Analyzing and refuting the inaccuracies lodged against the lgbt community by religious conservative organizations. Lies in the name of God are still lies.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Family Research Council founder travels with a 'rentboy' - scandal brewing in religious right circles
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Anti-gay folks caught being disingenuous liars Parts 1 & 2 and other Tuesday midday news briefs
Forget the fox we have in this hunt -- PFOX's constant half-truths & misreps are reason enough to rescind D.C. honor - Anti-gay folks caught being disingenuous liars Part 1.
Engle Offers Tactical Support For Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill - Anti-gay folks caught being disingenuous liars Part 2.
Gay couples as fit to adopt as heterosexuals - No surprise to anyone but welcomed news anyway.
Partner violence more likely if gay - I read this article and, while it's a very important issue, there are some things about it that make me uncomfortable. The title is highly irresponsible, there is no link to the study in the article, and the researchers supposedly only looked at gay and lesbian couples in California. One thing is for sure - expect religious right groups to exploit it - the article AND the study.
Cross-Dressing Teen Sparks Prom Debate In NJ - And he WON!
Engle Offers Tactical Support For Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill - Anti-gay folks caught being disingenuous liars Part 2.
Gay couples as fit to adopt as heterosexuals - No surprise to anyone but welcomed news anyway.
Partner violence more likely if gay - I read this article and, while it's a very important issue, there are some things about it that make me uncomfortable. The title is highly irresponsible, there is no link to the study in the article, and the researchers supposedly only looked at gay and lesbian couples in California. One thing is for sure - expect religious right groups to exploit it - the article AND the study.
Cross-Dressing Teen Sparks Prom Debate In NJ - And he WON!
Irony alert! Janet Porter dropped from VCY America
For Janet Porter, the hits keep coming.
According to People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch, she has been dropped from VCY America, which carried her daily radio program, because of her "increasing involvement with dominion theology." VCY America's Vic Eliason reportedly said Porter had been warned about this sort of thing on more than occasion. He also said:
This announcement comes at the heels of a huge flop of an event, "May Day 2010: A Cry To God For A Nation In Distress," which Folger was in charge of. She and other organizers expected close to 8,000 attendees, but only a few hundred showed up.
Dominion theology, by the way, is the belief that Christians must take over world institutions in order to create conditions that would lead to the return of Christ.
Porter had espoused this belief not only during Saturday's failed event but also earlier during a prayer in which she demanded that God give Christians control of the media.
The irony of her being dropped from VCY America proves one thing - the Lord does move in mysterious ways.
According to People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch, she has been dropped from VCY America, which carried her daily radio program, because of her "increasing involvement with dominion theology." VCY America's Vic Eliason reportedly said Porter had been warned about this sort of thing on more than occasion. He also said:
Because of the long standing of Faith2Action on VCY America, which has provided satellite services, air time, production, and line fees without charge, we know there will be many who will question its discontinuance.
VCY has been wrestling for months with the drift of the program toward "dominion theology" and ecumenism.
The following links bring up articles which describe the issues in detail
The Coalescing of the Religious Right with Apostolic Dominionism
May Day Prayers: What Repentance?
This has not been an easy decision, but a line has been crossed that VCY America cannot ignore. Faith2Action has chosen to go in a direction that is not consistent with the biblical position of VCY America.
This announcement comes at the heels of a huge flop of an event, "May Day 2010: A Cry To God For A Nation In Distress," which Folger was in charge of. She and other organizers expected close to 8,000 attendees, but only a few hundred showed up.
Dominion theology, by the way, is the belief that Christians must take over world institutions in order to create conditions that would lead to the return of Christ.
Porter had espoused this belief not only during Saturday's failed event but also earlier during a prayer in which she demanded that God give Christians control of the media.
The irony of her being dropped from VCY America proves one thing - the Lord does move in mysterious ways.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Advice to closeted politicans - How to keep from being exposed
Someone on another blog demanded that I stop "dissing" the religious right and focus on "useful information."
Fair enough. So courtesy of the folks at infoMania, some "useful information" for the closeted politician:
Past infoMania posts:
Why the phrase 'No Homo' is highly needed
Reasons why the 'sanctity' of proms MUST be preserved from Constance McMillen
Why gay marriage is 'wrong'
Fair enough. So courtesy of the folks at infoMania, some "useful information" for the closeted politician:
Past infoMania posts:
Why the phrase 'No Homo' is highly needed
Reasons why the 'sanctity' of proms MUST be preserved from Constance McMillen
Why gay marriage is 'wrong'
GOP candidate 'joke' about anti-gay violence and other Monday midday news briefs
Rep. Kingston's real issue? That anti-gay voices aren't as teflon coated as they once were - And the phony Tony Perkins scandal goes on.
American Joins Kampala Rally Pushing For Passage of Anti-Gay Bill - How nice (sarcasm intended)
GOP House Candidate Who Served In The Military: Gays ‘Were Taken Care Of In Ways I Can’t Describe To You’ - The way they backtracked on these comments are pitiful.
