Posted on August 31st, 2007 by David Roberts
This past Tuesday, PFOX posted some disturbing news. While innocently offering “materials on same-sex attraction and tolerance for the ex-gay community to a hungry public” at the Arlington County Fair, Arlington Va (Aug 15-19), they claim their representatives were viciously attacked, both verbally and physically, by “gay activists” who had also set up a … Read more »
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Filed under: Exgay Activists, Focus on the Family/FRC, Media, PFOX, Scandals, Tolerance
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Mike Airhart
Tim Todd Ministries has recently distributed 48,000 New Testaments — altered to conform to religious-right political correctness — to public-school students in the United States.
These New Testaments come with numerous “powerful full-color comics” that (Todd claims) communicate the “absolute truth,” that are packed with “absolute truths regarding moral issues young people are faced with everyday.” … Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth, Exgay Activists
Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Mike Airhart
At a time when he should be getting a job, earning a wage from real labor, and focusing on his supposed “recovery” from lifelong homosexual struggles, the Rev. Ted Haggard has apparently sought donations for himself and for a defunct Colorado charity that the Rocky Mountain News (with help from writer Dan Savage and attorney … Read more »
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Filed under: Scandals
Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Mike Airhart
Ex-Gay Watch has asserted at various times that Exodus’ flagship live-in program, Love In Action, altered its web site, put new limits on its youth program, and redefined itself from a therapeutic effort into a “ministry” in 2005 after Tennessee state regulators became concerned that unlicensed LIA staff were controlling participant/patient access to prescribed … Read more »
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Filed under: Live-In Programs
Posted on August 28th, 2007 by Mike Airhart
Both the news media and the blogosphere have been roaring their disapproval of Sen. Larry Craig’s “hypocrisy” after he was arrested for alleged lewd conduct in a Minneapolis/St. Paul airport restroom.
But exactly how was Craig allegedly hypocritical? That’s where the accusations become vague — they preach to the converted and assume that any hypocrisy … Read more »
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Filed under: Scandals
Posted on August 26th, 2007 by Emily K
How “Greenberg” is my valley?
You would think that an organization as professedly Jewish as JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality) wouldn’t need any help from the Goyim. You thought wrong. (“Goyim,” by the way, means “Nations” in Hebrew, and in scripture refers to the non-Jewish, or Gentile, nations.)
While perusing JONAH’s online library, I came … Read more »
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Filed under: Authors, JONAH, Religion
Posted on August 26th, 2007 by Mike Airhart
Steve Gallagher is president of Pure Life Ministries, a Kentucky-based live-in and at-home “ministry” for persons deemed to be sexual sinners.
Gallagher’s organization may not have healed a single soul of their same-gender romantic and sexual attraction, but he is eager to make life difficult for same-sex-attracted persons just the same.
In a guest column for the … Read more »
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Filed under: Exgay Activists
Posted on August 25th, 2007 by Mike Airhart
We’ve commented occasionally about Charlene Cothran, the newly ex-gay publisher of Venus magazine who alienated her gay African-American readership with rhetoric of blame, self-pity and victimhood borrowed straight from the sorry political playbook of privileged white ex-gays.
Recently, some members of the African-American GLBT leadership have put together a video response produced by Human Rights Campaign […]
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Posted on August 24th, 2007 by Mike Airhart
People for the American Way thinks that James Dobson of Focus on the Family has been unusually quiet of late.
Health problems and foot-in-mouth disease may have prompted Dobson’s low national profile, but PFAW suggests the organization’s strategic plan is alive and well:
Given a lackluster slate of Republican presidential candidates and a partisan refusal to support … Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC
Posted on August 21st, 2007 by David Roberts
More information has come to light concerning the study we reported on here.
An anonymous source said they have contact with someone participating in the study, called the Thomas Project, out of Wheaton College, and the study consists of questions asked once a year by phone. This participant also noted that the questions were … Read more »
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Filed under: Change, Exgay Activists, Exodus
