From Focus on the Family’s "Family News in Focus" radio broadcast and an accompanying article for March 3, 2005: Magellan Health Services, the largest health care provider in the United States, has dropped Dr. Warren Throckmorton from an advisory panel…
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Focus/Family: ‘Satan Uses’ Equality Activists
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News from Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out” ex-gay road show in Houston, Feb. 19, 2005. From the Galveston Daily News: Bill Maier, child/family psychologist and vice president at Focus on the Family, led a special session on same-sex…
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The faith-based, gay-affirming organization Soulforce is gearing up for a May 1 vigil at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. Soulforce contends that Focus on the Family resorts to numerous untruths against gay and lesbian people and…
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What Did Dobson And SpongeBob Have in Common?
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Religious-right organizations, including the American Family Association and Focus on the Family, launched a media frenzy last week when they criticized a pro-tolerance video starring SpongeBob and numerous other children’s TV cartoon characters. From CNN: "A short step beneath the…
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Mike Haley of Focus on the Family occupies the chairmanship of the Exodus board of directors. His predecessor as Exodus chairman, John Paulk, was also Haley’s predecessor as head of Focus’ antigay political programs. Exodus’ new spokesperson, Julie Neils, was…
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The exgay movement’s small publicity coup in an Asian newspaper appears to be part of a growing effort by the religious right to "prevent" homosexuality and gay rights — not by strengthening the movement’s weak and sometimes scandal-plagued treatment programs,…
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700 Club Profiles Exgay Phillip Tucker
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The 700 Club spotlights the journey of one exgay man, Phillip Tucker. Can a single man’s anecdotes substantiate the exgay political movement’s stereotypes about same-sex-attracted individuals? Tucker tells the television program’s audience that his gay civil union was loveless, but…
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Focus/Family Blends Love Won Out with Politics
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Dan Gonzales wrote last week: The Dec. 2 broadcast of Focus On The Family Radio features the testimony of an ex-lesbian at a Love Won Out conference. The ex-lesbian oddly enough, admits to working for a legislative division of FOTF,…
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Focus/Family Honors Group Accused of Felonies
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Michael Marcavage and his antigay Repent America group await a Dec. 14 hearing on several felony and misdemeanor charges related to their raid against OutFest, a Philadelphia gay street festival. Marcavage has not drawn headlines recently in the Philadelphia newspapers…
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Antigay Protests Against ‘Kinsey’
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I mentioned briefly here that Focus on the Family has been orchestrating a national smear campaign against legendary sexuality researcher Alfred C. Kinsey — and against the new movie Kinsey. The Focus campaign appears to be bearing fruit: Protests are…