Half-truth = whole truth? Exodus reprints Prof. Warren Throckmorton’s recent article of half-truths about the failure rate of exgay ministries. Exodus’ headline for Throckmorton’s article is "The Whole Truth."
Slapping the other cheek: The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd comments on the religious right’s angry-mob response to the re-election of George W. Bush.
Politics, hate corrupt the faith: Michael Crowley, a senior editor at The New Republic, writes at length about James Dobson — "the religious right’s new kingmaker" — at Slate.
PFOX mom: Betty DeGeneres, mother of comedian Ellen DeGeneres, advises a 24-year-old male on what to do about a mother who harangues him with exgay propaganda.
Exgay moderate: The Northwest Arkansas Times profiles Chad Thompson, founder of Inqueery and author of the new book, "Loving Homosexuals As Jesus Would." XGW has a copy of the book and will be reviewing it.
Meet Mat Staver: The St. Petersburg Times profiles Mat Staver, antigay legal expert and a major figure in national and state efforts to deny marriage and civil unions to gay couples.
Servant of the religious right: I have previously mentioned the incompetence of The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank in reporting about conservative churches’ battle against marriage and civil unions for gay couples. AlterNet does a better job of explaining how the churches’ 2004 war against gay couples was orchestrated not by a spontaneous groundswell of morality, but by highly political and influential religious-right organizations. The article also asks where the religious right might take the Bush administration next.
I’m not really sure what was so great about this article, to be honest. There were not 150,000 people at the big anti-gay Washington rally — the media said maybe a few tens of thousands at best. He seemed to have just taken the word of the fundies. He also seemed to be in awe of these people without telling us anything. This is nice window dressing, but not what you describe. He also failed to tell us anything about the fundie plans for a second term, as you said that he would.
“He tried to stop a retarded South Florida woman from aborting her rapist’s baby” Is that supposed to be a badge of honor?
Ellen’s mom suggested that the advice seeker go to familyacceptance.org among other things. I went to the site, and it is probably one of the best websites on the issue of families accepting their gay children that I have ever seen.
It very much mirrors a lot of what I am currently going through with my family.
The problem with Besen’s claims is that Throckmorton makes some pretty damaging claims about Besen’s book with so far ARE UNREFUTED by Besen… His silence is not helping the cause.