The Canadian Press — the Canadian branch of AP — has picked up and expanded upon the story first reported by Truth Wins Out last week: that Focus on the Family exgay activist Melissa Fryrear had “hijacked” and distorted Canadian…
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Late this afternoon, the American “Family” Association’s AgapePress repeated an already disproven allegation about a playground altercation in Lexington, Mass., that is being promoted and politicized by antigay activists as a mob hate crime by liberal New England families against…
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In Florida, one can vote to change the Constitution every two years. It takes approximately 600,000 signatures to get a proposed change on the ballot, a figure that Florida4Marriage.org is striving for even now. They missed the deadline for the…
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Out And Cowed? Ex-Gay in the UK
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This article was originally published in Third Way magazine, June 2006 I ONLY had to say three syllables, and yet the simplest words turned out to be the hardest. Mom. I’m. Gay. They were difficult words because I had grown…
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The widely assumed intent of Focus on the Family’s exgay road show, titled “Love Won Out,” is to inspire compassionate conservatism and sexual purity in families and churches that struggle with the issue of sexual orientation. But Joseph Nicolosi’s speech…
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Last week Focus on the Family published an article in which gender issues analyst and “former homosexual” Melissa Fryrear blames “pro-gay advocates” for high suicide rates among lesbian youth: The survey revealed that nearly four out of 10 lesbian girls…
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Steve Boese of A Tenable Belief attended the antigay/exgay roadshow Love Won Out near Washington, D.C., last weekend. He has written (as of now) three articles about his observations — including the host church facility’s isolation from urban community, the…
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Danforth Advises Against Episcopal Divisiveness
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John Danforth, Episcopal priest and previous Republican Senator and Ambassador to the United Nations spoke this week to the national convention of the Episcopal Church. The most significant issue being addressed by the denomination is a demand by more conservative…
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Rhetoric And Reality of the Ex-gay Movement
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Eve Tushnet makes an interesting observation in her recent article in the National Review: During the entire nine hours of the conference, none of the speakers I heard discussed how to live chastely while experiencing same-sex attractions. The focus was…
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Friday Tangent: Getting Tested
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I loathe having to get tested. I haven’t been ho’ing around and I haven’t even done anything risky since I was tested last but I still dread it. I’m sure many of the gay men who read this know exactly…