Religious-right organizations, including the American Family Association and Focus on the Family, launched a media frenzy last week when they criticized a pro-tolerance video starring SpongeBob and numerous other children’s TV cartoon characters. From CNN: "A short step beneath the…
Stephen Bennett
Exgay activist Stephen Bennett will debate whether people can be gay and Christian on PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m. CT/MT. (Bennett says it is impossible.) Other debate participants: Ron Poindexter, who is ex-exgay, and…
Exgay Stephen Bennett to Debate Gay Christians
Exgay activist Stephen Bennett will debate the topic "Gay and Christian" on PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire on Saturday, Dec. 4. Other debate participants: Ron Poindexter, who says God didn’t expect him to give up his sexuality, and Duke Holtz, who…
Here is a press release dated today from Wayne Besen. Author Calls on Ex-Gay Leader to Explain Involvement with Bizarre, Backwoods Demon Deliverance Cult Stephen Bennett’s Association With Demon Group Highlights The Weird Techniques Used By Extremist Ex-Gay Leaders, Says…
Exgay activist Stephen Bennett lent his support Sept. 26 to an Oak Park, Ill., antigay church’s rally against marriage and civil unions for gay couples. He claimed to “love” gay people because he “was once gay,” but he nevertheless supported…
Exgay Ad in Search of a Willing Billboard
An outdoor advertising firm confirmed that it refused to post exgay activist Stephen Bennett’s billboard. The ad, sponsored by the New York Christian Coalition, would have appeared on a state highway in New Paltz, N.Y., just north of New York…
One Quaker’s Thoughts on Ex-gay Stephen Bennett
Joe G. of beppeblog yesterday added his own fresh thoughts on Stephen Bennett’s pro-apocalypse article for the American Family Association.
This morning, Janet Hensley — a volunteer for Stephen Bennett Ministries and an online "researcher" for Yahoo’s exgaydiscussion board — resumed spamming Ex-Gay Watch with a half-dozen posts in a row, all blindly accusing all same-sex attracted individuals of every…
Stephen Bennett defends his hostility to gay parents, their families, and supportive straight parents during his Aug. 7 protest in Provincetown, Mass. Other online coverage: A pro-exgay Yahoo group discusses Stephen Bennett’s antigay protest starting here. One of the group…
Reflections on Gay Family Week in Provincetown
Paul E. Keith wrote about Stephen Bennett’s demonstration in Provincetown, Mass., over the weekend. Since then, Paul has reflected some more, and writes: My original post was concerned, of course, with what I saw in Provincetown on Saturday that was…