From Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink web site: COMMENTARY: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DEPRESSION — THE NEW STD?Research reverses the thought that teen depression leads to risky behaviors.
Education and Youth
Queer Quotable
“You can’t promote homosexuality. You only can acknowledge it.”[*] Garrett J. McAuliffe, Professor, Old Dominion University. McAuliffe produced the DVD, Counseling Gay and Lesbian Youth, designed to help people who for counsel gay teens.
The Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education has identified the members of a sex-education curriculum development panel. This panel is is being recreated after the previous panel’s work was protested by an abstinence-only group and the antigay group PFOX, challenged…
Today at Ex-Gay Watch, Exodus President Alan Chambers agreed with me that homosexual and heterosexual sex crimes deserve equal punishment, and that the Kansas Supreme Court was right to overturn laws to the contrary. As it happens, that position is…
At age 18, Matthew Limon — a developmentally disabled young man — engaged in voluntary sexual activity with a 14-year-old male. This followed two prior cases where Limon was prosecuted as a juvenile for having sex with someone younger than…
The Grace Pages briefly reviews A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality, authored by Joseph Nicolosi and published in 2002 by Inter-Varsity Press. The examples of sappy, saccharine prose and badly dated gender roles leave me feeling embarrassed to have been…
Once in a while, the Exodus media blog posts something that might conceivably be true — at first glance. “I don’t think the gay movement understands the extent to which the next generation just wants to be normal kids,” says…
From the Des Moines Register via Gay News Blog and Good As You: Exgay activist Chad Thompson’s former employer, the Iowa Family Policy Center, opposed an anti-bullying program scheduled for Oct. 6 in Cedar Rapids. IFPC argues that efforts to…
Did CNN Cover ‘Concerned Women’ on Gay Youth?
Good As You provided a heads-up Oct. 6 that Concerned Women for America spokesman Robert Knight was to appear on CNN’s Paula Zahn NOW program that evening, to condemn the trend of youths identifying themselves as same-sex-attracted at earlier ages….
Stephen Bennett All Up In A Tizzy Over Time
On Monday Exodus sent out an emails proudly announcing the current Time Magazine cover story on gay teens which in my opinion gives a respectable amount of time to advocates on both sides of the issue. Stephen Bennett however is…