Posted on September 30th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Exodus chairman and ex-gay activist Mike Haley runs the antigay politics division of Focus on the Family.
Today, Focus reminded its CitizenLink newsletter readers that Focus and its Christian Right allies are the sole defenders of marriage.
Focus notes that an antigay coalition presumes to “educate the public about the societal benefits of marriage and the […] Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC, Partnerships
Posted on September 29th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
This afternoon, Concerned Women for America removed from its web site an article, discussed at XGW here, that described a gay Canadian couple as “domestic terrorists” for attempting to cross the U.S. border as a couple.
Google has a cached copy of the CWFA article.
Here is the complete text of the article:
Homosexuals Pose New Threat to […] Read more »
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Filed under: CWFA
Posted on September 29th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Is it terrorism when a gay couple from Canada wishes simply to cross the border as a couple?
Concerned Women for America now labels them “domestic terrorists.”
CWFA appears to have stooped to a new low in the trivialization of terrorism.
However, a Google search finds countless examples of isolated gay or antigay threats of violence being counted […] Read more »
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Filed under: CWFA
Posted on September 28th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
From a message posted to the Silt blog, and mentioned briefly in comments at XGW some time back:
John Paulk called into Mike Signorile’s radio talk show last week. It was truly amazing radio. Paulk said he was a fan of the show. He went on to make some startling admissions about still fighting gay lust […] Read more »
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Filed under: Reform / Renewal
Posted on September 28th, 2003 by Mike Airhart
“Conservative” Christian church leaders occasionally boast that their churches are growing like gangbusters while so-called “liberal” denominations (mainline and orthodox Christian denominations, or any denomination that veers from the given church leader’s ideology) are shriveling due to the non-conservatives’ alleged accommodation with the broader culture.
The Associated Press cites an internal report by the Southern Baptist […] Read more »
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Filed under: Reform / Renewal
Posted on September 23rd, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Exodus International executed a political stunt in July when it asked an Orlando city councilwoman to proclaim July 21 “Exodus International Day.”
When some Orlando council members — one of whom, Patty Sheehan, was lesbian — protested, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers singled out the lesbian councilwoman and accused her of exploiting the proclamation for political […] Read more »
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Filed under: Discrimination, Exodus
Posted on September 22nd, 2003 by Mike Airhart
The Exodus national office displayed a selective respect for freedom of speech and self-determination in its news release for Sept. 16.
Exodus promotes “freedom from homosexuality,” without defining what that means, and it defends freedom of speech — for ex-gay advocates, but not necessarily for gay people of faith.
To be fair, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas shows […] Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus
Posted on September 22nd, 2003 by Mike Airhart
Texas Rangers Gay Day received a modest turnout of gay sports fans — but Concerned Women for America apparently has its cities mixed up: It greets gay sports fans with a Bronx cheer.
CWFA said:
The 8 by 4 foot neon green sign outside the Texas Rangers’ Arlington stadium near Dallas on Sunday night proclaimed the outcome: […] Read more »
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Filed under: CWFA
Posted on September 17th, 2003 by Steve Boese
Anti-gay-marriage advocates commonly portray marriage as unitary and monolithic, capable of being nullified if stretched too far. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), for example, describes it as:
faithful, exclusive, and lifelong… intimate partnership of life and love… a living image of the way in which the Lord personally loves his people… a relationship […] Read more »
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Filed under: Partnerships
Posted on September 17th, 2003 by Steve Boese
Matthew Limon was convicted of having consensual but criminal sex with a nearly-15-year-old boy when he was 18 and both lived at a group home for the developmentally disabled. He was sentenced to a 17+ year prison term despite a Kansas “Romeo and Juliet” statute — which sharply reduces penalties for sex between a sub-16-year-old […] Read more »
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Filed under: Antisex Laws
