Posted on February 22nd, 2005 by Mike Airhart
The faith-based, gay-affirming organization Soulforce is gearing up for a May 1 vigil at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Soulforce contends that Focus on the Family resorts to numerous untruths against gay and lesbian people and their families. Soulforce has created deardrdobson.com to advocate nonviolent opposition to James Dobson’s antigay bigotry.
Soulforce invites […] Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC
Posted on February 22nd, 2005 by Mike Airhart
A few weeks back, I got fed up with Scattered Words’ repeated insertion of duplicate trackbacks, or links to Scattered Words, into pages at Ex-Gay Watch.
I eventually went back and deleted Scattered Words’ old link insertions on XGW pages. I also blocked Scattered Words from posting new links, and last week I complained to […] Read more »
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Filed under: Uncategorized
Posted on February 20th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
In a Feb. 15 American Family Association article that is reprinted as a Feb. 18 press release, exgay umbrella group Exodus accuses unnamed "homosexual activists" of intolerance toward Focus on the Family’s "Love Won Out" exgay road show this weekend.
Chambers quotes no actual gay activists; instead, Chambers offers strawman arguments, claiming that unidentified gay people […] Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Hate Crimes/Free Speech
Posted on February 14th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
A member of Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley’s exgay restoration team sang backup on a song Dolly Parton recorded a few years back, when he worked for her at Dollywood in eastern Tennessee.
Parton has since given that song, Sugar Hill, which appeared on her 2002 project Halos and Horns, to the gay rights group Human […] Read more »
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Filed under: Music
Posted on February 14th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
David Fishback, chairman of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education’s Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development, responds in the Washington area’s new Examiner newspaper to exgay movement claims against the school district’s comprehensive sex-ed curriculum.
The misinformation was reprinted, apparently without fact-checking, in a Feb. 7 Examiner editorial.
Re: "Even Kinsey fans value […] Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth, PFOX, Warren Throckmorton
Posted on February 14th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Allan Johnson wrote to Ex-Gay Watch with an update to the original post that appeared on this page. I have deleted the earlier comments, simply because they were based on older information.
Allan Johnson is working on a documentary series entitled "Thirty Days" with Morgan Spurlock, the producer/writer/star of "Super Size Me," which is currently nominated […] Read more »
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Filed under: Television
Posted on February 14th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Demanding free speech for themselves, antigay parents in inland California on Feb. 11 angrily protested free expression by high school students who chose to support gay marriage by acting out such ceremonies as a form of political protest.
While many may view the students’ tactic as counterproductive, it is arguably less offensive — and more […] Read more »
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Filed under: Hate Crimes/Free Speech
Posted on February 14th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
In an interview with Marvin Olasky for World magazine, longtime exgay movement pundit Dr. Jeffrey Satinover argues that because:
homosexuality is not a uniform attribute across individuals,
sexual attraction fluctuates, and
homosexuality cannot easily be measured
therefore sexual orientation is a fiction and it is, Satinover argues, ludicrous to allow civil rights for a group of […] Read more »
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Filed under: Profiles
Posted on February 14th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Some 69 times, the web site of exgay movement marketer and financier Focus on the Family promotes antigay politician and commentator Alan Keyes.
So did this cached page from exgay activist Stephen’s Bennett’s web site — until someone very recently deleted the page.
And Keyes was the keynote speaker for the 1999 conference of aggrieved-parents group PFOX.
Yesterday […] Read more »
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Filed under: Uncategorized
Posted on February 13th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Uniform Hate Crime Statistics Are Not So Uniform
By Jim BurrowayUpdated version, March 29, 2005
"Gay-slaying verdict: guilty."
This was the top story on the Jan. 28 front page of the Arizona
Daily Star. It was good to see another blow for justice, and it
makes me proud to live in a community that takes these things seriously.
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Anti-gay activists are […] Read more »
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Filed under: Hate Crimes/Free Speech
