A UCLA study recently suggested that a mother’s genes may play a contributing role in their sons’ sexual orientation. (Previous XGW coverage.) Exgay movement pundit Prof. Warren Throckmorton responds to the study here. Teach The Facts critiques Prof. Throckmorton’s analysis…
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As Ex-Gay Watch has frequently noted, since late 2004 Exodus has periodically praised antigay activists who are euphemistically labeled the “Philadelphia 11.” The Philadelphia group was the subject of a recent exgay ad campaign. The group’s real name is Repent…
Alan Chambers, Semantics Dancer
Alan Chambers is quite adept at the semantics-dance as evidenced by a recent Exodus press release: “While there are some who may not agree with our message, we ask for their consideration and welcome their presence at this event,” said…
‘Love Won Out’ Parodies
Last weekend’s Love Won Out has set off a rash (relax, it’s a good kind of rash) of infographics but also some people took it beyond the realm of civility and vandalized the Exodus billboard. Mike Tidmus has a pretty…
Read NancyP’s commentary on the Feb. 25 St. Louis vigil at Pam’s House Blend.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch follows up on yesterday’s “Love Won Out” exgay road show. The newspaper counts more than 350 vigilers peacefully protesting the conference from outside. (Previous XGW coverage, including photos by Colleen Keating.) The Post-Dispatch notes that a…
Peter Sprigg is the representative of aggrieved-parents and exgay-lobbying group PFOX on the citizens’ sex-education advisory committee of the Montgomery County school district in suburban Washington. He is also an antigay activist working for the Family Research Council in Washington….
Vigil’s Message to Exgays: ‘Love Needs No Cure’
St. Louis-area gay-equality advocates conducted a peaceful vigil today outside the exgay political road show “Love Won Out,” which is sponsored by Focus on the Family and serves as the primary marketing tool for the exgay umbrella network Exodus International….
Exodus, Proclaiming Freedom To The Straights
After posting my recent open letter to Alan Chambers I was privately contacted by an Exodus staffer regarding my seemingly logical, but incorrect assumption Exodus is trying to minister to gay and lesbian people. I’m not alone in assuming Exodus…
How Being Ex-Gay Made Me Appreciate Fetishes
I have a confession, until Thursday I had failed to properly live out “the homosexual lifestyle.” My gay-card had only been provisional. You see, Thursday I went to The Hollywood Spa. Not that it’s the business of XGW readers but…