-A group of teenagers in New York City stomp another teen to death while shouting anti-gay slurs. -A new poll finds shrinking support for the Defense of Marriage Act. -The Crystal Cathedral asks members of its choir to sign an…
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In an opinion piece for Christianity Today, Timothy Shah absolves American evangelicals from any responsibility for homophobia in Uganda and says the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is “a single legislative stunt by a single low-level politician.” Shah responds to the claim that a…
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Exodus president Alan Chambers was in the UK last week, presumably to make up some speaking engagements that he had to cancel last year do to the Icelandic volcano eruption. While there, he was interviewed by William Crawley on BBC…
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XGW Digest: March 12, 2011
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-Rhode Island Congressman Jim Langevin has a change of heart about marriage equality. -The Colorado Democratic Party elects an openly gay chairman. -A Maryland legislator comes out of the closet. -Lisa Ling takes a look at the ex-gay movement. -A…
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Ex-Gay Organization Now on Your iPhone
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Exodus International, the organization that claims to bring “healing to homosexuals,” has released a free iPhone application. Users can receive blog posts and podcasts to their smartphone, as well as updates about Exodus International events. According to the iPhone app…
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Christopher Jay Hall, a guest blogger at “Raging Pride,” attended Exodus’ Love Won Out conference in Pheonix, Arizona on February 19th and was horrified by the kind of information being given as “fact:” Speakers were determined to address a transgender…
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XGW Digest: March 5, 2011
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-A British cricket star comes out of the closet. The Rev. Peter Gomes dies. -An anti-gay preacher is arrested for public masturbation. -Maryland’s marriage equality bill encounters unexpected delays in committee. -LGBT support grows on the campuses of evangelical college….
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XGW Digest: February 26, 2011
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-The Israeli government appoints an openly gay judge. -A hockey player at the University of New Hampshire comes out of the closet to speak in support of the state’s marriage equality law. -Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie signs civil unions into…
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Obama Administration Will No Longer Defend DOMA
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The US government has announced that it is no longer prepared to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. The act enshrined in US federal law the definition of marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman. DOMA…
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Florida Abstinence Program Linked to Ssempa
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An abstinence group based in Jacksonville, Florida, has ties to the anti-gay Ugandan activist Martin Ssempa, according to a report in the Florida Independent. Project SOS founder Pam Mullarkey is quoted on Ssempa’s website as saying that Ssempa is “the…