In his Good Friday sermon, Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr., pastor of Greater Mount Calvary Church in Northeast D.C., screamed that “it takes a real man to confess Jesus as Lord and Savior”. To punctuate the point, he clarified that…
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An article by Travis Reed of the Associated Press today misreports numerous facts about the exgay movement and its critics. The story was carried by at least three central Florida newspapers — The Bradenton Herald, the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale,…
Exgay Calls for Starbucks Boycott
In a press release fashioned as an AgapePress “news” story, San Diego exgay activist James Hartline calls upon “Christians” (by which he means antigay social-conservative Christians) to boycott Starbucks.
Warren Throckmorton has just published a preliminary document developed by himself and Mark Yarhouse. Titled Sexual identity therapy: Practice guidelines for managing sexual identity conflicts (100K pdf) Its intended audience is mental health professionals, and at this point the authors…
PGN Article Quotes Daniel Gonzales
An article in the Philadephia Gay News profiles an ex-ex-gay couple, Stephen Parelli and Jose Ortiz, that will be speaking to a Baptist group this weekend. The couple met at an ex-gay group in New York in 1997. Parelli was…
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I have added some security measures to prevent spammers from posting ads for poker, pills, and porn to this site. In the past, these ads rarely appeared on the site, but they filled our writers’ e-mail boxes and our database…
(May 11, 2006) The title of today’s Focus on the Family broadcast was “National Day of Prayer 2006: America, Honor God (Part 2 of 2).” I couldn’t help but notice the number of times prayer and the political issue of…
Salon.com has printed a lengthy and worthwhile excerpt from the new book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. The excerpt is too long and detailed to be adequately summarized; suffice it to say for now that individuals and ideas…
Libertarian pundit and veteran ABC investigative reporter John Stossel upset the nation’s handful of exgay activists in 2004 when he interviewed both exgays and ex-exgays, and concluded that the exgay movement consists of only a handful of ideological activists who…
A shareholder of Ford Motor Company introduced a resolution to have the company remove sexual orientation as a category against which employees could not be discriminated. Most of his ranting, however, had little or nothing to do with non-discrimation policy.