Updated July 10, 2005: I discarded many antispam restrictions on July 8, and I hope that commenting is becoming easier. The tradeoff is that I will probably discontinue “trackbacks” — the feature that you may see on some XGW pages,…
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As regular readers know, in the past year Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) has (quite literally) cashed in on a new pet cause: the religious right’s battle to withhold knowledge of safe, secondary alternatives to abstinence from sexually active…
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PFOX Claims It’s Tolerant
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Richard Cohen, M.A. President, PFOX July 6, 2005 Statement to the Montgomery County Board of Education (Statement on behalf of a broader campaign with the religious-right Liberty Counsel, Warren Throckmorton, and a local group of religious conservatives opposed to comprehensive,…
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Insurances DO Pay for Reparative Therapy!
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Insurances DO pay for Reparative Therapy! by Joe Kort, MSW I was recently asked how psychotherapists get paid for providing Reparative Therapy (RT) if most mental health organizations have identified it as an unethical and harmful form of treatment. The…
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Alan Chambers Infographic [Click To View Full Size Version]
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Question of Bias in MSNBC Coverage of Exgays
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Updated July 4, 2005 Two recent articles at MSNBC.com offer fairly well-written primers on recent exgay activism — though, in sticking to the basic issues, the articles are kinder to both exgay and pro-equality activists than is, perhaps, deserved. Two…
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In the same Washington Blade article as the post below, Warren Throckmorton weights in on the risk of unlicensed programs such as Love In Action which combine ministry and “treatment.” (Tenn. opens new probe of ‘ex-gay’ facility, Washington Blade, by…
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Review of “Bullying Prevention Information: Resources for Schools” by Warren Throckmorton, June 2005. In a personal email from Prof. Throckmorton to myself dated June 27th, he stated this package was among the material presented at last weekend’s PFOX education conference…
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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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Update: Throckmorton emailed me this same evening with the material presented. He directed me to www.respectandthefacts.com. I’ll have a look in the next day or so. “This weekend PFOX will be presenting materials and methods designed to protect all students…