As regular readers know, in the past year Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) has (quite literally) cashed in on a new pet cause: the religious right’s battle to withhold knowledge of safe, secondary alternatives to abstinence from sexually active…
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Scientology And Exgays
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A reader pointed out today that Ex-Gay Watch has no articles on the Church of Scientology’s efforts in the ex-gay marketplace. (We have had comments about Scientology among commenters, but no articles.) The reader offered one article and two discussions…
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PFOX Claims It’s Tolerant
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Richard Cohen, M.A. President, PFOX July 6, 2005 Statement to the Montgomery County Board of Education (Statement on behalf of a broader campaign with the religious-right Liberty Counsel, Warren Throckmorton, and a local group of religious conservatives opposed to comprehensive,…
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Insurances DO Pay for Reparative Therapy!
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Insurances DO pay for Reparative Therapy! by Joe Kort, MSW I was recently asked how psychotherapists get paid for providing Reparative Therapy (RT) if most mental health organizations have identified it as an unethical and harmful form of treatment. The…
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Alan Chambers Infographic [Click To View Full Size Version]
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All of these quotes are from Alan Chambers: [hint, watch the bold text] While the news is being touted in the homosexual community as another sign that homosexuality is genetic, the focus instead should be on the thousands of former…
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“81 Words” That Changed The World
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Raj sent this to me a while back. Back in 2002 PRI and NPR’s This American Life ran an hour long show revealing the story of how homosexuality was removed from the DSM. The theme of the story was that…
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Question of Bias in MSNBC Coverage of Exgays
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Updated July 4, 2005 Two recent articles at MSNBC.com offer fairly well-written primers on recent exgay activism — though, in sticking to the basic issues, the articles are kinder to both exgay and pro-equality activists than is, perhaps, deserved. Two…
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In the same Washington Blade article as the post below, Warren Throckmorton weights in on the risk of unlicensed programs such as Love In Action which combine ministry and “treatment.” (Tenn. opens new probe of ‘ex-gay’ facility, Washington Blade, by…
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New Investigation of Love In Action Launched
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Last week the Tennessee Dept. of Child Services conducted an investigation of allegations of child abuse at Love In Action. Now the Tennessee Department of Health has launched it’s own investigation. Excerpted from Tenn. opens new probe of ‘ex-gay’ facility,…