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By Jim Burroway on Jun 6th, 2007
Jose Luis Maccarone lived as an ex-gay for over 10 years. Peterson Toscano met him during his stay at Love in Action, an ex-gay residential program in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2000 Jose Luis moved from his home in Argentina to Madrid to serve as Exodus Interational’s first missionary. After a few years, he left Exodus […]
By Jim Burroway on May 14th, 2007
Note: This is a cross post from Box Turtle Bulletin. If anyone has paid any attention to gay-rights debates over the past three decades, they would have undoubtedly come across at least a few of Paul Cameron’s many pronouncements. As the head of the tiny Family Research Institute (it appears to consist only of himself, […]
By Jim Burroway on Apr 30th, 2007
Last week, we saw that Exodus was still promoting Paul Cameron’s junk science. Even though this wasn’t the first time an Ex-Gay Watch author raised this issue, last week’s post prompt some remarkably swift corrective actions from Exodus president Alan Chambers. In a commendable act of transparency, Exodus’s FAQ on life expectancy was replaced with […]
By Jim Burroway on Apr 24th, 2007
Since criticizing Drs. Paul and Kirk Cameron’s “Scandinavian Gay Lifespan” study, Dr. Warren Throckmorton has participated in an email exchange over his comments, first with Paul Cameron and then his son, Kirk. That study, you may remember, was presented in a poster session at the Eastern Psychological Association’s convention in Philadelphia last March. Cameron’s subsequent […]
By Jim Burroway on Apr 11th, 2007
This is a quick follow-up to my earlier post on Paul Cameron’s “Scandinavian Gay Lifespan” study. Cameron purportedly presented the paper at a recent convention of the Eastern Psychological Association. Just this morning, Phil Hineline, president of the Eastern Psychological Association sent me an email in response to an inquiry I made last week. It […]
By Jim Burroway on Apr 9th, 2007
In 1993, Paul Cameron, of the Family Research Institute, began touting a paper he said he presented at the Eastern Psychological Association entitled, “The lifespan of homosexuals.” In this study, he drew on obituaries placed in gay newspapers around the country to claim that the average lifespan for gay men was a mere 42 years. […]
By Jim Burroway on Mar 22nd, 2007
Who says ex-gays don’t have a sense of humor? Just a warning: the above clip will probably make you laugh even though it is at the expense of the “ex-gay” movement. Randy Thomas, vice president of Exodus International, is rightly embarrassed by Richard Cohen’s appearance on the Daily Show: The guy on the video announces […]
By Jim Burroway on Mar 21st, 2007
Karen Booth is the leader of an Exodus member ministry called Transforming Congregations. She was offended recently when Mike Jones, the man who outed Ted Haggard, placed his massage table for auction on eBay. The proceeds of the auction where promised to Project Angel Heart, an established, reputable charity which provides care for AIDS and […]