The evangelical media is silent on recent scientific research into sexual orientation, according to Dr Warren Throckmorton. The Grove City College psychology professor says his Christian audience routinely confirms there’s a blackout on up-to-date information on sexuality in the Christian…
This is well worth watching in it’s entirety. LGBT rights are of course human rights, as Secretary Clinton so eloquently illustrates to the United Nations in Geneva. There are times when we manage to get it right, and this looks…
World Magazine has awarded Exodus President Alan Chambers their 2011 Daniel Award. With this award, Alan Chambers joins the ranks of Kenneth Star, John Ashcroft, Phillip E. Johnson (“father” of Intelligent design), Peter Akinola (rabidly anti-gay Nigerian priest), and Stephen C….
XGW Digest: December 3, 2011
-Congressman Barney Frank announces his retirement. -Religious right activist Randy Thomasson worries about Prop 8’s chances of surviving in appeals court. -A lawsuit against New York’s marriage equality law is allowed to proceed. -Illinois will now allow couples in civil…
NARTH founder Joseph Nicolosi, arguably the father of modern reparative therapy, has retracted his claim that a patient was able to change his sexual orientation through an SSRI. In 2009, Dr Nicolosi said his client had made no progress in…
Exodus President Alan Chambers called a meeting together this past November 16. The subject was quite simply how to keep Exodus International from social and financial oblivion. In attendance were Exodus leadership, prominent religious leaders (such as Gabe Lyons) and…
Anti-Bullying Activist Roger Crouch Dies
Roger Crouch, the British activist who led the charge against homophobic bullying following the death of his teenage son, has died. Dom Crouch committed suicide in 2010, saying he had been the victim of malicious gay rumours. His father, Roger,…
XGW Digest: November 26, 2011
-A Baptist congregation in North Carolina votes against conducting any more weddings until gay couples can legally marry. -Jayson Littman shares his experiences as a Jewish ex-gay. -The Nigerian government considers a same-sex marriage ban. -An Orthodox Jewish rabbi marries…
Current PFOX president Greg Quinlan appeared for an interview recently on a local D.C. station. While the interviewer, Mark Segraves (WDCW-TV), was better prepared than most, it doesn’t seem he understood the depth of misinformation Quinlan is willing to put…
One aspect glossed over in recent media reports about Liverpool Frontline Church and its ex-gay ministry is its roots in an American ministry, LIFE. Here’s how I summarized the issue back in July, for The Guardian‘s Comment is free: But…