I’ve finally read Tanya Erzen’s Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a better understanding of those who are going through ex-gay movements. Erzen spent a year observing…
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AP Reports NARTH’s APA Protest
An AP article reports on the two dozen protesters that NARTH and FOTF shipped in to protest the APA’s position on reorientation. The group, which was sponsored by the conservative ministry Focus on the Family, was protesting what it sees…
Wayne has posted some photos from yesterday’s NARTH/Exodus protest. They’re kind of blurry but I swear that’s Randy “boy wonder” Thomas in the orange. Alan “Batman” Chambers doesn’t appear in the pics. In case you’re wondering why the Batman nicknames,…
Friday Free-For-All
Here’s a chance to do some off-subject commenting. Try to keep it at least somewhat relevant to the site and, as always, follow the guidelines. My random thoughts are after the jump. Be sure to add yours to the Comment…
Wishing Ben Well
For about two years, Ben, a early-20’s guy struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation and his religious faith, blogged on a site called Scattered Words. (Vital Voice interview here) I have not always been generous in my attitude towards Ben…
“For over three decades the consensus of the mental health community has been that homosexuality is not an illness and therefore not in need of a cure. The APA’s concern about the positions espoused by NARTH and so-called conversation therapy…
Texas Ford Dealers Don’t Want Gay Customers
This is a very late response to a letter written on June 23, 2006. The board of the Greater Texas Ford Dealers Advertising Fund which represents 78 Ford Dealers in North Texas has sent a letter to Ford Motor Company…
This press release from Exodus caused me to laugh out loud: Exodus International will join several other national organizations to protest the American Psychological Association’s (APA) increasing political involvement at its national convention this Friday, Aug. 11, in New Orleans….
To Thine Own Self
Michael McManus (not the “marriage-protecting” conservative commentator) discusses in the student newspaper of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, how he stopped being a people-pleasing pushover: I think I realized the severity of my situation when I told my parents I…
Stephen Bennett’s WorldPride Blog
In case you forgot, Stephen Bennett is currently conducting an “outreach” at WorldPride 2006. He’s got a special blog to detail their activities here. I’d be worried if I were Stephen since The Agape (rarely out-done in level of hysteria)…