As regular readers know, in the past year Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) has (quite literally) cashed in on a new pet cause: the religious right’s battle to withhold knowledge of safe, secondary alternatives to abstinence from sexually active…
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Scientology And Exgays
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A reader pointed out today that Ex-Gay Watch has no articles on the Church of Scientology’s efforts in the ex-gay marketplace. (We have had comments about Scientology among commenters, but no articles.) The reader offered one article and two discussions…
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PFOX Claims It’s Tolerant
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Richard Cohen, M.A. President, PFOX July 6, 2005 Statement to the Montgomery County Board of Education (Statement on behalf of a broader campaign with the religious-right Liberty Counsel, Warren Throckmorton, and a local group of religious conservatives opposed to comprehensive,…
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Where’s A ‘Live-In Ministry’ Near You?
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Exodus calls them “live-in ministries” and helps market them. Critics call them “ex-gay camps” or compulsory “brainwashing” facilities. Whatever one calls them — we’d like to know where more of them are. Exodus boasts of four — in Georgia, Kansas,…
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Ex-Gay Ad Policy
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Several readers have noticed ex-gay ads appearing on the margins of the Ex-Gay Watch home page. This web site does have the ability to filter out ads from specific sources — and I am inclined to do so until those…
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Reflecting on a June 19 New York Times article about the rapid growth of politically organized, grassroots antigay bigotry, Joe Riddle explains — from his own first-hand experience — some of the ways in which antigay parents “torture” their children…
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Note From Mike
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Dear Reader, If you have some writing experience, convey messages with a civil and factual tone, and believe you could improve on our content (such as it is), please consider volunteering for Ex-Gay Watch. Ideal candidates read XGW or similar…
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Blogger Mike Ditto confirms that a March 1994 article in We The People quoted former Love In Action participant Tom Ottosen recalling LIA director John Smid favoring suicide over acceptance of one’s same-sex attraction. (Yes, that’s a mouthful.) Case settled?…
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The New York Christian Coalition — which last year sponsored an exgay billboard on behalf of exgay activist Stephen Bennett — now says that gay people should be required to wear warning labels. From 365gay.com, Jun. 13: “We put warning…
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Comparing ‘Love In Action’ to A Cult
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Blogger Mike Ditto itemizes ways in which the Love In Action rules for participants resemble the rulebook of a cult.