The Family Research Council takes issue with the American Psychological Association again over gay parents. The FRC declines to link its readers to last week’s APA resolution on gay marriage and parenting, or to the APA position’s clinical underpinnings. (XGW…
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A couple weeks ago, Christianity Today reported that Focus on the Family is blurring the line between its tax-deductible operations and its partisan political advocacy for Republican candidates. The magazine noted that the two operations share the same staff members,…
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Christian Libertarians? Sometimes Not
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Jon Rowe comments that Christian Reconstructionists have infiltrated libertarian circles by labeling themselves “Christian libertarians.” Unlike real libertarians who wish to eliminate big government, however, the relabeled Reconstructionists seek to replace government with theocracy. Dispatches from the Culture Wars elaborates…
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Illinois Church Sign Sparks Debate
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The church sign lacked both originality and insight: “God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve” and “Marriage is between a man and a woman.” It is the sign’s thoughtless sarcasm, not just its antigay sentiment, that raised debate…
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Big-government Resolution to Support Ex-gays
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Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays is rallying support for U.S. House and Senate resolutions supporting tolerance for “former homosexuals and lesbians.”
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Scary Places Frem 20,000 Feet
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Aerial view of Washington’s Dupont Circle. I see upscale shoppers and workers sipping chais or chowing on wraps. Ben claims to see a place where he can’t walk without being accosted by gay men. What different people see — I…
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In late June, web site and the Gay Spirituality blog, Michigan psychotherapist Joe Kort offered his own lengthy clinical and personal assessment of reparative therapies. Kort disputes 10 “myths” generally promoted by reparative therapists. While ex-gay programs differ, I think…
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Wayne Besen Responds to Ex-gay Ad Campaign
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Responding to an e-mail defending the subordination of women, Andrew Sullivan writes: The strength to be subordinate! And this comes from a religious tradition that began with a man who defied almost every social convention of his time and treated…
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L.A. Times Publishes Full-page Ex-gay Ad
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Exodus announces the second ex-gay ad, published today in the L.A. Times. (Here’s other XGW coverage of the Exodus ads.)