Ex-Gay Watch: A Glance At the News
Posted on May 20th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
A look at the week’s headlines impacting gays, ex-gays and ex-ex-gays. Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC
Exodus Double-Speak on Gay Marriage
Posted on May 19th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
In his early movie, Bananas, Woody Allen’s character Fielding Mellish complains:
This trial is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.
The vocabulary has been adapted recently by a Miller Beer ad which spoofs a political debate in which the exasperated […] Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Partnerships
Exodus Leader: Gay Elite Kidnapped Brown Anniversary
Posted on May 19th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Exodus International’s executive director, Alan Chambers, writes a personal blog titled Just Think! Encourage it in others. Demand it of yourself. In an entry yesterday, he blames an undefined “Gay Elite” for:
Hijacking “a legitimate civil rights triumph with their battle for same-sex marriage in Massachusetts[, thus] trump[ing] Black Americans for coverage.”
“Commandeering” the word gay.
Stealing […] Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Partnerships
Ex-Gays And the (Right-Wing) Morning News
Posted on May 14th, 2004 by Steve Boese
Oliver Griswold of The Morning News did for 30 days what some ex-gay activists do for their entire adult lives:
Live solely on an all-reactionary media diet. Read more »
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Filed under: Weblogs
MinistryWatch Analyzes Finances of Ex-Gays, Focus on the Family
Posted on May 13th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
MinistryWatch analyzes four years of financial performance at Exodus, the U.S. network of ex-gay organizations. No tawdry money scandals are evident, but the network does live a bit on the edge — and the financials obscure Exodus’ overdependence on Focus on the Family. Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Finance, Focus on the Family/FRC
Ex-Lesbian Staffer At Focus on the Family to Debate Gay Marriage
Posted on May 13th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Former lesbian Amy Tracy will assist Focus on the Family in debating against marriage for gay couples on the Total Living Network from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. May 13. Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC, Partnerships
Ex-Gay Tim Wilkins: Bridge-Builder?
Posted on May 12th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Ex-gay activist Tim Wilkins of Wake Forest, N.C., spotlights an effort that he made to establish friendly rapport with gay activists. Read more »
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Filed under: Tolerance
Ex-Gay Greg Quinlan: Homosexuality A Personality Disorder
Posted on May 12th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Ten speakers with diverse perspectives on gay rights debate before high school honors students in the Toledo area on May 10.
Among the speakers was ex-gay activist Greg Quinlan of Dayton, Ohio, who frequently lobbies in defense of discrimination against gay people.
His decision to attack the mental health of gay people does not appear to have […] Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth
Christians Seek Mutual Understanding About Gay Marriage
Posted on May 12th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
While the leadership of the Exodus International ex-gay network opposes dialogue that might lead to mutual understanding between gay and ex-gay people of faith, especially regarding marriage, other Christians support dialogue and are actively promoting it. The Quakers, for example, are hosting “Peace Building Dialogues” this month — and inviting the online public to participate. Read more »
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Filed under: Partnerships
Ex-Gay Selects CD Partner with Ties to Racism, Anti-Semitism
Posted on May 11th, 2004 by Mike Airhart
Ex-gay activist Stephen Bennett enthusiastically promotes his antigay CD as a joint project with World Net Daily. As it happens, the current issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report cites World Net Daily’s role in the publication of racist, anti-Semitic talk-show host Michael Savage’s most recent book, The Enemy Within. A World Net Daily official makes no apologies for the organization’s role in promoting Savage’s propaganda. Does Stephen Bennett care whether his business partners are racist or anti-Semitic? Read more »
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Filed under: Stephen Bennett