In the Aug. 26 Exodus media spotlights report, Randy Thomas frets that the Fab Five on the hit TV show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy are making straight guys into their own gay images. He sounds concerned that the…
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I’ve been very busy doing technical work for the IGF site and, for this blog, researching the facts behind Exodus’ all-too-frequent misstatements and political diatribes. That hasn’t left me with much time to recognize venues where one’s opposition to homosexual…
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Mike Haley, chairman of the board of Exodus International and a spokesman for Focus on the Family, fumed at CBS Aug. 21 for “The Amazing Race,” a show that had the gall to include among its contestants a gay couple…
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Biblical Marriage
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Alex Frantz at Public Nuisance discusses how the Bible defines traditional marriage: Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen. 29, 17 – 28; II Sam. 3, 2 –…
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In an Aug. 12 news statement, the Exodus national office cites Matthew 18 as a guideline for Episcopalians responding to the naming of a monogamous gay bishop. The Exodus national office neglects to consider that, in the view of many…
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PFOX Can Blame Itself for NEA Silence By Wayne Besen The audacity was breathtaking. The same week ex-gay poster boy Michael Johnston was revealed as a fraud, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays filed a frivolous complaint with the District of…
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From the Express Gay News in South Florida: The ‘Ex-Gay’ Coverup, Aug. 18, 2003 Besen, the author of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth, told The Express that Johnston’s behavior is typical of ex-gays’…
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Coming Up At Ex-Gay Watch
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I’ve been busy elsewhere the past several days, but there’s plenty of material to be posted tonight: News from Exodus and Wayne Besen, draft principles of accountability for the ex-gay movement, and a bit more. During XGW’s down periods (normally…
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Exodus: Failures Not So “Minute”
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Alan Chambers spoke to Orlando Weekly reporter Jeffrey Billman: By Chambers’ estimate, only 30 percent of those who seek to switch orientations succeed. Fifty percent abandon the program. The other 20 percent, he says, go back and forth. “I would…
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The attorney for one of ex-gay activist Michael Johnston’s alleged victims wrote to XGW today: I wanted to say that I appreciate your web site and have been following the commentary on Michael Johnston’s “moral fall.” As the attorney who…