Ten speakers with diverse perspectives on gay rights debate before high school honors students in the Toledo area on May 10. Among the speakers was ex-gay activist Greg Quinlan of Dayton, Ohio, who frequently lobbies in defense of discrimination against…
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Minnesota’s Six Foot Pole pointed me to the ex-gay personal story of Michael David Wallen, an athletics staffer at the University of Minnesota. If Wallen is happier practicing celibacy, then good for him. Celibacy is the best choice for some…
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Students who contemplatively or prayerfully honor a “Day of Silence” in protest against antigay violence and harassment in the schools should be punished, according to Peter LaBarbera of the Illinois Family Institute. Ten days ago, LaBarbera threatened Illinois schools and…
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Anti-gay Parents Say Satire = Evidence
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The Thames Valley District school board in London, Ontario was considering expanding its safe schools program to include gay and lesbian students. A parents group, STOP (Simply Truths Our Priority) objected by presenting a 300-page compilation of Internet “research”. One…
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Exodus today issued a call for support by Jeralee Smith of the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus. The caucus goal is to inject ex-gay activists into the nation’s schools, and to prevent intolerance toward them or their beliefs. But what the…
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The False Link Between Gays, NAMBLA
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I’m mainly noting this for future reference. Lynn at Noli Irritare Leones remembers attending a San Francisco gay parade decades ago. NAMBLA isn’t welcome among gays now — and it wasn’t then, either.
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David Morrison, in Sed Contra: And They Wonder Why Parents Homeschool Their Kids, says: Parent’s are rightly protective of their kids and the ideas and concepts to which their children are exposed. General opposition to same sex marriage will crystalize…
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I’ve been dismayed and discouraged at the Exodus national office’s March 5 defense of antigay bullying in schools, and its condemnation of gay people to Hell. I’ve been too upset, in fact, to write much for the past 10 days….
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From The Washington Post: A Catholic lay panel found that 4 percent of the nation’s Catholic priests who have served since 1950 were at one time or another accused of sexually abusing minors. Let’s crunch some statistics, and see whether…
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NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus Formed
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Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) appears to have played a key role in organizing the caucus, but its current role in the caucus is unclear. As past XGW messages indicate, PFOX has lobbied in favor of discrimination against gays…