From The Washington Blade, May 26: Love Won Out, a controversial religious conference that espouses reparative therapy and encourages gays to change their sexual orientation, is coming to Maryland next month. Counter-vigils are planned. Worth reading are statements by spokespersons…
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The Queer Action Coalition of Memphis, Tenn., plans a June 5 vigil at Love In Action, marking one year since LIA’s involuntary detainment of sexually struggling youths made headlines. The scandal severely curtailed LIA’s activities, but the antigay organization appears…
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A Tenable Belief and Good As You assess Focus on the Family’s latest ad campaign, which exploits stock photos of unhappy children. The ad campaign’s objectives: humiliate children whose adoptive parents happen to be gay, redirect a backlog of unadopted…
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Congratulations to Pam Spaulding
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Katherine Volin of the Washington Blade wrote a wonderful profile of Pam Spaulding’s work as a black lesbian blogger who specializes in monitoring the religious right. Thanks to efforts by bloggers such as Spaulding, XGW can spend less time analyzing…
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PFOX Moms Applaud Cohen Performance on CNN
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Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays operates a Yahoo group for antigay parents and relatives of adult gay persons. The e-mail discussions are tightly moderated by conservative federal “civil rights” attorney Estella Salvatierra, who has served as PFOX vice president. Salvatierra…
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“They feel like we’re intolerant. So I guess we should wear that as a badge of honor.” — Phil Burress of the Cincinnati-based anti-gay Citizens for Community Values on Ohio placing dead last in measures for civil equality for LGBT…
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Where Do You Stand on The Political Compass?
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There are no true “liberals” or “conservatives,” no simple “leftists” or “rightists.” As The Political Compass indicates, these labels are only somewhat accurate in describing a person’s position on a single subject such as economics, or social freedoms. The labels…
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From A Tenable Belief: I wish that anyone struggling with sexual orientation and religious issues could get a clear message from ex-gay ministries and gay-affirming folks alike: We want you to survive, first and foremost, take care of yourself, and…
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Willful Grace asked last week: Here’s a question. Please comment. Let me know what you think about this. What if…..we are born not really sexually attracted to any certain gender in particular. What if…..we are born with certain personality traits…
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Exodus board member Phil Burress wants drugstore condoms locked away to discourage their purchase. Focus on the Family disapproves of condoms as a fallback when abstinence fails. Exgay activist Stephen Bennett opposes both condoms and potential prophylactic drugs to prevent…