65gay.com reported Dec. 28: San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer … has told the city it cannot include arguments countering the assertions made by conservative groups opposing same-sex marriage that gays can be cured and that children are…
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Last week I discussed the Exodus media blog’s distortion of hate-crimes statistics — and its unapologetic republication of violent threats against gay people. On Friday, Exodus blogger Nancy Brown — speaking for the organization on its main web site —…
BigFib.com Parodies PeopleCanChange.com
BigFib reports that People Can Change has launched two websites: MostPeopleChangeBack.com and ChristiansCanChange.com I wish! The world could use some exgay activists who are broad-minded and honest enough to launch such sites.
Sfweekly.com lampoons a trio of Northern California ex-gay ministries. One group helps parents reinforce their own stereotypes about “the gay lifestyle” that they imagine their adult children to be living. Group leader Carol has no qualifications in counseling or medicine,…
Testing BlogJet
I have installed an interesting blog client for Windows — BlogJet. Let’s give it a whirl….
Gay Adolescence: Does Your Gay Age Match Your Chronological Age? By Joe Kort, MSW Ex-gays love to point the finger at lesbians and gays "bad behavior" and state that acting out behavior such as promiscuity, being overly vocal about being…
Exodus regularly tells gay people to closet their sexuality, and suggests that to do otherwise lacks sexual and spiritual integrity. But for the church trial of lesbian United Methodist minister Beth Stroud, Exodus changes its definition of integrity. In a…
Blame Ex-exgays for Exgay Therapy Failures?
Important update, May 8, 2005: Read here. In Southern Voice (Dec. 10), Gareth Fenley comments on the exgay video "I Do Exist," developed by Warren Throckmorton. A showing was hosted by exgay activist Darryl L. Foster in Atlanta earlier this…
Around the Block: Exgays in the News
Focus on the Family cheers killers’ change of story in Matthew Shepard murder (Dec. 6) Focus’ press release, misquoting Katie Couric, is here. AgapePress helps Gary Bauer hop on the ABC/religious-right bandwagon promoting leniency and sympathy for Shepard’s killers. Pat…
Holiday Ripoff? Phantom Rebates At Roxio
Easy Media Creator 7 burns music, movies and data onto CDs and DVDs. I use it to back up data from my computer. The software works well for me. Unfortunately, the company’s outsourced $20 rebate program appears to be a…