Professional “former homosexual” and white male Randy Thomas had this to say over at his blog today: At today’s press conference one of my heroes, Rev. Bill Owen, spoke very passionately about what civil rights means to the African American…
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DL Foster, Lesbians And Logic
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According to DL Foster, this statement – From what I know I believe there’s 80% of women, between 80 and 85% of women that are struggling with homosexuality were either raped by someone they knew or somebody outside of that…
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About Dave Rattigan
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Glad to be here as a contributor to a blog of which I’ve been an avid reader for over a year. I am British-Canadian, and living in Liverpool, England. It’s hard to describe what I do for a living, since…
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Love in Action Survivor Speaks to Protesters
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Lance Carroll spent last summer at Love in Action. He came back today to join Queer Action Coalition and the protesters outside. While Carroll’s prepared message spoke of depression and cruel methodology within LIA and of verbal and physical abuse…
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Exodus Goes to the Rose Garden
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OOOPS… I didn’t see that Daniel had already posted about this before I posted. Sorry Daniel. But here’s my take on it: According to writer Michelle Goldberg, Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas of Exodus International were scheduled to be at…
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Randy Thomas and Alan Chambers are in DC to lobby for the Federal Marriage Amendment. (I refuse to use the various names for such an amendment which seem to change monthly.) Randy writes on his blog (archive): Yes, I am…
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Ex-Gay TV Ad Watch
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A couple of hours ago I caught a portion of a TV commercial run by the Arlington Assembly of God. It’s not clear to me whether it was one of the same ads that the church ran last year. In…
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Nullifying Tolerance
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The leaders of the political religious right frequently criticize pro-tolerance advocacy: They protest that tolerance advocates are not tolerant of intolerance. They assert that it is a sin to tolerate (much less affirm) that which religious rightists selectively declare to…
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Exodus has for years graced the world with an innovative plan for “freedom.” Exodus was first to offer the world a “Freedom from Homosexuality” campaign. This outreach did not offer exgays freedom from same-sex attraction — but it did (thankfully!)…
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August has been evangelism season for Stephen Bennett Ministries: In 2003, he took a group to Provincetown and met with resistance from gays, some of whom were former ex-gays. 2004, the year Stephen named gay relationships a putrid stench in…