Today is National Coming Out Day. Ex-gay activist Warren Throckmorton accurately identifies the purpose of Coming Out day in a Focus on the Family article: Warren Throckmorton, a professor of psychology at Grove City College, says this kind of “celebration”…
Exgay Battle in Montgomery County, Md., Schools
Due to time constraints, I have been unable to cover this issue recently — a shame, since I live nearby and my best friends’ daughter will attend school in Montgomery County. But there is a lot happening, and news (admittedly…
The Grace Pages briefly reviews A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality, authored by Joseph Nicolosi and published in 2002 by Inter-Varsity Press. The examples of sappy, saccharine prose and badly dated gender roles leave me feeling embarrassed to have been…
The blogosphere noted this long ago; I’m posting this mostly for archival purposes. The Princeton Review rated Grove City College, home of exgay movement pundit Warren Throckmorton, fifth-worst school in the nation for students who happen to be attracted to…
Sed Contra, written by Courage participant and chaste Catholic David Morrison has offered a great deal of nuanced thinking on this topic. More antigay than gay-tolerant, perhaps, but better than the incendiary rubbish circulating among the religious right. Recent posts:…
Seventeen, the teenage women’s magazine, profiles Love In Action survivor Wade Richards in its November 2005 edition. Richards also was featured in the documentary Fish Can’t Fly. For first-hand information about Richards and more info about the article, check out…
Exgay activist Stephen Bennett, like a number of feminists and conservatives, would like to rid the television airwaves of pornography. Of course, Bennett defines pornography differently from your average Andrea Dworkin or Betty Friedan. From the American Family Association/Agape Press…
Lou Beres, the longtime chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition, faces molestation accusations from three female family members who were preteens at the time of the alleged incidents. Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk said officials are investigating the complaints….
The Exodus media blog on Oct. 4. promoted an antigay tirade by Richard Mullenax of TheRealityCheck.org. By failing to check the facts behind the polemics, and by reprinting others’ misinformation without comment or counterpoint, Exodus put itself in the position…
Once in a while, the Exodus media blog posts something that might conceivably be true — at first glance. “I don’t think the gay movement understands the extent to which the next generation just wants to be normal kids,” says…