From Peterson Toscano: Having experienced victory, aspiring ex-gay minister “Marvin” now voices hesitation about joining the world’s largest ex-gay organization. Marvin asks: Does a local spiritual ex-gay ministry need to be entangled in Exodus psychology and politics? What are the…
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From Barry Goldwater via Wikipedia via Andrew Sullivan: “On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can…
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Open Forum: Your Favorite Exgay Blogs
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Tell us about exgay blogs that dare to think outside the box of the political religious right.
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Lobbyist Randy Thomas complains on the Exodus blog that, at the Family Research Council’s misnamed “Liberty Sunday” event last weekend, a reporter for the Boston Herald chuckled at the label “ex-gay” and refused to receive ex-gay materials or interview ex-gay…
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The leadership at Exodus seems to have come up with a bizarre and totally unsubstantiated new talking-point claiming “most” gay people don’t care much for the work of gay-rights groups. In Exodus’ book “God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door”…
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Exodus board member Phil Burress is the president of Ohio’s misnamed Citizens for Community Values, which identifies itself as “Officially Associated with Focus on the Family and Family Research Council as a Family Policy Council in Ohio.” According to the…
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“God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door” is a new book written by several senior leaders at Exodus International. On page 115: Stand up for gay people. The church and conservative Christianity hasn’t been a safe, welcoming place for homosexuals….
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Transglobal Ethnic Profiling At Exodus
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From Wayne Besen, Sept. 27: The ex-gay group Exodus International got into the ethnic profiling game this week by claiming Thai students become hookers because of “materialism.” “College students in Bangkok become prostitutes to earn money to buy brand name…
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Last weekend at a Family Research Council event — a gathering of politicians and religious power-seekers that was misnamed “Liberty Sunday” — Bishop Wellington Boone fantasized about the “rape of the civil rights movement” by people of faith who dare…
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Dobson’s Quest for Power
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As if to prove Dick Armey right, James Dobson is scrambling to shore up his own power in the Republican Party. Speaking in Tennessee, Dobson asked his Christian audience to put the Mark Foley scandal behind them, and to vote…