Earlier this month, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers charged into Berkeley, Calif., determined to thwart hordes of hateful and violent liberals.
What he found, but still fails to acknowledge, is that his stereotypes about “liberals” are untrue. Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Partnerships
Rhea County, Tenn., made headlines a couple weeks ago when it sought to pass laws to arrest the county’s homosexual residents and run them out of town.
On Apr. 28, Exodus ex-gay leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas sought to teach county residents a kinder, gentler sort of bigotry. Read more »
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Filed under: Discrimination, Exodus
I spent the weekend catching up on matters at “the other site” that I work on. I’ve got plenty of XGW e-mail and news to catch up on tomorrow. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, check out John Aravosis’ new blog, AmericaBlog. Read more »
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Focus on the Family has been lobbying for the shutdown of federally funded and hosted research into sexual orientation. Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC, Science
Exodus-Focus on the Family and its allies periodically assert that barely one percent (or 3 million) of the U.S. population is same-sex-attracted, or “gay.”
But the 2000 U.S. Census counted 594,000 gay couples and 59,000,000 heterosexual couples.
The gay couple count happens to be 10 percent of the heterosexual couple count.
If only 1 to 3 percent of the population were same-sex-attracted, but it is known that 10 percent of the nation’s couples are gay, then wouldn’t that indicate that gays are disproportionately couple-bound?
Clearly the exgay numbers do not add up. Read more »
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Filed under: Science, Semantics
Kevin Drum of Washington Monthly notices that something is amiss, once again, with the reporting at the Exodus ex-gay leadership’s favorite newspaper. Read more »
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In an April 8 news release, Exodus International executive director called upon the “true Body of Christ” — fundamentalists, apparently — to sign a petition demanding that ex-gays be included on a Lutheran task force on sexuality. Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Reform / Renewal
Exodus International executive director Alan Chambers appears today at a symposium on same-sex marriage at the University of California-Berkeley.
The symposium program places Chambers on a panel of “legal scholars, practitioners, and experts exploring the legal and constitutional issues associated with same sex marriage.” Read more »
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The exgay umbrella network Exodus omits a key fact from its April 16 appeal for gay adoption and custody to be outlawed: The American College of Pediatricians, from which Exodus borrows its credibility, is not a professional peer organization of pediatricians. It is a conservative religious organization founded specifically to oppose “homosexual parenting.” Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Parenting
A string of Focus articles, published in mid-April 2004, serves as a reminder of the organization’s inability to defend its ideology rationally, to maintain a logically consistent message, and to convey love toward rival people of faith. Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Focus on the Family/FRC, Partnerships