Woo! Focus just announced a Politics Won Out conference for September in beautiful Palm Springs. It’s been years since I was there and fall is such a nice time to visit. Anyone know any nice gay resorts? Oh and look…
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Alan Chambers, Semantics Dancer
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Alan Chambers is quite adept at the semantics-dance as evidenced by a recent Exodus press release: “While there are some who may not agree with our message, we ask for their consideration and welcome their presence at this event,” said…
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‘Love Won Out’ Parodies
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Last weekend’s Love Won Out has set off a rash (relax, it’s a good kind of rash) of infographics but also some people took it beyond the realm of civility and vandalized the Exodus billboard. Mike Tidmus has a pretty…
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Exodus, Proclaiming Freedom To The Straights
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After posting my recent open letter to Alan Chambers I was privately contacted by an Exodus staffer regarding my seemingly logical, but incorrect assumption Exodus is trying to minister to gay and lesbian people. I’m not alone in assuming Exodus…
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First Hand Reports From “Mr. Hetero”
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A couple first-hand reports from Mr. Hetero yesterday have begun trickling in. Peterson Toscano’s “part I” is up and so is an account written by Mike Benedetti posted to Indymedia. Update: Peterson’s “Part II” is back up.
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How Being Ex-Gay Made Me Appreciate Fetishes
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I have a confession, until Thursday I had failed to properly live out “the homosexual lifestyle.” My gay-card had only been provisional. You see, Thursday I went to The Hollywood Spa. Not that it’s the business of XGW readers but…
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From the Agapepress: However, the former homosexual says he was not surprised at the news of the Episcopal bishop’s problems with alcoholism, as homosexual men often turn to alcohol and drugs to fight off a life of pain. “Alcohol and…
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From Media Matters For America: Far-right Christian author and American Vision president Gary DeMar was the guest on the February 2 edition of American Family Radio’s Today’s Issues. In the past, DeMar has advocated the installation of a theocratic government…
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Melissa Fryrear Makes Up More Numbers
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From today’s (02/13/06) broadcast of Family News In Focus: Love Won Out is a ministry of Focus on the Family that proclaims same-sex attraction doesn’t have to be a life-sentence and uses conferences around the nation to convey that message….
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Open Letter To Alan Chambers
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Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International was recently quoted by Salon.com saying, “lifelong homosexual relationships are not possible.” Ex-Gay Watch’s own Timothy provided analysis in his own previous post but I felt the need to pen a letter to Chambers…