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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"
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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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JohnAGJ
September 13th, 2011
Interesting eschatological views he has but really, so what?
Nick Thiwerspoon
September 13th, 2011
Demented.
Jerry Sloan
September 14th, 2011
“The Jews” that is only half the answer.
The other half of the answer is the failure of the Christians to convert the Jews to Christianty by ANY means.
Richard Rush
September 14th, 2011
It’s rare for a day to go by where I don’t see something that causes me to view religion as just a little more stupid and loathsome than it seemed on the previous day.
San Diego Rob
September 15th, 2011
I thought Jesus would of surely returned when Glen Beck was there last month with his rally.
BlackDog
September 15th, 2011
Given Pat Robertson’s history of saying dumb shit, I wonder why anyone listens to him at all any more.
Ezam
September 15th, 2011
Just because Christians are pro-Israel doesn’t mean they’re pro-Jewish.
Marauder
September 15th, 2011
Yes, Pat Robertson is nuts, but what does that in and of itself have to do with the purpose of this site?
Priya Lynn
September 15th, 2011
He’s anti-gay and anything that demonstrates his insanity also discredits his anti-gay ramblings.
Jerry
September 15th, 2011
There’s a very high probability that he never existed in the first place so there’s no possibility there’s anyone to return.
I certainly don’t expect Zeus to show up either.
Timothy Kincaid
September 20th, 2011
Ezam –
True. But it does pretty much mean – at least in this example – that they are not anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic.
There certainly were some (and still are) especially in the South. But today most conservative evangelical Christians would consider anti-Jewish slurs to be an attack on God’s Chosen People and find them to be offensive.
You might say that compared to Muslims, Mormons, Hindus or Jehovah’s Witnesses (or whatever church across town is competing for congregants), evangelicals find Jews to be their favorite followers of false doctrine.
Priya Lynn,
That’s a good point. When (as is often the case) the anti-gay ramblers say stupid and nutty stuff on other subjects, it builds the association between “anti-gay” and “bat-poop loony”
Jerry,
I think that there’s pretty good evidence that there was a man named Jesus who led some sort of religious movement in Judea. Additionally, it’s pretty well evident that the writers of the gospels – both those canonized and those rejected – were based on pretty close association (if not first hand, then from conversations with those who had seen or heard him). Consider: even “my grandpa told me that when he was a young man, he went to hear that Jesus guy” can be evidence – at least of existence – if enough people had grandpas tell them.
I don’t know of any early refutations of Christianity that used “he didn’t exist” as their premise (though there may have been some) and surely that would have been a most compelling argument if there were not already broad community assumption that he did exist.
(For example, I would say that L Ron Hubbard was a loon. But I wouldn’t argue that he didn’t exist.)
But, of course, who Jesus (Yeshua Ben Yosef) was (or wasn’t) and whether he’s going to return and when are all matters that are open to your interpretation.
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