From Dan Gonzales: Advocate OutQ News, which is broadcast on Sirius satellite radio, features a short clip of exgay activist Brad Grammar speaking in favor of an Indiana anti-gay-marriage amendment. Near the end of the Windows Media Player broadcast, Grammar…
In an interview with Christianity Today, progressive evangelical Jim Wallis — who has argued for many years that religious fundamentalists have too much influence in the Republican Party and secular fundamentalists have too much influence in the Democratic Party —…
Pro-exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton issued the press release "New Genetics Study Undermines Gay Gene Theory" on Feb. 9. Exgay activist group Exodus International reprinted the press release on its own web site on Feb. 11. In the press release, Throckmorton…
Gay Web Sites Delink Ex-gay ‘crisis’ Line
From the Houston Voice (Feb. 11): Four gay and lesbian Web sites that unknowingly listed the National Youth Crisis Hotline as a resource have deleted referrals to the hotline in response to a recent Houston Voice story that exposed the…
Demand for Virginia Schools to Showcase Ex-gays
In suburban Virginia, the Fairfax County school board censured Stephen M. Hunt for using his authority as a board member to pressure principals into inviting ex-gays into the district’s classrooms. Highlights in the media: DCist summarizes. 365gay.com, Feb. 3: School…
Keith Boykin skillfully separates facts from media hype and political propaganda.
The Old Design Is Back
Until I find time to implement the new one. I welcome constructive criticism.
Hate Crimes: After 15 Years, What Progress?
In late 1989, I wrote the following article about hate crimes statistics. The article was published by Sojourners, a progressive Christian evangelical magazine that publishes economically liberal and socially conservative views consistent with the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s "seamless garment"…
Protecting Maryland Marriage, Pastor Says
Alas, A Blog comments today on DefendMarylandMarriage.com — another one of those antigay web sites that names none of its authors, but lobbies for discrimination against people who happen to have real names and real families. As blogger Ampersand (Barry)…
What Did Dobson And SpongeBob Have in Common?
Religious-right organizations, including the American Family Association and Focus on the Family, launched a media frenzy last week when they criticized a pro-tolerance video starring SpongeBob and numerous other children’s TV cartoon characters. From CNN: "A short step beneath the…