An outdoor advertising firm confirmed that it refused to post exgay activist Stephen Bennett’s billboard. The ad, sponsored by the New York Christian Coalition, would have appeared on a state highway in New Paltz, N.Y., just north of New York…
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Exodus president Alan Chambers participated in a Sept. 19 antimarriage simulcast sponsored by the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the Southern Baptist Convention. The simulcast was part of the religious-right alliance’s We…
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Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Frank Worthen
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Frank Worthen is a grandfather of the exgay movement. He is profiled (and criticized) at length by former ex-gays in Wayne Besen’s book, Anything But Straight. In his web site essay What Is Homosexuality, Worthen acknowledges, "In helping people overcome…
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Exgay Pastor Criticizes Gay Author Wayne Besen
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In a Sept. 10 press release, exgay activist D.L. Foster defends the GOP’s exgay convention entertainer, Donnie McClurkin — and criticizes gay activist Wayne Besen, who has “suddenly found himself at the epicenter of a new career playing CIA with…
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AFA, Focus on the Family Boycott Procter/Gamble
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Focus on the Family yesterday joined the American Family Association in a boycott against Procter & Gamble, which is headquartered in Cincinnati and supports a repeal of the city’s discriminatory Article XII.
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From today’s press release by Wayne Besen: ACTIVIST CHARGES THAT THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT SUPPRESSED INFORMATION ON EX-GAY LEADER FOR IDEOLOGICAL REASONS Puff-Piece Shows That ‘Virginian-Puppet’ Can’t Decide if it’s a Church Bulletin or a Legitimate Newspaper, Says Wayne Besen VIRGINIA BEACH,…
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From Daily Kos via Chuck Currie and others: BlogActive, Raw Story and Hustler magazine (ugh) have apparently outed antigay Republican Rep. David Dreier of California. I’m not happy with with the warfare that has consumed the nation’s political scene. I…
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Ex-gay Assesses C.S. Lewis, Freud
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Randy Thomas reviews a PBS program, The Question of God, about the perspectives of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud on science and religion. In part two of his review, Thomas says of science: Nutshell: Scientific worldview will always be incomplete…
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Hugo Schwyzer on Well-balanced Masculinity
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Few of my friends or acquaintances consider “traditional” notions of masculinity and femininity — soccer dads and cookie moms — suitable for role modeling in the modern world. Perhaps that’s to be expected; a lot of my friends are masculine…
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Joe Carter at The Evangelical Outpost launched a “gay gene” discussion that satirically touches upon the difficulties facing heterosexual couples when one partner suddenly identifies as gay. Some of the commenters appear reasonably balanced in perspective; others adhere to the…