“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds…
Dr. Warren Throckmorton is alleging that the ties between Richard Cohen’s organization, International Healing Foundation (IHF), and the Unification Church may be alive and well, despite Cohen’s statements to the contrary. A brief review [of the IHF website] finds professionals…
A recent study conducted by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health has found, among other things, that younger (age 18-44) gay, lesbian and bisexual men and women experience fewer mental disorders and are less likely to have attempted suicide…
From Florida comes an article that flew under the gaydar here at Ex-Gay Watch, but the Miami New Times piece, published last July, is still worth noting. In Scared Straight, Joanne Green profiles Worthy Creations, the Fort Lauderdale-based ex-gay ministry…
Maybe it’s the name. Ever since ex-gay, ex-licensed, ex-Moonie, and ex-Jewish “therapist” Richard Cohen made his disastrous appearance in “The Daily Show,” (see the video here), virtually every major ex-gay organization dropped him like a hot potato. Cohen, described by…
Open Forum: The Dobson Wears Prada
If James Dobson ruled the ex-gay movement with an iron fist, and if the opening scene of The Devil Wears Prada were to peek inside a political empire instead of a fashion magazine, then what might Dobson’s morning arrival at…
When I learned of the following ad from Right Wing Watch, I was immediately disgusted at the advertisers. And so were two ex-gay activists. The ad, for a San Francisco S&M fair for glbt and heterosexual people, did not target…
Ex-gay Canadian Bill Whatcott is a fringe candidate for mayor and former prostitute who believes he is qualified to police the morals of Edmonton, Alberta, and Regina, Saskatchewan. But if he listened to some potential allies at Exodus, he might…
From Gregory Herek, Ph.D: Q: What does the president of Iran have in common with certain antigay activists in the United States? A: Both maintain that homosexuals don’t really exist. While Exodus executive vice president Randy Thomas calls for President…
Mel Seesholtz assesses the weaknesses of the recent ex-gay study by Stanton Jones of Wheaton College and Mark Yarhouse of Regent University. The Thomas Project: A study designed for specific results A well-known, peer-reviewed research study of ex-gays that was…