For about two years, Ben, a early-20’s guy struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation and his religious faith, blogged on a site called Scattered Words. (Vital Voice interview here) I have not always been generous in my attitude towards Ben…
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Texas Ford Dealers Don’t Want Gay Customers
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This is a very late response to a letter written on June 23, 2006. The board of the Greater Texas Ford Dealers Advertising Fund which represents 78 Ford Dealers in North Texas has sent a letter to Ford Motor Company…
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To Thine Own Self
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Michael McManus (not the “marriage-protecting” conservative commentator) discusses in the student newspaper of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, how he stopped being a people-pleasing pushover: I think I realized the severity of my situation when I told my parents I…
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Mixed Orientation Mormon Marriage
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There is an article in the Salt Lake Tribune about gay/straight married Mormons. These are relationships in which straight women knowingly marry gay men. While the article does not go far into the motivations of the women, it does discuss…
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This past weekend in El Paso, three young men kidnapped a gay teen, tied him up, and beat him all night. the attackers told the man “they were going to scare him straight.” Some might consider it extreme to blame…
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Anti-Gay “Love” Seems More Like Hate
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Anti-gay activist often claim to “love the sinner, hate the sin”. A recent example is Guy Adams of Renew America who (in the midst of a string of evil and false accusations) said on Stacy Harp’s podcast …we don’t hate…
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Renaming Ex-Gays
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According to Michael Bussee at Warren Throckmorton’s site, Alan Chambers seeks to do away with the term “Ex-Gay”. Michael Bussee quoted Alan Chambers, Ex. Dir. of Exodus speaking about the term ex-gay as follows: “We need to do away with…
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Ex-Gay Minister Became a Supporter
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There is an article in the Washington MetroWeekly about a gay-supportive African American minister that is leaving DC and going to a church in New York. Alvin Jackson, who was a shining star in the Disciples of Christ church (pastor…
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Anti-Gay T-Shirt Update
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As discussed before, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that anti-gay activists do not have a constitutional right to go into the classroom with anti-gay religious messages on their clothes. The Court found that gay students have the…
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CWA Intern Repeats LaBarbera’s Deceptions
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UPDATED Concerned Women for America has an internship program in which they train young women to be culture warriors against those who don’t share CWA’s view of how the world should be. Part of this training appears to be writing…