Chicago’s Windy City Times interviewed gay activist Wayne Besen on June 2. Besen’s book about the ex-gay movement, Anything But Straight, was nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards in two categories: LGBT Studies and Spirituality.
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Focus/Family Invites Anecdotes on Marriage
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James Dobson of Focus on the Family is releasing a new antigay/exgay book, “Marriage Under Fire,” in mid-June.
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Robert Knight’s One-Eyed View of Hate Crimes
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In a May 29 essay at the WorldNetDaily web site, reprinted four days later at Concerned Women for America, Robert Knight blasts a newly proposed federal hate crimes measure that enjoys bipartisan support.
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Ex-gay quote of the day, from Focus on the Family’s daily CitizenLink e-mail, regarding MTV’s new gay cable network: Melissa Fryrear, gender issues analyst at Focus on the Family, said there are several problems with the creation of a gay-themed…
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Ex-Gay Watch: A Glance At the News
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Democratic Catholic Lawmakers Warn Bishops From The Washington Post: Forty-eight lawmakers, including several who are anti-abortion, warned the bishops not to harm the church by denying Communion based on partisan political biases. [The lawmakers] questioned how the bishops could limit…
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Exodus Double-Speak on Gay Marriage
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In his early movie, Bananas, Woody Allen’s character Fielding Mellish complains: This trial is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. The vocabulary has…
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Exodus International‘s executive director, Alan Chambers, writes a personal blog titled Just Think! Encourage it in others. Demand it of yourself. In an entry yesterday, he blames an undefined “Gay Elite” for: Hijacking “a legitimate civil rights triumph with their…
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Ex-Gays And the (Right-Wing) Morning News
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Oliver Griswold of The Morning News did for 30 days what some ex-gay activists do for their entire adult lives: Live solely on an all-reactionary media diet. The results were as toxic as a McDonald’s super-size meal.
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The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability monitors the financial integrity of evangelical Christian ministries on an annual basis. Christianity Today notes this week that ECFA’s standards are a bit rudimentary: Participating charitable ministries, for example, are permitted to pay most…
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Via e-mail from Focus on the Family today: Former lesbian Amy Tracy and Focus anti-marriage activist Glenn T. Stanton will debate against marriage for gay couples in a “Townhall Meeting” program on the Total Living Network from 9 p.m. to…