Exodus President Alan Chambers told California’s Proposition 8 supporters last month to vote against marriage equality because it would have made it harder for him to be ex-gay. Despite earlier this year vowing that Exodus would stay away from politics,…
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XGW Digest: October 25, 2008
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Fred Phelps’ daughters to participate in a debate over Florida’s Amendment 2. A California blogger confronts a Proposition 8 supporter’s scare tactics. Peter LaBarbera: Banning books is “good parenting.” Coincidentally, he says this even as the push to get ex-gay…
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Wife Divorces Ex-Gay Activist Greg Quinlan
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Ex-gay activist Greg Quinlan’s wife of three years, Cheryl Quinlan, appears to have received a decree of divorce in May of 2007, having filed the initial complaint seventeen months earlier. XGW readers will recognize Greg from a recent incident involving…
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XGW Digest: October 17, 2008
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Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern still sees homosexuals as a greater threat to the United States than terrorists. A new poll shows that 53% of Connecticut voters support the state supreme court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. The Our Family Matters…
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In a press release full of risible exaggerations, PFOX’s Regina Griggs has claimed that ex-gays are “the most bullied and maligned group in America,” and complained that “they are not protected by sexual orientation non-discrimination laws.” Calling on presidential candidate…
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XGW Digest: October 10, 2008
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-Connecticut legalizes same-sex marriage. -Bolthouse Farms distances itself from its anti-gay founder. -Via TWO: Talk show host John Selig talks to Wayne Besen about his work fighting ex-gay groups, and ex-gay survivor Brian Nesbitt talks about why he went into…
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As XGW reported last week, Bob Stith, the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) National Strategist for Gender Issues and Exodus speaker, apologized in an email to us for his use of erroneous quotes from noted geneticist Francis Collins. XGW has made…
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UK: The Times Investigates the Ex-Gay Movement
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A British journalist has gone undercover to investigate the ex-gay movement. Lucy Bannerman of The Times (London) spent a week at an Exodus retreat at the LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Centre, North Carolina, an experience she dubbed “six days of evangelism…
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Evergreen International bills itself as “the most complete resource for Latter-day Saints on same-sex attraction.” As one of the larger ex-gay organizations after Exodus International, a number of familiar names in that arena hail from Evergreen. Outgoing NARTH President Dean…
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XGW Digest: October 4, 2008
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-Ecuador extends civil unions to same-sex couples. -Truth Wins Out continues its battle to reverse James Dobson’s inclusion in the Radio Hall of Fame. -Fundamentalist Christians blame gays and lesbians and the overall sexual culture of America for the current economic…