Merry Christmas everyone. I’m back from my cruise to Mexico last week and now I’m at my parents’ place in Ventura for Christmas. I had the unpleasant obligation of attending church this morning where I was again reminded of one…
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Here on the Ex-Gay Watch I know I frequently point out logical fallacies in logical (or perhaps better said illogical) arguments, and my peers here do the same thing. My peers and I have noted ex-gay and ex-gay affirming organizations…
Michelle Goldberg, famous for her work at salon.com work and her book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism said the following in the interview article The Growing Threat of Right-Wing Christians: One of the first pieces I did on…
Writer Angela Phillips believes, and I agree, that the high incidence of homosexuality occurring in Western nations is related, at least in part, to the absence of positive male influence when boys are moving through the first crisis of child…
Related XGW article: Dr. Dobson’s Abusive and Factually Untrue “Truth”. Related Truth Wins Out Press Release: James Dobson Rebuked On Video For Distorting Research Of NYU Professor Carol Gilligan. — H/t: Wayne Besen / Truth Wins Out ******Update******
One of the things that has become a boon for the transgender community was the coming of the internet. I’ve no empirical data to back up that belief, but the reality that my transgender peers and I can go online…
Circumcision And AIDS
Apostle Paul once famously said Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. This, along with other passages, separated the ancient link between morality and…
I remember an incident from my teenage years: I was at a church youth camp where an uncle of mine, a respected foreign missionary, was a keynote speaker. My uncle was playing basketball with some of the young men and…
Father John Harvey Interview
The Denver Catholic Register interviewed Father John Harvey, the founder of Courage, the Catholic Ex-Gay Ministry. Unlike Exodus, Courage places more emphasis on physical acts of sex than on “gay identity”. And while they do repeat the bilge coming from…
Jay Bakker’s Revolution – One Punk Under God
A year and a half ago we reported that Jay Bakker, the son of Jim and Tammy Faye, had been deleted from the speaker schedule at the 2005 Exodus Freedom Conference. The reasons for the cancellation may have something to…