The website for this year’s Exodus conference touts discounted rates offered with American Airlines. HRC gives American a perfect score in their index of corporate equality.
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Two days ago I posted a comment to a post by straight white male Alan Chambers on the Exodus Live Out Loud blog where he accuses gay rights groups of “hijacking” the civil rights movement. My response consisted of a…
Google News has rejected a request to carry Alains Newsletter because they consider it hate speech. (Big surprise, I know.) Alains Newsletter tends not to accept traffic from XGW so you may have to copy and paste the link into…
The chairman of the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade used his leadership position this week to compare gay Irish Americans to the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis in a sloppy effort to cast gay Irish Americans as enemies of…
The Campaign to Defend the Constitution last week accused Focus on the Family of lobbying on behalf of the Louisiana gambling industry. As Ex-Gay Watch noted then, Focus seemed to admit doing so in the fine print of its response…
Off Topic/Open Forum: Squelching the Moderates
Christian and Muslim peacemakers have both come under recent attack from Islamic fundamentalists. Meanwhile, Focus on the Family has been strangely silent about these threats. Searches of the Focus web site for the martyred Tom Fox and his kidnapped Christian…
Parody Watch
Lobal Warming has been keeping a list of web sites that have posted copies of Justin Watt’s parody of an Exodus antigay billboard. To its critics, the Exodus billboard seems to assume that gay people are miserable wretches. The billboard…
Today’s extra-special guest on Straight Talk Radio (03/15/06) was Michael Johnson of ADF talking about their upcoming event, The Day Of Truth. Johnson kept a pretty mild tone speaking about such agreeable things as equal-access and freedom of speech. Bennett…
The First Amendment Center along with BridgeBuilders and others have drafted a framework within which communities can discuss issues of sexual orientation within the public education system. The agreement is based on the idea that all viewpoints deserve to be…
AFA’s Ford Boycott Is Back On
AFA has declared that it is boycotting Ford for a year because Ford advertises to gay people, has a non-discrimination policy, and supports organizations that in turn are in favor of gay marriage. Earlier, AFA had threatened a boycott and…