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…
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Gay Christians in An Evangelical World
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For two years as a teen-ager, I was a born-again Christian and an evangelical. By age 18, however, my faith had matured toward a politically independent Roman Catholicism. Later, my faith would be challenged further. Whether I qualify as a…
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From the July 29 CitizenLink newsletter, there’s plenty for me to comment on later today. Focus on the Family seems to have taken its conspiracy theories, strawman arguments, sexual putdowns, stigmatization, and affirmations of antigay discrimination to a new low…
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The Unwelcome Mat At Exodus’ Front Door
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As recently as the mid-1970s, television confined its depiction of homosexuals to suicidal whimperers and psychopathic lesbians. This bizarre caricature has faded from mainstream culture and from many if not most places of worship. It remains alive and well, however,…
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Author: ‘Gays Reclaim Jesus’ Words’
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Fenton Johnson, author of “Keeping Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey” (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), reflects thoughtfully and deeply upon his own faith journey in a Los Angeles Times commentary. Johnson applies his observations on faith and tradition to gay Christians’ quest for…
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In a July 27 commentary, Portland Oregonian associate editor David Reinhard wrote that gays should be content with a tattered patchwork of half-baked legal rights instead of fairness in civil marriage. Reinhard also said that any comparison of racial discrimination…
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N.Y. Media Ignore Violence Prompting Gay School
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Both the editorial board and columnist Steve Dunleavy at the New York Post call the New York City public schools’ announcement of a predominantly gay high school “un-American,” “insane,” “idiotic, socially wrong, morally wrong and politically suicidal.” Dunleavy says several…