Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Eugene Wagner
-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 November 7-9.
-Bill Hussung and Mishara Canino-Hussung’s documentary, Chasing the Devil: Inside the Ex-Gay Movement, is now available … Read more »
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Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Dave Rattigan
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlBIR7MHtaY
Despite earlier this year vowing that Exodus would stay away from politics, Chambers complained that marriage equality would have made it more difficult for him to “come to […]
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Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Eugene Wagner
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 and anti-gay books into Virginia libraries is failing.
Notorious anti-gay activist Janet Porter (née Janet Folger) continues to … Read more »
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Eugene Wagner
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 Toscano and Christine Bakke alongside the usual talking points from LWO spokespersons. Unfortunately little is … Read more »
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Filed under: Exgay Activists, Focus on the Family/FRC
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Dave Rattigan
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 Ministry is left rather vague by its mission statement:
Grace Rivers is a worldwide ministry actively stirring … Read more »
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by David Roberts
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 distorted quotes attributed to noted geneticist Francis Collins. The couple had no children and both … Read more »
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Filed under: Exgay Activists, Gay / Exgay / 'Identity', Warren Throckmorton
Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Eugene Wagner
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 conference takes place next week in Nashville.
A school bus driver is charged with instigating a homophobic attack … Read more »
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Posted on October 16th, 2008 by David Roberts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUlQPnUUGU0
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 one side of this debate can place an ad that isn’t literally filled with lies. […]
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Dave Rattigan
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 Barack Obama to include ex-gays in sexual orientation discrimination regulation, Griggs wrote:
Former homosexuals and their friends … Read more »
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Filed under: Discrimination, Exgay Activists, PFOX
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by David Roberts
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 the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive … Read more »
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