In late June, web site and the Gay Spirituality blog, Michigan psychotherapist Joe Kort offered his own lengthy clinical and personal assessment of reparative therapies.
Kort disputes 10 “myths” generally promoted by reparative therapists. While ex-gay programs differ, I think each program is likely to promote at least some of these myths. Most glaringly, the programs [...]
Responding to an e-mail defending the subordination of women, Andrew Sullivan writes:
The strength to be subordinate! And this comes from a religious tradition that began with a man who defied almost every social convention of his time and treated women — even single women — as his equals; who never married and broke up the [...]
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC
Exodus announces the second ex-gay ad, published today in the L.A. Times. (Here’s other XGW coverage of the Exodus ads.)
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Filed under: Exgay Ads, Focus on the Family/FRC
Dalai Banana discusses the allure of spiritual regression (OK, this is my own spin) — the temptation to limit oneself to an immature, beginner-level spirituality that sells trite answers to life’s questions. In time, some people discover the answers were inconsistent or factually, historically or scientifically erroneous, or they find that the wrong questions were [...]
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Filed under: Uncategorized
Bit by bit, I’m updating old sections of the site.
Here are updated entries and their revision dates:
July 20, 2004
Exgay Darryl L. Foster on Exgay Politics
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Exodus International has launched an ad campaign starting with a full page in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Headlined, “I Questioned Homosexuality,” its theme is also reflected in a new entry page to the Exodus website titled “Question Homosexuality… Change is possible. Discover how.”
To their credit, the graphic layout and copy are lean and [...]
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Filed under: Exgay Ads, Exodus, Partnerships
I really appreciate the depth and range of insights coming through the comments on the flexibility and fluidity post. For those who follow new posts via the RSS feed, or haven’t had a chance to follow the comments, here is a synopsis.
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Filed under: Semantics
A good discussion has ensued under the Gay Story With an Ex-Gay Theme post. I want to continue that with my thoughts on the flexibility or fluidity of sexual orientation.
Kinsey may have put orientation on a single scale from gay to straight, but I’m more inclined to think there are at least two relevant [...]
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Filed under: Semantics