I share Natalie’s thoughts and prayers for Michael Johnston. It’s tough when I find myself acting contrary to my deeply held values and beliefs, and I can only imagine the same is true for him. I need to point out…
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Exodus executive director Alan Chambers expresses concern for former ex-gay ministry leader Michael Johnston — and for those who might have been infected in the course of Johnston’s unsafe sexual activities. Chambers’ statement contains no generalizations or gratuitous remarks; his…
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Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas waxes sweetly poetic with his subhead about the Episcopal Church in today’s press release: “Pro-homosexual advocacy cracks a denomination’s scriptural foundation by choosing social blindness instead of eternal truth” As someone with lifelong connections to the…
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The American Family Association confirmed that Michael Johnston, the ex-gay HIV-positive head of Kerusso Ministries, had closed his ministry after numerous unsafe sexual encounters with other men. Johnston was the star of an ex-gay TV ad, ex-gay video, and a…
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Overgeneralizing
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Several people have told me that I’ve been overgeneralizing about ex-gay ministries lately. I believe they are right. This blog works best, I believe, when it sticks to the facts, good and bad, about different ex-gay ministries. And I’ll make…
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I retract what I said Friday about Ron B. of Courage Seattle. I am sorry for associating Ron with ex-gays. I have deleted the remark from the main blog, but it is still available in the Friday entry’s comments field.
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Gay Sexual Liberation Movement, R.I.P.?
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Here is a Boston Phoenix article by gay progressive Michael Bronski, published this week. Bronski criticizes the mainstream gay population and the major activist groups for having abandoned, quite some time ago, the “sexual liberation” movement and Seventies-era interpretations of…
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Dependence Vs Co-Dependence on God
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Ex-Gay Watch reader Johanna strongly disagreed with my message about co-dependent expressions of the Christian faith. I don’t believe I said that evangelicals promote a cycle of repentance and sin; I said that Metanoia did, and that ex-gay ministries tend…
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Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family have steadily increased the volume of their antigay press releases this week. One item in particular seems brazen in its defamation of author Judith Levine. At this point, I can’t keep…