Exodus has a new youth outreach guide and lord knows I’ll never receive a copy if I request it so I’d encourage all XGW readers to go here and request one themselves.
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Event Schedule for Love Won Out, Atlanta
Ok kids, I’m off to Atlanta to speak at the joint press conference being thrown by Wayne Besen and Soulforce. Here’s their press release. FRIDAY PRESS CONFERENCE WHERE: OutWrite Books, 991 Piedmont Avenue WHEN: Friday, Nov 3. at 11:30 a.m….
Lobbyist Randy Thomas complains on the Exodus blog that, at the Family Research Council’s misnamed “Liberty Sunday” event last weekend, a reporter for the Boston Herald chuckled at the label “ex-gay” and refused to receive ex-gay materials or interview ex-gay…
The leadership at Exodus seems to have come up with a bizarre and totally unsubstantiated new talking-point claiming “most” gay people don’t care much for the work of gay-rights groups. In Exodus’ book “God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door”…
Exodus board member Phil Burress is the president of Ohio’s misnamed Citizens for Community Values, which identifies itself as “Officially Associated with Focus on the Family and Family Research Council as a Family Policy Council in Ohio.” According to the…
“God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door” is a new book written by several senior leaders at Exodus International. On page 115: Stand up for gay people. The church and conservative Christianity hasn’t been a safe, welcoming place for homosexuals….
Transglobal Ethnic Profiling At Exodus
From Wayne Besen, Sept. 27: The ex-gay group Exodus International got into the ethnic profiling game this week by claiming Thai students become hookers because of “materialism.” “College students in Bangkok become prostitutes to earn money to buy brand name…
Last weekend at a Family Research Council event — a gathering of politicians and religious power-seekers that was misnamed “Liberty Sunday” — Bishop Wellington Boone fantasized about the “rape of the civil rights movement” by people of faith who dare…
“God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door” is a new book written by several senior leaders at Exodus International. On page 69: “Some Christians believe that change is always evidenced by full deliverance from homosexuality, resulting in complete and immediate…
“Its statements routinely outrage gay-rights activists. But two commentaries posted online in recent months by members of NARTH’s scientific advisory committee have raised concerns among its closest allies as well.” –Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, October 15, 2006…