-Box Turtle Bulletin shares reports and photos from last weekend’s Join the Impact rallies across the country. -The California Supreme Court agrees to hear challenges to Proposition 8. -Focus on the Family announces another round of layoffs. -eHarmony to extend…
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XGW Digest: November 14, 2008
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-Ex-Gay Expose wrap-up: Peterson Toscano reports on the weekend’s activities: press conference and demonstration held outside the NARTH conference in Denver, followed by a gathering of ex-gay survivors. Christine Bakke also shares her reflections. -Utah State Senator Scott McCoy calls the LDS…
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XGW Digest: November 7, 2008
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The ACLU, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights prepare to challenge Prop 8 in court. A sampling of reactions to Prop 8’s passage from around the blogosphere: Andrew Sullivan: Oh, no, you don’t Misty Irons: At what…
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XGW Digest: October 31, 2008
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-Hate crimes based on sexual orientation increased slightly in 2007, despite an overall drop from 2006. -Anthony Venn-Brown launches a new site for ex-gay survivors in Australia and New Zealand. -The Ex-Gay Expose, hosted by Beyond Ex-Gay, comes to Denver…
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XGW Digest: October 25, 2008
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Fred Phelps’ daughters to participate in a debate over Florida’s Amendment 2. A California blogger confronts a Proposition 8 supporter’s scare tactics. Peter LaBarbera: Banning books is “good parenting.” Coincidentally, he says this even as the push to get ex-gay…
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XGW Digest: October 17, 2008
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Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern still sees homosexuals as a greater threat to the United States than terrorists. A new poll shows that 53% of Connecticut voters support the state supreme court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. The Our Family Matters…
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XGW Digest: October 10, 2008
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-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…
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XGW Digest: October 4, 2008
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-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…
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XGW Digest: September 25, 2008
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Born-again Christian Clay Aiken comes out of the closet. Anita from Sisterfriends Together reminds readers about another Christian musician who was pilloried for coming out of the closet. Conservative Christian blogger (and gay rights supporter) Misty Irons dissects the arguments of…
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XGW Digest: August 13, 2008
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Peterson Toscano shares the story of a former ex-gay in Malta. Paul Varnell looks at the state of gay rights outside of the western world. Focus on the Family hides a video it had posted only 12 days prior calling…