Posted on January 31st, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Religious-right organizations, including the American Family Association and Focus on the Family, launched a media frenzy last week when they criticized a pro-tolerance video starring SpongeBob and numerous other children’s TV cartoon characters.
From CNN:
"A short step beneath the surface reveals that one of the differences being celebrated is homosexuality," wrote Ed Vitagliano in an article […] Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC, Stephen Bennett, Television
Posted on January 30th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Sept. 26, 2000, The Advocate:
Wade Richards, associate of Peter LaBarbera
Nov. 24, 1998, The Advocate:
Clint Trout
Chris Ponticelli
Mark SatterleeSame article with pictures
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Filed under: Profiles
Posted on January 30th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Jeremy Marks
Leader of the British evangelical Christian group Courage
This organization was formerly Britain’s leading ex-gay organization, but Marks has since declared ex-gay ideologies a failure and steered the organization to aid gay Christians in reconciling their faith and sexuality.
To be continued… Read more »
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Filed under: Profiles
Posted on January 30th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Wade Richards
Advocate story
Worked with Peter LaBarbera
Now ex-ex-gay. Featured prominently in Wayne Besen’s book, Anything But Straight
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Filed under: Profiles
Posted on January 30th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Anne Paulk
Husband: John PaulkLocation: Portland, Ore.
Author:
In a 1998 New York Times full-page ad, Paulk proclaimed, "I’m living proof that Truth can set you free."
In the ad she says, "… Even though I had a lot of male friends, I just wasn’t attracted to men sexually." Yet, in Love Won Out, a book she co-wrote with […] Read more »
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Filed under: Profiles
Posted on January 27th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Exgay pundit and PFOX ally Prof. Warren Throckmorton launched Identity Radio on Jan. 24.
By "identity," Prof. Throckmorton means the exgay political "identity" that defines what one supposedly is not, rather than constructively describing one aspect of what a person is.
From his Jan. 23 note to supporters:
Here are the programming highlights [for Jan. 24]:
9 - […] Read more »
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Filed under: Warren Throckmorton
Posted on January 27th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
In a Jan. 26 report on the professional decline of PFOX president Richard Cohen, Tom Musbach of PlanetOut interviews Ex-Gay Watch participant "Rick from Fredonia, N.Y."
Rick commented Jan. 25 on his experience with Cohen’s therapy here at Ex-Gay Watch. Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth, PFOX
Posted on January 27th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
A group of suburban Maryland educators and parents continues to challenge claims being published by exgay pundit and PFOX ally Prof. Warren Throckmorton via the Washington Times. (Previous XGW coverage.)
The media blitz by Prof. Throckmorton and PFOX seeks to overturn a comprehensive, abstinence-inclusive sex-education program in the high-profile public schools of suburban Washington, D.C.
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Filed under: Education/Youth, PFOX
Posted on January 27th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
TeachTheFacts.org is a web site that defends comprehensive sex education in suburban Maryland public schools against a recent campaign by exgay and political religious-right organizations including PFOX.
In response to Wayne Besen’s press release, TTF asked the American Counseling Association to confirm details of its expulsion of PFOX president and exgay activist Richard Cohen.
ACA confirmed Cohen’s […] Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth, PFOX
Posted on January 26th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Exgay leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas spent the week in Washington celebrating with a who’s who of the religious right.
Thomas met, saw, or had his picture taken with:
Coral Ridge Ministries leader D. James KennedyFMA co-sponsor Rep. Marilyn Musgrave ("wise and brave woman")Focus on the Family’s Bill MaierFRC’s Genevieve Wood
Janet Parshall, former FRC spokeswoman […] Read more »
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Filed under: Christian Nationalists
