From BeliefNet author Diana Butler Bass via Straight, Not Narrow: “Making sexuality a political issue, as much of the Religious Right has done, distracts from a host of other issues, such as poverty, war, and environmental concerns. But it also…
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Denver Post columnist Cindy Rodriguez discusses some reasons why followers of Focus on the Family obey the organization’s advice — and vote against their own families. Rodriguez’s own bias is obviously Democratic.
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From Peterson Toscano: Having experienced victory, aspiring ex-gay minister “Marvin” now voices hesitation about joining the world’s largest ex-gay organization. Marvin asks: Does a local spiritual ex-gay ministry need to be entangled in Exodus psychology and politics? What are the…
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From Barry Goldwater via Wikipedia via Andrew Sullivan: “On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can…
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Apparently too many people have been requesting antihomosexual and exgay resources from Focus on the Family while offering less than the organization’s “suggested donation.” So now Focus, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is making it more difficult to “donate”…
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Karl Rove called him “nuts.” Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey called him a threat to religious liberty. And evangelical voters and Baptist leaders are deserting him. So whom does the desperate James Dobson seek for support? The nation’s…
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Open Forum: Your Favorite Exgay Blogs
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Tell us about exgay blogs that dare to think outside the box of the political religious right.
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What should Ex-Gay Watch review or advertise in the future?
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Lobbyist Randy Thomas complains on the Exodus blog that, at the Family Research Council’s misnamed “Liberty Sunday” event last weekend, a reporter for the Boston Herald chuckled at the label “ex-gay” and refused to receive ex-gay materials or interview ex-gay…
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From the Daily Egyptian, the student newspaper at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale: You can’t make fish fly, but you can chuck them across the room and make them think, for just a little while, that they can. Sarah Lohman…