An article about sex offenders in today’s Washington Post cites an unspecified Danish study which found a recidivism rate of 80 percent among sex offenders who have molested children. According to the study, this likelihood of repeat offenses dropped to…
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Dan’s on Vacation
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I’m off on a family vacation through the 13th so please send tips and leads to your second favorite XGW authors in my absence. I might sporadically check my yahoo email but won’t be posting or checking my XGW email….
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Despite the fact he no longer has any relevance or credibility, DL Foster brought attention to two interviews JONAH recently gave to an extremist Israeli internet radio station. The first features JONAH co-director and executive secretary of the NARTH board…
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WHO: — Joe Saunders, Central Florida field organizer, Equality Florida— Wayne Besen, executive director, Truth WinsOut — Jim Merritt, ex-gay survivor— Pat Padilla, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) WHAT: A coalition will hold a press conference…
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PFOX’s Richard Cohen on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’
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Richard Cohen is scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight. Update: Just watched it here in the Pacific time zone and was laughing so hard I was afraid I’d wake up my roommate. Please, if anyone has screen shots…
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Protest At 2006 Exodus Conference
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From the Marion Chronicle Tribune: As the annual Exodus Freedom Conference began in the Phillippe Performing Arts Center auditorium, a group of about 12 people with the Gay Liberation Network stood at Indiana Wesleyan University’s main entrance in protest. “We…
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Agape Story: A Small Irony
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A story I came across today began thus: Former Lesbian Brings Ex-‘Gay’ Message to 2006 NEA Annual Meeting By Jim Brown June 26, 2006 (AgapePress) – A former lesbian who now runs a Christian ministry in Minnesota will be holding…
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Open Forum: Best D.C. Casual Restaurants
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Interested in D.C.-area restaurants? Check out the comments below….
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The London Times is reporting that the Archbishop of Cantebury, Rowan Williams, is drawing up plans to remove the Episcopal Church – and other nonconforming liberal Anglican bodies – from full membership in the Communion. This is because the Episcopal…
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You wouldn’t know it from the religious-right media but today is National HIV Testing Day. News sites which ignore this include: FreeRepublicTownhallFamily News In FocusWorldNetDaily And don’t count on the Agapepress to include it when they publish this afternoon. MSNBC…