http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2kI6_BiPG8
The person in this video goes by the nickname RevolutionaryHorizon on YouTube. I don’t think this is a joke - he seems to be serious about what he is saying. I’m posting this in an open forum because in just a few minutes, he touches on all kinds of issues we discuss here.
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Filed under: Basics, Gay / Exgay / 'Identity', Therapy
This video was released almost two weeks ago by Focus on the Family through their political mouthpiece, CitizenLink, so you may have already seen it or read commentary about it. Regardless of where you might stand on hate crimes laws, this kind of glib, heartless characterization seems unwarranted and cruel. It may also … Read more »
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Filed under: Discrimination, Exodus, Focus on the Family/FRC, Hate Crimes/Free Speech
Ex-ex-gay activist Peterson Toscano writes about sexuality, choice and the ex-gay journey in the latest New Statesman (a broadly left-wing British political weekly). Peterson writes both humorously and powerfully:
I chose to be authentic, to no longer demonise my sexuality, to integrate my faith with the rest of my life. I did choose to be a … Read more »
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Filed under: Change, Former Exgays, Media, Religion, Science, Warren Throckmorton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGoK7J4tCKs
This is a recent, brief interview of Dr. Warren Throckmorton and Dr. Benjamin McCommon on CNN regarding their views on the APA’s current re-evaluation of their position on reparative therapy. Sean O’Donnell also appears via a brief file clip explaining his own attempts to change from gay to straight. You may have already seen […]
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Filed under: Celibacy/Chastity, Change, Gay / Exgay / 'Identity', Lifestyle, Religion, Warren Throckmorton
In her final TV interview, taped Wednesday and aired Thursday on CNN, Tammy Faye Messner didn’t declare that she knew God’s will. She didn’t excuse her own fallibility or pass selective judgment against others. And she didn’t order up a set of litmus tests for would-be followers to pass in order to win divine approval.
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Filed under: Media, Religion
Former ex-gay Peterson Toscano sums up the week in ex-gay news.
Toscano has also posted new video from the Survivor Initiative press conference outside Love In Action in Memphis, Tenn.
Looking for new or rejuvenated ex-gay topical blogs to read this weekend? Try these:
Chronicles of An Ex-Ex-Gay, by Jacob, a survivor of “Love In Action”
Straight Guise, by … Read more »
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A researcher in the UK would like to speak to former ex-gays who have been through ex-gay therapy and/or ministry in Britain, or who received any sort of ministry in a UK church or religious group to help them change their sexual orientation.
If you think your story might be relevant, please contact me, Dave Rattigan, … Read more »
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Filed under: Change, Former Exgays, Religion, Therapy
WorldNetDaily cites the (alleged) Madison, Wis., arrest of ex-gay David Ott under local hate-speech laws as one of several cases where local misapplication of local or state hate speech laws is somehow (illogically) used as the primary excuse to prevent violent hate crimes against gay people from being sentenced to the same degree that violent … Read more »
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Filed under: Hate Crimes/Free Speech
Focus on the Family and Alan Keyes’ Renew America have joined ex-gay activist Linda Jernigan and Peter LaBarbera in spreading an already-disproven false report that lesbian gangs are running amok in America’s cities. All four sources neglect to tell their readers that Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation didn’t want the story to run in … Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth, Focus on the Family/FRC
Adherence to what most evangelicals would regard as a false religion is apparently acceptable under some circumstances, according to the Christian Post:
Christians need to understand that any support for Glatze should not be interpreted as support for the Mormon church. Instead it should be viewed as support for an individual and a very important movement, … Read more »
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Filed under: Exgay Activists, Religion