Following Al Mohler’s controversial article Is Your Baby Gay? last month, evangelical monthly Christianity Today enters the gay gene debate with Re-engineering Temptation. Of interest to XGW are the comments by Alan Chambers of Exodus: This conversation puzzles Alan Chambers,…
Dave Rattigan Returns to Ex-Gay Watch
After a hiatus of a few months, I am back on the Ex-Gay Watch team, and looking forward to bringing you a UK perspective on the ex-gay movement. I am a British-Canadian with roots in Vancouver and Liverpool, where I…
Perhaps taking his cue from Exodus’s increasing involvement in US politics, British ex-gay James Parker has weighed in on the UK’s new Sexual Orientation Regulations. The SORs are an attempt to apply the same anti-discrimination laws to gays and lesbians…
Earlier this week XGW’s Timothy Kincaid wrote about fallen ex-gay Michael Johnston’s appearance in the video “It’s Not Gay” which is still being sold by several anti-gay organizations. This morning gay activist Wayne Besen filed a complaint against one such…
Yes, it’s me, ExGayWatch’s lone UK correspondent, amazingly still breathing. 😉 Despite my infrequent articles, I intend to remain a contributor to the blog, and I urge any UK readers with tips or ideas for UK-related issues or stories to…
Archbishop’s U-turn: Gays Must Change?
Archbishop Rowan Williams’s most recent remarks about homosexuality have been widely interpreted as “gays must change”. Speaking in the Sunday Telegraph last month, ++Rowan said: “I don’t believe inclusion is a value in itself. Welcome is. We don’t say ‘Come…
Thoughts for Peterson
I’m sure readers and authors alike would like to join me in sending some love Peterson’s way today.
Jeffrey John: Ex-gay of Sorts
I challenged a blogger the other day on his consistent use of the most juvenile, sophomoric insults to express his belief that homosexuality is a sin. On this particular occasion he had referred to a gay marriage as “the union…
NARTH Enters the Blogosphere
Yes, NARTH has entered the blogosphere. Alas, there’s still a long way to go before they truly enter the 21st century.
Agape Story: A Small Irony
A story I came across today began thus: Former Lesbian Brings Ex-‘Gay’ Message to 2006 NEA Annual Meeting By Jim Brown June 26, 2006 (AgapePress) – A former lesbian who now runs a Christian ministry in Minnesota will be holding…