Corrected to reflect Nick Cavnar’s biographical details. Truth Wins Out launched today with a press event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Here are Ex-Gay Watch photographs of the event, along with links to other web pages about…
Maryland Coalition Challenges Exgay Conference
(Sorry for the delay in posting this. Better late than never….) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, June 1, 2006 BROAD COALITION COUNTERS DAMAGING RHETORIC OF “CONVERSION THERAPY” CONFERENCE IN SILVER SPRING Clergy, Mental Health Professionals, and Youth Advocates Declare Focus on…
Ex-Gay TV Ad Watch
A couple of hours ago I caught a portion of a TV commercial run by the Arlington Assembly of God. It’s not clear to me whether it was one of the same ads that the church ran last year. In…
August has been evangelism season for Stephen Bennett Ministries: In 2003, he took a group to Provincetown and met with resistance from gays, some of whom were former ex-gays. 2004, the year Stephen named gay relationships a putrid stench in…
Warren Throckmorton has just published a preliminary document developed by himself and Mark Yarhouse. Titled Sexual identity therapy: Practice guidelines for managing sexual identity conflicts (100K pdf) Its intended audience is mental health professionals, and at this point the authors…
Stephen Bennett Anecdotes
I watched the video of Stephen’s September, 2004 sermon (a link is posted towards the bottom of the SBMinistries home page) and it struck me that he frequently describes himself as a victim of circumstances. Samples which stuck with me:
A post at ex-gay pastor D.L. Foster’s blog, apparently by Nigerian Pastor Kingsley Nwafor (the attribution is implied by a double quote preceding and following 600-some words of the piece) decries gay civil rights in South Africa. He credits gays…
Andrew Seely ministers to youth at a Presbyterian church in California. His review of Brokeback Mountain was published at RelevantMagazine.com, a Christian publication by and for young adults. Titled “Finding God on Brokeback Mountain,” Seely opens with: Please do not…
The National Public Radio program On Point will discuss Love In Action and “conversion therapy” for a full hour tonight — 7 p.m. Eastern time. On Point’s schedule lists local NPR stations that carry the program, as well as local…
How Are ‘gay Rights’ Not ‘civil Rights’?
Bose (in collaboration with Mike) here… The Washington Blade has begun a series “examining similarities and differences between the African-American civil rights movement and the gay rights movement.” The first installment is titled Pro-gay blacks a ‘disgrace’ to civil rights…