In a Jan. 26 report on the professional decline of PFOX president Richard Cohen, Tom Musbach of PlanetOut interviews Ex-Gay Watch participant "Rick from Fredonia, N.Y." Rick commented Jan. 25 on his experience with Cohen’s therapy here at Ex-Gay Watch.
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Maryland Educators Challenge Exgay Claims
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A group of suburban Maryland educators and parents continues to challenge claims being published by exgay pundit and PFOX ally Prof. Warren Throckmorton via the Washington Times. (Previous XGW coverage.) The media blitz by Prof. Throckmorton and PFOX seeks to…
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Counselors Group Confirms Exgay’s Expulsion
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TeachTheFacts.org is a web site that defends comprehensive sex education in suburban Maryland public schools against a recent campaign by exgay and political religious-right organizations including PFOX. In response to Wayne Besen’s press release, TTF asked the American Counseling Association…
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The exgay movement’s small publicity coup in an Asian newspaper appears to be part of a growing effort by the religious right to "prevent" homosexuality and gay rights — not by strengthening the movement’s weak and sometimes scandal-plagued treatment programs,…
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The Academic Freedom — to Be Ignorant?
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Liberals often fight for the academic freedom to study topics deemed taboo. Now, CNN reports, some conservative students are battling for the academic freedom not to study books and topics, such as the Qur’an or peace studies, which they prejudge…
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United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie links to this Washington Times story about Trinity Christian Academy in Texas. The Academy apparently admits political idolaters and white-collar thieves from the religious right, but kicks out a top student and varsity…
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WT: Antigay Parents Battle Mutual Tolerance
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Mutual tolerance means, "You don’t have to agree with one another, but you do have to get along." The Washington Times reported Nov. 30 that hundreds of antigay parents and students in northeastern Kentucky and Charlotte, N.C., are lashing out…
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We’ve previously addressed PFOX’s undiplomatic statements against public officials who are skeptical of exgay ideology. In the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., PFOX fought unsuccessfully for the inclusion of exgay propaganda with the school system’s proposed sex-education curriculum. The curriculum,…
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Kevin Rector, a student at the University of Maryland, writes in an op-ed about the bigotry of a university physics department staff member, Bill Norwood, who sent out a mass e-mail to students and faculty who had listed themselves in…
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Target of PFOX Threat Responds
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PFOX this month issued implicit threats against the Montgomery County, Md., school board and a committee assigned to update the school system’s sex-education curriculum. In its press release and letter, PFOX also made a public, personal attack against committee chairperson…