In September 2005, blogger Justin Watt published a parody of an Exodus exgay billboard and encouraged other web sites to republish it. On Feb. 27, 2006 — after learning of the parody from blogger Mike Tidmus — Ex-Gay Watch republished…
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The ACLU announced its assistance today to blogger Justin Watt, who received a cease-and-desist letter this month after Exodus became aware of his parody of an exgay billboard. SAN FRANCISCO — Citing First Amendment protection for parodies, the American Civil…
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The Family Research Council is justifiably outraged that in U.S.-liberated and U.S.-subsidized Afghanistan, people can be put to death for converting to Christianity. But the pro-Israel, national-security journal The American Thinker notes that it isn’t just Christians who are being…
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From the La Crosse Tribune, La Crosse, Wisconsin, March 21: In 2004, about 400 people signed a petition asking that speakers on gay, lesbian and transgender issues not be included in [Viroqua High School’s] Diversity Day. The school board cancelled…
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The chairman of the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade used his leadership position this week to compare gay Irish Americans to the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis in a sloppy effort to cast gay Irish Americans as enemies of…
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The Campaign to Defend the Constitution last week accused Focus on the Family of lobbying on behalf of the Louisiana gambling industry. As Ex-Gay Watch noted then, Focus seemed to admit doing so in the fine print of its response…
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Off Topic/Open Forum: Squelching the Moderates
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Christian and Muslim peacemakers have both come under recent attack from Islamic fundamentalists. Meanwhile, Focus on the Family has been strangely silent about these threats. Searches of the Focus web site for the martyred Tom Fox and his kidnapped Christian…
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Parody Watch
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Lobal Warming has been keeping a list of web sites that have posted copies of Justin Watt’s parody of an Exodus antigay billboard. To its critics, the Exodus billboard seems to assume that gay people are miserable wretches. The billboard…
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Wanted: Suggestions and volunteers to take the concept currently known as Ex-Gay Watch in new and distinct directions. Future affiliation with Ex-Gay Watch not required. We currently receive far more news tips (all of them good) than we have time…
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Vote for Best Single Issue Blog
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Voting is coming to a close at the 2005 Koufax Awards for Best Single Issue blog. Ex-Gay Watch is among the nominees. Please consider voting: Review the nominees and vote for your favorite single-issue blog. The voting closes Sunday night…