Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Dave Rattigan
The co-author of a major ex-gay study is a key figure in the controversy over the direction of Wheaton College, Illinois.
In the article Whither Wheaton?, appearing in the SOMA Review, Andrew Chignell names Dr Stanton L Jones, Provost of Wheaton College, as a force in the increasingly authoritarian approach to doctrine at the flagship evangelical [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2009 by Patrick Fitzgerald
Building on David Robert’s post on the Richard Cohen portion of The Rachel Maddow Show, Randy Thomas, Vice President of Exodus International, had some things to say about the exchange.
Randy Thomas: I am going to share a review of the actual interview and then move into how I believe she, and some other militant gay [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2009 by Patrick Fitzgerald
Randy Thomas, Vice President of Exodus International:
Freedom of speech which expresses a difference of opinion on morality and spirituality is not a crime.
The following is a case of one of the hackneyed headless monsters that the anti-gay industry loves to trot out, especially in regard to hate crime legislation that includes protections for minorities on [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2009 by Dave Rattigan
The American Psychological Association has said that there is insufficient evidence for so-called “sexual orientation change efforts,” and has instructed mental health practitioners to avoid offering reparative or “ex-gay” therapy.
In a resolution adopted at its annual conference today, the APA officially rejected treatments that portray homosexuality as a mental disorder, and lauded approaches “that provide [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2009 by Dave Rattigan
NARTH’s new peer-reviewed study is not new, is not peer-reviewed and is not a study – flaws even one of its authors admitted to Ex-Gay Watch.
CitizenLink, the news arm of Focus on the Family, made much of the paper’s appearance earlier this week, faithfully reproducing the immodest claims of NARTH’s press release:
A new report in [...]
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Filed under: Change, Exgay Activists, Health, Key Studies, NARTH, Science, Therapy, Warren Throckmorton
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 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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Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Dave Rattigan
A survey has found that 17 percent of therapists in the UK have offered a client therapy to “reduce” same-sex attractions. Four percent said they would try to “change” a patient’s sexuality if asked.
The findings are from a study carried out by a team at University College London, whose ongoing research into conversion therapy is [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Dave Rattigan
A scientist has accused Parents and Friends of ExGays and Gays (PFOX) of distorting his research by claiming that high school gay-straight alliances increase risk of suicide for teens.
PFOX President Regina Griggs said that “the risk of suicide decreases by 20% each year that a person delays homosexual or bisexual self-labeling,” and criticized schools for [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2008 by Patrick Chapman
Dr. Chapman gives his concluding remarks in a series which began with his three part critique of Ex-gays?: A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation by Dr Stanton Jones and Dr Mark Yarhouse. What follows is a response to the author’s comments on the original critique. We thank all three [...]
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