As we’ve discussed before, the IFI protest at the Gay Games in Chicago were highly ineffective. The protesters were outnumbered and then rain washed them out after about an hour and a half. Previous reporting discussed singing atheletes from London,…
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Protest At Courage Meeting in St. Louis
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article about Courage, the Catholic ex-gay group, meeting there and a protest held by Catholic Action Network for Social Justice. Protestors objected that Courage views homosexuality as changable through reparative therapy. Christina Nair, speaking…
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Is Exodus Complying with Tax Law?
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The Internal Revenue Code has a long history of favorable tax treatment for “ministers of the gospel”. I do not prepare income tax returns for ministers or churches, but there is a good summary of the rules in a December…
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Nancy Heche’s “Love” Shows Its True Colors
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Focus on the Family’s ex-gay roadshow, Love Won Out, has presented Dr. Nancy Heche (doctorate in pastoral counseling) as an authority on sexual orientation issues. Heche claims to represent “truth and love” in her approach. Heche’s claim to authority is…
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LaBarbera’s Bathhouse Visit – One More Thread
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We now have a report from the Windy City Times about Peter LaBarbera’s outreach to Steamworks, a gay bathhouse in Chicago on the final Saturday of Gay Games. LaBarbera showed up with an armed bodyguard, ex-gay James Hartline, and half…
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Why the Ex-Gay Debate Is So Important
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Anti-gay activists spend millions of dollars every year to promote the idea that “change is possible”. Although there is no empirical evidence to support their claims and although their most touted “study” only claims that a miniscule percentage of gay…
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The Proper Response to Bashing
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Papers around the country are picking up an AP article by Ling Liu in which heterosexuals complain about mistreatment in Provincetown, Mass., a gay resort town on Cape Cod. The list of abuses consists of: 1. One gay man accused…
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Cindy Rodriguez, columnist for the Denver Post, attended the peace vigil that Soulforce organized to pray for the end of James Dobson’s persecution of gay people. She spoke with Mike Haley, Focus on the Family’s head ex-gay, about his anti-gay…
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Ex-gay Protest of Gay Games Comes to an End
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With the culmination of the Gay Games VII in Chicago, so too ends the protest led by IFI’s LaBarbera and his crew of less-than-reputable ex-gays. Although there was a full schedule of protest planned throughout the Gaymes, very little was…
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We reported earlier that Peter LaBarbera was to be in town to “counter the upcoming Gay Games events in Chicago with a ‘Truth and Love Offensive.’” Described as an “outreach”, his stated goal was to “tell homosexuals there is freedom…