From a message posted to the Silt blog, and mentioned briefly in comments at XGW some time back: John Paulk called into Mike Signorile’s radio talk show last week. It was truly amazing radio. Paulk said he was a fan…
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Conservative Churches Not Growing After All?
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“Conservative” Christian church leaders occasionally boast that their churches are growing like gangbusters while so-called “liberal” denominations (mainline and orthodox Christian denominations, or any denomination that veers from the given church leader’s ideology) are shriveling due to the non-conservatives’ alleged…
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Exodus Reflects on Being Associated with KKK
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Exodus International executed a political stunt in July when it asked an Orlando city councilwoman to proclaim July 21 “Exodus International Day.” When some Orlando council members — one of whom, Patty Sheehan, was lesbian — protested, Exodus executive director…
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Exodus Spokesman on Freedom of Speech
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The Exodus national office displayed a selective respect for freedom of speech and self-determination in its news release for Sept. 16. Exodus promotes “freedom from homosexuality,” without defining what that means, and it defends freedom of speech — for ex-gay…
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CWFA Gives Texas Rangers Fans A Bronx Cheer
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Texas Rangers Gay Day received a modest turnout of gay sports fans — but Concerned Women for America apparently has its cities mixed up: It greets gay sports fans with a Bronx cheer. CWFA said: The 8 by 4 foot…
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Marriage Is…
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Anti-gay-marriage advocates commonly portray marriage as unitary and monolithic, capable of being nullified if stretched too far. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), for example, describes it as: faithful, exclusive, and lifelong… intimate partnership of life and love… a…
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Kansas AG Distorts, Misleads, Inflames
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Matthew Limon was convicted of having consensual but criminal sex with a nearly-15-year-old boy when he was 18 and both lived at a group home for the developmentally disabled. He was sentenced to a 17+ year prison term despite a…
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Factoid: CBN Rakes In $200 Million
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The antigay Christian Broadcasting Network/700 Club, which represents only a portion of Pat Robertson’s corporate empire, reported $199 million in income in the year ended March 31, 2002. However, the organization violated several widely accepted standards of accountability for charitable…
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Dr. Dobson Ignores Marriage, Scapegoats Gays
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Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson writes “from [his] heart” that the institution of marriage is failing. He points out the conditions he perceived which led to his founding of FOTF: in the late 1960s and early 1970s,…
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Invisible Ex-Gays in Orlando?
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The controversy surrounding Orlando city council member Vicki Vargo’s proclamation of Exodus International Day on July 21 was noted in an earlier Ex-Gay Watch item by Mike. He mentions that activists have challenged the proclamation, as reported by the Orlando…