The Rev. Steven Baines is an elder in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In a commentary published Jan. 26 at Advocate.com, Baines cites former exgay activist and author John Paulk as one of five high-profile scandals among antigay activists…
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Unrepentant Sins of an Antigay Advocate
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The following is my message to antigay activist Bernie Dehler (email, web) regarding his unrepentant sins, which became the subject of this unrelated discussion of Jerry Falwell’s misrepresentations about exgays.
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From Wayne Besen: Press ReleaseTuesday, Dec. 6, 2005 AFA’s Video Features ‘Ex-Gay’ Leader Caught In HIV Scandal, Says Wayne Besen NEW YORK – Author Wayne Besen called on The American Family Association today to immediately stop selling a video featuring…
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From Walter Olson at Overlawyered.com: The Pat Robertson-founded American Center for Law and Justice is ostensibly a religious-right nonprofit legal-advocacy organization. But Tony Mauro of Legal Times reports that Jay Sekulow, head of ACLJ, has “feathered his nest” with perks…
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World’s First Exgay Penguin?
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Fox News reports on the splitting of famous gay penguins Silo and Roy at New York’s Central Park Zoo. Apparently, Silo left Roy for Scrappy, an exotic SeaWorld girl who’s never had chicks. Fox references an article [not free] from…
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I recently discovered the following decade-old story and thought it should be added to our records at XGW. Quoted text is from a 1999 broadcast of PRI’s This American Life. Numbers indicate location of quotes in the broadcast. In 1988…
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Tennessee Counselor Turns Domestic Partner
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The Tennessean reports on a woman whose reparative therapy counselor became a “friend” and then a domestic partner to a woman attempting to change her orientation. “Shortly after I went to them, Phyllis Garrison became my friend and said she…
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In March 1994, according to this second-hand source, a Santa Rosa, Calif., gay periodical called We The People published an article written by someone named Dennis Anderson. The article profiled ex-exgay Tom Ottosen, who alleged that he heard Love In…
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Reacting to Scandal, PFOX Changes the Subject
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In a March 18 op-ed in The Washington Blade, aggrieved-parents group PFOX responds publicly to the disclosure (months ago) that its president, Richard Cohen, had been expelled from the American Counseling Association for ethical violations in 2002. Speaking for PFOX,…
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Exgay Leader Comments on Swaggart Death Threat
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After 12 days of silence about the subject, Exodus president Alan Chambers on Sept. 24 criticized Jimmy Swaggart’s Sept. 12 death threat against gay people. The emphatically antifeminist Chambers borrows (strangely enough) from the same line of thought as profeminist…