If love and sexual desire are distinct experiences with distinct and separate biological underpinnings, then what does that mean for the ethics and politics of same-sex love and same-sex genital behavior? What relationship, if any, should exist between the two?…
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Founded as a day for Americans of all faiths, the National Day of Prayer is now closely tied to Focus on the Family. It is headquartered in Focus offices, James Dobson’s wife is the chairman, Focus is compensated for “services…
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New York Times columnist Frank Rich comments today on the GOP convention organizers’ floundering effort to administer “gay-aversion therapy” to the city of New York.
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Briefly: Remembering Patrick Cusick
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Patrick Cusick, 72, a longtime gay rights activist and an active participant in the 1960s black civil rights movement, died May 10. The June 4 Washington Blade article retraces Cusick’s life from pro-slavery family to pickets and sit-ins for civil…
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Someone recently wrote to XGW, requesting a copy of Getting It Straight: What the Research Shows About Homosexuality. FRC’s description of the booklet is not encouraging: It begins by claiming to refute homosexual “myths” that were never advanced by many…
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Psych Advice for Gays And Ex-Gays
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Psychotherapist Joe Kort wrote a book, published last year, titled 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Improve Their Lives. What smart things does Kort recommend?
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Wayne Besen: ‘Doom’ for Gay Republicans
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Wayne Besen, author of Anything But Straight about the ex-gay movement, comments in a June 4 op-ed in The Washington Blade about the difficulties facing gay Republicans. The Blade also ran a front-page news story.
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Warren Throckmorton, a professor at a Bible college in Pennsylvania, is frequently cited as a scholar by PFOX and other ex-gay political activists. In an essay reprinted June 2 at the antigay michnews.com web site, Throckmorton criticizes the professional National…
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Scattered Words: Ex-Gay Blogger
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Twenty-two-year-old D.C.-area blogger Ben at Scattered Words exemplifies the agreeable ex-gay Christian: Someone who pursues an ex-gay sexual and spiritual path primarily because it’s right for him, and not because of any obvious desire to promote discrimination or impose one’s…
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Ex-Gay Anne Paulk: Who Owns Traditional Values?
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In a June 1 op-ed column in The Oregonian (Portland), Exodus board member, author and Focus on the Family associate Anne Paulk reacts to an earlier LA Times column by Max Boot. (Free subscriptions required.) Paulk does not directly address…