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…
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Exodus regularly tells gay people to closet their sexuality, and suggests that to do otherwise lacks sexual and spiritual integrity. But for the church trial of lesbian United Methodist minister Beth Stroud, Exodus changes its definition of integrity. In a…
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Blame Ex-exgays for Exgay Therapy Failures?
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Important update, May 8, 2005: Read here. In Southern Voice (Dec. 10), Gareth Fenley comments on the exgay video "I Do Exist," developed by Warren Throckmorton. A showing was hosted by exgay activist Darryl L. Foster in Atlanta earlier this…
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Around the Block: Exgays in the News
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Focus on the Family cheers killers’ change of story in Matthew Shepard murder (Dec. 6) Focus’ press release, misquoting Katie Couric, is here. AgapePress helps Gary Bauer hop on the ABC/religious-right bandwagon promoting leniency and sympathy for Shepard’s killers. Pat…