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Subtitle: A Biblical and compassionate response to same-sex attraction. Main authors and editors: Joe Dallas, Nancy Heche. Part 1, Part 2 This book is an anti-gay training manual. A veritable bible on how to be the best anti-gay Christian you can be. There are a list of key points at the end of each chapter, […]
Tough-talking Pentecostal Dr Michael Brown is the latest Christian leader to be added to Love Won Out’s roster of conference speakers. In this article, we profile Dr Brown, and ask whether the ex-gay movement’s newest friend might only drag it deeper into “culture wars”. Who is Brown? Brown is an Old Testament scholar, a revivalist, […]
Francis Schaeffer is a name that commands automatic respect in most evangelical circles. His book, How Shall We Then Live?, and its companion video series, have been credited as the primary catalysts that led to the formation of the religious right and the politicization of the evangelical church. Now, however, Schaeffer’s son Frank (an evangelical […]
Reprinted with permission from the SPLC: Intelligence Report Rev. Gregory Daniels By Brentin Mock CHICAGO — The Rev. Gregory Daniels walks into the South Side’s famous Dixie Kitchen restaurant wearing a full-length chocolate mink coat and glass frames the icy blue color of toothpaste gel. He knows why he’s been asked for an interview and […]
I’ve been encouraged to share personal narratives about what I’ve learned from ex-gay therapy/ministry. While I’ve never experienced being ex-gay personally, my unique perspective affords me a great deal of “inside” anecdotal information that could be valuable to folks on any side of the issues surrounding ex-gay therapy/ministry. I hope that folks who read XGW […]
“Its statements routinely outrage gay-rights activists. But two commentaries posted online in recent months by members of NARTH’s scientific advisory committee have raised concerns among its closest allies as well.” –Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, October 15, 2006 It took a while, but what was first documented at XGW made it to the […]
Eleventh Avenue South has a picture of the Minnesota “Family” Council using exgay activist Janet Boynes to decorate its booth at a March 21 antigay rally. Ex-Gay Watch is curious to know how, exactly, Boynes believes she is helping same-sex-attracted persons — or anyone else — by promoting discrimination.
According to his online testimony, Anthony Falzarano was molested by an older brother at age 12. He became a male prostitute, eventually catering to closeted antigay conservatives such as Roy Cohn. On the basis of his years of prostitution and anonymous sex, Falzarano claims to understand “gay living.” Falzarano founded Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays […]
British gay human rights group OutRage is criticizing London mayor Ken Livingstone criticism, after the mayor thanked the anti-gay Islamic StraightWay Foundation for supporting his embrace of antigay cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi. In addition to promoting al-Qaradawi, the Islamic exgay group defends fatwas, of “scholars” and Islamic political parties, that advocate the death penalty for public […]
Revised Mar. 23, 2005 Earlier this month, American Family Association propaganda service AgapePress profiled James Hartline, an HIV-positive exgay activist. Hartline claimed to be battling "taxpayer-funded gay bathhouses" in San Diego, but AgapePress offered no substantiation for the accusation. As portrayed by AgapePress, Hartline seems to have nothing balanced or constructive to say about gay […]
Regan Talley DuCasse says:
NO!!! NO NO NO NO!!!! Oh no....
Paul Douglas says:
Yep. All they need is one book, hodge-podge/ mish-mash of nonsense...
William Cohen says:
Religious academics apparently cite one version of the Bible as if...
Mike Airhart says:
In my opinion: To claim to know God's will, and to...
Brian says:
As to the "Transgender people are rejecting God’s will" point. How...