The faith-based, gay-affirming organization Soulforce is gearing up for a May 1 vigil at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. Soulforce contends that Focus on the Family resorts to numerous untruths against gay and lesbian people and…
Exgay Trackback Spam
A few weeks back, I got fed up with Scattered Words’ repeated insertion of duplicate trackbacks, or links to Scattered Words, into pages at Ex-Gay Watch. I eventually went back and deleted Scattered Words’ old link insertions on XGW pages….
In a Feb. 15 American Family Association article that is reprinted as a Feb. 18 press release, exgay umbrella group Exodus accuses unnamed "homosexual activists" of intolerance toward Focus on the Family’s "Love Won Out" exgay road show this weekend….
A member of Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley’s exgay restoration team sang backup on a song Dolly Parton recorded a few years back, when he worked for her at Dollywood in eastern Tennessee. Parton has since given that song, Sugar…
David Fishback, chairman of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education’s Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development, responds in the Washington area’s new Examiner newspaper to exgay movement claims against the school district’s comprehensive sex-ed curriculum. The…
Allan Johnson wrote to Ex-Gay Watch with an update to the original post that appeared on this page. I have deleted the earlier comments, simply because they were based on older information. Allan Johnson is working on a documentary series…
Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee
Demanding free speech for themselves, antigay parents in inland California on Feb. 11 angrily protested free expression by high school students who chose to support gay marriage by acting out such ceremonies as a form of political protest. While many…
In an interview with Marvin Olasky for World magazine, longtime exgay movement pundit Dr. Jeffrey Satinover argues that because: homosexuality is not a uniform attribute across individuals, sexual attraction fluctuates, and homosexuality cannot easily be measured therefore sexual orientation is…
Alan Keyes Sets Bad Example for Antigay Parents
Some 69 times, the web site of exgay movement marketer and financier Focus on the Family promotes antigay politician and commentator Alan Keyes. So did this cached page from exgay activist Stephen’s Bennett’s web site — until someone very recently…
Uniform Hate Crime Statistics Are Not So Uniform By Jim BurrowayUpdated version, March 29, 2005 "Gay-slaying verdict: guilty." This was the top story on the Jan. 28 front page of the Arizona Daily Star. It was good to see another…