Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Dave Rattigan
Pentecostal leader Michael Brown continues to throw homosexuality into the mix with an array of exotic sexual fetishes, including pedophilia, zoophilia and coprophilia, sexual arousal from human feces.
In January, we looked at Brown, the latest evangelical leader to join Love Won Out’s roster of conference speakers. Ex-Gay Watch found Dr Brown’s rhetoric to be aggressively … Read more »
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Filed under: Family Values, Focus on the Family/FRC, Peter LaBarbera, Religion
Posted on February 26th, 2008 by David Roberts
Beyond Ex-Gay co-founder Peterson Toscano found himself on a broadcast radio show yesterday with a host, another guest and all but one caller holding staunchly anti-gay positions. His responses were responsive and calm in the face of some really vile commentary.
In one particularly egregious statement, the host suggested the real reason those who protested … Read more »
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Filed under: Exgay Activists, Former Exgays, Lifestyle, Religion
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by David Roberts
Recently we became aware of Wendy Gritter’s keynote talk (mp3) at the Exodus leadership conference in January. Wendy is the executive director of an Exodus member ministry in Canada called New Direction. While it is what most here would describe as an ex-gay ministry, many things about it are unexpected. For one, … Read more »
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Filed under: Exodus, Religion
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Eugene Wagner
Peterson Toscano reported Wednesday on his arrival in Memphis for Beyond Ex-Gay’s Deconstructing the Ex-Gay Myth — A Weekend of Action & Art, which begins today. Two local media outlets have reported on the event: the Memphis Flyer published an interview with Toscano yesterday, while the Memphis Commercial Appeal featured fellow Love In Action … Read more »
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Filed under: Focus on the Family/FRC, Former Exgays
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by David Roberts
Senior ESPN Writer LZ Granderson recounts his own frightening experience with a mob in New Orleans that started with taunts of “faggot.” Granderson is gay and also often writes about social issues surrounding sports on ESPN Page 2, where this story can be found.
As I walked by the group of men — on my … Read more »
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Filed under: Hate Crimes/Free Speech, Sports
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by David Roberts
There is a new interview and discussion of the ex-gay issue from both major angles at InterfaithVoices.org. Peterson Toscano discusses how his life was harmed by the process, after which no change was evident. Alan Calhoun, group leader from Regeneration Ministries discusses his shame over being gay, and his experience with ex-gay ministry personally.
Dr. Michelle … Read more »
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Filed under: Change, Dissent, Exodus
Posted on February 16th, 2008 by David Roberts
Source: Winnipeg Sun
The story is a familiar one. A young man is found by family to be sexually attracted to men and coerced through a fear of hell to seek “therapy” to go straight. This is the story that led a young Canadian man to seek out the help of Terrance Lewis, … Read more »
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Filed under: Change, Exgay Activists, Health, Religion, Science, Therapy
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by David Roberts
A rather creative video to demonstrate the folly of blaming the fall of the Western World on gay marriage. [brief underwear clip] Read more »
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Filed under: Discrimination, Humor
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Mike Airhart
I founded the Ex-Gay Watch web site in 2002 to promote new voices in the social dialogue regarding so-called ex-gays.
After two years of writing 20 hours per week (or more) about ex-gay political activists, I began to run out of energy and time.
XGW could have ended right there, but two excellent writer/researchers — Daniel Gonzales … Read more »
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Filed under: About XGW
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Dave Rattigan
When I ordered God, Gays and the Church, I was - perhaps quite naively - not prepared for the egregious level of homophobia contained in its pages.
Released yesterday to coincide with the gay debate at the Church of England Synod, the book is a compendium of essays about homosexuality and ex-gays, here re-termed “post-gays”. It … Read more »
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Filed under: Books, Religion
