In a March 18 op-ed in The Washington Blade, aggrieved-parents group PFOX responds publicly to the disclosure (months ago) that its president, Richard Cohen, had been expelled from the American Counseling Association for ethical violations in 2002. Speaking for PFOX,…
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Throckmorton Interviews Mrs. SpongeBob
Pro-exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton "interviews" Mrs. SpongeBob. Throckmorton joins James Dobson in accusing the We Are Family Foundation, without substantiation, of promoting "gay rights causes." (Previous XGW coverage.) Not that XGW thinks there’s anything wrong with including gay people in…
From Focus on the Family’s "Family News in Focus" radio broadcast and an accompanying article for March 3, 2005: Magellan Health Services, the largest health care provider in the United States, has dropped Dr. Warren Throckmorton from an advisory panel…
In correspondence published in January 2005 by Teach The Facts, the professional American Counseling Association said it found merit in six specific ethical-misconduct charges against ex-gay activist Richard Cohen. ACA said it approved the charges, which were sufficient for membership…
Exgay Trackback Spam
A few weeks back, I got fed up with Scattered Words’ repeated insertion of duplicate trackbacks, or links to Scattered Words, into pages at Ex-Gay Watch. I eventually went back and deleted Scattered Words’ old link insertions on XGW pages….
In a Feb. 15 American Family Association article that is reprinted as a Feb. 18 press release, exgay umbrella group Exodus accuses unnamed "homosexual activists" of intolerance toward Focus on the Family’s "Love Won Out" exgay road show this weekend….
A member of Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley’s exgay restoration team sang backup on a song Dolly Parton recorded a few years back, when he worked for her at Dollywood in eastern Tennessee. Parton has since given that song, Sugar…
David Fishback, chairman of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education’s Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development, responds in the Washington area’s new Examiner newspaper to exgay movement claims against the school district’s comprehensive sex-ed curriculum. The…
Alan Keyes Sets Bad Example for Antigay Parents
Some 69 times, the web site of exgay movement marketer and financier Focus on the Family promotes antigay politician and commentator Alan Keyes. So did this cached page from exgay activist Stephen’s Bennett’s web site — until someone very recently…
Demand for Virginia Schools to Showcase Ex-gays
In suburban Virginia, the Fairfax County school board censured Stephen M. Hunt for using his authority as a board member to pressure principals into inviting ex-gays into the district’s classrooms. Highlights in the media: DCist summarizes. 365gay.com, Feb. 3: School…