For years, Ford Motor Company has been supportive of the gay community. Much of this support was generated in 2002 when Ford desperately needed Allan Gilmour, a vice president who had retired, to return to return to rescue them from…
Soulforce Plans Summer Roadtrip – Equality Ride
Soulforce** has announced a major event for next summer, a traveling protest called Equality Ride. At military and religious colleges around the nation, bans on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender enrollment force students into closets of fear and self-hate. These…
Rocky Mountain Methodists Are Angry
The United Methodist clergy in the Rocky Mountains are displeased with what they view as an anti-gay decision made by the church’s judicial body. The judicial decision was one allowing a Virginia pastor to refuse church membership to a gay…
As has been discussed here, the new Vatican policy on seminarians excludes ex-gay Catholics that have “deep-rooted homosexual tendencies”. Regina Griggs, president of PFOX, claims to this a victory for the ex-gay movement. Ignoring the actual wording of the proclamation,…
From Wayne Besen: Press ReleaseTuesday, Dec. 6, 2005 AFA’s Video Features ‘Ex-Gay’ Leader Caught In HIV Scandal, Says Wayne Besen NEW YORK – Author Wayne Besen called on The American Family Association today to immediately stop selling a video featuring…
Exodus’ Randy Thomas recently blogged: Based also on minimal information, [Robinowitz] is far less an activist than Drescher. Drescher supports fringe activist groups [Randy’s link] and it has been reported by someone on that groups mailing list he has asked…
HRC, Just Wondering
Does HRC have any policy analysts watching the threat ex-gay “ministries” pose to civil equality of gay Americans? Using HRC’s search page with keywords “exgay” or “ex-gay” didn’t turn up a single document more recent than 2000.
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint Nov. 28 with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service against James Dobson’s Focus on the Family.
The Vatican’s Gay (and Ex-gay) Problem
The contorted thinking behind the Vatican’s decision on seminarians is raising questions all along the political spectrum (other, of course, than the reactionary anti-gay activists). Conservative columnist, William F. Buckley Jr., in an article called The Vatican and Gay Problems…