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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?
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.
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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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Ben In Oakland
April 10th, 2012 | LINK
If I have time later to write, I’m going to. It has annoyed me terribly since I first read of it.
Quite aside from the obvious fact that their boycott of Starbucks received around 1/2 of a percent response amongst their dedicated , dessicated, and tawddle-pated as they might be base, when compared to the starbucks and gay supporters…
Quite apart from the assumption that shared religious condemnation of homosexuality translates into a shared mindset about gay people and the alleged “threat”– and it STILL does not make it right…
Quite apart from the assumption that people in these cultures care all that much about something that isn’t in their culture, and care so much that they would give up the only decent cup of coffe for fifty miles around…
Quite apart from all of that is the sheer meanness of it.
“Hey! I got an idea. Let’s go to some place that we think hates gay people as much as we do, and see if we can stir them up to hate gay people even some more.
“And there’s are 3 big bonuses for us in it. we always have plausible deniability– how were we to know they would take our message of love for homosexuals and turn it into violence and repression. Or: See what happens to the homosexual agenda when the righteous stand up against the perverts.
“Or in a pinch, we’ll always have “See??? at least were better than the Muslims and the godless Chinee.”
What amazes me, though is the people they are trying to sleep with. Do they really know so little of the world? Especially islam, as polygamy is quite common in Islamic countries, and NOM is all one-man-one-woman-anything-else-is evil. And are they not aware of the institution of Temporary Marriages– en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikah_mut‘ah– within Islam, marriages which are completely contractual for a specified length of time, and then the couple is not married any more? Basically, it’s a religious sanction of sexual immorality, very much like an annulment is for Catholics with biological children from theitr never-existent marriage.
In short, I think they WILL start looking like the fundelibangelist relgionistas that we have always known they were, however well they kept it beneath their cassocks. do they really think this is going to convince moderates, and not make them look REALLY bad?
Well, looks like i wrote it anyway.
Lindoro Almaviva
April 10th, 2012 | LINK
What we need to do is continue putting their name and corelate it to the worse elements in the taliban and comunists. Keep using their logo along with pictures of Bin ladden and let them have to defend themselves every step of the way
Richard Rush
April 10th, 2012 | LINK
Well, the good news in all of this is that the only reason NOM is going international is because the Dump Starbucks campaign has been a failure in the relatively civilized nations of the world. Thankfully, NOM is even sleazier than I ever imagined them to be. God must be horrified at who they are sleeping with now, or if He isn’t, He’s as sleazy as they are. I guess the thinking is, “if those people hate the homos, we have some serious common ground.”
Neil
April 10th, 2012 | LINK
NOM’s decision to advertise this boycott in China shows their ignorance. Homosexuality has gained rapid public acceptance in China since legalisation in the mid 90s. Their psychiatric association declassified homosexuality as a pathology in 2001 after doing studies similar to Evelyn Hooker’s. There’s no comparable morality campaigning in China as you see in countries with Abrahamic cultural baggage.
I’m so glad to see NOM wasting their money there.
TampaZeke
April 10th, 2012 | LINK
At what point is NOM going to cross the line with the Southern Poverty Law Center and rightfully be declared a Certified Hate Group? I would think that the recent string of evidence to that effect would have already garnered them the honor.
MCB
April 11th, 2012 | LINK
@Ben in Oakland:
Slight correction, polygamy makes up perhaps 1-3% of all Islamic marriages, so it’s hardly common. Most men can’t afford to have more than one wife.
But honestly, I think NOM would prefer even temporary marriages to expanding rights marriage here; at least it’s… what’s the term I first read here? Penis-in-vagina? This has never been about redefining marriage. It’s always been about hating people who are gay. (I know, stating the obvious…)
Snowball
April 11th, 2012 | LINK
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and the UAE are actually fairly liberal Islamic countries (as is Egypt) and most people won’t care or even notice the ads. I either know people in or have been to all of them. (I was stationed in Bahrain, ex-US Navy cook here) The only country I can think of where they might find some empathy would be Saudi Arabia but they’d never be able to run their stuff there, because they are a Christian group in all but name.
More to the point, sex is considered a very private matter over there, not something to be discussed in public most of the time. (This includes homosexuality which most of those countries are against but don’t notice/care if it’s kept in private) I’d be amazed if they even get on the air.
Not every country in the world is sex obsessed like the US.
Shofixti
April 11th, 2012 | LINK
Wait, what?
What does NOM mean by “genuinely inclusive attitude”?
Seems like they may have mistyped ‘genuinely discriminatory attitude’ to me.
Uki
April 11th, 2012 | LINK
The ministry of Religious Affair in my country (Indonesia) suddenly denouncing gay marriage, out of nowhere. Just suddenly came up. Now I know why he made those statements.
Indonesia quite moderate and progressive, and Starbucks also built their place nearby gay venues. So LGBT are their primary market.
But, society here is easily driven by rumors. So, let’s just hope nothing will happens here.
Hunter
April 11th, 2012 | LINK
Hmm — NOM, al Qaeda, and the Red Guard.
What do you suppose they have in common?
Lord_Byron
April 11th, 2012 | LINK
“If Howard Schultz and his insular Seattle liberals hear from enough of us, management will move to a more genuinely inclusive attitude toward its customers’ and partners’ diverse views on marriage.”
Umm, does NOM realize how bizarre and hypocritical their statement is?
Snowman
April 11th, 2012 | LINK
I’m used to bizarre things from the Anti-gay crowd. When you gotta make stuff up just to have bad things to say about somebody and you might really believe in your cause, chances are you waved goodbye to reality a long time ago.
cd
April 11th, 2012 | LINK
Political movements that are anti-Modernity eventually have to choose between morality, resulting in having to accept defeat, and getting enough anti-Modern allies together with no meaningful moral basis to stay politically effective.
In my experience morality always loses this argument. Which tells me that morality was never the fundamental motivation, whatever they may pretend to. Retaining a/the pre-Modern condition is, with its particular structure of social privilege.
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