Maine's Mike Heath Longs For the Days of "Christianity, Charity and Shared National Values" - Between slavery, segregation, stealing land away from Native Americans and making women feel inferior, America had time to be really "Christian."
American Joins Kampala Rally Pushing For Passage of Anti-Gay Bill - How nice (sarcasm intended)
GOP House Candidate Who Served In The Military: Gays ‘Were Taken Care Of In Ways I Can’t Describe To You’ - The way they backtracked on these comments are pitiful.
Maine's Mike Heath Longs For the Days of "Christianity, Charity and Shared National Values" - Between slavery, segregation, stealing land away from Native Americans and making women feel inferior, America had time to be really "Christian."
More from religious right May Day 2010 hot mess
Peter LaBarbera's "prayer" in regards to "homosexuality promotion zones" only scratches the surface when it comes surreal zaniness during Saturday's religious right event (and $70,000 COLOSSAL flop) “May Day 2010: A Cry To God For A Nation In Distress.”
People for the American Way's Religious Right Watch broke it down in easily digestible (but still nauseating) chunks:
. . including Ted Baehr repenting for the movie "The Runaways" with its sex, and drugs, and rock and roll, while others repent for Los Angeles and its role as the home of the pornography industry. Eventually, Janet Porter repents for all the time and money Christians have given to an industry that hates God and prays that Christians will gain control over the industry and take dominion until Christ returns. That is then followed by a woman from Minnesota who repents for her state having elected the first Muslim to Congress ... and then eventually God shows up at the rally.
With all due respect, because I don't like to be in a position to attack religious beliefs, this event was about a small number of ill-informed, religiously obnoxious individuals making huge asses of themselves.
A few thoughts:
What with these folks and Dakota Fanning?
According to Ted Baehr in his prayer, the religious right wants to take over the arts and entertainment industry and create "a new Michelangelo" and a "new (Leonardo) Da Vinci." Wouldn't that defeat the point of Peter LaBarbera's prayer, seeing that both Michelangelo and Da Vinci were gay?
The hateful prayer in regards to the Muslim Congressman (Keith Ellison) was just wrong. Period.
How pitiful is it for an event to have such low attendance that someone points to the sun's rays and say something like, "see, God is here."
Related post:
Janet Porter demands that God gives the religious right control of the media
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Peter LaBarbera 'obsessed' with schools being 'homosexuality promotion zones'
You think Peter LaBarbera is obsessed with the lgbt community?
That question was rhetorical seeing all of years, time, and effort he has spent attacking us, demonizing us, and basically trying to make us seem like the "other" in American society.
But the above video takes the cake. It happened this morning during Janet (I'm demanding that God give Christians control over the media) Porter's absolutely ridiculous May Day 2010 event in D.C.
May Day 2010 is one of those "America needs to repent and turn to God before he opens a big can of whip ass on us" events religious right groups generally hold when they are either trying to raise more funds or galvanize more folks through scare tactics.
And I think LaBarbera takes the cake here. According to People for the American Way's Religious Right Watch:
Peter LaBarbera . . . used his five minutes to attack gays, asking God to forgive us for our "excessive tolerance," lamenting "the long secular road America has traveled from 'abomination' to 'gay'," and for allowing "homosexual activists ... to fulfil their wicked plan of turning America's schools, public and sometimes private, into homosexuality promotion zones"
The idea that this silly man accuses the lgbt community of being some secret evil group out of a James Bond is extremely offensive and I would get angry if LaBarbera's prayer wasn't so hilariously ludicrous. Particularly 2:22 to 2:40 when he interrupts his prayer (to God) to explain to the audience one of the sources he cites.
Who knew prayers came with footnotes?
Folks like LaBarbera seem to always forget that lgbts can pray too and not only that, God hears our prayers.
This particular gay man won't be praying for his destruction, only that LaBarbera finally receives some type of inner peace.
Maybe then he will leave the lgbt community alone.
Not that I'm hinting anything, mind you.
UPDATE - According to Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out, the $70,000 event was a HUGE flop.
Related posts:
Peter LaBarbera - the self-destruction of an anti-gay activist
Pillars of Faith: Peter LaBarbera, Anti-Gay Creep
Porno Pete On Rampage
The 'Complete' Peter LaBarbera by Box Turtle Bulletin
Family Research Council deliberately misinterpret words of Obama official to discredit ENDA
John Berry is President Obama's director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
He is also openly gay and according to the Family Research Council (FRC), he is also proof that the ENDA (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act) is some type of nefarious plans by the gay community to gain "special rights." Tony Perkins, head of the FRC, said the following in an email:
Even without FRC's track record for relying on distortions and fear tactics, it's easy to see that the organization's email contains a complete bastardization of Berry's words.
According to the Washington Blade (by way of lgbt-positive webpage Queerty and the anti-gay web page Americans for Truth), Berry was addressing Out for Work’s national convention at the Westin City Center Hotel in D.C. in September of last year and this is what was actually said:
This is what Berry said about DOMA:
However in regards to so-called "pro-marriage" laws, Berry in no way said that ENDA would make it easier for judges to overturn DOMA. He merely said that litigation through the courts could overturn DOMA.
