Eric at Classical Values wonders whether the ever-growing role of government — driven by conservatives and feminists — is helping to crush marriages and families.
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Gay Teens And Marriage: XGW Responds to Ex-Gay
I have responded on Exodus executive director Alan Chambers’ blog to his public complaint against the Boston Globe. In case he deletes my response, here is a copy. [To Alan Chambers:] Your readers should read the Boston Globe article for…
Exodus leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas testified in Massachusetts last year, encouraging lawmakers to outlaw gay marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships. According to the Boston Phoenix, their efforts inspired a Massachusetts ex-gay, Larry Houston, to make weekly visits…
Exodus Director Mystified By Gay Teen Couples
On his personal blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers shares his letter to the Boston Globe, responding to a Jan. 20 article (archive fee required) about monogamous gay teen-age couples’ aspirations for getting married someday. Chambers accuses the Boston Globe…
On his personal blog yesterday, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers reprinted, without criticism, a press release by the Liberty Counsel, an organization that files lawsuits around the nation in favor of antigay discrimination and sodomy laws with harsh sentencing. (Previous…
Citizen Outreach has launched a web site, Leave Marriage to the States, at lawfullywedded.com. The site consists of conservative voices — many of them antigay — that oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment because, they say, the amendment undermines states’ rights….
Why Ex-Gays Must Oppose Gay Couples?
In the Jan. 23 issue of Spotlights, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers attempts to explain why Exodus lobbies ex-gays and Christians to discriminate — and to promote government-mandated discrimination — against gay couples: Had same-sex marriage been legal in 1990…
Continuing the selective morality discussion: Froma Harrop of The Providence Journal wrote an excellent commentary Nov. 26 on the extremely high divorce rate among Bible Belt Christians — 73 percent in Mississippi, she says; 79 percent in Oklahoma. (Those numbers…
Ex-Gay Greg Quinlan Warns Against Gay Marriage
Pro-Family Network is a Dayton, Ohio-based project of ex-gay activist Gregory Quinlan, who periodically uses ConservativePetitions.com to promote antigay political measures. ConservativePetitions.com collects $1.95 for each fax sent by an individual to lawmakers — and $3,000 from organizations having a…
C.S. Lewis on Marriage Protection
From Mere Christianity, Chapter 16: Before leaving the question of divorce, I should like to distinguish two things which are very often confused. The Christian conception of marriage is one: the other is the quite different question — how far…