An Ex-Gay Watch reader found this item on Yahoo’s exgaydiscussionboard group. Someone there had asked whether an ex-gay should “minister” to gays at a gay pride festival. The response: I would say that an ex-gay better be fully equipped with…
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Foley’s Privacy
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Nick at morons.org defends Rep. Mark Foley’s right to privacy, which seems to have been violated by both the Christian Coalition and Florida Democrats in a column by Bob Norman of the New Times of Broward-Palm Beach. A supporter of…
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Antigay Dems, Progay GOP?
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From today’s Orlando Sentinel: U.S. Senate candidate and Florida GOP congressman Mark Foley blames unnamed Democrats for circulating a rumor in the media that he is gay. Foley’s legislative record has earned high ratings from gay-rights groups, and negative ratings…
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Freedom to Lobby
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Thoughts of blogger Bob Griffith on PFOX and Ex-Gay Lobby Days. Thoughtful reading — respectful of the right to lobby, stating that some gay activists engage in “mind-bending justifications,” but disagreeing with PFOX’s use of flawed reasoning to take away…
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PFOX-Approved Racial Strife
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Regina Griggs, executive director of PFOX, approvingly shares confused strawman arguments, racial stereotypes, and conspiracy theories about those she claims to minister to. Read about it in her Wednesday night entry on Yahoo’s exgaydiscussionboard. The message archives are open to…
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Overgeneralization
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As often as ex-gay political leaders emulate the anger and the strawman arguments of the religious right, I believe it’s important to avoid overgeneralizing. I have noted over the years (long before this Salon blog) that there are ex-gay ministers…
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Micro-morality
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From an article in today’s Denver Post: “American society is good at focusing on micro-morality but it misses the larger morality,” media historian Robert McChesney said. The quotation is directed at the trendy obsession with fake news at the New…
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From today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution: An African cardinal and leading candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II disrupted a Georgetown University graduation ceremony when he used his commencement speech to mock homosexuals and unmarried couples in the audience. Ironically, the cardinal…
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Exgay Faceoff
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Love Won Out and Love Welcomes All will face off June 21 in Portland, Ore. Love Won Out is a touring political rally organized by Exodus and Focus on the Family. The audiences, numbering several hundred per event, are treated…
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Comparing Moralities
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Focus on the Family publishes a daily newsletter of political propaganda called CitizenLink. CitizenLink is worth a look, if only to observe the organization’s extraordinarily small moral scope — its lack of vision. Eight out of 12 items on Tuesday’s…