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.”…
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Focus on the Family co-founder James Dobson has maintained that White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove did not give him assurances about how a Justice Miers would vote on abortion cases. But conservative columnist John Fund of the…
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Longer Prison Terms for All Sex Crimes?
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Exodus President Alan Chambers doesn’t say what the proper sentence for a teen-age consensual sex offender should be. But — given Exodus’ past support for sodomy laws — one may reasonably suspect that Chambers’ opposition to unequal prison sentences for…
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Cause of Homosexuality Found: It’s Hip Hop
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Self-appointed youth “minister” G. Craige Lewis has found the cause of homosexuality: Hip-hop music. Lewis operates a profitable livelihood under the alias EX Ministries. His web site claims that Lewis is one of God’s authorized spokesmen, and Lewis accuses those…
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Critics of Lesbian Cleric: Follow the Money
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United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie follows the mammon money underwriting Republican activists’ two-pronged effort to divide mainstream churches with partisan misinformation over hot-button issues, and then to convert the wreckage into taxpayer-subsidized Republican front groups with religious-sounding names….
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Bloggers Dissect Maggie Gallagher
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While guest-blogging at the conservative Volokh Conspiracy, anti-marriage activist Maggie Gallagher’s intellectual and moral shallowness were laid bare as she persistently declined to offer coherent responses to reasoned criticisms, and resorted to scare tactics and a quack history lesson instead…
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Today at Ex-Gay Watch, Exodus President Alan Chambers agreed with me that homosexual and heterosexual sex crimes deserve equal punishment, and that the Kansas Supreme Court was right to overturn laws to the contrary. As it happens, that position is…
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At age 18, Matthew Limon — a developmentally disabled young man — engaged in voluntary sexual activity with a 14-year-old male. This followed two prior cases where Limon was prosecuted as a juvenile for having sex with someone younger than…
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The Washington Post reported Oct. 16 that the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition, accepted at least $25,000 in direct funds, and perhaps thousands more in indirect support, from an online gambling company and indicted lobbyist…
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Given John Smid’s numerous dubious claims — about his ordination, his education, his qualifications, and the mental-health activities of Love In Action — I just thought his ongoing vice-leadership of the Exodus board was worth noting.