Whatever the case may be, for FRC to claim that Berry said "If we can get ENDA enacted and signed into law, it is only a matter of time" before pro-family, pro-marriage laws topple under its weight is a deliberate misinterpretation of his words.
And for those familiar with FRC's habit of claiming angel wings while hiding its horns and pitchfork, it's business as usual.
Related posts:
Lgbt employment protection? Absolutely not. Ugly anti-gay comments at work? Sure.
Family Research Council getting extremely 'scary' about ENDA
Religious right groups can't make up their minds when lying about ENDA
Family Research Council exploiting Amanda Simpson's appointment to stop ENDA
Family Research Council head misrepresents credible information to hurt ENDA
Bathrooms, Church Exemptions, and Lies: Five ways the religious right misrepresents ENDA
The Family Research Council continues to use 'outdated' work
He is also openly gay and according to the Family Research Council (FRC), he is also proof that the ENDA (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act) is some type of nefarious plans by the gay community to gain "special rights." Tony Perkins, head of the FRC, said the following in an email:
If ENDA becomes law, the government will order businesses -- including faith-based businesses -- to cast aside their personal beliefs and hire homosexuals and cross-dressers, even if the employer considers these lifestyles immoral and inappropriate for their business.
Even groups like the Boy Scouts and child care providers aren't exempt from the bill's oppressive demands.
Worse still, ENDA will make it easier for activist judges to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act -- the most important protection for marriage that exists in our country!
I know that because the most powerful open homosexual in the Obama administration says it will:
John Berry, the director of the federal personnel office, says: "If we can get ENDA enacted and signed into law, it is only a matter of time" before pro-family, pro-marriage laws topple under its weight.
Even without FRC's track record for relying on distortions and fear tactics, it's easy to see that the organization's email contains a complete bastardization of Berry's words.
According to the Washington Blade (by way of lgbt-positive webpage Queerty and the anti-gay web page Americans for Truth), Berry was addressing Out for Work’s national convention at the Westin City Center Hotel in D.C. in September of last year and this is what was actually said:
Berry advocated for the importance of ENDA — and identified repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the Defense of Marriage Act as other priorities — in response to an audience member’s question about possible legislative issues on the horizon and criticism that President Obama isn’t moving quickly enough on LGBT issues.
“The most important thing we can do right now is we got to … secure the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act — and it’s got to include full transgender protections,” Berry said. “I believe that if we all concentrate our efforts where it needs to be concentrated, which is on the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, we can get the job done.”
Other pro-LGBT legislation can be more easily achieved, Berry said, if Congress were to pass ENDA.
“If we can get ENDA enacted and signed into law, it is only a matter of time before all the rest happens,” he said. “It is the keystone that holds up the whole bunch, and so we need to focus our energies and attention there.”
This is what Berry said about DOMA:
Berry noted that Obama has called DOMA [discriminatory] and urged for its legislative repeal, but the OPM director added the best way toward overturning the law would be through the courts and not Congress.
“I will tell you personally I believe that I think the courts will strike this down before Congress will have to repeal it legislatively,” he said. “And thank goodness because, in this case, the backbone is not there in Congress.”Now some may argue that the definition of a "pro-family" law is up for interpretation, therefore there may not have been any distortion of Berry's quote on that point. This is a matter of perspective. Clearly to FRC, anything that benefits the gay community is not pro-family, in spite of the fact that a myriad of lgbt families populate this country.
However in regards to so-called "pro-marriage" laws, Berry in no way said that ENDA would make it easier for judges to overturn DOMA. He merely said that litigation through the courts could overturn DOMA.
Whatever the case may be, for FRC to claim that Berry said "If we can get ENDA enacted and signed into law, it is only a matter of time" before pro-family, pro-marriage laws topple under its weight is a deliberate misinterpretation of his words.
And for those familiar with FRC's habit of claiming angel wings while hiding its horns and pitchfork, it's business as usual.
Related posts:
Lgbt employment protection? Absolutely not. Ugly anti-gay comments at work? Sure.
Family Research Council getting extremely 'scary' about ENDA
Religious right groups can't make up their minds when lying about ENDA
Family Research Council exploiting Amanda Simpson's appointment to stop ENDA
Family Research Council head misrepresents credible information to hurt ENDA
Bathrooms, Church Exemptions, and Lies: Five ways the religious right misrepresents ENDA
The Family Research Council continues to use 'outdated' work
Friday, April 30, 2010
Know Your LGBT History - Theatre of Blood
One of my favorite horror movies is the 1973 Vincent Price camp classic Theatre of Blood.
In it, Price portrays a actor who murders his critics in the form of scenes from Shakespearean plays. One critic is stabbed to death like in Julius Caesar, another is drown in a vat of wine like the Duke of Clarence in Richard III, and another critic (who happened to be gay) is tricked into eating his pet dogs whom he refers to as his "children" (which is a take off of the play Titus Andronicus where the evil queen Tamora is tricked into eating her two sons baked in a pie).
