Stephen Bennett defends his hostility to gay parents, their families, and supportive straight parents during his Aug. 7 protest in Provincetown, Mass. Other online coverage: A pro-exgay Yahoo group discusses Stephen Bennett’s antigay protest starting here. One of the group…
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Pro-exgay Prof Defends Ad, Blasts GLAAD
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The Exodus web site features a press release penned late last week by Warren Throckmorton. Instead of explaining or defending the odd language and overly optimistic claims of the LA Times ex-gay ad, Throckmorton singles out two of the ad’s…
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Gay Blogger to Kerry Supporters: Wake Up!
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Patrick Connors is guest blogging at the Gay American blog. Like XGW, he is becoming unhappy with John Kerry. It is the will of the politicians — local and federal — that prevent us from having our Constitutional protections. We…
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Reflections on Gay Family Week in Provincetown
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Paul E. Keith wrote about Stephen Bennett’s demonstration in Provincetown, Mass., over the weekend. Since then, Paul has reflected some more, and writes: My original post was concerned, of course, with what I saw in Provincetown on Saturday that was…
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A newly published study suggests sexual orientation in males is influenced by prenatal development. Blanchard, R. (2004). Quantitative and theoretical analyses of the relation between older brother and homosexuality in men. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 230, 173-187. ABSTRACT Meta-analysis of…
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Virginia Stephenson of Soulforce Albuquerque provides a first-hand account of her group’s encounter with Courage, a Catholic organization that promotes chastity among same-sex-attracted individuals. Courage does not call itself "ex-gay." But: Courage favors NARTH reinterpretations of current science; Courage misdefines…
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Paul of Gay Christian Network provides a first-hand account of activist Stephen Bennett’s ex-gay leafletting effort in Provincetown, Mass.
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Off-topic: ‘Are Liberal Christians Phony?’
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David Batstone is the executive editor of Sojourners, an evangelical Christian magazine with a history of pro-life, pro-human-rights, antipoverty and antiviolence activism rooted in the Bible. (Disclosure: I worked for Sojourners in the late 1980s.) When he’s not on tour…
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Off-topic: Morality of the Cherry-pickers?
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Tommy Tomlinson of The Charlotte Observer (free subscription required) comments on Catholic bishops who pick and choose which Biblical moralities to uphold and which to ignore: Bishops who single out the abortion strictly enforce sexual and reproductive morality. They then…
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Find the most recent XGW coverage of Kirk Talley here. August 6, 2004 The antigay Southern Baptist who attempted to extort money from southern gospel singer Kirk Talley was sentenced Aug. 4 to 20 months in prison and ordered to…