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In the Wavertree district of Liverpool, England, Frontline Church has a ministry to gays and lesbians. It’s an ex-gay ministry, LIFE Liverpool, that they say helps people work through childhood pain to overcome their homosexuality. It was founded in 2000…
XGW Digest: July 23, 2011
-Several hundred active duty servicemembers march in San Diego’s pride parade. -An openly gay man is selected to chair Utah’s Democratic Party. -A gay man and transgender woman in Cuba announce plans to marry on Fidel Castro’s birthday. -President Obama…
The ex-gay LIFE ministry, in New York City, teaches gays and lesbians that their sexual orientation is sinful and must be changed. Homosexuality is a psychological, emotional and spiritual disorder that can be overcome with prayer, deliverance and counselling, it…
Last month, we reported that Willow Creek Community Church, the Chicago evangelical megachurch, had cut ties with ex-gay organization Exodus International. Today, Christianity Today reported the story with reaction from Exodus President Alan Chambers. Predictably, Chambers makes the break all…
Exodus International’s Julie Neils, in 2010: As for those mysterious gay-to-straight “boot camps,” they don’t exist. Ex-gay survivor Kyle Luebke, in 2011: Realizing that [being gay] was not just a “phase” that I was going through, [my parents] decided that more…
Influential Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler has defended gay-to-straight conversion therapy by telling readers of his latest column that being gay is in itself “deeply sinful.” Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, wrote in the context…
The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer and ex-gay activist Greg Quinlan, of PFOX, present a litany of myths and half-truths in this AFA Radio interview: But one particularly prominent and consistent theme in the segment, as Jeremy Hooper at Good…
Christian therapist Marcus Bachmann, husband of Republican presidential runner Michele Bachmann, has been caught in a big lie. Late last month, recordings emerged of a 2010 radio interview with the Bachmann. He said: We have to understand: Barbarians need to be…
XGW Digest: July 16, 2011
-Blake Mycoskie, founder of Tom’s Shoes, apologizes for his company’s recent association with Focus on the Family. -Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson denounces the anti-gay pledge signed by several other candidates. -The government of Chile begins drafting a civil unions…