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Photo Gallery: Antigay activists stage press event at Human Rights Campaign

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By on Jun 4th, 2013

Photos by Mike Airhart/Ex-Gay Watch A small coalition of antigay activists met outside the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C., to declare that “homosexuality is nothing to be proud of.” The press event coincides with Capital Pride in the District and national LGBT Pride Month. Speakers included Peter LaBarbera, founder and president of American for [...]

Journal Editor Calls Antigay Parenting Study ‘Deeply Flawed’ and ‘Disgraced’

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By on Jun 2nd, 2013

John M. Becker, managing editor of The Bilerico Project, follows up on a rigged study about the suitability of sexual-minority parents: In an explosive interview published yesterday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Darren Sherkat — a member of the editorial board of the journal Social Science Research, which published Mark Regnerus’s disgraced “study” claiming that gays and [...]

Armed Antigay Conflict Not Out of the Question, FRC Leader Says

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By on Jun 2nd, 2013

FRC Allows for Armed Antigay Conflict

Video at GLAAD Kenyn Cureton, vice president for church ministries at the Family Research Council (certified as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center), spoke at a recent event sponsored by the FRC’s “Watchmen on the Walls” ministry. After declaring that defenders of constitutional equality and nonviolence for sexual minorities are controlled by our ”malevolent [...]

Ex-Gay Leader Decries Fairness and Good Health for Gay Youths, Scout Leaders

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By on Jun 2nd, 2013

The decision of the Boy Scouts of America to stop ostracizing and defaming gay Scouts has drawn support from a broad spectrum of scouting supporters, including the conservative National Catholic Commission on Scouting. Mormons, Methodists, the National Jewish Committee on Scouting, the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, and the Unitarian Universalist Association also have [...]

Gagnon Hints that Banned Ex-Gay App Is Really Just Antigay

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By on Jun 2nd, 2013

Robert A.J. Gagnon, board member of the ex-gay Restored Hope Network, initiated a Facebook conversation last night that was supposed to be about Setting Captives Free, a mobile-phone app that promises to cure people of “habitual sin” as defined by the Christian Right — chief among those sins, so-called “bondage from homosexuality.” (Curiously, the app [...]

Being Ex-Gay: Straining to See Oneself as Defective

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By on Jun 2nd, 2013

In the 1997 classic sci-fi movie Gattaca, Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is a man living a double life — publicly he’s an exemplar among a superior caste of humanity; secretly, he’s a member of the genetic underclass, a “de-gene-erate” — doomed from birth to be treated as a second-class citizen, unless he can convincingly lie about himself [...]

Discuss: Who Are the Real Ex-Gay ‘Antinomians’

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By on May 19th, 2013

The legalist ex-gays of the Restored Hope Network have been using Facebook to lob charges of “antinomianism” against Exodus International, fomenting gossip and schism within the ranks of RHN members’ former parent organization. “Antinomianism” is a pejorative label that is used by legalists against people who contend that Christians are saved first by grace, not works. The [...]

Is the Latest Outcry over Abercrombie A Clever Retail Ploy?

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By on May 15th, 2013

Revised to include response from the Business Insider. Until the latest nascent campaign against Abercrombie & Fitch took root, the retailer had suffered from a prolonged period of lousy sales (Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal) as youths flocked to hipper, fresher, and friendlier rivals such as H&M. On May 3, however, Business Insider – a publication that [...]