On Nov. 21, the conservative Illinois Leader published a review criticizing gay-affirming Hollywood celebrities and alleging inequity in media coverage of antigay hate crimes and crimes committed by people who happen to be gay. On Nov. 26, Todd DuFresne of…
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Dr. Throckmorton’s Web Site
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Warren Throckmorton, outspoken pro-ex-gay associate professor at a small Christian college, has launched his own independent web site, DrThrockmorton.com. The site is useful for its demonstration of reparative therapy advocates’ (re)interpretation of scientific data. Throckmorton has been discussed before by…
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PlanetOut reports that “a 7-year-old Louisiana boy was scolded by his teacher, sent to the principal’s office and required to attend a discipline session after he told a classmate his mother was gay.” How is this relevant to Ex-Gay Watch?…
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FRC Promotes Closets That Contribute to AIDS
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In browsing Google News today, I found a handful of articles linking high risk of HIV infection to closeted and homophobic same-sex-attracted populations (and their spouses) living in isolation from openly gay communities and safer-sex education efforts. In other words,…
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New Zealand Ex-Gays At High Risk of HIV/AIDS?
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A New Zealand news site reports on a survey finding that men resembling the ex-gay profile — “men who were isolated [from other gays] or too scared to come out and identify as gay” — were highly likely to practice…
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Melvin W. Wong was the lead speaker at a group of ex-gay seminars organized by Focus on the Family in Singapore last week. Wong is affiliated with the Exodus International referral network. A blogspot blogger, Rabelaisian Rebel, uncovers professional criticism…
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Focus Expands Ex-Gay Campaign to Asia
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Focus on the Family extended its ex-gay political campaign to Singapore late last week with seminars marketing “recovery therapy.” And already the lead speaker faces professional criticism for misstating his training and credentials. The Focus on the Family campaign consisted…
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Continuing the selective morality discussion: Froma Harrop of The Providence Journal wrote an excellent commentary Nov. 26 on the extremely high divorce rate among Bible Belt Christians — 73 percent in Mississippi, she says; 79 percent in Oklahoma. (Those numbers…
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Judgment And Unbelief From Exodus
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On Oct. 31, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas accused people who disagree with his opinion on homosexuality of worshiping “personal interest” and having “compromised the integrity of the scriptures to condone homosexuality.” Unfortunately the eternal souls of those dealing with homosexuality…
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The Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale) asked different Florida private schools how they might handle a gay student differently from Jupiter Christian, which allegedly demanded the student enter ex-gay therapy or leave.