-Vietnam’s National Assembly agrees to consider marriage equality. -Focus on the Family steps back in for the ex-gay movement. -A lesbian couple in Northumbria, England are the victims of an anti-gay attack. -Marriage equality bills are introduced in the Michigan…
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Prop 8 Dead, SCOTUS Won’t Hear Appeal
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Proposition 8 is dead. Following today’s finding that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has now declared it will not hear appeals against California’s decision to strike down Prop 8. This means that same-sex couples in…
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The early word is that DOMA is struck down! Discuss as the news progresses. Update: Sounds like they may dodge the Prop 8 decision on jurisdictional grounds, which we assume would mean the lower court decision stands, and Prop 8…
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After Exodus International apologized last week for its past practice of blaming parents for homosexuality and ostracizing people who were no more sinful than they, the New York Times followed up with a report on Andy Comiskey, a co-founder of…
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Why Does Charisma Magazine Hate Christians?
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Charisma Magazine’s antigay tirades say more about a church obsessed with sex and hate, than they do about gay people. Charisma humiliates Christians. Why, then, does Charisma Magazine hate Christians?
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ABC affiliate WFTS in Tampa, Fla., reports that a former Exodus affiliate, New Hearts Outreach, will continue performing discredited and counterproductive “conversion therapy” upon unsuspecting families. The most common form of conversion therapy, reparative therapy, teaches counselees that their parents…
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The mission of successors to Exodus International begins to look like the old mission: To break people spiritually and sexually.
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XGW Digest: June 22, 2013
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-President Obama nominates two gay men to ambassadorships. -Pam Spaulding announces her retirement from blogging. -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postpones debate on a civil unions bill. -Poland’s only openly gay member of Parliament is attacked outside of a café….
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Last night, Exodus International announced it was shutting its doors. This came on the heels of Alan Chambers’ apology, and just before the airing of a new episode of Lisa Ling’s “Our America.” Alan Chambers has met with ex-gay survivors, and…