-The city of Phoenix, AZ launches a domestic partner registry. -Jonathan Rowe examines one of the religious right’s ‘secular’ arguments against homosexuality. -The Hawaii House of Representatives passes a civil unions bill. -The son of megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes is…
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Guest Post: Little Boy Lost
Johannah, frequently pen-named “Ephilei,” is a genderqueer and self-labeled liberal-orthodox Christian who recently started TransChristians.org and faithful reader of XGW. The public intersection of Christianity and transgenderism is quite small, so I’ve kept tabs easily and I have to scrounge…
XGW Digest: February 6, 2009
-U.S. President Barack Obama asks for a study of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy. -Matt Barber commends Nigeria for its stance on imprisoning gays, people who attend gay weddings, and others who “aid and abet” gays in any…
Randy Thomas has clarified his personal “change” yet again. Because “ex-gay” organizations like Exodus International (of which Randy is the Vice President) have been closely publicly scrutinized in the last few years, their public facade has changed considerably. For one…
Another major ministry has left the network of Exodus International. New Direction, an Exodus member ministry led by Wendy Gritter in Canada, has just announced on their blog that they will not be renewing their membership. At the same time,…
Ex-Gay Song Sparks Row In Italy
Ex-gay Giuseppe Povia, who hails from Milan, wrote and performed the song “Luca Was Gay” that is currently in the running for the best song award at the yearly Sanremo Music Festival to be held next month in Italy. He…
XGW Digest: January 31, 2009
-Rev. Mel White, founder of Soulforce, and his son are one of the teams on the new season of The Amazing Race. -California’s Fourth District Court of Appeals rules that private schools can discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation….
Last Sunday evening, during the Lifetime broadcast of Prayers for Bobby, Exodus Vice President Randy Thomas was (in his own words) wasting 96 minutes of his life watching Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading. Since then he has written about…
Check this post if you are unfamiliar with the Grey Zone. If Nicolosi’s theory is correct, he and Stanton should probably not be sitting so close on that couch.
Staunch ex-gay Stephen Bennett has apparently moved to yet another work-from-home project. While Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper may have spoiled the grand opening, the cache still shows the details of the now locked page. More can be seen below…