An ex-staffer from Australia’s most famous megachurch is being ordained in the Metropolitan Community Church, the broadly evangelical denomination that caters specifically to the LGBT community. Penny Davis, who underwent ex-gay therapy during her stint at Hillsong Church, Sydney, will…
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American evangelical leader Lou Engle has confirmed his support for the leaders who drafted Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. Engle, whose TheCall conference in Uganda promoted the bill that would spell execution for gays and their supporters, told Sarah Posner of…
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XGW Digest: June 19, 2010
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-Two US Marines are arrested in Savannah, GA for beating up a gay man. -California’s Fair Political Practices Commission fines the Mormon church for failing to report all of its non-monetary contributions to the Prop 8 campaign. -The mayor of…
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By Justin Lee For years, former leaders and “success stories” of the ex-gay movement have been coming out and saying that ex-gay ministries don’t really work as advertised. But if that’s so, why are these ministries still as popular as…
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Ugandan MP David Bahati was “ecstatic” that American evangelical leader Lou Engle supported his Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, according to journalist Jeff Sharlet. The bill, which would effectively make homosexuality – and “aiding” homosexuality – a capital offense, was promoted heavily…
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Abortion, suicide, homosexuality, addiction, child slavery…Christ is the only hope for this depravity. Looking over the Exodus Freedom Conference website (archive), this quote really jumps out. It’s from a band called Take No Glory (the members call themselves musicianaries). Exodus…
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XGW Digest: June 12, 2010
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-A new study reconfirms that children raised by lesbian parents fare as well children raised by opposite sex couples, and possibly better. -Oklahoma City councilman Brian Walters votes against approving a gay pride event, comparing gays to pedophiles. -Malawi couple…
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As noted by Evan Hurst at Truth Wins Out, the following is the Declaration of Causes of Texas’s secession from the Union in the prelude to the American Civil War: In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good…
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Fifteen months to the day since I wrote this post summarizing the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Conference, Exodus President Alan Chambers has written his own acknowledgment of how badly he and his organization screwed up. First things first, I was personally lax…
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XGW Digest: June 5, 2010
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-Randy Roberts Potts, gay grandson of televangelist Oral Roberts, shares about growing up in his grandfather’s shadow. -Local activists successfully stage two gay pride demonstrations in Moscow. -Malawi couple Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga are pardoned and released, but warned…