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May 11th, 2011
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League is mad at the Presbyterians for allowing ordination of gay people. Where’s the Presbyterian League when you need one?
May 11th, 2011
Earlier this month, Timothy Kincaid wrote that the Presbyterian Church was on the cusp of allowing gay non-celibate ministers in committed relationships to be ordained. At the time, 80 regional presbyteries had ratified the change of 87 needed, with 33 left to vote. Last week, the Presbyterian Church (USA) reached that milestone: With the vote […]
May 11th, 2011
TODAY’S AGENDA: Uganda Parliament Considers Anti-Homosexuality Bill: With the nation racked with a month of riots and demonstrations, opposition leaders being physically assaulted and arrested, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni now proposes major changes to the Uganda constitution to “deny bail for murder, rape, treason, defilement and riot suspects as well as economic saboteurs until they […]
May 10th, 2011
The U.S. State Department is paying close attention to the Ugandan Parliament’s moves to bring the Anti-Homosexuality Bill to a vote. The following on-the-record comments from Hilary Renner, spokesperson for the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs, were sent to BTB and other outlets in response to requests for comment: The Department of State opposes the […]
May 10th, 2011
Tea Party Founding Fathers chairman William Temple addressed a news conference Monday morning warning lawmakers against raising the debt ceiling. Dressed in his trademark colonial garb, Temple warned that any lawmaker who voted for raising the debt ceiling would receive a zero on their scorecard when they rate candidates for 2012. But he was open […]
May 10th, 2011
For those who are following our Ugandan coverage via our RSS feed, here are some important updates you may have missed…
May 10th, 2011
[Correction: The Ugandan Embassy is on 16th St, not 15th street as originally reported. The link to Google Maps was/is correct.] [Update 12:00 EST: It should be noted that while there has been much discussion about dropping the death penalty or making other alterations to the bill, none of that has occurred yet. The time when that […]
May 10th, 2011
UPDATE: The GetEqual protest at the Uganda Embassy is TODAY. See updated info below. TODAY’S AGENDA: Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” Bill Is In The Balance: Stephen Tashobya, chairman of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee for Uganda’s Parliament, must be feeling the weight of the world on him right now. Yesterday, his committee heard testimony […]
May 9th, 2011
[The following statement has been released by Uganda’s Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law. The Coalition is made up of 23 Ugandan and East African NGO’s focusing on human rights, HIV/AIDS, labor rights, and women’s and refugee issues. The statement reiterates comments made earlier today in testimony before the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs […]
May 9th, 2011
[Update: Paul Canning alerted me to this 30-minute audio snippet from today’s hearing. Beginning at the two-minute mark, the speaker describes how the bill is based upon false premises and is not supported by science:] This browser does not show iframe content. Warren Throckmorton has his ear to the ground on the rapidly developing situation in Uganda, where Parliament […]
May 7th, 2011
Molly Wei appeared in court Friday to request admittance into a pretrial probationary program that could lead to the dismissal of all charges against her in exchange for her testimony against Dharun Ravi, the Rutgers student who reportedly broadcast a live video feed of Tyler Clementi’s sexual encounter with another man in his dorm room. […]
May 7th, 2011
The 137th running of the Kentucky Derby is today at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY. “The most exciting two minutes in sports” begins at 6:24 p.m. EST. The hats and mint juleps however can be had throughout the day and on into the night. TODAY’S AGENDA: Transgender Job Fair: The GLBT Community Center of Colorado’s […]
May 6th, 2011
As we reported, the U.S. Olympic Committee had named Proposition 8 advocate Peter Vidmar as its 2012 chief of mission. He has now resigned that commission. (USA Today) When the Tribune story broke, reaction was nearly immediate — and almost entirely negative — within the USOC. Aimee Mullins, the former president of the Women’s Sports […]
May 6th, 2011
Now that the state of Illinois is offering civil union recognition to same-sex couples, the Catholic Church has disseminating fears that they will no longer be able to offer foster care or adoption services. They have vowed to be defiant. And to the Catholic Church in Illinois, I say: I support you. I totally agree […]
May 6th, 2011
People of faith tend to take their faith seriously. They are not casual or whimsical, they do not respond to readily trends or opinion polls. In their efforts to know truth, they are careful and cautious. And those who join together in denomination genuinely strive to coalesce around a shared agreement over God’s divine will […]
Featured Reports
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.
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