any assertion of Lively’s with anything other than severe scepticism.
Priya Lynn
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Timothy said “Yes, but…
The absolute control over the shared social conscience and standards of decency that once was the church’s to wield is gone. Now they are but one voice in the conversation and it is this loss of authority that frightens Lively and feeds his paranoia.”.
Yes, I suppose that must be a big deal to him to have seen in his lifetime christianity go from being the unchallenged authority to one that isn’t automatically assumed right.
eddieVroom
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Proof that God loves retards too…
Tone
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Is there anything that *isn’t* a sign to them? Woohoo the sun came up this morning! Get ready for the rapture!
They need to work up some new material.
BlackDog
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Wait a minute, this dude claimed, in effect, to know more about gayness than actual gay people??
This dude is just bizarre, I’m seriously wondering what the hell his malfunction is. Normal people do not obsess this much about other people’s sex lives.
KZ
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
This guy is a joke. A dangerous joke, but a joke nonetheless.
Blair Martin
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Here’s a sign! When I clicked on the links above to be taken to Lively’s site, Firefox’s add-on Web of Trust throws up a stern admonishment: “Warning! This site has a poor reputation.”
Pretty much sums it up for me!
iDavid
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
And then there is their ever maniacal rapture story, “meeting Jesus in the sky”. What they don’t realize is they have to die first. Then their stinky souls float up, Jesus lights a match. Boom. End Times.
Sammie,
I agree with you, I was thinking small this a.m. as in the U.S. Yes his statement is false no matter what.
WMDKitty
August 3rd, 2011 | LINK
Dude, to these guys, a sneeze is “a sign of the End Times”.
Candace
August 4th, 2011 | LINK
You know what I hope is about to end? Scott Lively’s hate-filled, pseudo “ministry.” btw, the Professors in my fundie university would have flunked him for his abysmally poor understanding of prophecy.
F Young
August 26th, 2011 | LINK
Do not underestimate Scott Lively. He is not stupid, nor a “nutcase” in the sense of being unable to reason. According to a bio he previouly published, he is a lawyer and a doctor in theology.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/01/05/antigay_pastor_refocuses_on_aiding_springfield/?page=full
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2009/summer/anti-gay-propaganda
For LGBT’s, he is a very dangerous man. Check out his book “The Pink Swastika.”
http://www.defendthefamily.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/
http://www.thepinkswastika.com/
Jim Burroway
August 26th, 2011 | LINK
Actually, we’ve been covering Scott Lively for quite some time, and are very well aware of his writings.
Leave A Comment