Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley has the backing of his “restoration team” to resume a concert/ministry, according to an e-mail newsletter from the singer dated Oct. 6. The restoration team’s announcement is vague about both the team’s goals and requirements…
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Ex-Gay Watch Begins Discussion Group
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On an experimental basis, I am opening a Yahoo group to discuss exgay and ex-exgay news, politics and science. Join the XGW e-mail discussion group at Yahoo here. Like the exexgayministry discussion at Yahoo, the Ex-Gay Watch discussion is for…
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Washington Post Series on Gay Youth
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I have updated my original entry on Parts I and II of the Washington Post series on gay youth struggles. I’ll comment here later on Part 3 and Part 4. Exodus president Alan Chambers’ reaction: Honestly, I was very disapointed…
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‘Real Manhood’
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Anabaptist/Episcopalian consistent-life blogger Hugo Schwyzer thoughtfully discusses the subject, which sadly tends to be addressed with unrealistic and counterproductive stereotypes by religious-right activists.
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Wayne Besen Keynotes March for Matthew Shepard
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Gay activist and author Wayne Besen keynotes the Chicago Matthew Shepard March, a commemoration today of the sixth anniversary of the antigay murder of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard.
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Exgay activist Stephen Bennett lent his support Sept. 26 to an Oak Park, Ill., antigay church’s rally against marriage and civil unions for gay couples. He claimed to “love” gay people because he “was once gay,” but he nevertheless supported…
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Exodus Confuses the Sex-ed Debate
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Speaking for Exodus on Oct. 1, exgay activist Nancy Brown collects unrelated factoids from the ideologically antiliberal publication Human Events and assembles an illogical case: That sex education promotes depression, confusion, anger, homosexuality, pregnancy, and pornography. Brown draws no logical…
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PFOX Sees ‘red’ Over Vandalized Exgay Billboard
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Aggrieved-relatives group PFOX complains to the religious-right media that its exgay billboard in Richmond, Va., has been vandalized. But a closer look at the billboard finds faded streaks of red ink. The billboard is mostly unharmed. (Hat tip: John Aravosis.)…
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Nice But Irrelevant: Exgays Exist
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Prof. Warren Throckmorton and TownHall.com editor Ryan Zempel want antiliberalists to know that exgays exist. According to Zempel, Throckmorton’s exgay video I Do Exist demonstrates “that change is possible for those with same-sex attractions.” Change is always possible, Zempel implies;…
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Antigay AFA Activist Compounds His AIDS Error
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Activist Gary Glenn, of the American Family Association-Michigan, talked the religious-right news service AgapePress into distorting HIV/AIDS statistics on Sept. 22. Glenn inflated the incidence of new HIV/AIDS cases in metro Detroit by one-third by confusing new cases with a…