Box Turtle Bulletin
News and commentary about the anti-gay lobby“Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife…”
News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJune 15th, 2012
Defense Secretary Leon Penetta has released this video to all Defense Department employees and servicemembers commemorating June as Gay Pride month.
Latest Posts
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.
“Google” is a trademark of Google Inc.
© Box Turtle Bulletin. All Rights Reserved.
Posts 
Posts via daily email:
StraightGrandmother
June 15th, 2012
That is a really NICE message. I read on Joe My God yesterday that the Pentagon is going to have a Gay Pride Celebration. As Joe said about the reactions of Tony, and Porno Pete and Maggie=Brian, “Oh this should be Delish”
That made me laugh, that “This should be delish”
But seriously we are living in amazing times. We don’t win everything, we do have losses but by God look, just look how far we have come since Obama was elected in advancing Equal Civil Rights for Sexual Minorities. Even IF, which I hope not, even IF we don’t have Obama leading us for 4 more years, this bell cannot be unrung. We have reached critical mass and the only way is forward, the tide is coming in not going out. If Romney gets in we may hit some breakers to slow us a bit but it will NOT reverse the tide.
Happy Pride month everybody :)and I have never been to one.
In fact I only saw my first video of a Pride Parade last year when in San Diego service members marched in T-Shirts with their service branch on them because DADT had been repealed but not yet implemented. It made me so proud and so happy to see those services members in San Diego march.
One thing is Panetta forgot the Coast Guard in his speech. that will not make the Coasties happy. (I think that is what they are called, right? Coasties)
MattNYC
June 15th, 2012
SGM, the Coast Guard is under the Department of Homeland Security at this time. Previously part of the Dept. of Transportation. Only during a full mobilization do they fall under DoD.
MattNYC
June 15th, 2012
That said, I do not know exactly how DADT applied to them when it was in effect.
Timothy (TRiG)
June 15th, 2012
LGBT civilians
I’m confused. (a) Aren’t trans people still discriminated against in the US military? (b) Why’s he talking about civilians?
Also, as a sidenote, is having the greatest military force on the planet actually something to be proud of?
TRiG.
Jim Burroway
June 15th, 2012
(a) Yes
(b) Because secretary Panetta is also the boss of 700,000 civilian employees, including trans people.
MattNYC
June 16th, 2012
BTW, as a follow-up, it does appear that the USCG fell under DADT. It seems strange, since it’s not under DoD,but I guess their members fall under all of the military regulations, anyway.
Leave A Comment