The Rev. Allen Brill spent a week in June contrasting family values with the political goals of the religious-right organizations.
He also examined how politically non-rightist people of faith fall short in marketing their message.
Well worth a read.
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Filed under: Reform / Renewal
In an interview with Christianity Today, Exodus spokesman and ministry manager Randy Thomas warns that the Supreme Court ruling against sodomy laws will shape public policy.
“This ruling gives validity to the gay community,” Thomas said. In addition to potentially redefining the family, it further solidifies their position as a political and social force.”
Earlier this month, [...]
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Filed under: Antisex Laws, Exodus
Stephen Bennett, who heads the ex-gay ministry named after him, was scheduled to preach and market music to gays in Provincetown, Mass., last weekend.
A reporter for the Cape Cod Times interviewed both Bennett and former ex-gays living in P’town.
Bennett claims to remain close to his former gay lover and gay friends, but unfortunately they are [...]
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Filed under: Stephen Bennett
Exodus board chairman Mike Haley’s day job is the management of antigay activism at Focus on the Family.
In Focus’ CitizenLink newsletter, Haley’s operation warns that gay equal rights will mean the end of civilization.
The article consists of resentful complaints about the equal rights being achieved by same-sex-attracted individuals, but one section in particular is worth [...]
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Filed under: Exodus, Focus on the Family/FRC
XGW reader David B. points out ex-gay minister Matthew C. Manning.
Mr. Manning’s web site states that he has miraculously received and maintained an HIV-negative diagnosis after suffering from full-blown AIDS. A story at CBN goes further, asserting that Mr. Manning was cured through prayer alone — even though Manning declined to provide documentation from his [...]
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Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas earns a one-thumb-up approval rating for accurately describing — albeit momentarily — the Michigan university class, “How to Be Gay.”
Unfortunately, Mr. Thomas demonstrates some persistent ignorance about gay opinions regarding the origins of same-sex attraction. And he concludes by contradicting his earlier, accurate understanding of the course.
The core difference is Exodus [...]
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Filed under: Education/Youth, Exodus
A Human Rights Campaign study found that most Fortune 500 companies have policies opposing discrimination against same-sex-attracted workers. And a rising number of top companies reportedly offer some limited benefits to the families of gay workers or advertise to gay audiences.
That upsets Exodus chairman Mike Haley. Speaking on behalf of Focus on the Family, he [...]
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Filed under: CWFA, Discrimination, Exodus, Focus on the Family/FRC, Peter LaBarbera
In the Aug. 26 Exodus media spotlights report, Randy Thomas frets that the Fab Five on the hit TV show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy are making straight guys into their own gay images. He sounds concerned that the five may have felt shunned by Christian churches or that their creative gifts somehow [...]
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Filed under: Exodus, Television
I’ve been very busy doing technical work for the IGF site and, for this blog, researching the facts behind Exodus’ all-too-frequent misstatements and political diatribes.
That hasn’t left me with much time to recognize venues where one’s opposition to homosexual behavior does not necessarily require one to become an intolerant ideologue.
Sed Contra, linked from the left [...]
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Filed under: Reform / Renewal
Mike Haley, chairman of the board of Exodus International and a spokesman for Focus on the Family, fumed at CBS Aug. 21 for “The Amazing Race,” a show that had the gall to include among its contestants a gay couple that considers itself married for life.
Haley wrote:
“Why can’t they say they’re married?” a CBS spokeswoman [...]
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Filed under: Exodus, Focus on the Family/FRC, Science, Television