Exodus youth assistant Mike Ensley has responded on his personal blog to my protest of a comic strip that was published (in my opinion, sacrilegiously) within Bibles distributed by Tim Todd Ministries starting in 2005. Ensley does not object, as…
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Tim Todd Ministries has recently distributed 48,000 New Testaments — altered to conform to religious-right political correctness — to public-school students in the United States. These New Testaments come with numerous “powerful full-color comics” that (Todd claims) communicate the “absolute…
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At a time when he should be getting a job, earning a wage from real labor, and focusing on his supposed “recovery” from lifelong homosexual struggles, the Rev. Ted Haggard has apparently sought donations for himself and for a defunct…
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Ex-Gay Live-In Program Says It Was ‘Exonerated’
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Ex-Gay Watch has asserted at various times that Exodus’ flagship live-in program, Love In Action, altered its web site, put new limits on its youth program, and redefined itself from a therapeutic effort into a “ministry” in 2005 after Tennessee…
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Both the news media and the blogosphere have been roaring their disapproval of Sen. Larry Craig’s “hypocrisy” after he was arrested for alleged lewd conduct in a Minneapolis/St. Paul airport restroom. But exactly how was Craig allegedly hypocritical? That’s where…
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Steve Gallagher is president of Pure Life Ministries, a Kentucky-based live-in and at-home “ministry” for persons deemed to be sexual sinners. Gallagher’s organization may not have healed a single soul of their same-gender romantic and sexual attraction, but he is…
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We’ve commented occasionally about Charlene Cothran, the newly ex-gay publisher of Venus magazine who alienated her gay African-American readership with rhetoric of blame, self-pity and victimhood borrowed straight from the sorry political playbook of privileged white ex-gays. Recently, some members…
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Too Quiet for Comfort At Focus on the Family?
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People for the American Way thinks that James Dobson of Focus on the Family has been unusually quiet of late. Health problems and foot-in-mouth disease may have prompted Dobson’s low national profile, but PFAW suggests the organization’s strategic plan is…
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I have often expressed my personal opinion that Exodus relies upon Focus on the Family as its primary “benefactor.” Specifically, I contend that Focus spends hundreds of thousands of dollars each year on Love Won Out events, billboards, political ads,…
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For all their protests about so-called “thought-crime laws,” Exodus president Alan Chambers and executive vice president Randy Thomas seem content to tolerate such laws, in case they might be used to prosecute non-Christians for violent crimes committed against Christians. Despite…