From The Washington Post, Feb. 12: A Swedish appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a Pentecostal pastor found guilty of violating the country’s hate-speech law. The court ruled that the Rev. Ake Green had a right to preach…
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700 Club Implies Former NFL Player Is Ex-gay
Former NFL player Roy Simmons came out as gay in 1992. (Google search.) After disappearing from the public eye for a decade, he now tells The 700 Club that he lived out a prolonged nightmare of childhood molestation, drugs, prostitution,…
Zoo Attempts Exgay Therapy on Penguin Couples
365gay.com, Feb. 8: A German zoo is trying “to cure” three gay penguin couples using a form of aversion therapy. The Bremerhaven Zoo is splitting up the couples, and has imported four female penguins from Sweden which it will use…
Ex-gay Promotes Indiana Ban on Gay Marriage
From Dan Gonzales: Advocate OutQ News, which is broadcast on Sirius satellite radio, features a short clip of exgay activist Brad Grammar speaking in favor of an Indiana anti-gay-marriage amendment. Near the end of the Windows Media Player broadcast, Grammar…
In an interview with Christianity Today, progressive evangelical Jim Wallis — who has argued for many years that religious fundamentalists have too much influence in the Republican Party and secular fundamentalists have too much influence in the Democratic Party —…
Pro-exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton issued the press release "New Genetics Study Undermines Gay Gene Theory" on Feb. 9. Exgay activist group Exodus International reprinted the press release on its own web site on Feb. 11. In the press release, Throckmorton…
Gay Web Sites Delink Ex-gay ‘crisis’ Line
From the Houston Voice (Feb. 11): Four gay and lesbian Web sites that unknowingly listed the National Youth Crisis Hotline as a resource have deleted referrals to the hotline in response to a recent Houston Voice story that exposed the…
Demand for Virginia Schools to Showcase Ex-gays
In suburban Virginia, the Fairfax County school board censured Stephen M. Hunt for using his authority as a board member to pressure principals into inviting ex-gays into the district’s classrooms. Highlights in the media: DCist summarizes. 365gay.com, Feb. 3: School…
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