But for the purpose of this post, it is the scene where Price dispatches critic Chloe Moon (Coral Browne) under the nose of a police guard which stands out. An afro wig, a fey accent, and a name like "Butch" would spook me too. Try as I might to be offended, I can't. The scene starts at 4:00:
Another thing which is simply trivial, the looks Browne is giving Price when he has her tied up is probably not in the script. The two fell in love during the making of this movie and were later married.
Past Know Your LGBT History postings
Know Your LGBT History - Strange Fruit
Know Your LGBT History - Designing Women
Know Your LGBT History - The Children's Hour
Know Your LGBT History - Sylvester
Know Your LGBT History - Once Bitten
Know Your LGBT History - The Boys in the Band
Know Your LGBT History - Christopher Morley, the crossdressing assassin
Know Your LGBT History - Midnight Cowboy
Know Your LGBT History - Dracula's Daughter
Know Your LGBT History - Blacula
Know Your LGBT History - 3 Strikes
Know Your LGBT History - Paris Is Burning
Know Your LGBT History - The Women
Know your LGBT History - Soul Plane
Know Your LGBT History - The Player's Club
Special Know Your LGBT History - Fame
Know Your LGBT History - Welcome Home, Bobby
Know Your LGBT History - Barney Miller
Know your lgbt history - The Jerry Springer Show
Know your lgbt history - Martin Lawrence and that 'gay guy' on his show
Know your lgbt history - The Ricki Lake Show
Know your lgbt history - Which Way Is Up
Know your lgbt history - Gays in Primetime Soaps
Know your lgbt history - Boys Beware
Know your lgbt history - The Boondocks
Know your lgbt history - Mannequin
Know your lgbt history - The Warriors
Know Your LGBT History - New York Undercover
Know Your LGBT History - Low Down Dirty Shame
Know Your LGBT History - Fortune and Men's Eyes
Know your lgbt history - California Suite
Know your lgbt history - Taxi (Elaine's Strange Triangle)
Know your lgbt history - Come Back Charleston Blue
Know your lgbt history - James Bond goes gay
Know your lgbt history - Windows
Know your lgbt history - To Wong Foo and Priscilla
Know your lgbt history - Blazing Saddles
Know your lgbt history - Sanford and Son
Know your lgbt history - In Living Color
Know your lgbt history - Cleopatra Jones and her lesbian drug lords
Know your lgbt history - Norman, Is That You?
Know your lgbt history - The 'Exotic' Adrian Street
Know your lgbt history - The Choirboys
Know your lgbt history - Eddie Murphy
Know your lgbt history - The Killing of Sister George
Know your lgbt history - Hanna-Barbera cartoons pushes the 'gay agenda
'Know your lgbt history - Cruising
Know your lgbt history - Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones
Know your lgbt history - I Got Da Hook Up
Know your lgbt history - Fright Night
Know your lgbt history - Flowers of Evil
The Jeffersons and the transgender community
In it, Price portrays a actor who murders his critics in the form of scenes from Shakespearean plays. One critic is stabbed to death like in Julius Caesar, another is drown in a vat of wine like the Duke of Clarence in Richard III, and another critic (who happened to be gay) is tricked into eating his pet dogs whom he refers to as his "children" (which is a take off of the play Titus Andronicus where the evil queen Tamora is tricked into eating her two sons baked in a pie).
But for the purpose of this post, it is the scene where Price dispatches critic Chloe Moon (Coral Browne) under the nose of a police guard which stands out. An afro wig, a fey accent, and a name like "Butch" would spook me too. Try as I might to be offended, I can't. The scene starts at 4:00:
Another thing which is simply trivial, the looks Browne is giving Price when he has her tied up is probably not in the script. The two fell in love during the making of this movie and were later married.
Past Know Your LGBT History postings
Know Your LGBT History - Strange Fruit
Know Your LGBT History - Designing Women
Know Your LGBT History - The Children's Hour
Know Your LGBT History - Sylvester
Know Your LGBT History - Once Bitten
Know Your LGBT History - The Boys in the Band
Know Your LGBT History - Christopher Morley, the crossdressing assassin
Know Your LGBT History - Midnight Cowboy
Know Your LGBT History - Dracula's Daughter
Know Your LGBT History - Blacula
Know Your LGBT History - 3 Strikes
Know Your LGBT History - Paris Is Burning
Know Your LGBT History - The Women
Know your LGBT History - Soul Plane
Know Your LGBT History - The Player's Club
Special Know Your LGBT History - Fame
Know Your LGBT History - Welcome Home, Bobby
Know Your LGBT History - Barney Miller
Know your lgbt history - The Jerry Springer Show
Know your lgbt history - Martin Lawrence and that 'gay guy' on his show
Know your lgbt history - The Ricki Lake Show
Know your lgbt history - Which Way Is Up
Know your lgbt history - Gays in Primetime Soaps
Know your lgbt history - Boys Beware
Know your lgbt history - The Boondocks
Know your lgbt history - Mannequin
Know your lgbt history - The Warriors
Know Your LGBT History - New York Undercover
Know Your LGBT History - Low Down Dirty Shame
Know Your LGBT History - Fortune and Men's Eyes
Know your lgbt history - California Suite
Know your lgbt history - Taxi (Elaine's Strange Triangle)
Know your lgbt history - Come Back Charleston Blue
Know your lgbt history - James Bond goes gay
Know your lgbt history - Windows
Know your lgbt history - To Wong Foo and Priscilla
Know your lgbt history - Blazing Saddles
Know your lgbt history - Sanford and Son
Know your lgbt history - In Living Color
Know your lgbt history - Cleopatra Jones and her lesbian drug lords
Know your lgbt history - Norman, Is That You?
