Aggrieved-relatives group PFOX has launched an exgay billboard on Interstate 64 near Richmond, Va. The billboard, an enlarged and repurposed version of its 2003 Washington, D.C., subway ad, declares that “Ex-Gays prove that change is possible.”
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Reggae stars Beenie Man and Capleton and televangelist Jimmy Swaggart have all made front-page news with death threats against gay people. While independent and conservative Christians have condemned the threats, exgays and the religious-right media remain eerily silent. Addendum: Hugo…
Conservative gay law professor and columnist Dale Carpenter debated gay marriage with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family on Sept. 16 at the University of Minnesota. While providing support to Focus on the Family’s exgay “Love Won Out” road…
Exgay Ad in Search of a Willing Billboard
An outdoor advertising firm confirmed that it refused to post exgay activist Stephen Bennett’s billboard. The ad, sponsored by the New York Christian Coalition, would have appeared on a state highway in New Paltz, N.Y., just north of New York…
Exodus president Alan Chambers participated in a Sept. 19 antimarriage simulcast sponsored by the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the Southern Baptist Convention. The simulcast was part of the religious-right alliance’s We…
From Daily Kos via Chuck Currie and others: BlogActive, Raw Story and Hustler magazine (ugh) have apparently outed antigay Republican Rep. David Dreier of California. I’m not happy with with the warfare that has consumed the nation’s political scene. I…
Joe Carter at The Evangelical Outpost launched a “gay gene” discussion that satirically touches upon the difficulties facing heterosexual couples when one partner suddenly identifies as gay. Some of the commenters appear reasonably balanced in perspective; others adhere to the…
Ex-Gay Watch: In the News, Sept. 14, 2004
Hugo Schwyzer and his commenters thoughtfully analyze the Barna Research Group’s findings on high divorce rates among born-again Christians. A three-time divorcee and religious convert, Hugo adds his personal experience, and compares the ease of his divorces with the difficulty…
The Face of Gay Americans
By Joe Kort, MSW Originally published in the Detroit Jewish News, September 2004 I am a Gay American too, just like New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey who came out as one in July, 2004. And for two days I…