It appears the Paula Zahn show will air a segment on Richard Cohen this week, possibly Monday night unless it gets bumped by something constituting real news. Other people interviewed for the story include Jash Drescher, Robert Spitzer, Shawn O’Donnell,…
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Exodus board member Phil Burress wants drugstore condoms locked away to discourage their purchase. Focus on the Family disapproves of condoms as a fallback when abstinence fails. Exgay activist Stephen Bennett opposes both condoms and potential prophylactic drugs to prevent…
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Fun With Captions – By Peterson
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Peterson Toscano wrote some amusing ex-gay themed captions for this animation taken from Battle Cry‘s website. Peterson describes Battle Cry as “a conservative Christian youth organization with fascist leanings created by a straight white man from the Bush administration.” The…
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Black Churches And Homophobia
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Last night on NPR’s Talk of The Nation the guest was gay Christian activist and author E. Lynn Harris. The full program is available on online. Talk of the Nation, May 18, 2006 · Author E. Lynn Harris began writing…
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“Heterosexual Questionnaire” Creates a Stir
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Just prior to the last Day of Silence, two teachers at Port Washington High School (Wisconsin) distributed a questionnaire meant to give students an inkling of what a gay person might go through in life. The questionnaire, developed by the…
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Dear Abby Weighs In
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I’m quite late to report this, but on April 21 “Dear Abby” gave her opinion about Dr. Dobson’s theories on the origins of sexual orientation. Without coming right out and calling Dr. Dobson an idiot, she sidestepped the whole “make…
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Family Research Council President Tony Perkins will be on The O’Reilly Factor this evening (May 17) to discuss “Presidential leadership on protecting marriage” i.e. the Marriage Amendment. He is slated after the first segment at 8:15 PM ET. Here is…
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Limbaugh Factually Ignorant
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OK, that’s probably not the most surprising title for an entry, be it either Rush or David Limbaugh. And this isn’t really much of a story. But I found it interesting that in the great culture war (the one in…
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At the suggestion of Scott of Reality Cubed, I watched the seven-minute movie trailer for X-Men: The Last Stand. The movie’s story line appears to be a sensational, but somewhat oversimplified, mirror of the exgay debate: If there were a…
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Open Forum: Exgay News Roundup
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What does ex-gay mean? Is the term offensive? Thoughtful discussions by two exgay/gay-celibate bloggers, Rainbow Unbroken and Disputed Mutability Exodus condones homophobia,criticizes Fall Out Boy’s tolerance statement Discussion by Pam Spaulding and Some Guys Are Normal with two comments at…