Revised Mar. 23, 2005 Earlier this month, American Family Association propaganda service AgapePress profiled James Hartline, an HIV-positive exgay activist. Hartline claimed to be battling "taxpayer-funded gay bathhouses" in San Diego, but AgapePress offered no substantiation for the accusation. As…
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Wisconsin Group to Gays: Tolerate Imprisonment
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Without a trace of criticism, Exodus exgay media blogger Nancy Brown promotes AgapePress’ March 4 defense of Wisconsin Christians United as a group of martyrs assaulted by the "violent heart" of gay Americans. First, some context: WCU papered the homes…
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In correspondence published in January 2005 by Teach The Facts, the professional American Counseling Association said it found merit in six specific ethical-misconduct charges against ex-gay activist Richard Cohen. ACA said it approved the charges, which were sufficient for membership…
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Focus/Family: ‘Satan Uses’ Equality Activists
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News from Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out” ex-gay road show in Houston, Feb. 19, 2005. From the Galveston Daily News: Bill Maier, child/family psychologist and vice president at Focus on the Family, led a special session on same-sex…
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The Ban Has Been Lifted!
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The Ban Has Been Lifted! By Joe Kort, MSW I am not talking about the government’s "Don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on gays in the military. I’m talking about my walking down the Barbie aisle at my local toy store….
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The faith-based, gay-affirming organization Soulforce is gearing up for a May 1 vigil at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. Soulforce contends that Focus on the Family resorts to numerous untruths against gay and lesbian people and…
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Exgay Trackback Spam
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A few weeks back, I got fed up with Scattered Words’ repeated insertion of duplicate trackbacks, or links to Scattered Words, into pages at Ex-Gay Watch. I eventually went back and deleted Scattered Words’ old link insertions on XGW pages….
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In a Feb. 15 American Family Association article that is reprinted as a Feb. 18 press release, exgay umbrella group Exodus accuses unnamed "homosexual activists" of intolerance toward Focus on the Family’s "Love Won Out" exgay road show this weekend….
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A member of Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley’s exgay restoration team sang backup on a song Dolly Parton recorded a few years back, when he worked for her at Dollywood in eastern Tennessee. Parton has since given that song, Sugar…
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David Fishback, chairman of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education’s Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development, responds in the Washington area’s new Examiner newspaper to exgay movement claims against the school district’s comprehensive sex-ed curriculum. The…