A British journalist has gone undercover to investigate the ex-gay movement. Lucy Bannerman of The Times (London) spent a week at an Exodus retreat at the LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Centre, North Carolina, an experience she dubbed “six days of evangelism…
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Evergreen International bills itself as “the most complete resource for Latter-day Saints on same-sex attraction.” As one of the larger ex-gay organizations after Exodus International, a number of familiar names in that arena hail from Evergreen. Outgoing NARTH President Dean…
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Falwell Church Member Launches Ex-Gay Website
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A member of the church pastored by the late Reverend Jerry Falwell has launched a website offering advice to homosexuals who want to find “healing from same-sex attraction.” Debbie Thurman of Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, VA, has set up…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGGDJhO1HnE David Pickup appears in the next to the last frame — this is only a preview. David Pickup, as reported in the previous post, is on staff with Jayson Grave’s Healing for the Soul, described as a private counseling…
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Ex-gay therapist David Pickup has told the American Psychological Association that he practices “reorientation … therapy,” despite claiming on his website that what he offers is “not therapy.” XGW has already reported on Pickup’s bizarre testimony, which centers on his…
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‘Doctor Who’ Actor Meets Ex-Gay Preacher
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Gay actor John Barrowman met with an ex-gay during the filming of a BBC documentary about the origins of homosexuality. The British-American entertainer, best-known to international audiences as Captain Jack Harkness in the the sci-fi serial Doctor Who (and its…
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By now, regular readers of Ex-Gay Watch will know of the controversy surrounding homophobic remarks made by Iris Robinson, a Member of UK Parliament. Robinson, a health spokesperson and wife of Northern Ireland’s First Minister, said that homosexuality was “vile,”…
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Of course she will – and does – deny it is hate, but doesn’t everyone who hates? Those who oppose and discriminate against gays and lesbians may be quite sincere, and it never looks from the inside like they’re doing…
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The psychiatrist Northern Ireland MP Iris Robinson claimed could turn homosexuals straight has been named as Dr Paul Miller, who trained under the notorious Richard Cohen. Exodus International cut its ties with Cohen following a series of embarrassing TV appearances…
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[Updated 06/07/08] Northern Ireland politician Iris Robinson, a Democratic Unionist Member of UK Parliament, has provoked criticism by recommending ex-gay therapy, claiming that she has met people who have “turned around and become heterosexual.” The Spokesman [sic] for Health, Youth…