The AgapePress is reporting that Dr. Warren Throckmorton has expressed concerns about Richard Cohen and his unorthodox reparative therapy practices. Psychologist Dr. Warren Throckmorton, director of college counseling at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, maintains a blog on sexual identity…
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As reported by the AP: A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position. The document outlines retirement or other discharge policies for service members with physical disabilities, and in a section…
The widely assumed intent of Focus on the Family’s exgay road show, titled “Love Won Out,” is to inspire compassionate conservatism and sexual purity in families and churches that struggle with the issue of sexual orientation. But Joseph Nicolosi’s speech…
Steve Boese of A Tenable Belief attended the antigay/exgay roadshow Love Won Out near Washington, D.C., last weekend. He has written (as of now) three articles about his observations — including the host church facility’s isolation from urban community, the…
Danforth Advises Against Episcopal Divisiveness
John Danforth, Episcopal priest and previous Republican Senator and Ambassador to the United Nations spoke this week to the national convention of the Episcopal Church. The most significant issue being addressed by the denomination is a demand by more conservative…
Friday Tangent: Getting Tested
I loathe having to get tested. I haven’t been ho’ing around and I haven’t even done anything risky since I was tested last but I still dread it. I’m sure many of the gay men who read this know exactly…
Writer Eve Tushnet is a conservative Roman Catholic. Tushnet, whose article on the exgay roadshow Love Won Out appeared at National Review Online today, accepts church teaching that sexual expression is — to oversimplify just a bit — reserved for…
Exgay Thoughts
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with local journalist Eve Tushnet, for her article on the ex-gay movement, for National Review Online. The article is up, and you can read more about Eve’s reaction to the…
Wayne Besen is reporting the following email reply from Alan Chambers of Exodus International concerning the recent posts by DL Foster. I just emailed DL and asked him to retract his statement and to apologize. There is plenty we can…
An article by Rita Price in the Columbus Dispatch is either a very clever swipe at the ex-gay movement or an unintentionally hilarious sincere effort at reporting. A few of my favorite quotes are: “Don’t tell me that I have…