Posted on March 31st, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson declares, over the course of 3,600 words, that God will destroy the United States and Western civilization will crumble if life-long gay couples are allowed to marry or celebrate civil unions. Among the newsletter’s pricey suggestions for additional reading: A brochure entitled, “Be Intolerant.” Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC, Partnerships
Posted on March 31st, 2004 by Mike Airhart
After a “lesbian identified” Methodist minister was acquitted in an official church trial, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers presumed to criticize the church leadership — before launching into a tirade against all liberals. Read more »
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Filed under: Christian Nationalists, Exodus, Reform / Renewal
Posted on March 31st, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Yesterday, Exodus applauded a Massachusetts constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage but permit civil unions. Today, Exodus changed its mind. Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Partnerships
Posted on March 30th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Proclaiming “Beacon Hill not bullied by judicial tyranny,” Exodus International applauded the Massachusetts legislature’s approval Monday of a constitutional amendment that would ban marriage for gays and legalize civil unions instead.
The Family Research Council, however, accused the legislature of “blackmail” against the state’s voters for not giving them the option to vote on gay marriage […] Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Focus on the Family/FRC, Partnerships
Posted on March 27th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Michael Hamar points out one of John Aravosis’ sites, HateCrime.org, which compares the factoids used by Nazi German propagandists to justify discrimination against Jewish people, with the soundbites used today by Robert Knight (formerly of the Family Research Council, now with Concerned Women for America) to justify discrimination against gay people.
The comparison has been online […] Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC
Posted on March 27th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Village Voice writer Michael Musto accused an unnamed ex-gay activist of making overtures to him, when both happened to be in the green room for a taping of Geraldo Rivera’s show. (Thanks to Jim Barber for the link.)
Actually, Musto didn’t exactly use the word “overture.” What he did say isn’t printable in a family-values blog […] Read more »
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Filed under: Stephen Bennett
Posted on March 26th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
The Exodus media blog promotes a WorldNetDaily item accusing gay parents of promoting incest. Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Parenting, Partnerships
Posted on March 26th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
I’m mainly noting this for future reference.
Lynn at Noli Irritare Leones remembers attending a San Francisco gay parade decades ago.
NAMBLA isn’t welcome among gays now — and it wasn’t then, either. Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth
Posted on March 25th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Jody at Naked Writing is looking for people who have been in the ex-gay movement.
He is writing an article about the movement for a young men’s magazine and would like to hear from people with first-hand experience in ex-gay groups or therapy.
If you think you might qualify, visit Naked Writing and contact Jody. Read more »
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Filed under: Weblogs
Posted on March 24th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Jeanne D’Arc of Body and Soul remembers Archbishop Romero, who was an outspoken advocate for El Salvador’s population. He risked (and lost) his life defending human dignity and justice at a time when thousands of liberal Salvadorans were being slaughtered by an anticommunist Salvadoran government receiving heavy military and financial support from the U.S. government […] Read more »
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Filed under: CWFA, Christian Nationalists
