As often as ex-gay political leaders emulate the anger and the strawman arguments of the religious right, I believe it’s important to avoid overgeneralizing. I have noted over the years (long before this Salon blog) that there are ex-gay ministers…
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Micro-morality
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From an article in today’s Denver Post: “American society is good at focusing on micro-morality but it misses the larger morality,” media historian Robert McChesney said. The quotation is directed at the trendy obsession with fake news at the New…
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From today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution: An African cardinal and leading candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II disrupted a Georgetown University graduation ceremony when he used his commencement speech to mock homosexuals and unmarried couples in the audience. Ironically, the cardinal…
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Religious Right Vs YWCA
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The New York Times reports today on the religious right’s declaration of financial warfare against the Young Women’s Christian Association. The Traditional Values Coalition is seeking to bar federal funding to the YWCA because Ireland’s hiring does not conform to…
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Exgay Faceoff
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Love Won Out and Love Welcomes All will face off June 21 in Portland, Ore. Love Won Out is a touring political rally organized by Exodus and Focus on the Family. The audiences, numbering several hundred per event, are treated…
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Comparing Moralities
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Focus on the Family publishes a daily newsletter of political propaganda called CitizenLink. CitizenLink is worth a look, if only to observe the organization’s extraordinarily small moral scope — its lack of vision. Eight out of 12 items on Tuesday’s…
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Conservative Defends Racicot
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Invoking the Sermon on the Mount, David Horowitz criticizes Gary Bauer and Paul Weyrich over their threats against Republican Party official Marc Racicot — and their intolerance toward gay conservatives.
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Muslims on Judeo-You-know-what
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Last week, I objected to the phrase “Judeo-Christian” as something of an oxymoron and a myth. Since then, Mark O’Keefe of the Religion News Service has written on the subject: Leading Muslim organizations say it’s time to drop the term…
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Wayne Besen’s Ex-Gay Quotes
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The web site for Besen’s upcoming book offers “Loving Ex-Gay Quotes” suggesting that ex-gay messages are far from loving. I’ve already ordered the book on the strength of its synopsis, and I hope the book is well-documented. However, the online…
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Call to Renewal
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Christian evangelicals nail down an agenda for 2003 and 2004 that focuses on genuine social-morality issues. Of interest to those who are committed to legitimate moral concerns, not exgay culture wars.