Know your lgbt history - The 'Exotic' Adrian Street
Know your lgbt history - The Choirboys
Know your lgbt history - Eddie Murphy
Know your lgbt history - The Killing of Sister George
Know your lgbt history - Hanna-Barbera cartoons pushes the 'gay agenda
'Know your lgbt history - Cruising
Know your lgbt history - Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones
Know your lgbt history - I Got Da Hook Up
Know your lgbt history - Fright Night
Know your lgbt history - Flowers of Evil
The Jeffersons and the transgender community
LaBarbera wants 'homosexuality' litmus test for public officials and other Friday midday news briefs
Peter LaBarbera's Anti-Gay McCarthyism: We Have A Right To Know Who Is "Practicing Immoral Homosexual Behavior" - The insanity of "Porno" Pete LaBarbera part . . . oh why do I even bother to keep count?
Video: OWN. YOUR. DISRESPECT. FOR. THE. COMMANDER IN CHIEF. TONY! - Don't make the comment if you can't stand the consequences of your words.
Massachusetts Legislature Passes Anti-Bullying Measure - Good news from Massachusetts. Mass Resistance is going to plotz!
Hawaii House approves civil unions for same-sex couples; bill heads to governor - A new reason to visit Hawaii.
Openly gay students in Tennessee fight for their rights - Way to go! And the children shall lead them.
Arizona Expands Its Discrimination: Teachers With Heavy Accents Can’t Teach English, Ethnic Studies Are Banned - Not necessarily an lgbt issue per se but just so shockingly nasty that I have to include it.
Video: OWN. YOUR. DISRESPECT. FOR. THE. COMMANDER IN CHIEF. TONY! - Don't make the comment if you can't stand the consequences of your words.
Massachusetts Legislature Passes Anti-Bullying Measure - Good news from Massachusetts. Mass Resistance is going to plotz!
Hawaii House approves civil unions for same-sex couples; bill heads to governor - A new reason to visit Hawaii.
Openly gay students in Tennessee fight for their rights - Way to go! And the children shall lead them.
Arizona Expands Its Discrimination: Teachers With Heavy Accents Can’t Teach English, Ethnic Studies Are Banned - Not necessarily an lgbt issue per se but just so shockingly nasty that I have to include it.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Look out! Here comes a new distortion about changing sexual orientation
Imagine my surprise this afternoon when I read the following from One News Now:
The One News Now article did not go into detail about the study so I looked elsewhere to find more information.
Lifesite News said the following:
Don't be fooled by the link that supposedly leads to the study. It actually leads to a NARTH (National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality) summary of the study.
And as many of us know, based on NARTH's history of embracing inaccurate theories about the gay community, it's not a good idea to trust the organization's summary of anything.
So where is the study and why won't these folks lauding it go into detail about it? Are they omitting something?
Dr. Warren Throckmorton of Grove City College, there is some serious misrepresentations going on.
Now I should break in and say that in many cases, Throckmorton and the lgbt community has not seen eye-to-eye on several issues.
But there are times in which Throckmorton calls out the religious right on their lies. He does such a good job at it that "our friend" Peter LaBarbera has directed barbs at him.
And the way I see it, anyone who upsets LaBarbera can't be all bad.
In this particular case, Throckmorton calls out One News Now and NARTH for distorting this study. I bolded the most important part of Throckmorton's statement:
Researchers at Fordham University have released a study showing that homosexual men can change their "orientation" by developing healthy, non-sexual relationships with other men.
The study was published in the Journal of Men's Studies (March 2010). Greg Quinlan, president Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX,) tells OneNewsNow it serves as confirmation to "everything that we've been saying all along."
The One News Now article did not go into detail about the study so I looked elsewhere to find more information.
Lifesite News said the following:
Researchers at Fordham University in New York have published a study in the March edition of the Journal of Men's Studies, showing that positive results can be gained by homosexual men seeking to change their “orientation” by developing healthy non-sexual relationships with other men.
According to the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homoseuxality (NARTH), the study rovides “valuable empirical evidence” from the mainstream of psychological research supporting environmental factors as the cause of homosexuality.
The study, by Dr. Elan Y. Karten and Dr. Jay C. Wade, examined the “social and psychological characteristics” of men who experience unwanted homosexual attractions and who seek “sexual orientation change efforts” (SOCE).
Investigating these characteristics in cases of “self-reported change,” Karten and Wade found that clients reported that they experienced “a decrease in homosexual feelings and behavior, an increase in heterosexual feelings and behavior, and a positive change in psychological functioning” with SOCE.
Don't be fooled by the link that supposedly leads to the study. It actually leads to a NARTH (National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality) summary of the study.
