Samantha Bee did an investigative news parody on Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Is it a problem, she asks, to publicize the relationships of Silo and Roy? Dr. Dan Wharton, Director of the Central Park Zoo…
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Beside the Point: ‘You Don’t Have to Be Gay’
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Posted today to Ex-Gay Watch’s former location at blogs.salon.com: From: Frank Blakely I will get straight to the point. This entire controversy of homosexuality exists solely because of a basic lack of understanding of Man and his basic purposes and…
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Writing for Vermont’s monthly Out In The Mountains, Robert William Wolff praises gay activist Wayne Besen’s book about the ex-gay movement, Anything But Straight.
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David Morrison and Ron Belgau are members of Courage, a group of same-sex-attracted Roman Catholics who believe homosexual behavior is sinful and therefore choose to be celibate. On Feb. 29, Morrison dissected the sloppy theology, stereotypes, and inhospitality of Barbara…
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Exodus leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas have frequently expressed support for President Bush’s re-election in 2004 — most recently they did so on Janet Parshall’s radio program. (Parshall is also a Bush supporter.) But as Christian evangelical Jim Wallis…
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‘Gestapo’ Language And Ex-Gay Tolerance
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Andrew Sullivan is widely regarded among conservatives as an example of tolerance and accommodation. He addresses antigay individuals and arguments on a case-by-case basis. He limits his generalizations and makes an effort not to resort to sweeping insults. Is it…
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Catholic pro-celibacy blogger and Courage participant David Morrison remembers gay journalist Randy Shilts, who died ten years ago this month. Shilts was among the first journalists, and surely the most thorough, to track government and corporate callousness, and intransigence among…
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From The Washington Post: A Catholic lay panel found that 4 percent of the nation’s Catholic priests who have served since 1950 were at one time or another accused of sexually abusing minors. Let’s crunch some statistics, and see whether…
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In his State of the Union address, President Bush popularized a misunderstanding of the Federal Marriage Amendment. He said, more or less, that he supported a constitutional amendment banning marriages for gays, but he did not wish to ban civil…
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Ex-Gay ‘Passion’ for Mel Gibson Flick
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Eric Scheie at Classical Values nicely summarizes pundits’ up-and-down votes for ‘The Passion of the Christ.’ Hopefully, Exodus ex-gay spokesman Randy Thomas will broaden his own perspective in the coming days. His review demonstrates some humble insights, but also suffers…