In his early movie, Bananas, Woody Allen’s character Fielding Mellish complains: This trial is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. The vocabulary has…
Exodus
Exodus International‘s executive director, Alan Chambers, writes a personal blog titled Just Think! Encourage it in others. Demand it of yourself. In an entry yesterday, he blames an undefined “Gay Elite” for: Hijacking “a legitimate civil rights triumph with their…
The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability monitors the financial integrity of evangelical Christian ministries on an annual basis. Christianity Today notes this week that ECFA’s standards are a bit rudimentary: Participating charitable ministries, for example, are permitted to pay most…
Ex-Gay Spokesman Pans Sexual Abuse in Iraq
U.S. military intelligence officials broadly and systematically authorized or tolerated abuse against Iraqi detainees. That much is made clear by the International Committee of the Red Cross — and corroborated by detainees and scapegoated soldiers and contractors who were involved…
Toronto Star reporter David Graham reports from the Love Won Out conference over the weekend, comparing and contrasting it with his experience as a voluntary electric shock aversion therapy patient 30 years ago. Analysis coming up.
Earlier this month, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers charged into Berkeley, Calif., determined to thwart hordes of hateful and violent liberals. What he found, but still fails to acknowledge, is that his stereotypes about “liberals” and Northern Californians are untrue.
Exodus Exgays Bend the Golden Rule in Tennessee
Rhea County, Tenn., made headlines a couple weeks ago when it sought to pass laws to arrest the county’s homosexual residents and run them out of town. Ex-gay activists saw the news, and found an opportunity to promote a kinder,…
In an April 8 news release, Exodus International executive director called upon the “true Body of Christ” — fundamentalists — to sign a petition demanding that ex-gays be included on a Lutheran task force on sexuality:
Exodus International executive director Alan Chambers appears today at a symposium on same-sex marriage at the University of California-Berkeley. The symposium program places Chambers on a panel of “legal scholars, practitioners, and experts exploring the legal and constitutional issues associated…
Exodus Ex-Gays: Outlaw Homosexual Parenting
In an April 16 issue of “Media Spotlights” that contains numerous errors of basic grammar as well as fact, Exodus International says: 1) The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) published a position statement titled, “Homosexual Parenting: Is It Time For…