As Ex-Gay Watch has frequently noted, since late 2004 Exodus has periodically praised antigay activists who are euphemistically labeled the “Philadelphia 11.” The Philadelphia group was the subject of a recent exgay ad campaign. The group’s real name is Repent…
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On his web site, African-American exgay activist D.L. Foster acknowledged yesterday that he is an active supporter of the Constitution Party. Foster says he spoke at the Party’s 2004 Georgia convention. Foster appears to be correct that no professed racists…
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Focus on the Family Compliments LWO Protesters
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Focus on the Family tonight acknowledged its host church’s observations that the gay-affirming protesters at “Love Won Out” in St. Louis were friendly, well-behaved and gracious. Focus does not offer a demographic breakdown of LWO attendees, nor does Focus quote…
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Read NancyP’s commentary on the Feb. 25 St. Louis vigil at Pam’s House Blend.
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Peter LaBarbera’s Illinois Family Institute identifies itself as an independently financed partner of Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, and the Alliance Defense Fund. His career has been spent protesting against communism, leftist Latin American Christians, liberal freedoms,…
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch follows up on yesterday’s “Love Won Out” exgay road show. The newspaper counts more than 350 vigilers peacefully protesting the conference from outside. (Previous XGW coverage, including photos by Colleen Keating.) The Post-Dispatch notes that a…
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Peter Sprigg is the representative of aggrieved-parents and exgay-lobbying group PFOX on the citizens’ sex-education advisory committee of the Montgomery County school district in suburban Washington. He is also an antigay activist working for the Family Research Council in Washington….
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Vigil’s Message to Exgays: ‘Love Needs No Cure’
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St. Louis-area gay-equality advocates conducted a peaceful vigil today outside the exgay political road show “Love Won Out,” which is sponsored by Focus on the Family and serves as the primary marketing tool for the exgay umbrella network Exodus International….
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Mike Tidmus: ‘Cash Won Out’
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Mike Tidmus has posted a slick infographic to his web site. I agree with Tidmus that John and Anne Paulk were once antigay profiteers — but they seem to have retired from that line of business. Tidmus also has some…
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James Dobson: What Goes Around
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Focus on the Family is supporting a watered-down reciprocal beneficiaries bill in Colorado that was discussed previously at Ex-Gay Watch. The bill offers little or nothing that Colorado gay couples don’t already have. Nevertheless, antigay activists claim to be angry…