When exgay activist Tim Wilkins spoke to a forum at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Oct. 4, two campus newspapers offered two differing accounts of what transpired. Joe Riddle has already reviewed Bradley Wooten’s article in the UWM Post. By…
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Exodus to Lobby in D.C., Chicago
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The not-exgay-but-something-like-it Exodus official Randy Thomas says he is traveling to D.C. again today.
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Religious Lobby Uses Ex-Gay Lore
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The Boston Globe has a story [free registration required] on Richard Land, the Souther Baptist Convention’s lobby in Washington. Gay leaders are particularly alarmed about Land’s promotion of ”reparative therapy” to transform sexual orientation. At the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual…
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In one of my last therapy sessions with Joseph Nicolosi of NARTH he asked me to participate in a self-reporting study on ex-gays being conducted by a guy named Spitzer. At the time I believed my sessions with Nicolosi had…
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TVC Claims Change Is Always Possible
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Last night Lou Sheldon of the TVC issued possibly the most nonsensical response to Time’s recent article on gay teens I have seen yet. (Yes, even farther out there than Stephen Benett’s tantrum. [Time’s author] also carefully smears ex-gay ministries…
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Blame the Priest, Ask for Cash
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New York Socialite “J. David Enright IV says that Father Joseph Romano sexually abused him at a Christian youth camp in the early 1960s, when he was seven years old,” and that made him gay. And now he wants $5…
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I Hereby CHOOSE to Be Gay
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I laughed reading this account of ex-gay minister Tim Wilkins’ talk to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Apologetics Association, a student-led organization that exists to “promote the literal word of the Bible as logical and reasonable” (a dubious goal, in my…
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A Look Back: Past Commentary on Fundamentalism
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Almost three years ago, Ex-Gay Watch complimented Real Live Preacher regarding a thoughtful post on the difficulty that both Christians and people of other faiths face when attempting to relate to fundamentalists. In comments at Ex-Gay Watch, RLP responded: I…
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Coming Out Day
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Today is National Coming Out Day. Ex-gay activist Warren Throckmorton accurately identifies the purpose of Coming Out day in a Focus on the Family article: Warren Throckmorton, a professor of psychology at Grove City College, says this kind of “celebration”…
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Exgay Battle in Montgomery County, Md., Schools
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Due to time constraints, I have been unable to cover this issue recently — a shame, since I live nearby and my best friends’ daughter will attend school in Montgomery County. But there is a lot happening, and news (admittedly…