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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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TampaZeke
July 9th, 2013
Oh, sweet Jesus!
Michael
July 9th, 2013
Lawrence Welk must have been high when he approved that song. Poor thing. I can’t believe he didn’t know. . .
TomTallis
July 9th, 2013
Looks like Myron might have taken one toke too many.
jpeckjr
July 9th, 2013
Well, Jim, that was, um, certainly, um, you know, um, really, it was, um, over the line.
Will
July 9th, 2013
I think I need a toke now . . .
Timothy Kincaid
July 9th, 2013
Oh it’s a modern spiritual
Soren456
July 9th, 2013
Explain how you even know about this . . .
Kaleo
July 9th, 2013
That was pretty funny – thanks for sharing.
Richard Rush
July 9th, 2013
Oh, sweet Jesus! I can’t escape it! I grew up in a household where The Lawrence Welk Show was MUST SEE TV since it started in 1955 in black & white. My mother was still watching reruns in a nursing home until early this year.
I could reveal something else, but I would need to garner some courage first.
MattNYC
July 9th, 2013
They were talking about this on the Stephanie Miller show last week. I can’t remember the context, but the story is that Welk apparently had no idea. Or there may have been a story that this wasn’t the song they had originally planned to sing (I may be mixing my stories).
JCF
July 10th, 2013
I remember hearing this song as a child and not knowing what it meant—it sounded like Gospel Music to me! [Then again, I was not a producer for “The Lawrence Welk Show”]
jpeckjr
July 10th, 2013
You know, Jim, there seems to be quite an archive of Lawrence Welk clips on YouTube. Perhaps “You Weekly Welk” could be a new feature on Box Turtle Bulletin. Whaddyathink?
james
July 10th, 2013
@JCF. I still don’t really know what it means, but I knew as a child it wasn’t a Spiritual!
Albert McMeen
July 10th, 2013
The real video to watch is the new YouTube country-music sensation: All American Boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjiyjYCwNyY
Timothy Kincaid
July 10th, 2013
Richard, tell!
jerry
July 10th, 2013
@ jpeckjr…fie on you sir. Such a suggestion. I’m an old man I can’t possibly scrub my brain once a week to rid it of this garbage.
Richard Rush
July 10th, 2013
jpeckjr,
NOOOOOoOOOOooOOOoooOOooooOooooo!!!
homer
July 10th, 2013
1). My grandmother refused to believe Welk had died because he was on PBS every Saturday.
2). My mother watches every Saturday.
3). I was always jealous of the singers’ kids on the Christmas show because they got to open cool presents at the end of the show.
Priya Lynn
July 10th, 2013
“@JCF. I still don’t really know what it means, but I knew as a child it wasn’t a Spiritual!”.
It means you’ve had the one additional puff of marijuana that was needed to get high.
james
July 10th, 2013
@Priya Lynn. The one toke over the line part I understand. Yes, I have heard that some people actually smoke marijuana to get high.
It’s the whole downtown railway station / waiting for the train that goes home / who do you love part I really can’t figure out unless it is just the ravings of someone who is too high to make any sense.
No, wait, given the time this was made, it’s about a totally messed up soldier returning from Vietnam waiting for the train that takes him to his hometown hoping that the girl he left behind still loves him.
But I am pretty sure it’s not about two sweet-faced, strangely dressed, people sitting on the steps to a tree house in the backyard talking about Jesus and his mother.
jpeckjr
July 10th, 2013
@Jerry and Richard Rush. You could cope with it if you were one toke over the line, you know.
RoyD
July 10th, 2013
My, but that moved me.
Mainly, it moved the contents of my stomach in an upward direction!
StraightGrandmother
July 10th, 2013
When Jim Tweeted this yesterday I retweeted the hell out of it. I got a ton of people who saved it as a favorite.
ROTHLMAO! And the audience Loved it as well, they got a big round of applause.
Priya Lynn
July 10th, 2013
James said “@Priya Lynn. The one toke over the line part I understand. Yes, I have heard that some people actually smoke marijuana to get high.”.
Very few people are aware of that so I figured I’d explain it.
Timothy Kincaid
July 10th, 2013
It’s just that “One medicinal chocolate bar over the line” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
David
July 11th, 2013
Oh, the flashbacks, the awful, horrible, terrifying flashbacks to being captive every Saturday night, unable to escape the transplants from Wisconsin who were my genetic source material, hanging on in sheer misery as they got their weekly dose of Lawrence Welk. And to think these old tapes have found a home at (gasp!) PBS.
Richard Rush
July 11th, 2013
I know I’m slow, but I think I finally got it! The “line” in “one toke over the line” refers to the line you cross when you accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior! And of course, the “toke” is the high you feel once you cross that line. I always assumed it was a lot like being on drugs.
timbo
July 11th, 2013
I will admit that I watch every Saturday…I have good taste :)
Tom is my man….he never married hmmmm
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