At the suggestion of Scott of Reality Cubed, I watched the seven-minute movie trailer for X-Men: The Last Stand. The movie’s story line appears to be a sensational, but somewhat oversimplified, mirror of the exgay debate: If there were a…
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Open Forum: Exgay News Roundup
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What does ex-gay mean? Is the term offensive? Thoughtful discussions by two exgay/gay-celibate bloggers, Rainbow Unbroken and Disputed Mutability Exodus condones homophobia,criticizes Fall Out Boy’s tolerance statement Discussion by Pam Spaulding and Some Guys Are Normal with two comments at…
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An article by Travis Reed of the Associated Press today misreports numerous facts about the exgay movement and its critics. The story was carried by at least three central Florida newspapers — The Bradenton Herald, the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale,…
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Exgay Calls for Starbucks Boycott
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In a press release fashioned as an AgapePress “news” story, San Diego exgay activist James Hartline calls upon “Christians” (by which he means antigay social-conservative Christians) to boycott Starbucks.
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Comment Security
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I have added some security measures to prevent spammers from posting ads for poker, pills, and porn to this site. In the past, these ads rarely appeared on the site, but they filled our writers’ e-mail boxes and our database…
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Salon.com has printed a lengthy and worthwhile excerpt from the new book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. The excerpt is too long and detailed to be adequately summarized; suffice it to say for now that individuals and ideas…
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Libertarian pundit and veteran ABC investigative reporter John Stossel upset the nation’s handful of exgay activists in 2004 when he interviewed both exgays and ex-exgays, and concluded that the exgay movement consists of only a handful of ideological activists who…
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Open Forum: ‘Poseidon’ As ‘Death Porn’
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Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice: A supposedly fun thing I may never want to do again after 9-11, disaster films are simple death porn…. He’s describing Poseidon, but as far as I’m concerned, he could also be talking about…
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Elizabeth McClung observes that Exodus has largely abandoned its ministry to gay youths, and replaced that effort with a program to teach heterosexual antigay “Christian” teen-agers new methods of verbal peer pressure and misinformation. McClung is scruplous in linking to…
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Study Gets 2nd Look: Exgays Harmed By Therapy
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From Screw Bronze via A Tenable Belief via Some Guys Are Normal: In 2001, a peer-reviewed study by Drs. Ariel Shidlo and Michael Schroeder measured the harm caused by exgay programs to 202 former participants. Some Guys Are Normal observes:…