Posted on April 25th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
President Bush says he supports Sen. Rick Santorum, but not necessarily Santorum’s verbal attacks on privacy and same-sex couples.
– CNN
In response, FRC escalates its retaliation against the White House and GOP.
FRC President Ken Connor and Focus on the Family President James Dobson defend Santorum’s remarks and criticize the GOP in Dobson’s online radio show.
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Filed under: Antisex Laws, Focus on the Family/FRC
Posted on April 24th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Exodus News favorably quotes an antigay African-American who’s very upset at gay groups for playing tokenism with racial minorities.
Well, some gay groups play that unjust game. Regrettably, many political groups play that same game. Including Exodus.
Exodus makes a point of putting minorities in its online photography, yet its board of directors and regional representatives are [...]
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Filed under: Discrimination, Exodus, Focus on the Family/FRC
Posted on April 24th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
From Exodus News, April 23:
Christine Sneeringer of Worthy Creations ministry in Fort Lauderdale Florida wrote “All We’re Created to Be” and describes her personal story of overcoming lesbianism….
I’m happy that Christine’s happy. Everyone should be happy, if they can.
And I wonder, how she (or Exodus) ever came to believe that sexual orientation is an “ism” [...]
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Filed under: Exodus, Semantics
Posted on April 24th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Over the past three days, the Family Research Council has harshly criticized the GOP for not defending Sen. Rick Santorum. It has done so not only in its own publications, but also in the mass media.
As reported by countless media outlets, Santorum has stated that the American family’s right to privacy should be eliminated in [...]
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Filed under: Antisex Laws, Exodus
Posted on April 20th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Our Christian traditions tell us that Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead today, victorious over sin that had enslaved humankind.
Faithful Christians are thankful for that gift, which was liberation from death, injustice, and spiritual oppression.
Sadly, there are still some Christians in our world who are not so thankful. On both the Left and the [...]
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Filed under: Reform / Renewal
Posted on April 19th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Is Exodus playing a bit loose with the truth when it says it supports sodomy laws?
The possibility does exist.
In the legal case Lawrence & Garner v. State of Texas, two Texans are battling Big Government after an antigay neighbor had them arrested for sexual intercourse in the privacy of their own home. The neighbor was [...]
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Filed under: Antisex Laws, Exodus
Posted on April 14th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Randy Thomas is the spokesman for Exodus, but he also operates his own personal blog.
In polishing and extending his April 9 mini-reviews of two books, I hope he will finish connecting the dots that he has drawn. After all, if one puts dots in one’s blog, it makes little sense not to connect them. Right?
About [...]
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Filed under: Exodus
Posted on April 14th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
More from the American Journalist Survey, as reported at Poynter:
Compared with 1992, the percentage of full-time journalists who claim to be Democrats has dropped 7 percentage points in 2002 to slightly above 37 percent, moving this figure closer to the overall population percentage of 32 percent, according to a July 29-31, 2002, Gallup national telephone [...]
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Filed under: Uncategorized
Posted on April 13th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
From the American Journalist Survey at The Poynter Institute:
U.S. journalists are much more likely to have earned college degrees than the overall adult population in the United States (89.3 percent vs. 25.6 percent) and the overall U.S. civilian labor force (30.4 percent).
That statistic is very difficult for me to accept at face value. I am [...]
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Filed under: Education/Youth
Posted on April 10th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
This is an old op-ed — the column appeared Feb. 28 in The Washington Post, and I’ve been busy moving for the past 40 days so I never posted it. But I think the column is still relevant, as the religious right rides a wave of euphoria over victories in central Baghdad.
The Rev. Fritz Ritsch [...]
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Filed under: Christian Nationalists, Reform / Renewal
