Alan Chambers just doesn’t get it. The Exodus International President expects gays and lesbians to be moved by his words of compassion, but any gay or lesbian who knows their worth will hear only patronizing and insulting condescension in his…
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XGW Digest: November 6, 2010
-Taiwan LGBT Pride hosts the largest pride parade ever held in Asia. -University of Michigan student Chris Armstrong files an ethics complaint against his anti-gay stalker, MI Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell. -The Family Research Council campaigns against a pro-life…
XGW Digest: October 30, 2010
-Irish voters may be on the verge of electing a gay president. -A gay man teams up with the former skinhead who once attacked him to fight bullying in schools. -NOM’s latest bus tour flops in Iowa. -South Korea’s Human…
XGW Digest: October 23, 2010
-The ACLU files a lawsuit on behalf of a Mississippi corrections officer who was fired for being gay. -Pop singer Justin Bieber joins the fight against anti-gay bullying. -The Pentagon instructs military recruiters to begin accepting gay applicants. -Maggie Gallagher…
XGW Digest: October 16, 2010
-A group of thugs in the Bronx abduct and torture two teens and a man for being gay. -Serbia’s pride parade is marred by anti-gay violence. -Another gay teenager commits suicide. -New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino makes blatantly anti-gay…
National Coming Out Day
In honor of National Coming Out Day, here’s a beautiful essay by Peggy Campolo that meant a lot to me when I first read it: In God’s House There Are Many Closets.
Evangelical leader Tony Campolo addressed an audience in Oakville, Ontario, on Saturday, telling them that the “absent father” theory of homosexuality was “the dumbest thing I ever heard.” Citing statistics on single-parent families, he added that, if the theory were…
Arthur Goldberg, the ex-gay leader exposed earlier this year as a convicted Wall Street felon, will speak at a conference in Northern Ireland in November. Arthur Abba Goldberg was jailed in 1989 after being convicted of fraud. He later founded…
XGW Digest: October 9, 2010
-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan calls for an end to bullying. -Andrew Sullivan ponders the possibility of a major homophobic backlash. -Johannesburg Pride draws attention to the plight of LGBT individuals in Africa. -The National Organization for Marriage launches a…
New Direction, the Ontario-based Christian ministry known to Ex-Gay Watch readers for its 2009 break with Exodus International, will host Relevant Engagement this weekend, with guest speaker Tony Campolo, the evangelical speaker and University of Pennsylvania sociologist. The event will be…