The Human Rights Campaign’s XM Radio show, “The Agenda with Joe Solmonese,” has posted an audio clip about the documentary God and Gays. Film producer Kim Clark discusses the film’s positive reception by churches. Also appearing is Darlene Bogle, a…
The Washington Blade reports today that an outfit called the Thomas More Law Center has replaced the much stronger and better-known Liberty Counsel in pursuing a battle against sex education in Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools. Thomas More is assisting…
In her final TV interview, taped Wednesday and aired Thursday on CNN, Tammy Faye Messner didn’t declare that she knew God’s will. She didn’t excuse her own fallibility or pass selective judgment against others. And she didn’t order up a…
Ex-Gay News Roundup
Former ex-gay Peterson Toscano sums up the week in ex-gay news. Toscano has also posted new video from the Survivor Initiative press conference outside Love In Action in Memphis, Tenn. Looking for new or rejuvenated ex-gay topical blogs to read…
WorldNetDaily cites the (alleged) Madison, Wis., arrest of ex-gay David Ott under local hate-speech laws as one of several cases where local misapplication of local or state hate speech laws is somehow (illogically) used as the primary excuse to prevent…
Focus on the Family and Alan Keyes’ Renew America have joined ex-gay activist Linda Jernigan and Peter LaBarbera in spreading an already-disproven false report that lesbian gangs are running amok in America’s cities. All four sources neglect to tell their…
Two former clients — Brandon Tidwell of Memphis and David Christie of New York — spoke on July 18 in front of Love in Action, a Memphis, Tenn., residential program that claims to help people reject “false images” that supposedly…
Exodus periodically claims that gay people suffer little or no discrimination nowadays. But a new study by economist Dr. Lee Badgett and her colleagues at UCLA indicates that job-related bias remains a problem. Their report, Bias in the Workplace: Consistent…
Based on federal statistics and his own soon-to-be-published research, Dr. Gregory Herek reports that hate crimes hit one in five adults who belong to sexual minorities. Among the findings: 13% of respondents said they had been hit, beaten, physically attacked,…
In Brief: Ex-Gay Racism?
Ex-gay activist Stephen Bennett suffered a racist verbal slip last week. But it was not an entirely isolated incident. Republic of T reminds us that Bennett has linked to white supremacists before. (Past coverage: Good As You, Ex-Gay Watch). Republic…