Allan Johnson wrote to Ex-Gay Watch with an update to the original post that appeared on this page. I have deleted the earlier comments, simply because they were based on older information. Allan Johnson is working on a documentary series…
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700 Club Implies Former NFL Player Is Ex-gay
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Former NFL player Roy Simmons came out as gay in 1992. (Google search.) After disappearing from the public eye for a decade, he now tells The 700 Club that he lived out a prolonged nightmare of childhood molestation, drugs, prostitution,…
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What Did Dobson And SpongeBob Have in Common?
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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…
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700 Club Profiles Exgay Phillip Tucker
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The 700 Club spotlights the journey of one exgay man, Phillip Tucker. Can a single man’s anecdotes substantiate the exgay political movement’s stereotypes about same-sex-attracted individuals? Tucker tells the television program’s audience that his gay civil union was loveless, but…
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Administrative Note: TV Ban Against UCC Ad
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Rather than post fresh entries here, since this issue is off-topic, I am directing interested people to UCC seminarian Chuck Currie’s weblog for updates, as the controversy gets bigger by the day.
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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…
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Religious Right’s Awkward Christmas Boycotts
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Dan Gonzales wrote last Friday with an update on the American Family Association and Concerned Women for America. Knight, of CWFA, claims three times in an AFA/AgapePress release that the United Way is supporting "pro-homosexual groups" but Knight does not…
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Media Refuse Gay-inclusive Religious Ads
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CBS, NBC, and UPN Major broadcast TV networks have refused to run an uncontroversial Christian ad campaign that emphasizes the United Church of Christ’s welcome to all people, including gays. (The ad has been accepted by a handful of cable…
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Nice But Irrelevant: Exgays Exist
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Prof. Warren Throckmorton and TownHall.com editor Ryan Zempel want antiliberalists to know that exgays exist. According to Zempel, Throckmorton’s exgay video I Do Exist demonstrates “that change is possible for those with same-sex attractions.” Change is always possible, Zempel implies;…
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Ex-gay Assesses C.S. Lewis, Freud
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Randy Thomas reviews a PBS program, The Question of God, about the perspectives of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud on science and religion. In part two of his review, Thomas says of science: Nutshell: Scientific worldview will always be incomplete…