On his personal blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers shares his letter to the Boston Globe, responding to a Jan. 20 article (archive fee required) about monogamous gay teen-age couples’ aspirations for getting married someday. Chambers accuses the Boston Globe…
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On his personal blog yesterday, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers reprinted, without criticism, a press release by the Liberty Counsel, an organization that files lawsuits around the nation in favor of antigay discrimination and sodomy laws with harsh sentencing. (Previous…
Janet Jackson: Ex-Gay Spokesman’s Oversight
Was he so distracted by a woman’s breast that he overlooked the obvious? On his personal blog, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas says: Tammy [Bruce] is so good. She goes on about the show but also highlights Gov. Dean’s response…and *why*…
In a movie review of “Latter Days” for the New York Times last Friday, Dave Kehr praises the film for charting one man’s journey — with the help of a Mormon — from youthful promiscuity to “more responsible, more mature,…
CSIndy Publishes Feature on Denver Ex-Gay Group
John Dicker of the Colorado Springs Independent has penned a level-headed and sensitively written feature story about Where Grace Abounds, an unusual ex-gay ministry located in Denver.
The antigay parents organization PFOX issued a press release Jan. 30 praising Exodus chairman and Focus on the Family exgay activist Mike Haley. Haley had testified before a congressional panel addressing taxpayer funding of faith-based organizations. But just two paragraphs…
In the news briefs section of its Feb. 2 CitizenWatch electronic newsletter, Focus on the Family cheered the Kansas appellate court ruling against Matthew Limon. Focus describes the 18-year-old, developmentally disabled Limon as a “man who sodomized a minor,” ignoring…
Citizen Outreach has launched a web site, Leave Marriage to the States, at lawfullywedded.com. The site consists of conservative voices — many of them antigay — that oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment because, they say, the amendment undermines states’ rights….
Kansas Court Keeps Matthew Limon in Prison
Following its decision in Lawrence v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Kansas Court of Appeals to reconsider the conviction of gay teen-ager Matthew Limon. (Previous XGW coverage. Focus on the Family defended the sentencing.) In a ruling published…
In an interview with Human Events, Sandy Rios of Concerned Women for America maps out the organization’s strategy on gay marriage. Specifically, CWA believes the Federal Marriage Amendment to ban gay marriages in every state is too weak, because the…