In October 1998, Saturday Night Live‘s animated TV Funhouse skit invented an exgay superhero. Watch the video: Heteroy has real-world counterparts: LiveJournal blogger Keith recently discovered Bibleman while standing in line at the register at Half Price Books. Bibleman is…
LA Times: ‘Ex-Gays’ Seek a Say in Schools
The Los Angeles Times reports that antigay Christians and Jews are challenging and sometimes suing school districts: If proponents of tolerance and opponents of bullying are permitted classroom time, then — so the story goes — proponents of bigotry and…
Blogger Brian Rainey is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School. He is currently focusing in Hebrew Bible and Political Theology. He self-identifies as a Christian. Rainey has harsh words — supported by Bible passages — for…
X-Men: Looking Back At the Trilogy
Howl of the Kweerwolf looks back at the X-Men trilogy and hopes that teen-agers watching X-Men: The Last Stand will discover the dignity and value of their “faggot” classmates.
On Video: Exodus Exgay Youth Recruiter
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…
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…
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…
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…
Funny And True For Your Friday
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…
Congratulations to Pam Spaulding
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…