The US government has announced that it is no longer prepared to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. The act enshrined in US federal law the definition of marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman. DOMA…
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Florida Abstinence Program Linked to Ssempa
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An abstinence group based in Jacksonville, Florida, has ties to the anti-gay Ugandan activist Martin Ssempa, according to a report in the Florida Independent. Project SOS founder Pam Mullarkey is quoted on Ssempa’s website as saying that Ssempa is “the…
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A UK psychotherapist may lose her license if a disciplinary hearing finds she attempted to cure a patient of homosexuality. It is almost a year since Patrick Strudwick published an article in The Independent (London) detailing his experience of ex-gay reparative…
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Wendy Gritter: It Gets Better
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Wendy Gritter, of Ontario-based Christian ministry New Direction, tells bullied kids, “It gets better“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX9wBaGxVtg
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Alan Chambers just doesn’t get it. The Exodus International President expects gays and lesbians to be moved by his words of compassion, but any gay or lesbian who knows their worth will hear only patronizing and insulting condescension in his…
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UK Invited to Take Ex-Gay Journey into Manhood
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Journey into Manhood, the immersion course that claims to help men solve the problem of homosexual attractions, is hosting a weekend retreat in the UK later this month. According to JiM, 80 percent of participants report a decrease in homosexual…
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Joel Burns shares his moving personal story of surviving anti-gay bullying with his fellow Fort Worth City, TX, council members: Hat tip: Towleroad
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National Coming Out Day
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In honor of National Coming Out Day, here’s a beautiful essay by Peggy Campolo that meant a lot to me when I first read it: In God’s House There Are Many Closets.
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Evangelical leader Tony Campolo addressed an audience in Oakville, Ontario, on Saturday, telling them that the “absent father” theory of homosexuality was “the dumbest thing I ever heard.” Citing statistics on single-parent families, he added that, if the theory were…
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Arthur Goldberg, the ex-gay leader exposed earlier this year as a convicted Wall Street felon, will speak at a conference in Northern Ireland in November. Arthur Abba Goldberg was jailed in 1989 after being convicted of fraud. He later founded…