And as many of us know, based on NARTH's history of embracing inaccurate theories about the gay community, it's not a good idea to trust the organization's summary of anything.
So where is the study and why won't these folks lauding it go into detail about it? Are they omitting something?
Dr. Warren Throckmorton of Grove City College, there is some serious misrepresentations going on.
Now I should break in and say that in many cases, Throckmorton and the lgbt community has not seen eye-to-eye on several issues.
But there are times in which Throckmorton calls out the religious right on their lies. He does such a good job at it that "our friend" Peter LaBarbera has directed barbs at him.
And the way I see it, anyone who upsets LaBarbera can't be all bad.
In this particular case, Throckmorton calls out One News Now and NARTH for distorting this study. I bolded the most important part of Throckmorton's statement:
Here is the OneNewsNow title:One News Now and NARTH distorting a study on sexual orientation? It must be a normal day.
‘Orientation’ change efforts effective.Here is a statement from Karten and Wade (p. 86):
The purpose of the study was not to replicate findings from prior research or establish the efficacy of this treatment.Now the way NARTH discusses the study, one might think replication of prior change research was the intent, but it was not a study that was designed to “establish the efficacy” of sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE). Rather, the authors surveyed 117 men who were trying to change and asked them what seemed to be working in their quest. It was not an outcome study and there were no follow up interviews with any of the subjects.
OneNewsNow says this:
Researchers at Fordham University have released a study showing that homosexual men can change their “orientation” by developing healthy, non-sexual relationships with other men.As noted by the article, the study did not demonstrate change via any mechanism nor was the stated intent of the study to establish this finding. The study was not designed in such a way that change could be verified. Karten recruited participants from Journey Into Manhood participants and from therapists who conducted change therapy. The subjects were only required to have some same-sex attraction, meaning that we do not know how many, if any, exclusively homosexual men were in the study. There was only one measurement of sexual attraction via the survey with no follow up measures. Thus, change was not really measured, in that there was no pre-treatment or post-treatment assessments. Participants were asked to rate how helpful various interventions had been and various characteristics relating to masculinity. Nothing causative can be inferred from any of the reported correlations.
DC Mayor apologizes for honoring ex-gay group leader and other Thursday midday news briefs
TWO Thanks DC Mayor For Explaining That PFOX Honor Was a Mistake - DC mayor accidentally awards PFOX's Regina Griggs a certificate of appreciation and later declares it a clerical error.
NOM's bombing Minnesota -- have we learned enough to care? - National Organization for Marriage strikes again. Again, where are they getting their money?
Mutharika criticises gay movement - Oh great. First Uganda now this.
Exposing the Christian Right's New Racial Playbook - Interesting coalition of venom.
NOM's bombing Minnesota -- have we learned enough to care? - National Organization for Marriage strikes again. Again, where are they getting their money?
Mutharika criticises gay movement - Oh great. First Uganda now this.
Exposing the Christian Right's New Racial Playbook - Interesting coalition of venom.
Matt Barber switches from lying about lgbts to just plain lying
Maybe the lgbt community is boring the Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber.
Or maybe maligning us by describing our relationships as “one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it ‘love" or going to bizarre detail about our alleged sex habits just isn't getting him enough hits when he possibly googles his name.
Whatever the case may be, in his latest column, Barber doesn't say hardly a word about lgbts. It's a shame, however that he continues his habit of lies and misdirection.
The column is about how there is a so-called groundswell to President Obama's alleged "neo-Marxist, secular-humanist agenda."
Now Barber lists several dubious examples of this, including one which really caught my eye. It concerns the incident where several tea party members made racist and homophobic statements at Congressional leaders:
I guess I latched on to that part of Barber's unintentionally humorous column because it underscores not only Barber's intentional deception but the deception of entities that would print Barber's mess under the guise that it represents "Christian values."
The fact that homophobic and racial slurs were shouted has been backed up by several other reports, including a very detailed one by Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander. This report includes the fact that there is video footage of a derogatory comment aimed at Frank.
It's also convenient that Barber did not reveal that one of the black legislators in question was John Lewis, an icon who was one of the leaders of African-American civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s. Of course mentioning this would probably ruin Barber's inference that lies were told against the tea party members. After all, who would anyone in their right mind believe - protesters, some carrying signs comparing the African-American president to Hitler or a man who was marched and beaten over civil rights?
One would also question Barber citing Breitbart's challenge of video proof, seeing that for a long time, Breitbart was peddling a video as evidence that the slurs weren't said until the Associated Press pointed out that his proof was inaccurate.
Of course the point is not the slurs or the supposed "neo-Marxist, secular-humanist agenda" (what is that anyway) of President Obama.
The point is just how easy it is to put on the cloth of Christian respectability when one is repeating lying talking points whether it be about President Obama, Congressional leaders, or the lgbt community.
Or maybe maligning us by describing our relationships as “one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it ‘love" or going to bizarre detail about our alleged sex habits just isn't getting him enough hits when he possibly googles his name.
Whatever the case may be, in his latest column, Barber doesn't say hardly a word about lgbts. It's a shame, however that he continues his habit of lies and misdirection.
