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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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…
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…
Open Forum: ‘Poseidon’ As ‘Death Porn’
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…
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…
Study Gets 2nd Look: Exgays Harmed By Therapy
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:…
From AP/CNN: WASHINGTON (AP) — Lesbians’ brains react differently to sex hormones than those of heterosexual women. An earlier study of gay men also showed their brain response was different from straight men — an even stronger difference than has…
Incite the slaughter of Muslims, imprison the homosexuals, and prosecute any religious or human-rights activists who seek to help the faggots: That’s been the policy of Nigerian Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola. Akinola wins praise from U.S. evangelical Rick Warren. So,…
Besen: Religious-Right War Against Sex
The battle to ban gay civil unions — and to subject all same-gender sexual partners to possible prosecution and imprisonment under sodomy laws — could be just one front in a broad battle by the political religious right to make…