Posted on October 31st, 2005 by Daniel Gonzales
Mr. Bennett points out there are no definitive studies proving sexuality is genetic. However Bennett deceives by omission. He repeatedly asserts sexuality is developmental but fails to cite any such study to back this up. Instead Bennett provides a pathetic string non-clinically supported claims of “broken father” type stereotypes.
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Filed under: Stephen Bennett
Posted on October 31st, 2005 by Daniel Gonzales
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Filed under: Exodus, Infographics, Media
Posted on October 29th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas comments on the Oct. 28 Boston Globe interview of him at Focus on the Family’s Love Won Out road show.
I criticized the article here for its failure to confirm the accuracy of Thomas’s statements and for overlooking the very public antigay political activities of Exodus and Focus on the Family.
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Filed under: Exodus, Media
Posted on October 29th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
The Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education has identified the members of a sex-education curriculum development panel. This panel is is being recreated after the previous panel’s work was protested by an abstinence-only group and the antigay group PFOX, challenged in court by the religious-right Liberty Counsel, and subsequently discarded.
Among the new panel members is […] Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth, Focus on the Family/FRC, PFOX
Posted on October 29th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Thoughts by former ex-gay Peterson Toscano:
Lots of “ex-gay” proponents claim that one of the causes of same-sex attraction is childhood sexual abuse. I don’t think they are lying; they truly believe it. In fact, I imagine that the majority of people who attend their programs have been sexually abused, so in their logic they have […] Read more »
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Filed under: Semantics
Posted on October 28th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
Alas, A Blog casts a bit of doubt upon the widespread belief that suppressed sexual arousal prompts antigay bullies to act violently against persons assumed to be gay.
Citing a study that measured the penis response of homophobic and non-homophobic males to the sight of homosexual pornography, Alas points out that other things besides sexual arousal […] Read more »
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Filed under: Science
Posted on October 28th, 2005 by Timothy Kincaid
Washington state was subjected a little puff piece on the ex-gay movement from KOMO TV news website.
The ex-gay ministry, Groundswell, is quoted as saying
“Our message is that change is possible for anyone who wants out of homosexuality.”
We’ve discussed, ad nauseum, what that sentence means in English so I won’t go into it here.
The piece quoted […] Read more »
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Filed under: Exgay Activists
Posted on October 28th, 2005 by Timothy Kincaid
Warren Throckmorton has adopted an interesting take on scripture in Matthew in which Jesus refers to “eunuchs because they were born that way”. Throckmorton’s interpretation seems to be that some men are born without an attraction to women. Read more »
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Filed under: Warren Throckmorton
Posted on October 28th, 2005 by Mike Airhart
I see below that Dan Gonzales disagrees strongly with one of Wayne Besen’s posts this week.
I hadn’t noticed that post, but there are at least two other posts by Besen that are worth a look:
The American Family Association is battling wholesome low-wage drugstore chain Walgreen’s because the retailer is one of the many corporate sponsors […] Read more »
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Filed under: Critics
Posted on October 28th, 2005 by Daniel Gonzales
In his blog today, Wayne Besen attacks Brenna Simonds, leader of a small Boston exgay ministry, the name of which he does not give. That ministry’s name is is Alive In Christ and is unlucky enough to be based out of a church located a block from the capital building. In Besen’s eye […] Read more »
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