I received this message over the weekend: From: Nina & Buzz Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:38 AMTo: editor@exgaywatch.comSubject: Your statement requested.Dear Editor,Child sex abuse, as you may be aware, is increasing in America. Why don’t homosexual writers and activists…
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Post-election Briefs From Ex-Gay Watch
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From the New York Times, Nov. 9: Researchers say the religious right continues to suppress research into human sexuality. The research is aimed at reducing the incidence of abortion and sexually transmitted diseases. Focus on the Family is waging a…
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Poll: Voters’ Moral Values Are Not Conservative
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The Washington Post last week published an exceptionally sloppy article that imagined the nation’s churches spontaneously and miraculously rebelling from the grassroots up — against gay couples and in favor of the religious right’s moral tunnelvision. The article by Dana…
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Exgay Tim Wilkins: ‘I Still Love Homosexuals’
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Exgay testimonies have a way of circling the Internet. As they move around, they are re-dated and passed off as new. Tim Wilkins’ web site explains (a bit poorly) how he loves homosexuals. Baptist Press republished this testimony Jan. 28,…
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A Look Back: Switch to Canada?
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Since the election, Canada’s immigration site has enjoyed a sizable increase in traffic from worried [or interested] Americans. Should one consider emigration? Is Canada really any better? I don’t know the answers to these questions, but the situation brings back…
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Focus on the Family Keeps Doomsday Threat Handy
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Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson threatened the United States with doomsday while campaigning for the re-election of George Bush. (Previous XGW coverage.) According to the New York Times (Nov. 4), the threats have not stopped despite the narrow…
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Jewish Religion Supporting Gays And Lesbians
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Jewish Religion supporting Marriage for Gays and Lesbians When I read anything about those suggesting or demanding that they use their faith to change their sexual and romantic orientation because religion does not validate homosexuality, I always point out that,…
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The Straight Dope on Pedophilia
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The Straight Dope message board debates antigay activists’ claim that pedophilia is linked somehow to homosexuality. In linking to XGW’s article on the subject by Joe Kort, two discussion participants describe Ex-Gay Watch as “this not too gay friendly site”…
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Ex-gay Meet-ups Online
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Ex-gays have their own meet-up section for support and companionship at ex-gay.meetup.com. No need to visit right now — no one has joined.
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How Do You Define ‘gay’ And ‘homosexual’?
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The discussion here about the false link between homosexuality and pedophilia drifted into a debate about how different people define “gay,” “homosexual,” and “heterosexual.” I consider the first two words synonymous with primary or exclusive same-sex attraction, but obviously there…