The column is about how there is a so-called groundswell to President Obama's alleged "neo-Marxist, secular-humanist agenda."
Now Barber lists several dubious examples of this, including one which really caught my eye. It concerns the incident where several tea party members made racist and homophobic statements at Congressional leaders:
And so, the mainstream media hit back, latching like pit-bulls to a poodle on iffy reports that Tea Partiers had shouted racist and "homophobic" slurs at black members of Congress and, well, Barney Frank (claims which, as it turns out, were apparently fabricated whole cloth).
Conservative pundit Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 reward to anyone able to provide video or audio of the alleged slurs. Despite scores of television cameras in the immediate vicinity, no one has produced a shred of evidence.
I guess I latched on to that part of Barber's unintentionally humorous column because it underscores not only Barber's intentional deception but the deception of entities that would print Barber's mess under the guise that it represents "Christian values."
The fact that homophobic and racial slurs were shouted has been backed up by several other reports, including a very detailed one by Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander. This report includes the fact that there is video footage of a derogatory comment aimed at Frank.
It's also convenient that Barber did not reveal that one of the black legislators in question was John Lewis, an icon who was one of the leaders of African-American civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s. Of course mentioning this would probably ruin Barber's inference that lies were told against the tea party members. After all, who would anyone in their right mind believe - protesters, some carrying signs comparing the African-American president to Hitler or a man who was marched and beaten over civil rights?
One would also question Barber citing Breitbart's challenge of video proof, seeing that for a long time, Breitbart was peddling a video as evidence that the slurs weren't said until the Associated Press pointed out that his proof was inaccurate.
Of course the point is not the slurs or the supposed "neo-Marxist, secular-humanist agenda" (what is that anyway) of President Obama.
The point is just how easy it is to put on the cloth of Christian respectability when one is repeating lying talking points whether it be about President Obama, Congressional leaders, or the lgbt community.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Reasons why the 'sanctity' of proms MUST be preserved from Constance McMillen
I'm having the misfortune of being ill today, which means no long expositories on the evils of the religious right.
But just because I'm feeling not so happy today doesn't mean you have to suffer, so from infoMania, here is a new, original take on the Constance McMillen prom controversy:
Related post:
Why gay marriage is 'wrong'
But just because I'm feeling not so happy today doesn't mean you have to suffer, so from infoMania, here is a new, original take on the Constance McMillen prom controversy:
Related post:
Why gay marriage is 'wrong'
Porno Pete strikes again and other Wednesday midday news briefs
Peter LaBarbera's Sexual Orientation Test - Read if you want a good laugh.
Mississippi Strikes Again (At Another Innocent Young Lesbian Girl) - Just can't stop picking on the children.
Trans People And Jails - an important issue which needs discussion.
Lou Engle Answers Uganda Rally Critics - A lesson in being verbally dishonest.
And here is a larger breakdown of exactly how Engle lies:
Uganda Update: Lou Engle & TheCall Respond to Critics with Lies and Distortions
Mississippi Strikes Again (At Another Innocent Young Lesbian Girl) - Just can't stop picking on the children.
Trans People And Jails - an important issue which needs discussion.
Lou Engle Answers Uganda Rally Critics - A lesson in being verbally dishonest.
And here is a larger breakdown of exactly how Engle lies:
Uganda Update: Lou Engle & TheCall Respond to Critics with Lies and Distortions
Undercover at an ex-gay camp
Ted Cox, a writer at AlterNet, spent a weekend undercover at "Journey into Manhood,” a 48-hour weekend retreat designed to help gay men become straight."
What he experienced is a macabre mixture of the bizarre and sad:
It's nothing to laugh at. Unfortunately, society has conditioned so many people to be ashamed of their God-given sexual orientation. More here at AlterNet.
What he experienced is a macabre mixture of the bizarre and sad:
I sat on the floor between the outstretched legs of a camp guide, my head leaning back against his shoulder. The guide sat behind me, his arms wrapped around my chest. This hold was called “The Motorcycle.” Five men surrounded the two of us, their hands resting gently on my arms, legs and chest.
There were about ten other groups like this sitting on the floor in the darkened room: one guide giving “healing-touch therapy” while the surrounding men rested their hands on the receiver. Some men were held in the Motorcycle position. Others were turned towards their guide, cradled the way a parent would hold a sobbing child who had just scraped her knee on the sidewalk.
In one corner of the room, a portable stereo played Shaina Noll’s song. At one point, the staff members all sang out in unison, their voices filling the high walls of the camp lodge. Somewhere in the room, a man sobbed over the sound of the music.
It was the first night of “Journey into Manhood,” a 48-hour weekend retreat designed to help gay men become straight. In that room, about fifty men — some thirty “Journeyers” and fifteen staff members — sat on the carpeted floor of a ranch lodge two hours outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the men, except for a few of the staff members, struggled to overcome their attraction to other men.
Sometime during all that holding and touching and singing, while I was cradled in the Motorcycle position, I felt it: the unmistakable bulge pressing through his tight jeans. It was the first time in my life I had a felt another man’s erection.
