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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?
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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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The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths
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
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.
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Review: The Gay Report
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Daniel Fetty Doesn’t Count
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Posts via daily email:On Sept. 20, 2011, a date that will live in infamy, the U.S. armed forces were deliberately and successfully attacked by advocates of the scourge of homosexuality. The elimination of the last vestige of moral restraint on sexual perversion in the U.S. military, commonly known as the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, ushers in a new Orwellian era in which the military leadership of our nation will proclaim the unnatural as natural, the unhealthy as healthy and the immoral as moral.
Scott
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
Cool. I’ve never been called a scourge before.
Robert
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
Beware people who wrap themselves in unusual clothes and symbols compared to the general population. They are using costume aids trying to add validity to ideas thaw would not fly if said by the average person.
Christopher
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
As a citizen of Canada, I find this man insulting to me and all other world militaries that are not only gay-positive, but US allies.
Xenophobia, thy name is America, quickly on its way to being Margaret Atwood’s Republic of Gillead as found in her novel “The Handmaid’s Tale”.
All religion and no common sense.
How you have let these people usurp good government and determine social policy baffles us all.
Terry T
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
And I would pray that all Bigots have the karma they make with every hateful bigoted statement descend on them as soon as possible. FC Webster, the real DARK AGES were cause BY your religion.
iDavid
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
To the dim witted priest, your “God” promotes the bigotry you serve, why would you pray for it to protect anything? If “it” we’re real, gays would b struck by lightening in site. God is a mask: think Wizard of Oz.
Think, you tarnished sheepman.
codyj
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
just yet another ‘fundie’ who thinks HE IS RIGHT, his BLACK BOOK is RIGHT,and any one who as much as ‘questions’ his views, is goin to hell…hmmm -age and senility go hand in hand…and i whole heartedly AGREE with CHRISTOPHER from Canada…he said it best
PC
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
Why do people even listen to religious leaders anymore? They are so consistently wrong – much worse than weather forecasters. It’s just mind boggling sometimes.
Timothy (TRiG)
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
And I thought military chaplains were specially trained to support everyone, not just those who share their religion? I understand this windbag is retired, but you’d think he’d remember some of the things he’d learned.
TRiG.
Richard Rush
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
That guy is so much more than a priest.
Is Drama-Queen a recognized title in the Catholic Church?
CPT_Doom
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
So all sexual activity by straight troops, no matter how kinky, is ok? Somehow I doubt that was his point.
Kate
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
Othodox what? Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox are valid “Orthodox” denominations of the Catholic Church. Unless those sneaky heretic Protestants done come up wif they own “Orthodox”, the only other “Orthodox” religious group I’m aware of is Jewish. What flavor of “Orthodox” bullshit is he selling?
Jim Burroway
September 23rd, 2011 | LINK
All Orthodox Christians are part of the Orthodox Church (and are emphatically not a part of the Roman Catholic Church). Russian, Greek, etc. are simply nationalities of Christian Orthodoxy, each with their own national hierarchies, but all are nominally under the Archbishop of Constantinople. Specifically, Webster is a member of the Orthodox Church of America.
Hunter
September 24th, 2011 | LINK
It’s at the point where my only reaction to stuff like this is “Yawn.”
And so what else is new?
Darina
September 24th, 2011 | LINK
Kate, the Orthodox Church is the traditional church here in Bulgaria (we used to be in the sphere of influence of Byzantium), and it is not the same as the Catholic Church. The two churches split up as early as 1054: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism
Ben In Oakland
September 24th, 2011 | LINK
“And when he had made a SCOURGE of small cords, he drove them all out of the Temple.”
from Jesus and the Moneylenders.
It’s almost enough to make me wish I believed in the second coming, just so I could grab some popcorn and watch The Founder separate the sheep from the goats.
Or in this case, ” Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
TomTallis
September 24th, 2011 | LINK
A new “dark age?” One would think that a priest would desperately want to return to one…
Jerry
September 25th, 2011 | LINK
the Dark Ages began when that fool Constantine made this crazy fantasy cult the state religion. The world has spent 1600 years working to get the yoke off our necks.
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