A message received via e-mail today from exgay activist Chad Thompson: Hey guys, I wanted to let you know that I just got back from California where I recorded a series of talks that I presented during a conference at…
From the Des Moines Register via Gay News Blog and Good As You: Exgay activist Chad Thompson’s former employer, the Iowa Family Policy Center, opposed an anti-bullying program scheduled for Oct. 6 in Cedar Rapids. IFPC argues that efforts to…
Did CNN Cover ‘Concerned Women’ on Gay Youth?
Good As You provided a heads-up Oct. 6 that Concerned Women for America spokesman Robert Knight was to appear on CNN’s Paula Zahn NOW program that evening, to condemn the trend of youths identifying themselves as same-sex-attracted at earlier ages….
Those of you over age 35 may remember a 1970s youth program called “Scared Straight.” The idea of the program was that, by sending delinquent youths on a prison tour to meet violent, foul-mouthed prisoners in hellish surroundings, the teen-agers…
In the same week that a Time magazine cover story granted substantial print space to the Exodus exgay outreach program to youth, Exodus president Alan Chambers cited media confusion over Harriet Miers as proof of media bias against exgays. After…
On his personal weblog, Exodus President Alan Chambers on Oct. 4 stated his disappointment that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has not expressed the clear bias that he seeks in judicial candidates. Chambers also names “two of my most trusted…
On Monday I was forwarded an email supposedly written by Heidi Lee, an officer at GLAAD detailing how the Dr. Phil show was taping a show on “healing” gay teens and GLAAD had a special arrangement with the producers by…
Meeting the Fundies
There is an article by Steve Satterwhite in the Texas Observer allowing “some of the more vociferous amendment proponents” a chance to put in their own word the reasons they are supporting an amendment to the Texas state constitution that…
Would any ex-gay therapy survivors in the Central New York area please contact Gaetano Pollice, a student reporter at Syracuse University. gpollice@syr.edu
Stephen Bennett All Up In A Tizzy Over Time
On Monday Exodus sent out an emails proudly announcing the current Time Magazine cover story on gay teens which in my opinion gives a respectable amount of time to advocates on both sides of the issue. Stephen Bennett however is…