Philadelphia had its gay pride festival, Outfest, this weekend. They were preached at by Repent America (the same good folks who told us God sent hurricane Katrina to stop Southern Decadence). From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
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James Dobson’s Cronyism And Harriet Miers
Has Harriet Miers agreed to act as a High Court crony, obeying the wishes of George Bush and James Dobson no matter the facts of a given court case? Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter apparently wants to know. From…
Dean Hamer is the geneticist whose groundbreaking 1992 research is periodically misused by exgay activists to conjure up an imaginary belief (among unnamed and impossible-to-find gay people) in a solitary “gay gene.” Hamer was profiled Oct. 3 in The Philadelphia…
Exgay Leaders: If Not the Enemy, Then Who Is?
Former exgay Peterson Toscano finds reasons not to view the leaders of Exodus, “Love Won Out,” and Love In Action — people like Exodus board member and Focus on the Family official Mike Haley — as enemies, even though these…
NARTH has announced a speakers list for this year’s conference November 11-13 here in LA. The majority of listings are names I don’t recognize and have clinical sounding titles such as “Perceptions and Experiences of Sexual Conversion Therapy Clients: A…
Former exgay Love In Action participant Peterson Toscano has been thinking about appropriate and inappropriate tactics toward the Tennessee exgay inpatient therapeutic facility, Love In Action: In June I learned some very powerful lessons in Memphis from watching the QAC…
British Ex-Gay Movement: Down But Not Out
People in the United Kingdom may have assumed that the exgay movement there was effectively crippled when the head of Exodus’ British flagship organization, Jeremy Marks, acknowledged that no one had really changed from gay to straight, and that Christians…
From ex-ex-gay blogger Christine: One of the things that bothers me about many ex-gay testimonies is that they often talk about how horrible the “gay lifestyle” is, and how shallow and drug-, alcohol-, and sex-filled it is. I guess they…
Catholic Bishops: Beware of Biblical Inerrancy
Biblical inerrancy has always been rejected by mainline Christian denominations, including the oldest of them all: the Roman Catholic Church. Tradition, history and science have always served as filters that moderate Biblical claims, while providing insight into the underlying circumstances…
From Media Matters for America: Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson predicted on his radio program [MP3 file] that allowing same-sex marriage in the United States would lead to “group marriage,” “marriage between daddies and little…