A 12-year-old boy on YouTube is being hailed by some Christians as a martyr for enduring insults, although a better description would be “disturbed.” Scott, whose screenname is ChristianU2uber, has received thousands of views for his videos, in which he…
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Chambers Is Blind to His Own Prejudice
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In his latest article for Charisma magazine, Exodus President Alan Chambers speaks a lot of truth, but is blinkered to how it applies to his own organization. With amusing timing, Chambers remembers a school bully who picked on him for…
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This Is What Love in Action Looks Like
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A documentary about the controversial ex-gay program Love in Action will be released on DVD on June 6 2009. Love in Action revisits the furore of summer 2005, when then-16-year-old Zach Stark gained the attention of activists worldwide after his…
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A crescendo of voices can be heard at the second floor of a shop lot singing Christian praise and worship songs such as “Lord, I Offer My Life” and “I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever”. Kenny the worship leader,…
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Educational film producer Sid Davis released countless “cautionary tales” over the span of the 1950’s and ’60’s, one of the most notorious being the film Boys Beware (1961). XGW mentioned the film in a brief posting in 2006 when Davis…
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Citing the Pew Forum, Newsweek writes that views about hot-button issues are cooling somewhat on evangelical campuses, including those about homosexuality. Young evangelicals are far more accepting of gay and lesbian lifestyles than their parents are: 34 percent of evangelicals…
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UK: Gay Hate Victim, 18, Is Dead
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A gay teenager has died, just one week after he was brutally beaten in a homophobic attack. Eighteen-year-old Michael Causer of Whiston, near Liverpool, England, died in hospital on Saturday August 2 at 12.30pm. He had been attacked by other…
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Story here. Updates here and here. I’ve been fortunate. I don’t live in the most gay-friendly community in the world, but I’ve never personally been subject to a homophobic assault in my area. My family is well-known round here, and…
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PFOX Misrepresents Research to Defame Gays
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A scientist has accused Parents and Friends of ExGays and Gays (PFOX) of distorting his research by claiming that high school gay-straight alliances increase risk of suicide for teens. PFOX President Regina Griggs said that “the risk of suicide decreases…
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Mike Ensley’s article in the latest issue of Charisma Magazine illustrates everything that is wrong with Exodus and the ex-gay movement. In What to Do When Your Child Is Gay, Exodus’s “Youth Analyst” warns parents against trying to control their…