From Wayne Besen’s latest column: The gay movement is the canary in the coalmine for the future of the Democratic Party. If party leaders move right and abandon basic fairness and equality, it is a strong signal that they will…
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At the social-conservative website MichNews.com, Warren Throckmorton editorializes against gay author/activist Wayne Besen. Comments about Prof. Throckmorton’s criticisms began at XGW here but should continue here instead. My own reaction: I’ve discussed the dispute over who founded Exodus before. It’s…
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Antigay Protests Against ‘Kinsey’
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I mentioned briefly here that Focus on the Family has been orchestrating a national smear campaign against legendary sexuality researcher Alfred C. Kinsey — and against the new movie Kinsey. The Focus campaign appears to be bearing fruit: Protests are…
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PFOX Threatens Suburban D.C. Sex-ed Panel
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PFOX complains in a Nov. 5 press release that exgay propaganda is being excluded from sex-ed school curricula in suburban Washington, D.C. The press release suffers from a long list of shortcomings: PFOX operative Jackie Rice, ex-gay representative to a…
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Has news reporting about gay marriage been imbalanced in favor of tolerance for gay people — or are the critics and ombudsmen giving more weight to antigay activists’ wobbly claims than is merited by fact, faith, law or science? Liberal…
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Wayne Besen: ‘Piranha in the Fish Tank’
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From activist/author Wayne Besen’s column for this week: Perhaps the left is guilty, as Neo-Puritans claim, of denying religion a more prominent space in the public square. But the right is at greater fault for its cavalier dismissal of legitimate…
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I received this message over the weekend: From: Nina & Buzz Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:38 AMTo: editor@exgaywatch.comSubject: Your statement requested.Dear Editor,Child sex abuse, as you may be aware, is increasing in America. Why don’t homosexual writers and activists…
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Post-election Briefs From Ex-Gay Watch
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From the New York Times, Nov. 9: Researchers say the religious right continues to suppress research into human sexuality. The research is aimed at reducing the incidence of abortion and sexually transmitted diseases. Focus on the Family is waging a…
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Poll: Voters’ Moral Values Are Not Conservative
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The Washington Post last week published an exceptionally sloppy article that imagined the nation’s churches spontaneously and miraculously rebelling from the grassroots up — against gay couples and in favor of the religious right’s moral tunnelvision. The article by Dana…
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Exgay Tim Wilkins: ‘I Still Love Homosexuals’
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Exgay testimonies have a way of circling the Internet. As they move around, they are re-dated and passed off as new. Tim Wilkins’ web site explains (a bit poorly) how he loves homosexuals. Baptist Press republished this testimony Jan. 28,…