Chad Thompson, one of the most fair-minded exgay activists I know just wrote a piece on X-Men 3. (I know he’s a wee bit late.) Instead of ignoring the obvious ex-gay themes of the movie like the AgapePress and Focus…
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LeVay Exposes Evergreen’s Deception
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On July 8, David Clarke Pruden, the executive director of Evergreen International, an ex-gay group for Mormons, wrote an opinion piece in the Salt Lake Tribune in which distorted the results of several studies to claim that there is “no…
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Unrealized Expectations
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People Can Change, a seminar series that purports to help people reorient, has polled participants on their website. Although only a small percentage took the poll, People Can Change has released their results claiming that contrary to “conventional wisdom” people…
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Updated to reflect the location of WeAreThinking PAC. There has never been just one civil rights movement; there have been numerous movements: for Jews and other religious minorities, for blacks, for women, for Japanese-Americans after World War II, and for…
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Exgay activist Tim Wilkins held a one-day conference titled “More Than Words” in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 8. He plans another one August 12 in Raleigh, N.C. The theme of his lecture tour is that antihomosexual Christians should not waste…
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Out And Cowed? Ex-Gay in the UK
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This article was originally published in Third Way magazine, June 2006 I ONLY had to say three syllables, and yet the simplest words turned out to be the hardest. Mom. I’m. Gay. They were difficult words because I had grown…
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Group A is a conservative Christian “ex-gay” ministry. It does not encourage people to expect a change of orientation, and is critical of groups that do. It promotes celibacy rather than a change of orientation. Group B is us. Gays…
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Ex-gay in the UK
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The main difference between the ex-gay movement in the UK and the US is that, well, that there isn’t really much of an ex-gay movement as such in the UK. In the US, the movement tends to be focused and…
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Love in Action Survivor Speaks to Protesters
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Lance Carroll spent last summer at Love in Action. He came back today to join Queer Action Coalition and the protesters outside. While Carroll’s prepared message spoke of depression and cruel methodology within LIA and of verbal and physical abuse…
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Exgay Calls for Starbucks Boycott
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In a press release fashioned as an AgapePress “news” story, San Diego exgay activist James Hartline calls upon “Christians” (by which he means antigay social-conservative Christians) to boycott Starbucks.