-Ann Coulter’s firefight with religious right activists angry at her for agreeing to speak at a GOProud event escalates. -LGBT demonstrators face off against supporters of anti-gay Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez in Guadalajara, Mexico. -Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for…
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The California Senate approved a bill to end a law passed in 1950 that classifies gays as sexual deviants and potential child molesters. The 60-year-old piece of legislation requires the Department of Mental Health to research the causes and potential…
Minutes ago, Exodus President Alan Chambers announced the following on the organizations Facebook page: Dear friends, please pray for us at Exodus. We have experienced an unexpectedly low giving season this summer coupled with much higher expenses (insurance, utilities, etc)….
XGW Digest: August 21, 2010
-NOM’s sparsely attended “Summer For Marriage” tour concludes in Washington, DC. -Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach reaches an agreement in federal court over his discharge under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. -Mexico’s Supreme Court rules that same-sex couples in Mexico City have…
A right-wing Christian group in Hong Kong has published a 52-page booklet condemning homosexuals and promoting reparative therapy to change sexual orientation. The Society for Truth and Light has drawn heavily from the anti-gay National Association for Research and Therapy…
XGW Digest: August 14, 2010
-Attorney David Boies takes on Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins on Face the Nation. -Stephen Colbert weighs in on the Prop 8 ruling. -Mexico’s Supreme Court rules that Mexico City’s marriage equality law is constitutional. -The anti-gay “Truth Academy” flops….
A recent case involving the dismissal of a graduate student studying counseling at the Augusta State University in Georgia has Religious Right media outlets in a spin. The student is Jennifer Keeton, who was enrolled in the Counselor Education Program…
XGW Digest: August 6, 2010
-Focus on the Family lays off another 110 employees. -Chilean Senator Fulvio Rossi announces plans to introduce a same-sex marriage bill. -NOM’s summer tour meets with more tepid responses in Des Moines and Sioux City, IA. -Bishop Harry Jackson claims…
It hasn’t been an easy year for JONAH. First, their co-founder Arthur “Abba” Goldberg was outed as a convicted felon. Then, a scandal broke about how two young Orthodox Jewish men were engaged in bizarre, naked therapy wherein it was…
Dozens of Orthodox Rabbis have signed a statement of principles expressing support for the inclusion of gay Jews in their community, but still rejecting complete acceptance of same-sex partnering and marriage. One particular point stands out: 5. Whatever the origin…