Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint Nov. 28 with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service against James Dobson’s Focus on the Family.
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The Vatican’s Gay (and Ex-gay) Problem
The contorted thinking behind the Vatican’s decision on seminarians is raising questions all along the political spectrum (other, of course, than the reactionary anti-gay activists). Conservative columnist, William F. Buckley Jr., in an article called The Vatican and Gay Problems…
QUEERTY Freedom of Speech Update
Sent them a little email to make sure I was reading things correctly: I’m sorry I might have misread your post but are you actually displeased the people of Sweden are allowed freedom of speech? -Dan Got this reply: In…
Advice to An Exgay Survivor of the ‘Gay Scene’
Here is a message that I recently wrote to an anonymous exgay individual who said it was “the gay scene” — which, he said, seemed to consist of sad, lonely, self-centered, manipulative people — that made him pursue reparative therapy….
Basically all of today’s Focus On The Family broadcast was spent discussing how Focus chose to leave their old bank, Wells Fargo, for being too gay friendly. Until Dobson brought it to my attention I had no idea Wells Fargo…
Chad And Dan Go to Dinner
Chad Thompson is in Orange County speaking at a church conference on HIV/AIDS and we met for dinner. Until recently I haven’t followed Chad’s work closely but proved to be a fascinating, thoughtful and surprisingly centrist person to enjoy a…
From gay culture blog QUEERTY: A Swedish court convicted him under hate crime legislation but the ruling was appealed; Sweden’s Supreme Court has now utterly disgraced itself by overturning the conviction. Is it even imaginable that if a preacher had…
Don’t Just Read About the Religious Right…
…instead, take action. Visit Religious Right Watch, then consider becoming involved in Talk To Action.
I still haven’t had time to read the December cover story and related articles thoroughly. Among the items of interest are stories about the Founding Fathers’ intent on religion in government, Christian Reconstruction, the religious right’s growing “orbits of influence,” a conservative-Christian media…
While I congratulate Swedish pastor Ake Green on his acquittal by his country’s supreme court, I reject the Alliance Defense Fund’s assertion that calling homosexuality a “cancerous tumor on all of society” represents “the biblical view of homosexual behavior.” Freedom of speech…