Singer/songwriter Steve Schalchlin has lived out a 20-year journey away from superstition, insecurity, hubris, and stymied communication among antigay friends in east Texas. Steve was contacted recently by some former Christian bandmates. With the passage of time, have they matured…
Parody Overkill
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Exodus Board Member Wants Condoms Locked Away
In an article today in The Washington Post, Exodus board member and Ohio antigay activist Phil Burress argues that drugstores should lock up condoms. Citizens for Community Values — which promotes abstinence as the answer to sexually transmitted diseases and…
Left-Handedness, Gay People, And the Gene Pool
Garry Wills: Christ Among the Partisans
Utilizing a wealth of New Testament verses quoting Jesus of Nazareth, writer Garry Wills on Sunday reminded Americans that God is neither a Democrat nor a Republican, neither a religious rightist nor a religious leftist. According to the Gospels, opposing…
Focus/Family Trivializes Exgay Struggle
From Good As You: In a review of Lucky Number Slevin, Focus on the Family refers to a rabbi’s son not by his sexual attraction, orientation, or struggle, but rather by his “sexual preference” and “lifestyle.” Focus is suggesting to…
The American Family Association periodically employs exgay Stephen Bennett as a writer and activist, and supplies Exodus International with much of its antigay “news” through the misnamed “Agape Press” nameplate. In a fund-raising “petition” dated and e-mailed today: AFA anti-Ford…
Our listing of related web sites, located in the far right column of the front page, has been damaged. Lost were links to religious, social-reform, and gay-writer web sites. If your site was listed, or if you feel a site…
Peggy Campolo, wife of Christian evangelical speaker Tony Campolo, wrote a long, undated article about her ties to the GLBT Christian movement. It is in the Christian gay community that I find the most Christ-like Christian I know — people…
…But antigay opportunists might not like this born-again Christian’s message. From The Dallas Voice, Feb. 23, 2006 (I’m still behind in my e-mail): For a while, he identified as bisexual. “But when I leaned more towards trying to date a…