This old copy of the About XGW page needs a bit of a rewrite. Feedback is welcome from everyone — but especially from exgay readers who may disagree with religious-right politics. This web blog is a personal project by its…
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Simpsons Dares to Take The “Straight Pill”
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If there were a pill you could take that would make you straight, would you take it? Yeah, we’ve all heard this question. Tonight on The Simpsons there was a brief reference to it when Smithers appeared on-screen with a…
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Changes At Ex-Gay Watch
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Ex-Gay Watch has been located at exgaywatch.com for two years, but some web sites still link to an old address, exgay.blogs.com. That old address eventually will stop working. At the new location (where you are right now), we have replaced…
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Heard on PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire, hosted by Lee Strobel, a few hours ago: Strobel: When it comes to gays and God, there are two voices in the Christian community that are promoting completely opposite theologies. One says that God…
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Peterson Toscano appears tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m. CT/MT, on the PAX cable network’s program Faith Under Fire, hosted by Lee Strobel. Toscano, a performance artist, is going up against Alan Chambers in a program segment on ex-gays….
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Yesterday was the “Day of Truth.” The following news and propaganda sites have no follow-up coverage today: Cybercast News ServiceWorld Magazine BlogSBC Baptist Press NewsFamily News in FocusTownhall.comAgapePressWorldNetDailyAdvocate.com The only site which covered the “Day of Truth” was 365.gay which…
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Taking Responsibility for Our Lives
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It’s encouraging to see the spate of recent articles like this opinion piece from the Palm Springs Desert Sun, talking honestly about certain kinds of reckless behavior in the gay community (in this case, use of crystal meth) and how…
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Christianity Today interviews evangelical Ron Sider, who for decades has preached — better than I can — against the anticommunity individualism, legalism, materialism, worldliness and general hypocrisy that seem to be not only consuming the religious right, but hobbling U.S….
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PFOX Scores Near-Miss on Hate Crimes
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They’ve opposed the inclusion of sexual orientation in hate crimes laws. Now they’re calling for the inclusion of former homosexuals in a Maryland hate-crimes bill that would add "sexual orientation" to an existing state hate-crimes law. Antigay parents group illogically…
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Ex-Gays Join ADF’s “Day of Truth”
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Given the smashing success [sarcasm] that was “National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day” the religious right has created “Day of Truth” this Thursday following GLSEN’s “Day of Silence.” What does this have to do with ex-gays you ask? Well if…