In correspondence published in January 2005 by Teach The Facts, the professional American Counseling Association said it found merit in six specific ethical-misconduct charges against ex-gay activist Richard Cohen. ACA said it approved the charges, which were sufficient for membership…
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Focus/Family: ‘Satan Uses’ Equality Activists
News from Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out” ex-gay road show in Houston, Feb. 19, 2005. From the Galveston Daily News: Bill Maier, child/family psychologist and vice president at Focus on the Family, led a special session on same-sex…
The Ban Has Been Lifted!
The Ban Has Been Lifted! By Joe Kort, MSW I am not talking about the government’s "Don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on gays in the military. I’m talking about my walking down the Barbie aisle at my local toy store….
The faith-based, gay-affirming organization Soulforce is gearing up for a May 1 vigil at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. Soulforce contends that Focus on the Family resorts to numerous untruths against gay and lesbian people and…
Exgay Trackback Spam
A few weeks back, I got fed up with Scattered Words’ repeated insertion of duplicate trackbacks, or links to Scattered Words, into pages at Ex-Gay Watch. I eventually went back and deleted Scattered Words’ old link insertions on XGW pages….
In a Feb. 15 American Family Association article that is reprinted as a Feb. 18 press release, exgay umbrella group Exodus accuses unnamed "homosexual activists" of intolerance toward Focus on the Family’s "Love Won Out" exgay road show this weekend….
A member of Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley’s exgay restoration team sang backup on a song Dolly Parton recorded a few years back, when he worked for her at Dollywood in eastern Tennessee. Parton has since given that song, Sugar…
David Fishback, chairman of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education’s Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development, responds in the Washington area’s new Examiner newspaper to exgay movement claims against the school district’s comprehensive sex-ed curriculum. The…
Allan Johnson wrote to Ex-Gay Watch with an update to the original post that appeared on this page. I have deleted the earlier comments, simply because they were based on older information. Allan Johnson is working on a documentary series…
Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee
Demanding free speech for themselves, antigay parents in inland California on Feb. 11 angrily protested free expression by high school students who chose to support gay marriage by acting out such ceremonies as a form of political protest. While many…