According to the IRS, the tax-exempt status of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) was revoked on 5/10/2010 (PDF). The reason for this action is listed by the reporting organization Guidestar as a “failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ,…
XGW Digest: July 30, 2011
-Same-sex couples begin marrying in New York. -Disney’s Weddings & Honeymoons blog highlights a gay wedding. -Anti-gay activist Bradlee Dean sues Rachel Maddow for quoting him. -A lesbian couple helps save several dozen campers during the Norway massacre. -Colombia’s Constitutional…
Ann Coulter Throws Her Support Behind Ex-Gays
Some lady who’ll say anything to get a bit of attention thinks some people can pray away the gay: In the interview, with The View host Joy Behar, Coulter points to a Michael Glatze story in the New York Times as evidence that…
NARTH Responds to Marcus Bachmann Criticisms
The National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality has congratulated gay-to-straight conversion therapist Marcus Bachmann for “sticking to the science.” Bachmann, husband of Republican presidential runner Michele Bachmann, runs a clinic in Minnesota offering ex-gay therapy. His description…
The National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexual is no longer offering continuing education to therapists in the state of California, according to SFGate blogger Susan Davis. Although some activists had tried to have NARTH‘s rights to provide…
Come Say Hi to Ex-Gay Watch on Facebook
In case you missed the news a month or two back, Ex-Gay Watch is now on Facebook. Stop by, click “Like,” and say hey!
In the Wavertree district of Liverpool, England, Frontline Church has a ministry to gays and lesbians. It’s an ex-gay ministry, LIFE Liverpool, that they say helps people work through childhood pain to overcome their homosexuality. It was founded in 2000…
XGW Digest: July 23, 2011
-Several hundred active duty servicemembers march in San Diego’s pride parade. -An openly gay man is selected to chair Utah’s Democratic Party. -A gay man and transgender woman in Cuba announce plans to marry on Fidel Castro’s birthday. -President Obama…
The ex-gay LIFE ministry, in New York City, teaches gays and lesbians that their sexual orientation is sinful and must be changed. Homosexuality is a psychological, emotional and spiritual disorder that can be overcome with prayer, deliverance and counselling, it…
Last month, we reported that Willow Creek Community Church, the Chicago evangelical megachurch, had cut ties with ex-gay organization Exodus International. Today, Christianity Today reported the story with reaction from Exodus President Alan Chambers. Predictably, Chambers makes the break all…