Two ex-gay ministries from mainline US denominations announced this week that they will be merging with Exodus International. One by One, representing Presbyterian and Reformed Christians, and Transforming Congregations, from the United Methodist Church, will join together to “break the…
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Alan Chambers: Why Should Gays Be Celebrating?
President Barack Obama issued a statement in celebration of the month of June being LGBT Pride Month: “LGBT Americans have made, and continue to make, great and lasting contributions that continue to strengthen the fabric of American society. There are…
Dr. Warren Throckmorton appears to have written an introduction to a series of arguments to counter those put forth by Scott Lively in his book, The Pink Swastika. Scott Lively has made a career of drawing parallels from Nazi Germany…
In Brief: Exodus And the ‘30 Orientations’ Lie
Recently, the addition of “actual or percieved” sexual orientation and gender identity to the federal law concerning hate crimes has come much closer to reality. Attempting to stir fear, many anti-gay groups claim that the term “sexual orientation” will be…
This post deals more heavily with issues of the Christian faith than most. There is some “insider” language as a result. Most readers should be used to the fact that dealing with Exodus intensely means that one will be dealing…
Randy Thomas “wept” at finding out how many are being tortured and murdered abroad because they are attracted to the same sex. I honestly don’t know what to do other than expose it here on the blog and pray for…
This is the phrase the president of Exodus International used in a recent WORLD magazine article to describe his opinion of the recent cluster of victories for marriage equality. Who is being trapped? The gay men and women advocating for…
Why ‘Day of Truth’ Fails All Students
Today, April 17th, is the 13th annual “Day of Silence.” For those unaware, the “Day of Silence” is one day out of the school year when participating students choose to remain silent all day as a protest of the silence…
As reported elsewhere, blogger Glenn Sacks wrote a post about his concerns that an organization such as Christian News Wire would issue bigoted, anti-gay press releases by Peter LaBarbera. Sacks describes his own organization, Fathers & Families, this way: Fathers…
Newspaper: How to Spot a Gay Ugandan
The Observer, a newspaper in Uganda, has written a compendium of suggestions and comments by people there on how to spot a gay Ugandan. No doubt brought about by the heightened negative attitudes towards gays there brought on by a…