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…
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The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association on June 2 applauded the publication of an American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement, “Sexual Orientation and Adolescence,” in the June 2004 issue of Pediatrics.
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Mel White on Falwell, Bush, And Ex-Gays
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Pridesource.com today published an interview with the Rev. Mel White, head of Soulforce, the U.S. network of gay-affirming, faith-based, nonviolent activist organizations. White has much to say about having ghostwritten autobiographies of religious-right leaders; about living as a gay man…
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Chad W. Thompson is a rising individual in the ex-gay movement. Formerly a media specialist for the Iowa Family Policy Center, Thompson is the founder of Inqueery.com, an ex-gay advocacy project targeting public schools. His vision for ex-gay inclusion in…
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Chicago’s Windy City Times interviewed gay activist Wayne Besen on June 2. Besen’s book about the ex-gay movement, Anything But Straight, was nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards in two categories: LGBT Studies and Spirituality.
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Focus/Family Invites Anecdotes on Marriage
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James Dobson of Focus on the Family is releasing a new antigay/exgay book, “Marriage Under Fire,” in mid-June.
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Robert Knight’s One-Eyed View of Hate Crimes
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In a May 29 essay at the WorldNetDaily web site, reprinted four days later at Concerned Women for America, Robert Knight blasts a newly proposed federal hate crimes measure that enjoys bipartisan support.
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Ex-gay quote of the day, from Focus on the Family’s daily CitizenLink e-mail, regarding MTV’s new gay cable network: Melissa Fryrear, gender issues analyst at Focus on the Family, said there are several problems with the creation of a gay-themed…
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Ex-Gay Watch: A Glance At the News
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Democratic Catholic Lawmakers Warn Bishops From The Washington Post: Forty-eight lawmakers, including several who are anti-abortion, warned the bishops not to harm the church by denying Communion based on partisan political biases. [The lawmakers] questioned how the bishops could limit…
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Exodus Double-Speak on Gay Marriage
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In his early movie, Bananas, Woody Allen’s character Fielding Mellish complains: This trial is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. The vocabulary has…