Since the election, Canada’s immigration site has enjoyed a sizable increase in traffic from worried [or interested] Americans. Should one consider emigration? Is Canada really any better? I don’t know the answers to these questions, but the situation brings back…
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Focus on the Family Keeps Doomsday Threat Handy
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Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson threatened the United States with doomsday while campaigning for the re-election of George Bush. (Previous XGW coverage.) According to the New York Times (Nov. 4), the threats have not stopped despite the narrow…
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The Straight Dope on Pedophilia
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The Straight Dope message board debates antigay activists’ claim that pedophilia is linked somehow to homosexuality. In linking to XGW’s article on the subject by Joe Kort, two discussion participants describe Ex-Gay Watch as “this not too gay friendly site”…
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Ex-gay Meet-ups Online
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Ex-gays have their own meet-up section for support and companionship at ex-gay.meetup.com. No need to visit right now — no one has joined.
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How Do You Define ‘gay’ And ‘homosexual’?
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The discussion here about the false link between homosexuality and pedophilia drifted into a debate about how different people define “gay,” “homosexual,” and “heterosexual.” I consider the first two words synonymous with primary or exclusive same-sex attraction, but obviously there…
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According to The Oklahoman, Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson last week accused Oklahoma Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Brad Carson of lying. The reporter does not include the charge in quotation marks, so it’s unclear whether Dobson used…
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PFOX Asks Cheneys to Support Exgays
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Wayne Besen’s commented last week on the furor over John Kerry mentioning Mary Cheney’s sexual orientation — a public disclosure that was based on her history as a gay advocate at Coors. And PFOX issued a press release criticizing Kerry….
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Oct. 21, 2004, on the PFOX Yahoo group (closed to non-members, and not archived): “No one is gay to begin with. We are all born heterosexual. Gays are heterosexuals with homosexual problems, and some overcome their problems.” — Estella Salvatierrez,…
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Here are some excerpts from the October 2004 issue of the Exodus newsletter. Unfortunately, Exodus does not make its newsletter available online. Boldface print was bold in the original.
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In reporting on the scientific debate over sexual orientation — what causes it, can it be changed — Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper interviews an Ohio exgay ministry leader, a pro-exgay counselor, gay author/activist Wayne Besen, and two researchers. The article’s…