Exodus president Alan Chambers has just notified members that Alan Medinger has passed away. Medinger was once himself executive director of Exodus International, and president of ex-gay ministry Regeneration. Medinger was an established figure in ex-gay circles. He authored the…
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XGW Digest: June 26, 2010
-The Texas Republican Party calls for the criminalization of same-sex marriage and the reinstatement of sodomy laws. -Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker marches in Boston’s gay pride parade. -The Obama Administration announces plans to extend family and medical leave…
American evangelical leader Lou Engle has confirmed his support for the leaders who drafted Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. Engle, whose TheCall conference in Uganda promoted the bill that would spell execution for gays and their supporters, told Sarah Posner of…
XGW Digest: June 19, 2010
-Two US Marines are arrested in Savannah, GA for beating up a gay man. -California’s Fair Political Practices Commission fines the Mormon church for failing to report all of its non-monetary contributions to the Prop 8 campaign. -The mayor of…
Ugandan MP David Bahati was “ecstatic” that American evangelical leader Lou Engle supported his Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, according to journalist Jeff Sharlet. The bill, which would effectively make homosexuality – and “aiding” homosexuality – a capital offense, was promoted heavily…
Abortion, suicide, homosexuality, addiction, child slavery…Christ is the only hope for this depravity. Looking over the Exodus Freedom Conference website (archive), this quote really jumps out. It’s from a band called Take No Glory (the members call themselves musicianaries). Exodus…
XGW Digest: June 12, 2010
-A new study reconfirms that children raised by lesbian parents fare as well children raised by opposite sex couples, and possibly better. -Oklahoma City councilman Brian Walters votes against approving a gay pride event, comparing gays to pedophiles. -Malawi couple…
As noted by Evan Hurst at Truth Wins Out, the following is the Declaration of Causes of Texas’s secession from the Union in the prelude to the American Civil War: In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good…
Fifteen months to the day since I wrote this post summarizing the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Conference, Exodus President Alan Chambers has written his own acknowledgment of how badly he and his organization screwed up. First things first, I was personally lax…
XGW Digest: June 5, 2010
-Randy Roberts Potts, gay grandson of televangelist Oral Roberts, shares about growing up in his grandfather’s shadow. -Local activists successfully stage two gay pride demonstrations in Moscow. -Malawi couple Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga are pardoned and released, but warned…