I just got back from Love Breaks Out, a pro-gay response to Focus on the Family and Exodus held in Palm Springs Saturday. From left to right: Peggy Campolo (wife of Tony Campolo), Peterson Tosocano (performing artist) and ex-gay survivor…
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Transgender / Ex-Transgender Glossary
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This is the first of a multiple part series about the term gender. Conservative religious organizations and ex-gay organizations use the term gender — and variants on the term gender — to group together GLB & T people in a…
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Sheldon Implies That Haggard Is Gay
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Rev. Lou Sheldon, the founder and chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition was interviewed by The Jewish Week about the results of Tuesday’s election. Considering that Sheldon rejected the faith of his Orthodox Jewish mother and aligned himself with a…
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Ex-gays and other anti-gays like to portray all gays and lesbians as a living some “homosexual lifestyle”. Naturally, this lifestyle has every negative attribute that can be imagined. Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered persons are all anti-Christian, anti-American, anti-defense socialists…
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Kyra Phillips host of CNN Newsroom, today interviewed moderate evangelical author Tony Campolo on the Rev. Ted Haggard’s upcoming “restoration.” Here’s a transcript: CAMPOLO: [Haggard has] said all the right things up to this point. The real question is, when…
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From the Colorado Springs Gazette: “It is with great regret — and after much prayer and discussion with friends and family — that I have had to reconsider my involvement in the panel overseeing Ted’s restoration,” Dobson said in a…
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Post-Election Recommendation
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During the past few election cycles there has been much discussion about the lives of gay individuals and couples. And sadly some of this has come from those who are voices in the ex-gay movement. In efforts to advance partisan…
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New Exodus Youth “Outreach Guide”
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Exodus has a new youth outreach guide and lord knows I’ll never receive a copy if I request it so I’d encourage all XGW readers to go here and request one themselves.
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The Colorado Springs Gazette reprinted the full text of Rev. Ted Haggard’s letter of apology to the church that dismissed him on allegations of improper behavior with a male escort. Here is the full text. Pay close attention to the…
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Conference Divided Family…
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The headline reads Conference on Gays Divides Family. Did the Love Won Out conference divide this highlighted family? Not really. What divides Brenda and Brandon Meredith — a mother and son — has little directly to do with a conference…