Posted on June 30th, 2006 by Daniel Gonzales
WHO:
– Joe Saunders, Central Florida field organizer, Equality Florida– Wayne Besen, executive director, Truth WinsOut – Jim Merritt, ex-gay survivor– Pat Padilla, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
WHAT: A coalition will hold a press conference to challenge so-called “ex-gay” efforts to enter public schools with harmful and scientifically bankrupt programs.
WHEN: Friday, […] Read more »
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Filed under: Critics
Posted on June 29th, 2006 by Daniel Gonzales
Richard Cohen is scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight.
Update: Just watched it here in the Pacific time zone and was laughing so hard I was afraid I’d wake up my roommate. Please, if anyone has screen shots of George Foreman looking aghast send them to me. Hopefully The Malcontent will have […] Read more »
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Filed under: PFOX, Television
Posted on June 28th, 2006 by Daniel Gonzales
From the Marion Chronicle Tribune:
As the annual Exodus Freedom Conference began in the Phillippe Performing Arts Center auditorium, a group of about 12 people with the Gay Liberation Network stood at Indiana Wesleyan University’s main entrance in protest.
“We consider the Exodus network and other so called ‘ex-gay’ ministries dangerous, particularly to gay youths,” said Bob […] Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus
Posted on June 28th, 2006 by Dave Rattigan
A story I came across today began thus:
Former Lesbian Brings Ex-’Gay’ Message to 2006 NEA Annual Meeting
By Jim Brown
June 26, 2006
(AgapePress) - A former lesbian who now runs a Christian ministry in Minnesota will be holding the first ever ex-”gay” exhibit at the National Education Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
I found it amusing to […] Read more »
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Filed under: Semantics
Posted on June 27th, 2006 by Mike Airhart
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Filed under: Uncategorized
Posted on June 27th, 2006 by Timothy Kincaid
The London Times is reporting that the Archbishop of Cantebury, Rowan Williams, is drawing up plans to remove the Episcopal Church - and other nonconforming liberal Anglican bodies - from full membership in the Communion. This is because the Episcopal Church, the American branch of the Anglicans, would not repent for electing an openly […] Read more »
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Filed under: Uncategorized
Posted on June 27th, 2006 by Daniel Gonzales
You wouldn’t know it from the religious-right media but today is National HIV Testing Day. News sites which ignore this include:
FreeRepublicTownhallFamily News In FocusWorldNetDaily
And don’t count on the Agapepress to include it when they publish this afternoon.
MSNBC has a great article about the editor of POZ, a heterosexual woman who contracted HIV through serial […] Read more »
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Filed under: Media
Posted on June 27th, 2006 by Daniel Gonzales
While researching the above post I came to learn the former Exodus board member who said:
“Today with God’s abundant grace and His miraculous power to heal, I walk totally free from the AIDS virus.”
Died in 2004. His name was Michael Steven Lumberger and his testimonial no longer appears on the recently redesigned Exodus website. […] Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus
Posted on June 26th, 2006 by Timothy Kincaid
The GOP governors just aren’t living up to the Hate the Gays promise that the right wing has in mind.
First, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. dumped a Metro representative that was calling gays deviants. And then he had the gall to appoint an openly gay judge. Oh, the tragedy.
And now there’s California.
Randy […] Read more »
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Filed under: Christian Nationalists
Posted on June 26th, 2006 by Timothy Kincaid
AgapePress reports that the ex-gay movement will be trying to influence the NEA at their upcoming conference. Something called the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus will be presenting Janet Boynes, ex-lesbian, at a display booth to promote her ministry.
The former lesbian, now a born-again believer, strongly refutes claims that homosexuals cannot change. “Is it easy […] Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth
