People often come to realizations about themselves — as well as changes in their perspective — as they approach middle age. What happens when someone develops serious doubts about their sexual orientation, especially as they approach midlife? Must they be…
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The Pew Research Center released a poll yesterday correlating attitudes toward homosexual persons with religious affiliation. The poll data reflect an apparent backlash: opposition to gay marriage among evangelical Protestants has risen nine percentage points, from 71 percent to 80…
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Rich Blinne summarizes the findings of the recent study of sexual “identity” reported by Reuters.
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From Exodus News: The Exodus subheadline reads, “Media spin reaches new pseudo-scientific heights.” But the spin isn’t coming from the media; it comes first from the scientists. With this minor miscue, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas and executive director Alan Chambers…
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Spitzer Study I: A Micro Target
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Dr. Robert Spitzer’s study of 200 self-identified former homosexuals is back in the news. The Archives of Sexual Behavior, the official journal of the International Academy of Sex Research, published it, along with 26 peer reviews and a response from…
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Religious Scientists on Homosexuality
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Courtesy of Rich Blinne, the American Scientific Affiliation, a somewhat diverse range of articles on homosexuality by scientists who are Christian. This is mainly a note to myself for the moment.
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In yesterday’s Exodus commentary on reparative therapy, spokesman Randy Thomas appears unwilling to read or accurately summarize the literature that he cites — so he issues strawman arguments about homosexuals and the media instead. World-renowned researcher Dr. Robert L. Spitzer…
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Mike Haley, chairman of the board of Exodus International and a spokesman for Focus on the Family, fumed at CBS Aug. 21 for “The Amazing Race,” a show that had the gall to include among its contestants a gay couple…
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Exodus: Failures Not So “Minute”
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Alan Chambers spoke to Orlando Weekly reporter Jeffrey Billman: By Chambers’ estimate, only 30 percent of those who seek to switch orientations succeed. Fifty percent abandon the program. The other 20 percent, he says, go back and forth. “I would…
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Groups Cook the Books on Gay Domestic Violence
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In March 2001, Gary Glenn of the American Family Association of Michigan declared that upwards of 50 percent of gay relationships are beset by domestic violence — and that, each year, 650,000 incidents of same-sex domestic violence occur. In order…