Karl Rove called him “nuts.” Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey called him a threat to religious liberty. And evangelical voters and Baptist leaders are deserting him. So whom does the desperate James Dobson seek for support? The nation’s…
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Open Forum: Your Favorite Exgay Blogs
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Tell us about exgay blogs that dare to think outside the box of the political religious right.
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What should Ex-Gay Watch review or advertise in the future?
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Lobbyist Randy Thomas complains on the Exodus blog that, at the Family Research Council’s misnamed “Liberty Sunday” event last weekend, a reporter for the Boston Herald chuckled at the label “ex-gay” and refused to receive ex-gay materials or interview ex-gay…
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From the Daily Egyptian, the student newspaper at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale: You can’t make fish fly, but you can chuck them across the room and make them think, for just a little while, that they can. Sarah Lohman…
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Exodus board member Phil Burress is the president of Ohio’s misnamed Citizens for Community Values, which identifies itself as “Officially Associated with Focus on the Family and Family Research Council as a Family Policy Council in Ohio.” According to the…
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Transglobal Ethnic Profiling At Exodus
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From Wayne Besen, Sept. 27: The ex-gay group Exodus International got into the ethnic profiling game this week by claiming Thai students become hookers because of “materialism.” “College students in Bangkok become prostitutes to earn money to buy brand name…
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Academics Refute FRC’s Pedophile-Pandering
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Tony Perkins, leader of the Family Research Council, is a former Louisiana lawmaker with fundraising ties to the KKK dating to 1996 and political ties to other racist groups dating to 2000. Earlier this month, in a campaign that was…
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Last weekend at a Family Research Council event — a gathering of politicians and religious power-seekers that was misnamed “Liberty Sunday” — Bishop Wellington Boone fantasized about the “rape of the civil rights movement” by people of faith who dare…
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Dobson’s Quest for Power
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As if to prove Dick Armey right, James Dobson is scrambling to shore up his own power in the Republican Party. Speaking in Tennessee, Dobson asked his Christian audience to put the Mark Foley scandal behind them, and to vote…