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French President Hollande Signs Marriage Bill
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Fox News Ignores Marriage Equality Wins
The Era of Civil Unions Is Coming To An End
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France's Marriage Equality Bill Clears Final Hurdle
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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.
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
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney, during a campaign stop in Colorado, reaffirmed his stance on same-sex marriage:
Michael C
May 9th, 2012 | LINK
Has Mitt elaborated on how Civil Unions and Marriage should differ? What gets withheld from “marriage lite”?
Bernie
May 9th, 2012 | LINK
The reps in CO have been trumped by the Governor. I called the governor’s office this afternoon. Hickenlooper has announced that he is call for special legislation to have all the bills heard.
My take is he is trying to keep his promise to the LGBT community here. Here’s the announcement from a local station.http://www.krdo.com/news/31037396/detail.html
DN
May 9th, 2012 | LINK
I’d like to ask Mitt to enumerate exactly *which* “other” benefits are not appropriate?
For example, is it appropriate to tax a gay widower into the ground as he “inherits” the home he and his now-deceased spouse built together?
Is it appropriate to tax the gay widower’s “inheritence” as he is not the spouse of the deceased?
Is it appropriate to withhold Social Security payments from gay widowers?
Pray, Mitt, tell us exactly which benefits you want believe should be withheld from grieving f—-ts.
Because, I promise you, marriage benefits are great while both people are alive. But they’re *NECESSARY* when one of us dies.
cowboy
May 9th, 2012 | LINK
There is some discord in Mormon circles about gay equality. So I thought (as long-shot) a Steve Young-type Mormon would be able to soften Romney’s rhetoric on gay marriage. You would think somewhere in the vast Romney clan there would be someone gay and show how it’s not about bad parenting but just some of us come naturally as gay.
But, alas, Romney is pandering to AFA-types. Just for the votes.
High-stakes politics can make some people do weird things. One takes nebulous actions to further his campaign and the other finally owns up to doing the honorable thing.
This is an historic day. One part of Obama’s legacy will now be forever etched (and not sketched) in the history books.
anteros
May 12th, 2012 | LINK
“I do not favor marriage between people of the same gender, and I do not favor civil unions if they are identical to marriage other than by name,” Romney said during a visit to Fort Lupton. “My view is the domestic partnership benefits, hospital visitation rights, and the like are appropriate but that the others are not.”
Wow. That sounds like an opinion from apartheid South Africa… shameless discrimination, willful ignorance, deciding what are appropriate limits for “others” in the enjoyment of their rights, disregarding all differing opinions/reasoning with more merit… dude could easily be a misogynist and or racist too… trying to make discrimination sound justifiable, like South Africa’s last white president recently sugar coating apartheid on CNN and feeling elevated enough to decide what qualified as fair treatment for black South Africans who he shockingly claims were not disenfranchised by apartheid… totally unacceptable, not just in 2012.
There are those who stubbornly refuse to evolve, and like my elderly neighbor discovered – holding on to discrimination while the rest of the world evolves has a high cost – I pitied him but he was more comfortable living in his own stale bubble of discrimination and he even attempted marketing it to others rather than moving on and living in the present.
May Romney and all others who are against equality suffer the kind of isolation and loneliness that would force them to evolve
anteros
May 12th, 2012 | LINK
“I do not favor marriage between people of the same gender, and I do not favor civil unions if they are identical to marriage other than by name,” Romney said during a visit to Fort Lupton. “My view is the domestic partnership benefits, hospital visitation rights, and the like are appropriate but that the others are not.”
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann…
Romney still feels that he’s entitled to decide how people should live their lives, and looks at the rest of us from an arrogant position of assumed privilege that comes at the expense of “others”.
…imagine the things presidents would do and actually do, knowing they can get away with it.
Richard Rush
May 12th, 2012 | LINK
So, is Romney saying, “In my view, pairs of gays cannot be civilized, and certainly not married, but they can probably be domesticated, which would include such benefits as going to the vet together, and the like. That would be appropriate.”
DenguyFL
May 12th, 2012 | LINK
So we can be forced to testify against our partners, cannot adopt (as of his latest position stated yesterday), get taxed unfairly in a variety of ways (income tax, inheritances tax, taxes on DP benefits ans plenty more), Be allowed to move with our partners that are in the military … how long do I have to go on with this list?
Mitt, please go through the list of 1138 federal benefits and let us know which ones are appropriate in your view. After you do that go through the benefits afforded married people by each state individually and let us know about those too. This will be a never-ending task for you since you will be taking literally thousands of positions that you will be forced to flip flop on when you hear from your overlords.
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