‘FRC Criticizes ‘Amazing Race’
Posted on May 30th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Wherever CWFA’s Robert Knight treads, other religious right groups usually follow. Read more »
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Fund-Raising for Ex-Gays Via Gay Days
Posted on May 30th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
The Virginia-based Family Policy Network says it will “turn ‘Gay Days’ into ‘Hope Days.’”
Sponsors needed for Christian outreach to homosexuals
The press release certainly starts badly, assuming gays aren’t Christian, and implying that they’re going to hell. One also wonders, why does the religious right go out of its way to convey messages in inordinately costly […] Read more »
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Know A Good Comic Strip?
Posted on May 30th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
James Asal is an exceptional comic-strip artist. Adam and Andy finds light humor in ordinary gay life.
I’ve looked around, and I’ve yet to find an ex-gay comic-strip artist, someone who finds nonthreatening humor in ex-gay life.
Know of an ex-gay comic strip? Tell us about ‘em. Read more »
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‘Married’ Gays on CBS
Posted on May 30th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Submitted by an Ex-Gay Watch reader:
WorldNetDaily, a religious-right publication edited by Joseph Farah, and Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America are teaming up against the appearance on CBS of a gay couple that calls itself married.
Publicity for the CBS reality show “The Amazing Race 4″ does not say how the pair is married. But […] Read more »
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‘You Don’t Have to Change’?
Posted on May 29th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
This is something that gays have never heard clearly from Exodus.
Exodus and its religious right allies declare, “You can change.” But in the presence of discriminatory laws, and the absence of any declaration of tolerance, what the public hears is, “You must change.”
If there are any ex-gays who believe change is possible but not […] Read more »
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Traditional Values Coalition Needs A Shepherd
Posted on May 29th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
An Ex-Gay Watch reader sent me this item from The Washington Post. The article is about the upcoming gay-dating reality show, “Boy Meets Boy”:
Among those additional viewers are sure to be members of the Traditional Values Coalition, whose executive director was already alerting its 43,000
member churches about the series so that they could protest it, […] Read more »
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Concerned Women Vs Horowitz
Posted on May 29th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America has added a new chapter to his string of arguments against conservative David Horowitz and other defenders of small government and family privacy.
Knight seems to redefine the term “Christians” to refer only to those who agree with Sen. Santorum and the antiprivacy movement. Jewish law is similarly redefined. […] Read more »
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Gay Pride Parades
Posted on May 28th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Item 3 on this week’s news release from Exodus seems remarkably balanced, both in its assessment of sexual minorities’ different attitudes toward the parades and in appropriate nonviolent reactions by exgays. Read more »
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Dizzy Yet? Exodus Spin on Columbine
Posted on May 28th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Item 2 from this week’s Exodus news release protests the Gus Van Sant film Elephant.
The film:
comes from a gay filmmaker,
dramatizes the chronic bullying endured by the eventual killers at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.,
plays out a “What if?” scenario involving the rumor (started by Matt Drudge and quickly fueled by the Family Research Council) […] Read more »
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Tolerance = War?
Posted on May 28th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Highlights from the response to my note to the ex-gay activist:
I was deemed to have a confused notion about genetics vs innate
characteristics because “They both mean the same thing.” The activist cited a dictionary definition but ignored the nongenetic meanings for “innate.” I pointed out
that, per OneLook, innate is often defined as “present at birth […] Read more »
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