It's nothing to laugh at. Unfortunately, society has conditioned so many people to be ashamed of their God-given sexual orientation. More here at AlterNet.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Lgbt employment protection? Absolutely not. Ugly anti-gay comments at work? Sure.
Apparently the idea that lgbts should be afforded decent job protections scares the right-wing Family Research Council.
I recently received an email from the organization about ENDA(the Employment Non-Discrimination Act) which reads in part:
There are so many inaccuracies in this claim. First of all, ENDA would contain an exemption for religious organizations. Secondly, FRC provides no proof regarding the potential lawsuits which would take place under ENDA. Thirdly, we have seen that cross-dressing claim so many times that it no longer has an impact.
But it's these portions of the email - ENDA is likely to result in reverse discrimination -- against anyone who disapproves of homosexual conduct, especially if they exercise their freedom of speech to say so and ENDA is likely to result in reverse discrimination -- against anyone who disapproves of homosexual conduct, especially if they exercise their freedom of speech to say so - which intrigues me.
Is the organization saying that any verbal statement against gay employees, no matter how rude or how demeaning, should be overlooked because it is simply a "religious objection to homosexuality?"
Is FRC saying that if I was employed in a state which legalized gay marriage and a fellow employee called me "deviant" because of my marriage, then I have no rights to complain?
Is the organization saying that if my fellow Christian employees started an organization and harassed me by placing the organization's anti-gay flyer at my cubicle that I should just take the abuse?
Or how about if I am harassed and called derogatory names by my co-workers simply because my sexual orientation?
These examples are not hypothetical situations. They actually took place and luckily the businesses in question had a policy which would protect their lgbt employees.
All businesses should have policies to protect their employees.
It seems to me that someone is trying to establish a caste system, but it's not Congress. It's the Family Research Council.
Related post:
Giving you $15 lies for free: The one time we *do* wanna use ENDA to put FRC out of business
I recently received an email from the organization about ENDA(the Employment Non-Discrimination Act) which reads in part:
The House Education and Labor Committee will soon begin debate on a bill that could do permanent damage to American liberty as we know it.
Under the so-called "Employment Non-discrimination Act" (ENDA), the government will order businesses -- including faith-based businesses -- to cast aside their personal beliefs and hire homosexuals and cross-dressers, even if the business or organization considers the lifestyle immoral.
Even groups like the Boy Scouts and child care providers aren't exempt from the bill's oppressive provisions.
Followed to its logical conclusion, ENDA is likely to result in reverse discrimination -- against anyone who disapproves of homosexual conduct, especially if they exercise their freedom of speech to say so. Will you add your voice to help stop ENDA?
Essentially, Congress would be establishing a caste system where the "rights" of homosexuals trump the First Amendment freedoms of employers and employees. At the very least, it will force people out of business because owners will be forced to spend huge sums of money on litigation if employees file lawsuits under ENDA.
There are so many inaccuracies in this claim. First of all, ENDA would contain an exemption for religious organizations. Secondly, FRC provides no proof regarding the potential lawsuits which would take place under ENDA. Thirdly, we have seen that cross-dressing claim so many times that it no longer has an impact.
But it's these portions of the email - ENDA is likely to result in reverse discrimination -- against anyone who disapproves of homosexual conduct, especially if they exercise their freedom of speech to say so and ENDA is likely to result in reverse discrimination -- against anyone who disapproves of homosexual conduct, especially if they exercise their freedom of speech to say so - which intrigues me.
Is the organization saying that any verbal statement against gay employees, no matter how rude or how demeaning, should be overlooked because it is simply a "religious objection to homosexuality?"
Is FRC saying that if I was employed in a state which legalized gay marriage and a fellow employee called me "deviant" because of my marriage, then I have no rights to complain?
Is the organization saying that if my fellow Christian employees started an organization and harassed me by placing the organization's anti-gay flyer at my cubicle that I should just take the abuse?
Or how about if I am harassed and called derogatory names by my co-workers simply because my sexual orientation?
These examples are not hypothetical situations. They actually took place and luckily the businesses in question had a policy which would protect their lgbt employees.
All businesses should have policies to protect their employees.
It seems to me that someone is trying to establish a caste system, but it's not Congress. It's the Family Research Council.
Related post:
Giving you $15 lies for free: The one time we *do* wanna use ENDA to put FRC out of business
'Straight pride' event flops miserably and other Tuesday midday news briefs
Former leader of Exodus International denounces ex-gay claims
I haven't been this surprised since I found out that Liberace was gay.
Rural high school students create ’straight pride’ stir - The event was a flop as it should have been. Hat tip to TruthWinsOut.org on this one.
Pelosi plans ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal vote this year - Keep your fingers crossed on this one.
Illinois House Approves Gay, Trans-Inclusive Anti-Bullying Bill - BAM!
I haven't been this surprised since I found out that Liberace was gay.
Rural high school students create ’straight pride’ stir - The event was a flop as it should have been. Hat tip to TruthWinsOut.org on this one.
Pelosi plans ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal vote this year - Keep your fingers crossed on this one.
Illinois House Approves Gay, Trans-Inclusive Anti-Bullying Bill - BAM!
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