Posted on September 30th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
The Alliance Defense Fund and “Love In Action,” an exgay live-in facility in Memphis, are suing the state of Tennessee.
Until recently, LIA claimed to offer therapeutic services. When the state challenged LIA’s failure to obtain a license and hire accredited, college-educated staff members, LIA reworded its web site and marketing materials. LIA deleted its claim […] Read more »
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Filed under: Live-In Programs
Posted on September 29th, 2005 by Timothy Kincaid
Concerned Woman, Dennis Lynch, has issued an article declaring that Father Mychal Judge was definitely not gay. Judge was the priest who died on 9/11/01 in service to victims of the terrorist attack and the firefighters that were attempting to rescue them and who became known as a hero.
Lynch bases the bold assertion on […] Read more »
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Filed under: CWFA
Posted on September 28th, 2005 by Timothy Kincaid
The ex-gay movement exists, to a great extent, because of its usage of a language that allows them to say one thing and mean another. Sometimes this contorted way of thinking produces comical results. One such example is shown in the Love Won Out press release. In discussing mom-from-hell Nancy Heche’s presentation:
…she […] Read more »
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Filed under: Uncategorized
Posted on September 27th, 2005 by Timothy Kincaid
In keeping consistent with their anti-gay, pro-ex-gay agenda, the Washington Times has another non-news article about the Spitzer report. The excuse for this article was coverage of a forum by teachthefacts.org’s, the group arguing for accurate sex education in Maryland. Nothing at the forum was reported but rather reporter Jon Ward blathers on […] Read more »
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Filed under: Uncategorized
Posted on September 27th, 2005 by Timothy Kincaid
Update: Based on a report by the Good As You blog, this XGW post originally cited a press release attributed to Bertram Fields.
However, Good As You wrote Fields to confirm the story’s authenticity. Fields wrote back:
“Release is a phony. I never issued any such release. Cruise is not giving any lectures.”
–The Moderator Read more »
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Filed under: Therapy
Posted on September 27th, 2005 by Daniel Gonzales
In case you’re ever in an argument and want to prove “intelligent design” is creationism in disguise, here’s the proof from within the religious right:
“And creation versus evolution or intelligent design versus evolution, it’s been nuanced, it’s changed a little bit, but it’s the same basic issue.”-James Dobson, Focus On The Family radio broadcast, +25:18 […] Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC, Science
Posted on September 27th, 2005 by Daniel Gonzales
In case anyone wishes to contact Dianne De Groot, admissions director of Ontario High School, her email address is info@ocschools.org. Read more »
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Filed under: Discrimination, Education/Youth
Posted on September 26th, 2005 by Andrew Evans
WorldNetDaily published this wacky, factless diatribe on Banned Books Week, and how libraries are really banning the Christian view by not including antigay scripture tracts with all their young adult fiction. We also have AgapePress highlighting the efforts of exgay Deb French to remove two homosexual magazines from the Upper Arlington Public Library in Arlington, […] Read more »
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Filed under: Christian Nationalists
Posted on September 24th, 2005 by Timothy Kincaid
As an anecdotal example of the trauma caused in families by the rigid and literal interpretation of selected scriptures on homosexuality, one woman put her religious dilemma into words for the StarTribune online. Randi Reitan and her family have decided to leave the Lutheran Church.
This is not an easy choice for Randi:
Our family has […] Read more »
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Filed under: Family Values
Posted on September 23rd, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Focus on the Family performed a disservice to its readership today when it raised the strawman argument that unnamed gay activists claim 10 percent of the population is gay — only to refute that long-abandoned claim with additional half-truths about a recent CDC survey that was discussed here at XGW.
Focus and the Traditional Values Coalition […] Read more »
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Filed under: Science
