-Hate crimes based on sexual orientation increased slightly in 2007, despite an overall drop from 2006. -Anthony Venn-Brown launches a new site for ex-gay survivors in Australia and New Zealand. -The Ex-Gay Expose, hosted by Beyond Ex-Gay, comes to Denver…
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Exodus President Alan Chambers told California’s Proposition 8 supporters last month to vote against marriage equality because it would have made it harder for him to be ex-gay. Despite earlier this year vowing that Exodus would stay away from politics,…
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XGW Digest: October 25, 2008
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Fred Phelps’ daughters to participate in a debate over Florida’s Amendment 2. A California blogger confronts a Proposition 8 supporter’s scare tactics. Peter LaBarbera: Banning books is “good parenting.” Coincidentally, he says this even as the push to get ex-gay…
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The October 23, 2008 Denver Post featured an article about Focus on the Family’s Love Won Out roadshow, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this weekend in Colorado Springs. The article itself is well-balanced, featuring counterpoints from ex-gay survivors Peterson…
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Ex-gay leader John Smid, who resigned from the controversial ex-gay ministry Love in Action in March, is now leading a new ministry from an office in or near his home church in Germantown, TN. The specific nature of Grace Rivers…
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Wife Divorces Ex-Gay Activist Greg Quinlan
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Ex-gay activist Greg Quinlan’s wife of three years, Cheryl Quinlan, appears to have received a decree of divorce in May of 2007, having filed the initial complaint seventeen months earlier. XGW readers will recognize Greg from a recent incident involving…
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XGW Digest: October 17, 2008
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Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern still sees homosexuals as a greater threat to the United States than terrorists. A new poll shows that 53% of Connecticut voters support the state supreme court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. The Our Family Matters…
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Open Forum: Clever PSA on Prop 8
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I recognize the guy in the costume from the now canceled CBS drama Jericho, and the woman looks like Molly Ringwald, so this must at least be a semi-professional effort of some sort. It’s nice to see that at least…
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In a press release full of risible exaggerations, PFOX’s Regina Griggs has claimed that ex-gays are “the most bullied and maligned group in America,” and complained that “they are not protected by sexual orientation non-discrimination laws.” Calling on presidential candidate…
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Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival…. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of…
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