Rewrite, April 17: When I started this entry last week, I said simply that I was busy putting out a technical wildfire at another site, and I invited folks to talk in my absence. In response, Chuck Anziulewicz launched a…
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Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Mario Bergner
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This has been sitting in my outbox for days now. I’d hoped to write a longer item; instead, I will start this entry now, and extensively refine it later. Comments are welcome; they will help me refine the information. Both…
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Wayne Besen and James Barber both point me to an excellent Apr. 3 article in the Guardian (London). Using Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out” ex-gay expo in Nashville as a focal point, Going Straight explores the conflicting views…
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Exodus today issued a call for support by Jeralee Smith of the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus. The caucus goal is to inject ex-gay activists into the nation’s schools, and to prevent intolerance toward them or their beliefs. But what the…
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E-mailed to me by Jayelle: GLAAD protests a segment of the Univision talk show “Casos de Familia” that aired March 25. GLAAD says: The program was insensitive, unfair and unbalanced. During the taping, the hostess, Judith Grace, insulted the lesbian,…
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Ex-Gay Rally At Illinois State Capitol
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The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., reports today on an ex-gay rally at the state Capitol, sponsored by Concerned Women for America and Peter LaBarbera’s group, the Illinois Family Institute. Stephen Bennett said: “I’ve had both worlds, I’ve been in…
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Can’t Afford A CD Burner, Huh?
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Somebody is attempting to save Ex-Gay Watch pages to floppy disk and then view the pages from the disk. Bud, I think your disk is too small. And isn’t surfing the Internet from a floppy disk slower than molasses? Gawd,…
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Focus on the Family: ‘Be Intolerant’
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An April 2004 newsletter of Focus on the Family declares that God will destroy the United States and Western civilization will crumble if life-long gay couples are allowed to marry or celebrate civil unions. Dobson accuses the undefined “homosexual activist…
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After a "lesbian identified" Methodist minister is acquitted in an official church trial, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers criticizes the church leadership before launching into a tirade against "liberal" churches as a class. Chambers begins by accusing the Methodist jurors…
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On Monday, Exodus applauded a Massachusetts constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage but permit civil unions. Quite likely the Exodus leadership overlooked the whole civil-unions clause, or perhaps it was pressured overnight by its political partners, Focus on the…