If James Dobson ruled the ex-gay movement with an iron fist, and if the opening scene of The Devil Wears Prada were to peek inside a political empire instead of a fashion magazine, then what might Dobson’s morning arrival at Focus on the Family look like?
[Elevator doors open onto the executive floor. James Dobson dons … Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC, Movies
When I learned of the following ad from Right Wing Watch, I was immediately disgusted at the advertisers.
And so were two ex-gay activists.
The ad, for a San Francisco S&M fair for glbt and heterosexual people, did not target impressionable family audiences and it is apparently hard to find in print, even in San Francisco.
But no … Read more »
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Filed under: Exgay Activists, Religion, Scandals
Ex-gay Canadian Bill Whatcott is a fringe candidate for mayor and former prostitute who believes he is qualified to police the morals of Edmonton, Alberta, and Regina, Saskatchewan. But if he listened to some potential allies at Exodus, he might reconsider both his candidacy and his warlike attitude toward same-sex-attracted persons. Read more »
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Filed under: Exgay Activists, Exodus
From Gregory Herek, Ph.D:
Q: What does the president of Iran have in common with certain antigay activists in the United States?
A: Both maintain that homosexuals don’t really exist.
While Exodus executive vice president Randy Thomas calls for President Maumoud Ahmadinejad to “go home,” some of his past and present allies might feel somewhat differently. Among those … Read more »
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Filed under: NARTH, Paul Cameron
Mel Seesholtz assesses the weaknesses of the recent ex-gay study by Stanton Jones of Wheaton College and Mark Yarhouse of Regent University.
The Thomas Project: A study designed for specific results
A well-known, peer-reviewed research study of ex-gays that was conducted by Robert Spitzer in 2001 made fundamental mistakes of methodology, according to those peer reviewers: telephone … Read more »
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Filed under: Change, Exodus, Science
At the religious-right’s misnamed “Family Impact Summit,” two spotters for Right Wing Watch recorded their observations of Exodus youth activists Mike Ensley and Scott Davis, and the anti-Christian appeals of Christine Sneeringer, who leads an Exodus-affiliated group called Worthy Creations.
According to the observers:
The session drew attention to efforts by Exodus and others to put a … Read more »
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Filed under: Education/Youth, Exodus
Right Wing Watch is monitoring a growing rift between James Dobson, co-founder of Focus on the Family, and a faction of evangelical Christians over the U.S. presidential candidacy of Fred Thompson.
Thompson supports a constitutional amendment to allow states not to recognize other states’ gay marriages. In an e-mail to religious-right leaders that was leaked to … Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC, Partnerships
Former ex-gay Peterson Toscano brings us up to date on the appearances of former ex-gays on ABC’s 20/20 and on CNN. Read more »
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In July, antigay political groups including Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) filed papers in Maryland state court to stop implementation of a board-approved and popular sex education curriculum in grades eight and ten in suburban Washington, D.C., schools.
This week, the Montgomery County Public Schools responded by asserting that the anti-tolerance activists were … Read more »
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTwrnKb61Q
There is nothing we could add to this except the hope that members of both parties would have such courage.
Full Story in LA Times
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Filed under: Media, Morality, Television, Tolerance