Exgay activist Stephen Bennett lent his support Sept. 26 to an Oak Park, Ill., antigay church’s rally against marriage and civil unions for gay couples. He claimed to “love” gay people because he “was once gay,” but he nevertheless supported…
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Exodus Confuses the Sex-ed Debate
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Speaking for Exodus on Oct. 1, exgay activist Nancy Brown collects unrelated factoids from the ideologically antiliberal publication Human Events and assembles an illogical case: That sex education promotes depression, confusion, anger, homosexuality, pregnancy, and pornography. Brown draws no logical…
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PFOX Sees ‘red’ Over Vandalized Exgay Billboard
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Aggrieved-relatives group PFOX complains to the religious-right media that its exgay billboard in Richmond, Va., has been vandalized. But a closer look at the billboard finds faded streaks of red ink. The billboard is mostly unharmed. (Hat tip: John Aravosis.)…
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Nice But Irrelevant: Exgays Exist
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Prof. Warren Throckmorton and TownHall.com editor Ryan Zempel want antiliberalists to know that exgays exist. According to Zempel, Throckmorton’s exgay video I Do Exist demonstrates “that change is possible for those with same-sex attractions.” Change is always possible, Zempel implies;…
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Antigay AFA Activist Compounds His AIDS Error
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Activist Gary Glenn, of the American Family Association-Michigan, talked the religious-right news service AgapePress into distorting HIV/AIDS statistics on Sept. 22. Glenn inflated the incidence of new HIV/AIDS cases in metro Detroit by one-third by confusing new cases with a…
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I just stumbled across a story in today’s New York Daily News. The bottom line: Even in “liberal” school systems like New York’s, teen-age students are being denied access to websites about gay and lesbian youth issues. And educators are…
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Exgay Leader Comments on Swaggart Death Threat
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After 12 days of silence about the subject, Exodus president Alan Chambers on Sept. 24 criticized Jimmy Swaggart’s Sept. 12 death threat against gay people. The emphatically antifeminist Chambers borrows (strangely enough) from the same line of thought as profeminist…
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Open Thread: Does Kerry Hope to Lose?
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Does anyone else wonder whether the Democratic Party leadership might — through intent or apathy — be forfeiting the presidential election? Kerry/Edwards have offered no details about his plans to: repair the Bush foreign-policy catastrophe; wage the war in Iraq…
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Eugene Volokh (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars) challenges the myth that liberals are moral relativists while conservatives are paragons of moral absolutism.
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Some exgay political activists like Prof. Warren Throckmorton accuse the nation’s schools of promoting “homosexuality.” They imply, usually without evidence, that pro-tolerance advocacy in education comes from political activists, not from the struggling students, their parents, and a few concerned…