Daniel A. Crane of Yeshiva University writes in Christianity Today that giving the government increased authority over marriage may seriously harm the family: “If the church not only abets but actively furthers the notion that marriage owes its legitimacy to…
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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…
Exgay youth advocate Chad W. Thompson wrote a Sept. 1 article for Christianity Today, declaring “Banning Gay Marriage Is Not The Answer.”
Gay Blogger to Kerry Supporters: Wake Up!
Patrick Connors is guest blogging at the Gay American blog. Like XGW, he is becoming unhappy with John Kerry. It is the will of the politicians — local and federal — that prevent us from having our Constitutional protections. We…
Jason Kuznicki of Positive Liberty sums it up, adding that single parents are starting to turn against Bush.
A couple weeks ago, Christianity Today reported that Focus on the Family is blurring the line between its tax-deductible operations and its partisan political advocacy for Republican candidates. The magazine noted that the two operations share the same staff members,…
Exodus Ad: Question Homosexuality
Exodus International has launched an ad campaign starting with a full page in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Headlined, “I Questioned Homosexuality,” its theme is also reflected in a new entry page to the Exodus website titled “Question Homosexuality… Change is possible….
The Congressional Budget Office said gay marriage would, on the whole, benefit U.S. taxpayers. The Family Research Council responded, as Scott Lewis notes, with non sequiturs.
Ex-Gay Anne Paulk: Who Owns Traditional Values?
In a June 1 op-ed column in The Oregonian (Portland), Exodus board member, author and Focus on the Family associate Anne Paulk reacts to an earlier LA Times column by Max Boot. (Free subscriptions required.) Paulk does not directly address…
Exodus Double-Speak on Gay Marriage
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…