From today’s (02/13/06) broadcast of Family News In Focus: Love Won Out is a ministry of Focus on the Family that proclaims same-sex attraction doesn’t have to be a life-sentence and uses conferences around the nation to convey that message….
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Open Letter To Alan Chambers
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Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International was recently quoted by Salon.com saying, “lifelong homosexual relationships are not possible.” Ex-Gay Watch’s own Timothy provided analysis in his own previous post but I felt the need to pen a letter to Chambers…
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According to Salon, Alan Chamber spoke to the Conservative Political Action Conference: A 1:30 p.m. session on “Marriage in the States,” which was supposed to include Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, featured instead a self-described former homosexual named Alan Chambers. He…
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Peterson Toscano, a performance artist and two-year survivor of the Love In Action exgay live-in “therapy” program, performed his sketch Queer 101 at the Lavender Languages and Linguistics conference Feb. 10 in Washington, D.C. The conference continues through Sunday at…
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When antigay fundamentalists periodically spray-paint walls, break windows or commit arson at gay-tolerant churches, Focus on the Family does not leap on the air and blame “pro-family activists.” In fact, Focus often fails to report the crime. Yet when, in…
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Exgays Behaving Indecently
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Atlanta-area antigay activist D.L. Foster has been temporarily prohibited from commenting at XGW. His privileges will be restored when: he permits civil discussion at his own websites, he demonstrates a capacity for responsible, decent and mature conduct. he listens actively…
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Love In Action’s Day in Court
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Ben Popper of The Memphis Flyer reports on Love In Action’s day in court last week. The unlicensed exgay live-in therapy agency is suing to stop Tennessee from enforcing laws protecting the mentally ill from abuse, malpractice and neglect, when…
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An excerpt from Dan Savage’s New York Times op-ed February 10, 2006 titled “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay Cowboys.” Straight audiences are watching and loving “Brokeback Mountain” — that’s troubling to evangelical Christians who have invested…
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Anti-Gay Parents Blame School Seminar
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A North Carolina couple, Jim and Beverly Burrows, have outed their son. The boy attended a school seminar entitled The New Gay Teenager and, per the Burrows, consequently began questioning his sexuality. The North Carolina dad explains that his son’s…
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Open Forum
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Liberalism: The theory and practice of: freedom of expression freedom of religion freedom of the press rule of law Democracy: Rule by vote. In its purest form absent a strong Bill of Rights, “democracy” and “freedom” can become euphemisms for…