See the comments section of last week’s XGW entry about Bush congratulating the predominantly gay Metropolitan Community Church for updates: 11/12: XGW reader Rich sees consistencies between recent statements and the president’s previously stated ambivalence 11/13: The Family Research Council…
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Baffling? Intriguing? You Decide!
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Dear ex-gay supporters, Didja hear about this? President Bush sends this note: I send greetings to the members of the Metropolitan Community Church Los Angeles as you celebrate your 35th anniversary. Faith plays an important role in the lives of…
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A Visit to the Homo No Mo Halfway House
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If I had to pick one glaring, gaping, horrifically, horrendously obnoxious hole in the vast majority of conversations about being gay or lesbian or ex-gay or Christian or Wiccan or DollyPartonian or what-the-flip-ever, it would be this: What the heck…
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MAFS: Mentally Anguished Fence Sitters
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Rich Blinne, thoughtful XGW reader and commenter, found this article intriguing like I did: Supporting gays, but not gay marriage For many, equality is one thing, but an institution’s sanctity is quite another. They have accepted the gay man next…
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Alternatives to Fundamentalism: Two Glimpses
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Having grown up in the Episcopal Church, it seems to me the press struggles to get its arms around recent events. Coverage of the gathering of the American Anglican Council (AAC) in Texas last week left a distinct impression that…
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Spitzer Study I: A Micro Target
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Dr. Robert Spitzer’s study of 200 self-identified former homosexuals is back in the news. The Archives of Sexual Behavior, the official journal of the International Academy of Sex Research, published it, along with 26 peer reviews and a response from…
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Marriage Is…
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Anti-gay-marriage advocates commonly portray marriage as unitary and monolithic, capable of being nullified if stretched too far. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), for example, describes it as: faithful, exclusive, and lifelong… intimate partnership of life and love… a…
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Kansas AG Distorts, Misleads, Inflames
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Matthew Limon was convicted of having consensual but criminal sex with a nearly-15-year-old boy when he was 18 and both lived at a group home for the developmentally disabled. He was sentenced to a 17+ year prison term despite a…
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Dr. Dobson Ignores Marriage, Scapegoats Gays
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Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson writes “from [his] heart” that the institution of marriage is failing. He points out the conditions he perceived which led to his founding of FOTF: in the late 1960s and early 1970s,…
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Invisible Ex-Gays in Orlando?
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The controversy surrounding Orlando city council member Vicki Vargo’s proclamation of Exodus International Day on July 21 was noted in an earlier Ex-Gay Watch item by Mike. He mentions that activists have challenged the proclamation, as reported by the Orlando…