Focus on the Family is again flouting national security — and the private-property rights of Disney — as it protests an FAA ban on planes carrying ex-gay banner ads over Walt Disney World during Gay Days on Oct. 4. Focus…
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Ex-Gay Ads And TV Appearances
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Focus on the Family celebrated on Sept. 12 with the announcement that its lawsuit against a Florida bus company, over ex-gay ads that the company refused to post in February 2000, would go back to court. From CitizenLink: The 11th…
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Ex-Gay Day in Orlando
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Orlando gay rights activists are challenging Orlando’s proclamation of July 21 as an official ex-gay day. City Council member Vicki Vargo proclaimed July 21 as Exodus International Day to honor the faith-based group that claims it can turn homosexual people…
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Montana “Christians” on Gay Reality TV
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Julie Millam, executive director of the Montana Family Coalition, says “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” should not be on TV: “To me, that’s not a reality show about gay people,” Millam told the Billings Gazette. “A really good reality…
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Jesus And Miracles
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Off-topic: Here’s a worthwhile reflection from Joel Sax about Christians’ modern-day, heretical preoccupation with “miracles.” Do some conservative Christians lash out at “paganism” in part because their own individual overdependence upon miracles is rooted in low magic?
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Input Welcome From Ex-Gays’ Family, Friends
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Reading the life stories any of us write about ourselves, whether gay or ex-gay, family or friend, it’s not always easy to get a sense of context and nuance. Having perceptions and memories of others can help fill in the…
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Gay Terrorists: Misguided Generalizations
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365Gay.com reports a bomb scare at a Lutheran school near Cleveland. It was evacuated after a caller threatened to blow up the school unless the pastor announced on TV that he supported gay marriage. No bomb was found. A parent,…
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Ex-Gay Minister’s AIDS-Cure Appeal
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Hidden Updates At Ex-Gay Watch
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I have added new material to these messages: Queer Eye vs. Shmomosexuals Musician A Possible Role Model for Ex-Gays
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Prof. Throckmorton’s Stereotypes
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Warren Throckmorton, an antigay psychology professor at a small Pennsylvania conservative-Christian college, is a prolific writer on behalf of the ex-gay movement. (Google search.) Unfortunately, Dr. Throckmorton sometimes bases his commentaries upon his own stereotypes about gay activists. He even…