In his early movie, Bananas, Woody Allen’s character Fielding Mellish complains: This trial is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. The vocabulary has…
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Exodus International‘s executive director, Alan Chambers, writes a personal blog titled Just Think! Encourage it in others. Demand it of yourself. In an entry yesterday, he blames an undefined “Gay Elite” for: Hijacking “a legitimate civil rights triumph with their…
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Ex-Gays And the (Right-Wing) Morning News
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Oliver Griswold of The Morning News did for 30 days what some ex-gay activists do for their entire adult lives: Live solely on an all-reactionary media diet. The results were as toxic as a McDonald’s super-size meal.
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The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability monitors the financial integrity of evangelical Christian ministries on an annual basis. Christianity Today notes this week that ECFA’s standards are a bit rudimentary: Participating charitable ministries, for example, are permitted to pay most…
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Ex-gay activist Stephen Bennett enthusiastically promotes his antigay CD as a joint project with World Net Daily. As it happens, the current issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report cites World Net Daily’s role in the publication of…
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Greg Valiga notes a Media Matters survey finding that “a plurality of the American electorate has concluded that conservatives have the most power and influence in today’s media.” The survey also finds a plurality of Americans who say the media…
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Ex-Gay Spokesman Pans Sexual Abuse in Iraq
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U.S. military intelligence officials broadly and systematically authorized or tolerated abuse against Iraqi detainees. That much is made clear by the International Committee of the Red Cross — and corroborated by detainees and scapegoated soldiers and contractors who were involved…
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Last year Stephen Bennett Ministries (SBM) chartered a bus and took 30 Christians from Connecticut to evangelize gays and lesbians vacationing in Provincetown, MA for four hours. “Several” more folks from out of state joined Bennett there. Six hundred gift…
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Toronto Star reporter David Graham reports from the Love Won Out conference over the weekend, comparing and contrasting it with his experience as a voluntary electric shock aversion therapy patient 30 years ago. Analysis coming up.
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Ex-gay and antigay movement leaders see profit in the battle against marriage and civil unions for gay couples. As Stephen Bennett sees the situation, one way to make money from cultural anger, fear, and hate is to host and sell…