From Peterson Toscano: Having experienced victory, aspiring ex-gay minister “Marvin” now voices hesitation about joining the world’s largest ex-gay organization. Marvin asks: Does a local spiritual ex-gay ministry need to be entangled in Exodus psychology and politics? What are the…
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From Barry Goldwater via Wikipedia via Andrew Sullivan: “On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can…
Apparently too many people have been requesting antihomosexual and exgay resources from Focus on the Family while offering less than the organization’s “suggested donation.” So now Focus, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is making it more difficult to “donate”…
Karl Rove called him “nuts.” Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey called him a threat to religious liberty. And evangelical voters and Baptist leaders are deserting him. So whom does the desperate James Dobson seek for support? The nation’s…
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Lobbyist Randy Thomas complains on the Exodus blog that, at the Family Research Council’s misnamed “Liberty Sunday” event last weekend, a reporter for the Boston Herald chuckled at the label “ex-gay” and refused to receive ex-gay materials or interview ex-gay…
From the Daily Egyptian, the student newspaper at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale: You can’t make fish fly, but you can chuck them across the room and make them think, for just a little while, that they can. Sarah Lohman…
The leadership at Exodus seems to have come up with a bizarre and totally unsubstantiated new talking-point claiming “most” gay people don’t care much for the work of gay-rights groups. In Exodus’ book “God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door”…
Exodus board member Phil Burress is the president of Ohio’s misnamed Citizens for Community Values, which identifies itself as “Officially Associated with Focus on the Family and Family Research Council as a Family Policy Council in Ohio.” According to the…