Very interesting commentary by Bob Griffith: If those of the Christian Religious Right are looking expectantly for the second coming of Christ as vindication [against their enemies], they should take the prophetic admonishment of Amos to heart. I’m studying for…
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Presbyterian Speaks on Ex-Gay Therapy
Cleveland K. Evans, Ph.D, developed an overview of research involving ex-gay sexual conversion therapy. This summary might prove handy the next time one hears an activist vaguely referencing scientific studies about sexuality in order to justify a political viewpoint. Critique…
California Domestic Partnership
Exodus sister organization Focus on the Family urges Californians to contact their legislators to stop a domestic partnership bill. The bill would give partnerships rights and responsibilities comparable to civil marriage. Focus on the Family provides contact information for key…
Philadelphia Boy Scouts
Focus on the Family and Concerned Women for America oppose local autonomy for Boy Scout councils, such as one in Philadelphia that professes tolerance of gay scouts or troop leaders. …What’s most troubling to [Peter LaBarbera of CWFA] is the…
Anti-Islamic Double Standard
Exodus ally Focus on the Family and Gary Bauer warn that the term “Judeo-Christian” is under assault from Muslim groups. “The country was built on Judeo-Christian values, and Islamic values in many, many ways are inconsistent with the very ideals…
‘FRC Criticizes ‘Amazing Race’
Wherever CWFA’s Robert Knight treads, other religious right groups usually follow.
Fund-Raising for Ex-Gays Via Gay Days
The Virginia-based Family Policy Network says it will “turn ‘Gay Days’ into ‘Hope Days.’” Sponsors needed for Christian outreach to homosexuals The press release certainly starts badly, assuming gays aren’t Christian, and implying that they’re going to hell. One also…
Know A Good Comic Strip?
James Asal is an exceptional comic-strip artist. Adam and Andy finds light humor in ordinary gay life. I’ve looked around, and I’ve yet to find an ex-gay comic-strip artist, someone who finds nonthreatening humor in ex-gay life. Know of an…
‘Married’ Gays on CBS
Submitted by an Ex-Gay Watch reader: WorldNetDaily, a religious-right publication edited by Joseph Farah, and Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America are teaming up against the appearance on CBS of a gay couple that calls itself married. Publicity for…
‘You Don’t Have to Change’?
This is something that gays have never heard clearly from Exodus. Exodus and its religious right allies declare, “You can change.” But in the presence of discriminatory laws, and the absence of any declaration of tolerance, what the public hears…