At the social-conservative website MichNews.com, Warren Throckmorton editorializes against gay author/activist Wayne Besen. Comments about Prof. Throckmorton’s criticisms began at XGW here but should continue here instead. My own reaction: I’ve discussed the dispute over who founded Exodus before. It’s…
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Here are some excerpts from the October 2004 issue of the Exodus newsletter. Unfortunately, Exodus does not make its newsletter available online. Boldface print was bold in the original.
Houston Weekly Profiles Ex-gays, Ex-exgays
The news and entertainment weekly Houston Press profiles exgays in its Oct. 14 issue. Sometimes sarcastic, often serious, the article balances the journeys of several exgays and exexgays through religious struggle, sexual maturation and moderation, and conflicting therapeutic worldviews. The…
Writing for Exodus, exgay activist Nancy Brown complains that gay-tolerant and antigay activists were treated unequally at two separate events in two different states. Tolerance activists were tolerated, Brown complains; antigay activists allegedly were not. From her example of the…
According to CNSNews.com, exgays across the spectrum are “enraged” at John Kerry’s debate remark that people could be born gay. Kerry said: “I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell…
Exodus Confuses the Sex-ed Debate
Speaking for Exodus on Oct. 1, exgay activist Nancy Brown collects unrelated factoids from the ideologically antiliberal publication Human Events and assembles an illogical case: That sex education promotes depression, confusion, anger, homosexuality, pregnancy, and pornography. Brown draws no logical…
Exgay Leader Comments on Swaggart Death Threat
After 12 days of silence about the subject, Exodus president Alan Chambers on Sept. 24 criticized Jimmy Swaggart’s Sept. 12 death threat against gay people. The emphatically antifeminist Chambers borrows (strangely enough) from the same line of thought as profeminist…
Speaking for Exodus, exgay activist Nancy Brown scolds gay people today for wanting the same things that heterosexuals take for granted: marriages, kids, trustworthiness, jobs, scholarships, and notoriety on TV. And she wags her finger at Atlanta activists for announcing…
Conservative gay law professor and columnist Dale Carpenter debated gay marriage with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family on Sept. 16 at the University of Minnesota. While providing support to Focus on the Family’s exgay “Love Won Out” road…
Exodus president Alan Chambers participated in a Sept. 19 antimarriage simulcast sponsored by the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the Southern Baptist Convention. The simulcast was part of the religious-right alliance’s We…