From Tuesday’s Exodus Spotlights: Today’s youth are bombarded with conflicting messages concerning sexuality and identity. The culture war has created such a clamor that it can place inordinate pressure on an already “pressurized” time in young people’s lives. Very true,…
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Exodus And Dr. Laura
Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas periodically blasts critics of Dr. Laura, broadly associating them with terrorism. Exodus should be more careful of who it defends, as well as how. Journalist Natalie Davis cites news sources reviewing Dr. Laura’s new book, in…
Ex-Gay Petition
Ex-gay Gregory Quinlan of Pro-Family Network says all gays can not only change their orientation, they can all become lockstep, politically correct, social conservatives too. Hence this petition — a series of insults and strawman arguments wedded to an online…
Privacy And Civilization
From an article by Chris Matthew Sciabarra at Free Radical, a libertarian publication: “It is a tragic, ironic twist that some conservatives have posed as the guardians of capitalism and civilized culture in their fight against moral decay. But in…
Focus/Family Barks At Gay Sportswriter
In its CitizenLink newsletter for Oct. 1, Focus on the Family questioned Boston Herald sportswriter Ed Gray’s motive for acknowledging his sexual orientation. From the newsletter’s “news briefs” section (not online): Gray exploited the attention Bostonians are giving to the…
Gender: Relevant in the Marriage Debate? How?
Lynn at Noli Irritare Leones offers insightful analysis of the big debate over gender — whether and how it relates to the definition of marriage. Cheers also go to Eve Tushnet for attempting to think through the marriage debate with…
Religious Scientists on Homosexuality
Courtesy of Rich Blinne, the American Scientific Affiliation, a somewhat diverse range of articles on homosexuality by scientists who are Christian. This is mainly a note to myself for the moment.
Focus/Family: Stop Gay Monogamy
Focus on the Family is known for its opposition to gay marriage. In California, however, the organization doesn’t want gays to be monogamous and responsible, either. Focus cheers lawsuits filed by Christian Right groups to stop a new California law…
Focus on the Family will be conducting an ex-gay political rally in Oklahoma City on Oct. 25. Focus has heard that gay-tolerant counterprotesters will be stationed outside the rally. Exodus chairman and Focus antigay issues manager Mike Haley doesn’t know…
Focus/Family Wants Gay Kid Imprisoned 17 Years
XGW commented two weeks ago on the case of Matthew Limon. Last week, Focus on the Family reminded its CitizenLink readers that it wants the kid locked up for 17 years because he had sex with a male three years…