Readers may have noticed the casual claims by Exodus president Alan Chambers and vice president Randy Thomas concerning the success rates of “change” and perhaps even vague references to an ongoing study. These have led to an increasingly common, though…
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More Former Ex-Gay Leaders Apologize
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Beyond Ex-Gay has posted apology letters from Vonnie Pitts, Wendy Lawson and Kim Brett, former leaders of ex-gay ministries in Australia. According to the press release, Pitts, Lawson and Brett were inspired by the public apology issued in June by…
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A New Look – Work In Progress
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We are trying a new look (yes again!) and there are some minor features missing (author listings on posts for one). This will be corrected in the next few days if we decide to stick with this one. In the…
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We recently reported about our serious concerns over the violent messages on a group of websites owned by Brian Wyant, GLBT Center Coordinator for Rainbow Outreach in Omaha, Nebraska. Most disconcerting was the lack of response from anyone we could…
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InterVarsity Press is a widely respected publisher of Christian themed books, so it struck us as rather amazing when we found a new edition of ex-gay guru Richard Cohen’s book Gay Children, Straight Parents: A Plan For Family Healing on…
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According to their conference schedule (PDF), the troubled former gay youth activist turned ex-gay Michael Glatze will be speaking at the next annual conference of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). Glatze announced a couple…
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Something’s Fishy At JONAH
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Many people, even those involved in countering the ex-gay movement, have probably never heard of JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality). In a field that is dominated by Evangelical Christianity, JONAH seems to stand alone as the only ex-gay…
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SBC’s New Approach Same Old Ex-Gay Line
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Saturday’s edition of The Tennesseean features interviews with ex-ex-gays Darlene Bogle and Christine Bakke and with pastor Bob Stith, the Southern Baptist Convention’s first national strategist for gender issues. Bogle and Bakke flew to Nashville last week to share their…
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A few days ago we reported on a website dealing with gay issues which included some very disturbing verbiage. Part of our report centered on the reaction of some prominent ex-gays who were treating the site, GayStraightAlliance.org, as if it…
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The Spirit of the Law
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As I’ve discussed here before, strict adherence to the letter of the law can produce odd results. By reducing the Bible to a rulebook, we run the risk of either binding ourselves to all sorts of regulations that have no…