The AgapePress begins with apples: Students looking to enter the Harvard Business School MBA program are asked to fill out an online profile that offers three choices of gender: female, male, or transgender. And then talks to Bob Knight about…
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Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right
AlterNet on July 7 reprinted Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right, published in June by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. James Dobson ranks No. 2. (Blame Pat Robertson.) The top power brokers are indexed, along…
Late this afternoon, the American “Family” Association’s AgapePress repeated an already disproven allegation about a playground altercation in Lexington, Mass., that is being promoted and politicized by antigay activists as a mob hate crime by liberal New England families against…
Since 2000 the American Family Association has been peddling a video about exgays titled “It’s Not Gay.” Ex-Gay Watch reader Jim Burroway recently threw $10 at the AFA’s discount-bin for a copy of the video. In his book “Anything But…
Exodus board member Phil Burress wants drugstore condoms locked away to discourage their purchase. Focus on the Family disapproves of condoms as a fallback when abstinence fails. Exgay activist Stephen Bennett opposes both condoms and potential prophylactic drugs to prevent…
Despite the overwhelming defeat of the recent shareholder introduced, AFA backed anti-gay family resolution (95-5% against), the AFA continues to send out alerts claiming that their boycott has virtually bankrupted Ford in the few short weeks of it’s existence. After…
A shareholder of Ford Motor Company introduced a resolution to have the company remove sexual orientation as a category against which employees could not be discriminated. Most of his ranting, however, had little or nothing to do with non-discrimation policy.
“Vagina” A Dirty Word Over At Agape
A recent article over at the Agapepress about the Vagina Monologues did not once spell out the full word “vagina,” instead substituting the letter “V” on every reference to the play. I was curious what other words might have slid…
The American Family Association periodically employs exgay Stephen Bennett as a writer and activist, and supplies Exodus International with much of its antigay “news” through the misnamed “Agape Press” nameplate. In a fund-raising “petition” dated and e-mailed today: AFA anti-Ford…
Discredited Exgay Video Hits the Discount Bin
Activist/author Wayne Besen has picked up on the news, also noted on March 25 by XGW commenter Chalker Cross, that the antigay video “It’s Not Gay” is on sale for $10.