The Canadian Press — the Canadian branch of AP — has picked up and expanded upon the story first reported by Truth Wins Out last week: that Focus on the Family exgay activist Melissa Fryrear had “hijacked” and distorted Canadian…
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Late this afternoon, the American “Family” Association’s AgapePress repeated an already disproven allegation about a playground altercation in Lexington, Mass., that is being promoted and politicized by antigay activists as a mob hate crime by liberal New England families against…
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The widely assumed intent of Focus on the Family’s exgay road show, titled “Love Won Out,” is to inspire compassionate conservatism and sexual purity in families and churches that struggle with the issue of sexual orientation. But Joseph Nicolosi’s speech…
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Steve Boese of A Tenable Belief attended the antigay/exgay roadshow Love Won Out near Washington, D.C., last weekend. He has written (as of now) three articles about his observations — including the host church facility’s isolation from urban community, the…
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Writer Eve Tushnet is a conservative Roman Catholic. Tushnet, whose article on the exgay roadshow Love Won Out appeared at National Review Online today, accepts church teaching that sexual expression is — to oversimplify just a bit — reserved for…
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Guidelines for Civility Among Commenters
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Comments at XGW may be immediately deleted, or commenters may be banned, for the following reasons: Libel Slander Copyright violations Link spam Profanity Threats Namecalling Solicitation Commenters may rapidly earn demerits toward a ban for the following reasons: Ad hominem…
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Exgays Exploited
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Steve Schalchlin, a co-founder of the online gay/exgay bridge-building project Bridges Across the Divide, comments on the political exploitation of exgays by Focus on the Family — a gradual process that he has observed since 1998.
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Pictures of Us
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Performance artist and former exgay Peterson Toscano was performing in Southern California last weekend. He has posted pictures of Ex-Gay Watch participants Daniel Gonzales, Regan DuCasse, and Steve Schalchlin.
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Nullifying Tolerance
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The leaders of the political religious right frequently criticize pro-tolerance advocacy: They protest that tolerance advocates are not tolerant of intolerance. They assert that it is a sin to tolerate (much less affirm) that which religious rightists selectively declare to…
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Exodus has for years graced the world with an innovative plan for “freedom.” Exodus was first to offer the world a “Freedom from Homosexuality” campaign. This outreach did not offer exgays freedom from same-sex attraction — but it did (thankfully!)…