Dalai Banana discusses the allure of spiritual regression (OK, this is my own spin) — the temptation to limit oneself to an immature, beginner-level spirituality that sells trite answers to life’s questions. In time, some people discover the answers were…
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Ex-Gay Watch: Site Updates
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Bit by bit, I’m updating old sections of the site. Here are updated entries and their revision dates: July 20, 2004 Exgay Darryl L. Foster on Exgay Politics
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The Congressional Budget Office said gay marriage would, on the whole, benefit U.S. taxpayers. The Family Research Council responded, as Scott Lewis notes, with non sequiturs.
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Liberal Catholic Analysis of Courage Activist
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A liberal Catholic blogger thoughtfully and methodically analyzes the recent and sometimes stereotypical reasoning of Ron Belgau, who is an activist in Courage, the Catholic antigay, pro-chastity movement. (Note that I describe Courage as both antigay and pro-chastity. In fact,…
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Focus on the Family attempts to smear two leading evangelicals — Tony Campolo and Jim Wallis — as New Age leftists. Both evangelists have spent decades battling poverty and racism in America, but both evangelists also have strong records of…
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Exodus, the Orlando-based network of ex-gay activists, joins the American Family Association, Focus on the Family, and other anti-tolerance organizations in inventing a remarkably blatant lie about Congress: Congress is poised to make homosexual marriage the law of the land….
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Attack on Antigay Preacher: Focus Twists Facts
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Focus on the Family, which opposes unfettered free speech for gay-tolerant viewpoints, digs up a 2001 incident in Britain, in which an antigay street preacher was assaulted and arrested. Focus views the arrest and conviction of the preacher as proof…
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Focus on the Family Profiting From Son of Sam?
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David Berkowitz murdered six people and severely injured others during a 1970s killing spree. Now ex-gay movement marketer and underwriter Focus on the Family is marketing audiotape and CD recordings touting mass murderer Berkowitz’s conservative-Christian moral virtue — for a…
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Some Things Never Change
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This month, my job changed, my salary rose, my office moved… but ex-gay activists remain as committed to conflict, resentment, and tired old refrains as ever. I must admit: Covering their pessimism, their isolationism, their lack of faith in themselves…
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Former New Yorker Peterson Toscano, who endured 17 years of ex-gay reparative therapy in Manhattan and elsewhere, returns to the city to present his one-man comedy, “Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House,” for one night only at…