Posted on April 28th, 2009 by David Roberts
by Jack Drescher, MD
A recent article in Scientific American by Thomas Maier has cast into doubt the veracity of a study published 30 years ago that purported to demonstrate that some people can change their homosexual orientation to a heterosexual one.
The study in question was carried out by the most pre-eminent American sex researchers of [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Dave Rattigan
In an interview with self-proclaimed “global voice of orthodox Anglicanism” VirtueOnline, reparative therapist Dr Joseph Nicolosi made some of his boldest claims yet.
The former President of NARTH, who told a London ex-gay conference last weekend that 75 percent of his clients were “cured” of their homosexuality, said the following:
[The] fact remains that if you traumatize [...]
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Filed under: Change, Exgay Activists, NARTH, Religion, Science, Therapy
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Dave Rattigan
Reparative therapist Dr Joseph Nicolosi used a conference in London yesterday to recycle a host of offensive myths about gay men.
According to David Virtue, who describes his notoriously anti-gay website as “the global voice for orthodox Anglicanism,” Nicolosi “ripped” gay organizations for promoting a “lifestyle” that is “ultimately pathological, narcissistic, self-absorbed and offers no hope [...]
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Filed under: Change, Exgay Activists, Key Studies, NARTH, Religion, Science, Therapy, Tolerance
Posted on April 25th, 2009 by Emily K
Randy Thomas “wept” at finding out how many are being tortured and murdered abroad because they are attracted to the same sex.
I honestly don’t know what to do other than expose it here on the blog and pray for doors to open. Some have for Alan in Uganda (currently getting ramped up for a government [...]
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Filed under: Exgay Activists, Exodus, Weblogs
Posted on April 25th, 2009 by Dave Rattigan
Ex-gay proponents Joseph Nicolosi, Arthur Goldberg and Jeffrey Satinover are in London today for the Sex & the City conference organized by Anglican Mainstream, the publishers of the tired, homophobic polemic God, Gays and the Church.
On BBC Radio Five Live last night, JONAH’s Arthur Goldberg made the mistake of invoking the 1979 Masters-Johnson study in [...]
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Filed under: Change, Exgay Activists, JONAH, Media, NARTH, Religion, Science, Therapy
Posted on April 25th, 2009 by Eugene Wagner
-53% of New Yorkers support marriage equality, according to a new poll.
-The Maine State Legislature holds hearings on two bills, one which would legalize same-sex marriage and one which would confer the rights and benefits of marriage to couples on the Domestic Partner Registry.
-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announces his candidacy for Governor of California.
-The [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by Dave Rattigan
Over 100 activists have pledged to join a protest in London on Saturday, when reparative therapist Dr Joseph Nicolosi (pictured) addresses conservative Christians at the Sex & the City Conference.
Nicolosi will be joined by NARTH colleague Jeffrey Satinover and JONAH President Arthur Goldberg for the weekend, organized by CARE and Anglican Mainstream, the Church of [...]
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Filed under: Change, Media, NARTH, Religion, Therapy, Warren Throckmorton
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by Emily K
This is the phrase the president of Exodus International used in a recent WORLD magazine article to describe his opinion of the recent cluster of victories for marriage equality. Who is being trapped? The gay men and women advocating for equal civil recognition of their loving partnerships:
“My major concern is that homosexuality is a counterfeit [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by David Roberts
Source: Edge Boston
According to Edge Boston, the police have located the twelve-year-old boy who called himself ChristianU2uber, along with his family. The young man had been posting videos of himself talking about various subjects, but his claims of “having been gay, but changed” and tirades laced with repeated calls for others to stop calling [...]
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Posted on April 18th, 2009 by Eugene Wagner
-New York Gov. David Paterson introduces a marriage equality bill in the state legislature.
-Openly gay Iowa state senator Matt McCoy receives a death threat.
-Via Wendy Gritter, Brian Pengelly encourages Christians to participate in the Day of Silence.
-An employee of Rick Warren attempts to rewrite history.
-A conservative heterosexual Christian chooses to accept and support her gay [...]
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