I recently discovered the following decade-old story and thought it should be added to our records at XGW. Quoted text is from a 1999 broadcast of PRI’s This American Life. Numbers indicate location of quotes in the broadcast. In 1988…
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LIA/R May Face Cease And Desist Order
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Morgan Fox at Queer Action Network has given us an update on the State of Tennessee’s inspection of Love In Action/Refuge. Coverage prior to this date has been somewhat confusing and there seemed to be no clear answer as to…
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Blogger: Christian, Gay And Confused
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From Brady at Some Guys Are Normal comes word of a new blog by a Christian woman trying to work through her same-sex attraction. Her first post observes a fundamental difference between gay celibacy and the heterosexual wait for marriage….
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Exgay Movement: Mostly White And Male. Why?
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Former exgay Peterson Toscano asks why the exgay movement is dominated by white males. One tentative guess among many possibilities: Denied equal power and privilege by conservative churches, some white gay men seek to win back that elite membership in…
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Former Love In Action exgay live-in program participant Peterson Toscano compares his past journey as an exgay with that of the unclean woman in Mark, chapter 5. Wandering for years as an outcast, thanks to religious authorities who declare her…
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Alan Keyes’ renewamerica.us web site published a rubbish-strewn article by Nathan Tabor on Sept. 8. Without attribution, the article relies upon: ostracized Dr. Paul Cameron’s claims that gay men tend to die by age 42; rightist hate groups’ myth that…
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Sen. Rick Santorum And Anti-Community Values
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Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., is facing conservative and pro-life criticism for his new book against community values entitled It Takes A Family — the title being a snide twist on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s pro-community-values book It Takes A Village. Liberal…
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Harshly Defining Fundamentalism
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Answering those who say “fundamentalist” is too strong a word to describe antigay Episcopal bishops who have aligned with corrupt foreign bishops to destroy the U.S. Episcopal Church, Father Jake borrows from religion expert and author Karen Armstrong to define…
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Exodus membership director Randy Thomas planned to speak to Denver exgay ministry Where Grace Abounds on Sept. 1. Thomas also was to meet with an unidentified friend in Colorado Springs, someone likely affiliated with Focus on the Family. Earlier in…
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Last month, Pat Robertson blamed unnamed 1970s gay activists for establishing no-fault divorce laws, and accused unnamed lesbians of leading the battle for abortion rights. Robertson also called for the assassination of populist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose policies reflect…