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…
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Holiday Ripoff? Phantom Rebates At Roxio
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Easy Media Creator 7 burns music, movies and data onto CDs and DVDs. I use it to back up data from my computer. The software works well for me. Unfortunately, the company’s outsourced $20 rebate program appears to be a…
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Ex-Gay Watch: Administrative Note
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Here is an automatically updated list of new web pages mentioning ex-gays, courtesy of Google. This is a possible future addition to XGW. I need to figure out where this would go, how big it should be…. Suggestions are welcome,…
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Exodus membership director Randy Thomas’ blog on Thursday identified Exodus’ new spokeswoman: Julie Neils, who was a spokeswoman for Focus on the Family during the John Paulk scandal in 2000 and 2001. Thomas discloses neither this pertinent fact nor whether…
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In a Dec. 3 news release riddled with boldface print worthy of an amateur fundamentalist Bible tract, Exodus criticizes honest depictions of "gay life" and ridicules unconditional love. Exodus denies that "monogamous partnerships exist"; makes the baseless assertion that media…
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Draft Comment Guidelines for Exgay Discussions
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Analysis of the latest Exodus press release (posted to their web site on most Fridays) is forthcoming. In the meantime, some draft guidelines for comments posted to Ex-Gay Watch. I hope this will give visitors an indication of what types…
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Administrative Note: TV Ban Against UCC Ad
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Rather than post fresh entries here, since this issue is off-topic, I am directing interested people to UCC seminarian Chuck Currie’s weblog for updates, as the controversy gets bigger by the day.
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Exgay activist Stephen Bennett will debate whether people can be gay and Christian on PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m. CT/MT. (Bennett says it is impossible.) Other debate participants: Ron Poindexter, who is ex-exgay, and…
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According to the Associated Press, Senate majority leader Bill Frist invested a fortune in campaign funds in lousy stocks since 2000 — and ran up a loss of $524,000. Now Frist — a likely GOP candidate for president in 2008,…
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Religious Right’s Awkward Christmas Boycotts
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Dan Gonzales wrote last Friday with an update on the American Family Association and Concerned Women for America. Knight, of CWFA, claims three times in an AFA/AgapePress release that the United Way is supporting "pro-homosexual groups" but Knight does not…