Current.tv hosts a video interview with Exodus exgay youth recruiter Mike Ensley. From Current.tv’s description of the video: Can God really do anything? Mike Ensley believes He can. Mike Ensley is a former homosexual saved by grace, and now living…
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From The Washington Blade, May 26: Love Won Out, a controversial religious conference that espouses reparative therapy and encourages gays to change their sexual orientation, is coming to Maryland next month. Counter-vigils are planned. Worth reading are statements by spokespersons…
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The Queer Action Coalition of Memphis, Tenn., plans a June 5 vigil at Love In Action, marking one year since LIA’s involuntary detainment of sexually struggling youths made headlines. The scandal severely curtailed LIA’s activities, but the antigay organization appears…
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A Tenable Belief and Good As You assess Focus on the Family’s latest ad campaign, which exploits stock photos of unhappy children. The ad campaign’s objectives: humiliate children whose adoptive parents happen to be gay, redirect a backlog of unadopted…
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Funny And True For Your Friday
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An Ex-Gay Watch operative called NARTH earlier this week to determine if Bill Curnow’s western Michigan based LIFE Coaching International is a member. I pray that one day my son will be on eHarmony.com looking for a wife. Do you…
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Congratulations to Pam Spaulding
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Katherine Volin of the Washington Blade wrote a wonderful profile of Pam Spaulding’s work as a black lesbian blogger who specializes in monitoring the religious right. Thanks to efforts by bloggers such as Spaulding, XGW can spend less time analyzing…
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PFOX Moms Applaud Cohen Performance on CNN
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Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays operates a Yahoo group for antigay parents and relatives of adult gay persons. The e-mail discussions are tightly moderated by conservative federal “civil rights” attorney Estella Salvatierra, who has served as PFOX vice president. Salvatierra…
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Since 2000 the American Family Association has been peddling a video about exgays titled “It’s Not Gay.” Ex-Gay Watch reader Jim Burroway recently threw $10 at the AFA’s discount-bin for a copy of the video. In his book “Anything But…
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An all male stork couple and an all female stork couple at a Dutch zoo in Overloon were each given an egg. Zoo spokeswoman, Esther Jansen said: “The gay storks look after the eggs and the chicks just as well…
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Richard Cohen on CNN; Exgay Leaders React
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The Malcontent has video of Richard Cohen’s appearance on CNN. CNN’s website also has video. Pam Spaulding offers background on Cohen, and Steve at A Tenable Belief reacts to Cohen’s techniques. Warren Throckmorton seems as freaked-out by Cohen’s antics as…