I recognize the guy in the costume from the now canceled CBS drama Jericho, and the woman looks like Molly Ringwald, so this must at least be a semi-professional effort of some sort. It’s nice to see that at least…
In a press release full of risible exaggerations, PFOX’s Regina Griggs has claimed that ex-gays are “the most bullied and maligned group in America,” and complained that “they are not protected by sexual orientation non-discrimination laws.” Calling on presidential candidate…
Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival…. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of…
Will you love the “you” you hide if I but call your name? Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same? from Will You Come & Follow Me (hymn) Three and a half years ago I confessed…
XGW Digest: October 10, 2008
-Connecticut legalizes same-sex marriage. -Bolthouse Farms distances itself from its anti-gay founder. -Via TWO: Talk show host John Selig talks to Wayne Besen about his work fighting ex-gay groups, and ex-gay survivor Brian Nesbitt talks about why he went into…
As XGW reported last week, Bob Stith, the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) National Strategist for Gender Issues and Exodus speaker, apologized in an email to us for his use of erroneous quotes from noted geneticist Francis Collins. XGW has made…
UK: The Times Investigates the Ex-Gay Movement
A British journalist has gone undercover to investigate the ex-gay movement. Lucy Bannerman of The Times (London) spent a week at an Exodus retreat at the LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Centre, North Carolina, an experience she dubbed “six days of evangelism…
Evergreen International bills itself as “the most complete resource for Latter-day Saints on same-sex attraction.” As one of the larger ex-gay organizations after Exodus International, a number of familiar names in that arena hail from Evergreen. Outgoing NARTH President Dean…
Last month, the Associated Press reported that a church which Vice Presidential hopeful Gov. Sarah Palin currently attends was promoting the recent Love Won Out conference in Anchorage, Alaska. Truth Wins Out called on her to speak out about this,…
XGW Digest: October 4, 2008
-Ecuador extends civil unions to same-sex couples. -Truth Wins Out continues its battle to reverse James Dobson’s inclusion in the Radio Hall of Fame. -Fundamentalist Christians blame gays and lesbians and the overall sexual culture of America for the current economic…