John Smid was the director of Exodus member ministry Love in Action (LIA), a residential ex-gay program in Memphis, Tennessee, for 22 years. This included the Refuge youth program which gained notoriety in 2005 when a teen, Zach Stark, created…
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Warren Throckmorton gets to the heart of Sodom and Gomorrah in his latest blog post: The real sodomite is the arrogant person, the overfed and apathetic person who ignores the poor and others in need. The sexual sins of Sodom…
Arthur Abba Goldberg is no longer listed as a NARTH officer on the organization’s website. There is no indication whether Goldberg resigned or was forced to leave. Either seems likely after last month’s revelation that the champion of reparative therapy…
XGW Digest: February 27, 2010
-The Alliance Defense Fund goes even further off the deep end. -Sen. Joseph Lieberman becomes chief sponsor of the effort to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. -A West Virginia couple is denied an apartment on the basis of their sexual…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1gAVfbq07M An interesting report featured last night on ABC Australia’s Hungry Beast. The ex-gay featured could be a spokesperson for Exodus International, he is that spot on. It’s also interesting that one of the gay men describes having been…
Ex-lesbian Lisa Miller has been on the run from the law with her daughter Isabella since her refusal to show up in court on January 1st, where she was to relinquish custody to her former partner, Janet Jenkins. Their whereabouts…
NARTH President Julie Hamilton has responded to this week’s report that NARTH Executive Secretary and JONAH co-founder and co-director Arthur Abba Goldberg is a convicted felon. On the NARTH website, Hamilton makes a number of assumptions and seems blind to…
Campaigners in Northern Ireland today are protesting a visit from American ex-gay leader Reverend Mario Bergner. The protest is led by journalist Patrick Strudwick, who earlier this month wrote an exposé of the “bizarre world of gay-straight conversion” for The…
XGW Digest: February 20, 2010
-Former vice president Dick Cheney joins the call for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. -Anti-gay mobs march in Kenya; police continue to hunt down gay activists in Malawi. -Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell strips LGBT state employees of anti-discrimination…
Arthur Goldberg’s damage-control campaign has begun. His strategy is to portray himself as an innocent man who made a mistake, and is now the victim of a ruthless personal attack by the purveyors of the much-feared gay agenda. Arthur A…