From numerous other blogs: Liberal columnist Jennifer Barnett Reed of the Arkansas Times demands the return of her Christian faith, stolen by amoral, greedy, hypocritical, and idolatrous forces within the religious right. Well done. Reed’s commentary methodically spells out examples…
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United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie links to this Washington Times story about Trinity Christian Academy in Texas. The Academy apparently admits political idolaters and white-collar thieves from the religious right, but kicks out a top student and varsity…
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Last week I discussed the Exodus media blog’s distortion of hate-crimes statistics — and its unapologetic republication of violent threats against gay people. On Friday, Exodus blogger Nancy Brown — speaking for the organization on its main web site —…
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BigFib.com Parodies PeopleCanChange.com
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BigFib reports that People Can Change has launched two websites: MostPeopleChangeBack.com and ChristiansCanChange.com I wish! The world could use some exgay activists who are broad-minded and honest enough to launch such sites.
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Sfweekly.com lampoons a trio of Northern California ex-gay ministries. One group helps parents reinforce their own stereotypes about “the gay lifestyle” that they imagine their adult children to be living. Group leader Carol has no qualifications in counseling or medicine,…
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Christianity Today Redefines Secularism
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Based on a single unidentified survey, writer David Klinghoffer helps Christianity Today redefine “secularist” as irreligious and unethical. Secularism, as I see it, is a separation of church and state that acts as religious Americans’ single strongest shield against one…
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Testing BlogJet
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I have installed an interesting blog client for Windows — BlogJet. Let’s give it a whirl….
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Questioning Exgays About Hate Speech
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The Christmas message reprinted below is directed at the leadership of the Anglican Communion. But it is perhaps even more applicable to the U.S. exgay movement. While some Anglican leaders have at least acknowledged that hate speech sometimes leads to…
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Focus/Family Blends Love Won Out with Politics
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Dan Gonzales wrote last week: The Dec. 2 broadcast of Focus On The Family Radio features the testimony of an ex-lesbian at a Love Won Out conference. The ex-lesbian oddly enough, admits to working for a legislative division of FOTF,…
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Exgay Mother in Utah Fights Visitation
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Another Vermont civil union has ended in an exgay custody battle. According to Boston.com, exgay mother Cheryl Pike Barlow is asking the Utah court system to become judicial activists by reversing the visitation rights of her former partner, Keri Lynne…