From The Advocate: A television show hosted by and featuring “ex-gays,” including a former prostitute and a self-confessed thief, is preparing for its launch on two Christian networks. Pure Passion will debut on both the Sky Angel Satellite Network and…
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In anticipation of his upcoming book, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, Alvin McEwen has begun a weblog that itemizes the day-to-day and strategic deceptions of the so-called religious right.
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In August 2006, Peterson Toscano and a friend nicknamed Ariadna launched a Spanish-language blog, Dos Equis, that looks at the ex-gay movement as well as the conflicts between faith and sexuality. Dos Equis has already received visitors from Latin America…
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Note From Dan
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I’ll be in Austin, TX through Tuesday night so in the meantime send urgent news and story tips to one of your other favorite XGW authors. This trip begins my search for a safe and more affordable place to live….
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Open Forum: A Comment on Mormons And Exgays
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From a comment to XGW today: …I feel this information might be important: The Mormon/LDS Church has published on their news-web a pseudo-interview with two high-ranking authorities and an anonymous PR (internal) person. Summary:1) The Mormon Church does not believe…
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Archbishop’s U-turn: Gays Must Change?
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Archbishop Rowan Williams’s most recent remarks about homosexuality have been widely interpreted as “gays must change”. Speaking in the Sunday Telegraph last month, ++Rowan said: “I don’t believe inclusion is a value in itself. Welcome is. We don’t say ‘Come…
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Thoughts for Peterson
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I’m sure readers and authors alike would like to join me in sending some love Peterson’s way today.
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I just spoke with a delightful woman from Palm Springs N.O.W. who explained why the Unity Rally organizers have chartered a bus to take participants from Palm Springs to the church site for Love Won Out in Indian Wells. Apparently…
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If you live in the northeastern United States, I’d like to hear from you. I have just moved to Hartford, Connecticut — lured north from Washington by Peterson Toscano, Six Flags New England, Rhode Island’s beaches, a regional appreciation for…
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As you may have read recently, NARTH has received a lot of criticism over the callous advice of one of their committee members, Joseph Berger, M.D. Their response seems to consist of private comments of disapproval followed by a stealth…