A recent case involving the dismissal of a graduate student studying counseling at the Augusta State University in Georgia has Religious Right media outlets in a spin. The student is Jennifer Keeton, who was enrolled in the Counselor Education Program…
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XGW Digest: August 6, 2010
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-Focus on the Family lays off another 110 employees. -Chilean Senator Fulvio Rossi announces plans to introduce a same-sex marriage bill. -NOM’s summer tour meets with more tepid responses in Des Moines and Sioux City, IA. -Bishop Harry Jackson claims…
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Prop 8 Struck Down, Gay Marriage in California
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In Perry v. Schwarzenegger, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker has found that Proposition 8 violated the federal constitutional rights of gays and lesbians to marry the partners of their choice. While this is undoubtedly the first step in…
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It hasn’t been an easy year for JONAH. First, their co-founder Arthur “Abba” Goldberg was outed as a convicted felon. Then, a scandal broke about how two young Orthodox Jewish men were engaged in bizarre, naked therapy wherein it was…
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Dozens of Orthodox Rabbis have signed a statement of principles expressing support for the inclusion of gay Jews in their community, but still rejecting complete acceptance of same-sex partnering and marriage. One particular point stands out: 5. Whatever the origin…
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XGW Digest: July 31, 2010
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-NOM’s Summer for Marriage tour scores a modestly successful turnout in St. Paul, MN after playing to near-empty plazas in Lima, OH; Indianapolis, IN and Madison, WI. Turnout returned to normal in Rochester and St. Cloud. -The New Jersey Supreme…
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Wayne Besen points out a bizarre change in the name of the ex-gay organization JONAH. Formerly Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality, JONAH have apparently changed (most) references to their name on the website to Jews Offering New Alternatives to…
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Video: Scott Lively on The Daily Show
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Truth Wins Out’s Wayne Besen has challenged Alan Downing to take a lie detector test following claims that he engaged in sexual misconduct with two male clients: In light of his public denial, Truth Wins Out offered to pay for…
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Two men have accused Alan Downing, a life coach with Richard Cohen’s ex-gay International Healing Foundation, of using sexually inappropriate therapy techniques, according to Truth Wins Out. On separate occasions, Downing allegedly asked Ben Unger and Chaim Levin to undress in…