The Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education has identified the members of a sex-education curriculum development panel. This panel is is being recreated after the previous panel’s work was protested by an abstinence-only group and the antigay group PFOX, challenged…
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Toscano: How Sexual Abuse Made Me Ex-Gay
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Thoughts by former ex-gay Peterson Toscano: Lots of “ex-gay” proponents claim that one of the causes of same-sex attraction is childhood sexual abuse. I don’t think they are lying; they truly believe it. In fact, I imagine that the majority…
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Alas, A Blog casts a bit of doubt upon the widespread belief that suppressed sexual arousal prompts antigay bullies to act violently against persons assumed to be gay. Citing a study that measured the penis response of homophobic and non-homophobic…
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I see below that Dan Gonzales disagrees strongly with one of Wayne Besen’s posts this week. I hadn’t noticed that post, but there are at least two other posts by Besen that are worth a look: The American Family Association…
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Jim Johnson of Straight, Not Narrow thoughtfully analyzed exgay Tim Wilkins and his organization, Cross Ministry, on Oct. 13. Johnson applauds Wilkins for his openness to healing and for emerging from the heartbreak of youth. But he faults Wilkins for…
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GayLife of Maryland profiles Peterson Toscano, a former Love In Action live-in client who now performs several spiritual and comedic one-man plays, including “Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo’ Halfway House” — a personal look into the experiences of…
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Who Is Silencing the Ex-Gays?
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The political religious right, of course. Peterson Toscano explains.
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The Exodus media blog promoted the following propaganda pieces by antigay political allies this week, and withheld alternative viewpoints from the Exodus readership. (Exodus does not technically “endorse” what it promotes. But the half-truths that Exodus reprints — and the…
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Published today in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. (free subscription required): A federal judge denied a motion Friday that would have permitted Love In Action to treat mentally ill patients who are taking prescription medication. The order does not seem…
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Exodus Official’s Folksy Agenda in Washington
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Whatever Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas was doing in Washington and Chicago this week, he isn’t ready to share with the public. Instead, on his vanity blog, Thomas asks for prayers of support for his ongoing mystery activities with unnamed “folks.”…