A crescendo of voices can be heard at the second floor of a shop lot singing Christian praise and worship songs such as “Lord, I Offer My Life” and “I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever”. Kenny the worship leader,…
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Ted Haggard, the megachurch pastor who abandoned his ministry after the revelation that he had sexual relations with a male prostitute, admits in a new documentary that he “still struggles” with his sexuality. The married father of five stepped down…
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Open Forum: What Is Compassion?
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“Me, homophobic? Ridiculous. I love my homosexual friends.” –Pat Boone, following his recent editorial comparing gay demonstrators to the Mumbai terrorists. “It isn’t just that we believe gay marriage is bad for Christians, the culture at large, etc. But it…
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Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out is countering anti-gay prejudice by publishing a full-page advertisement in the Salt Lake Tribune today. The ad is a response to last week’s New York Times ad sponsored by No Mob Veto, which used…
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The Dutch Government is giving public money to ex-gay groups in the Netherlands. RefoAnders received 84,000 euros (about $108,000), while Onze Weg received 50,000 euros ($65,000). Dutch newspaper De Pers accused the organizations of supporting reparative therapy to try to…
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XGW Bookshelf: Thou Shalt Not Love
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As a young gay man steeped in the evangelical subculture, Patrick Chapman grew up feeling deeply conflicted about his sexual orientation. As so many individuals in his situation do, he poured much of his time and energy (and a decade…
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The British LGBT charity Stonewall has awarded politician Iris Robinson the title of “Bigot of the Year” after she publicly denounced homosexuality as “disgusting, nauseous, loathsome, shamefully wicked and vile.” The MP also told the British Parliament that “sodomy” was…
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Exodus President Alan Chambers told California’s Proposition 8 supporters last month to vote against marriage equality because it would have made it harder for him to be ex-gay. Despite earlier this year vowing that Exodus would stay away from politics,…
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Ex-gay leader John Smid, who resigned from the controversial ex-gay ministry Love in Action in March, is now leading a new ministry from an office in or near his home church in Germantown, TN. The specific nature of Grace Rivers…
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As XGW reported last week, Bob Stith, the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) National Strategist for Gender Issues and Exodus speaker, apologized in an email to us for his use of erroneous quotes from noted geneticist Francis Collins. XGW has made…