The San Diego Union-Tribune has a story about Michelle Williams, an Academy Award nominee for Brokeback Mountain. The principle of her childhood school decided Michelle needed some tough love: Not so proud is Santa Fe Christian headmaster Jim Hopson. “We…
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Queer Quotable
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“You can’t promote homosexuality. You only can acknowledge it.”[*] Garrett J. McAuliffe, Professor, Old Dominion University. McAuliffe produced the DVD, Counseling Gay and Lesbian Youth, designed to help people who for counsel gay teens.
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Marvin Olasky’s World Magazine has taken to attacking the United Methodist Church for simply allowing the gay-friendly Methodist group, Reconciling Congregations, to use its facilities. Apparently because Reconciling Congregations holds a differing opinion on one spiritual matter WORLD Magazine deems…
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Exodus Cancels Tolerant Speaker
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According to his online calendar, Jay Bakker’s speech to the 2005 Exodus “Freedom” conference has been canceled. (Hat tip: XGW commenter Sarah.) Exodus has not acknowledged the cancellation on its own conference calendar, however. As I see the situation, Bakker’s…
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According to David More, editor of QNotes, Jay Bakker (son of Jim and Tammy Faye) is threading a religious and political needle by agreeing to an upcoming speech at the Exodus annual antigay conference in Asheville, N.C. QNotes quotes a…
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Falwell, Purported Victim to Speak for Exodus
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Exodus, the exgay political network, may be drifting toward the particular fringe of Christianity represented by Jerry Falwell. In fact, Falwell is a Featured Speaker at Exodus’ annual conference, scheduled for July 19-23 in Asheville, N.C. Falwell was a longtime…
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Alert reader Timothy brought my attention to a very ugly article published at the Agapepress today regarding events last December. (As if the fundamentalist media recycling favorite anecdotes as news is uncommon…) The article is about local parent David Williams…
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Los Angeles Pride is this weekend June 10-12 and the parade grand marshall is… Paris Hilton. No, I’m not kidding. Here’s some pride related history for you. In 1975 the president of Christopher Street West, the organization which founded Los…
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My XGW Agenda
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In case anyone is curious, I’d like to fill you in on how I came to be an XGW contributor. It actually started with a negative review I wrote of XGW over at my own blog, questioning the notion that…
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Are Exgay Groups Ever Worthy of Support?
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Jackie asked: Suppose Exodus changed their beliefs to be in line with what you described. But suppose that they continue to assert that "SOME people can and do change their orientation to certain degrees, and we would like to help…