Peter Sprigg, the family values activist, has said that homosexuality should be criminalized. From The Advocate: Sprigg, a senior fellow for policy studies at the antigay [Family Research Council (FRC)], appeared on the program [Chris Matthews’ Hardball] to debate the…
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[Update: The group has now been restored, though no explanation has been given why it was pulled.] [Second update: Mike of Progress Now says, “I ran it up the flagpole with our contact at Facebook. The group is back up…
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An excellent piece by Patrick Strudwick in today’s Independent (London) details the author’s strange and disturbing experiences in ex-gay therapy in the UK. It’s a refreshing article in that it focuses exclusively on reparative therapy, and tends not to dilute…
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The co-author of a major ex-gay study is a key figure in the controversy over the direction of Wheaton College, Illinois. In the article Whither Wheaton?, appearing in the SOMA Review, Andrew Chignell names Dr Stanton L Jones, Provost of…
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Following a hearing yesterday, several members of Congress have written to the Presidents of the US and Uganda to protest the latter’s impending legislation to make homosexuality an executable offense. The US Government’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission heard evidence…
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The US Government’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission will hold a hearing on the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill this afternoon. Over the course of 90 minutes, the TLHRC will hear evidence and testimony on the legal and humanitarian aspects of the…
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Gay Brit Turns Straight, Attacks Gays
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From The Guardian’s Comment is free this morning: Writing in the Times earlier this week, Patrick Muirhead describes “the day I decided to stop being gay“. Even allowing for its firmly tongue-in-cheek tone, the problem with his article is that…
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Ugandan President Softening on Anti-Gay Bill?
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The President of Uganda appears to have distanced himself from the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, which would effectively introduce the death penalty for gays. President Museveni told members of the National Resistance Movement that the bill had not been proposed by…
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As ugly and vicious as Iris Robinson’s attacks on gays were, I cannot say I take much pleasure in joining the media to expose the details of her adulterous affair. But the main issue here is one of moral authority….
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RIP, Reverend Brett Harris
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Gay activist Reverend Brett Harris has passed away at the age of 48. As the founder of Friends of BRYCE, he did much to draw attention to the plight of Bryce Faulkner, the 23-year-old gay man allegedly coerced into ex-gay…