The UK evangelical ministry Courage lent its support to a new anti-discrimination campaign this past weekend. Courage began in 1988 as an ex-gay ministry, but announced it was gay-affirming in 2001. Now the pioneering organisation is among the supporters of…
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Open Forum: The Ninety-Nine And the One
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“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds…
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From Florida comes an article that flew under the gaydar here at Ex-Gay Watch, but the Miami New Times piece, published last July, is still worth noting. In Scared Straight, Joanne Green profiles Worthy Creations, the Fort Lauderdale-based ex-gay ministry…
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When I learned of the following ad from Right Wing Watch, I was immediately disgusted at the advertisers. And so were two ex-gay activists. The ad, for a San Francisco S&M fair for glbt and heterosexual people, did not target…
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Ex-gay and ex-transexual Sy Rogers speaks at Hillsong Church, Australia, this week. The controversial Sydney Pentecostal church has titled the seminar Sense and Sexuality. Although publicity makes no mention of homosexuality, Hillsong is apparently no stranger to ex-gay therapy. A…
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Christianity Thinly Veiled At JONAH
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How “Greenberg” is my valley? You would think that an organization as professedly Jewish as JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality) wouldn’t need any help from the Goyim. You thought wrong. (“Goyim,” by the way, means “Nations” in Hebrew,…
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Something’s Fishy At JONAH
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Many people, even those involved in countering the ex-gay movement, have probably never heard of JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality). In a field that is dominated by Evangelical Christianity, JONAH seems to stand alone as the only ex-gay…
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The Spirit of the Law
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As I’ve discussed here before, strict adherence to the letter of the law can produce odd results. By reducing the Bible to a rulebook, we run the risk of either binding ourselves to all sorts of regulations that have no…
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Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality (JONAH) appears to stand alone as the only Jewish ex-gay organization in the country. With a fairly substantial online library, rabbinical commentary, and even an option to read the site in Hebrew, JONAH is…
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Gay Bishop Describes Battle to Become Straight
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In a frank and moving interview last week, the Episcopalian Bishop of New Hampshire talked about his attempts to overcome his homosexuality. The Right Reverend Gene Robinson was ordained bishop in 2004, precipitating a momentous controversy still raging strong today…