On Feb. 7, I wrote about Massachusetts ex-gay activist Larry Houston. Mr. Houston wrote me on Feb. 14 to politely request a correction: I was under the impression he was celibate; Houston says he is in an intimate relationship with…
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I commented here and here that President Bush’s effort to write antigay discrimination into the U.S. Constitution had sparked a creative backlash. In San Francisco this weekend, the backlash took the form of longtime gay couples from across the nation…
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On his “Just Think!” blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers reprints statements by Sen. Bill Frist supporting a nationwide constitutional ban against marriages and civil unions for gay people. XGW encourages Chambers to think about issues, as his blog title…
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Exodus Ex-Gay Position on Adoption
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Exodus executive director Alan Chambers spells out his opposition to adoption by gay people, as well as his preference that gay biological parents either give up custody or keep their same-sex attraction (and their life partner) a secret. Chambers calls…
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Exodus Explains Ties to Focus on the Family
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On his blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers explains the organization’s political advocacy on behalf of Focus on the Family this way: My trip was paid for by the Massachusetts Family Institute. I gladly spoke for free, although I would…
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Exgay Darryl L. Foster on Exgay Politics
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Updated July 20, 2004 D.L. Foster operates Witness for the World, an ex-gay ministry. On his web page, Understanding Exgays: People or Politics, Foster shares his stereotypes of gay people with readers. Among his first sweeping generalizations:
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Exodus Spokesman: ‘A Lesser Love’
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In his essay, Sacrificing A Lesser Love, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas attempts to explain why, based solely on his own life experiences, he presumes to declare (and legislate) the loves of other people as “lesser” than his.
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Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas must be at a loss for words about the marriages of gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco. Judicial tyranny, activist judges…now judicial activist mayors? Then he tosses in the topic of “checks and balances” and…
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Exodus Ex-Gays Launch Media Synopsis Blog
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Mixing literalist meditations on unrelated (prooftexted) Bible passages, news story leads, links, and religious right propaganda, Exodus International launched a political news blog yesterday (Feb. 13). While I find the smug partisan politics offensive and un-Christian in spirit, the Exodus…
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Gay Teen Can Sue Pro-Exgay Florida School
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Last October, XGW briefly covered the case of Jupiter Christian School in Central Florida. The mother of Jeffrey Woodard, a Christian, accuses the school of breaching contract and expelling her son after he confided that he was gay and declined…