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• ‘Social Issues Santa’ Is Coming To Town!

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 569
  (Weekly Column) Earlier this week, extremists within the Republican Party proposed a 10-point checklist of principles that GOP candidates would have to sign if they expect to receive Party support. Like a deranged “Social Issues Santa”, the enforcers of doctrine are descending in their sleighs ...
  2 days ago

• Jenkins gets full custody

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 662
  In 2000, Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins entered a civil union in Vermont. In 2002, Isabella Ruth Miller-Jenkins was born and the family shortly thereafter moved to Vermont to raise little Elizabeth Isabella in an environment that would be supportive of her family. In the fall of 2003 the couple broke up. They agreed ...
  4 days ago

• The New GLBT Pope Problem

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 569
  (Weekly Column) It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of liberalism, modernity and basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Rome has eagerly jumped with both feet into America’s ...
  4 days ago

• Is one better than two? Love Won Out and Exodus merge

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 569
  It was announced that both “ex-gay” organizations Love Won Out and Exodus will merge, which begs the question, is one better than two? Love Won Out is the brain child of right wing evangelical “leader” James Dobson. Dobson has a long history of over thirty years of anti-gay rhetoric, which started in 1977 ...
  6 days ago

• Reflections on the Churches and Pastoral Outreach to Gay Persons in Light of the Ex-Gay Movement

  
  Bilgrimage — Authority: 427
  Michael Bayly’s Wild Reed blog has a good posting yesterday on the “ex-gay” or reparative therapy movement, which has a Catholic component, Courage. This is one in a series of excellent analyses of this movement Michael has posted on his blog. I’d like to comment on this topic in light of my recent ...
  1 week ago

• Catholic Church is Promoting Discredited "Ex-gay" Therapies

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 150
  Since it took the Roman Catholic Church centuries to formally acknowledge its error in maintaining that the universe revolved around the Earth, I guess I should not be surprised that the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is continuing to promote fraudulent "ex-gay" therapies to gay ...
  1 week ago

• Roundup of stuff the Old Media probably won’t tell you

  
  4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters — Authority: 429
  Cash for Grades? That controversial “cash for grades” fund raiser at a North Carolina middle school didn’t last too long. After the scheme to award extra points on tests for $20 appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer, Wayne County district officials today killed the Rosewood Middle School fund raiser. ...
  1 week ago

• Western Tribune column November 11, 2009, Gay kids get a break

  
  Bessemer Opinions — Authority: 420
  Western Tribune November 11, 2009 Gay and lesbian teens in our community may finally be getting a break this fall. Over the past few days several events took place which offer hope to gay youth and their families. Two religion based groups, Focus on the Family and Exodus International returned to Birmingham with ...
  2 weeks ago

• (Still Gay) "Ex-Gay" Preacher Donnie McClurkin Calls Gays "Vampires"

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 720
  Donnie McClurkin, the supposedly "ex-gay" preacher that has been spotted having intimate dinners with "flamboyant" young men in quiet Manhattan restaurants, appeared at the Church of God In Christs youth conference in Memphis to babble in tongues and call gays "vampires" (among other lovely things). Take it away Rod ...
  2 weeks ago

• Christian Pastors v. Christian Pastors: Birminghams Ex-Gay Showdown

  
  Queerty — Authority: 734
  A Christian pastor throwing down against other Christians that "hijack" the word of God to discriminate against gays? Loves it. CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Ex-Gay , Ex-Gays , Focus On The Family , J.R. Finney , Love Won Out , Religion
  2 weeks ago

• Diverse Friends

  
  Adventures of a Christian Collegian — Authority: 93
  Sorry I have been fairly silent recently. This is basically my final semester of college courses, since next semester I will be student teaching, which is basically the same thing as being a full-time teacher in terms of hours, just without pay. Im getting ready for all of that, and Im also finishing my Senior English ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pastor Joey Faust invites gays to the protest in FW

  
  Instant Tea — Authority: 627
  Pastor Joey Faust of Kingdom Baptist Church I just received an e-mail from Pastor Joey Faust with this title: “Fundamentalists invite more homosexuals to their own advertised protest.” I am not sure if Pastor Faust is inviting LGBT people to the protest planned by LGBT people outside the Fort Worth City Hall ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vote tomorrow, and fall bloomers

  
  Bessemer Opinions — Authority: 420
  The protest against Love Won Out was a huge success. Read here what went on inside, and outside the conference. There is hope for the children who were forced to attend. Be sure to vote tomorrow, for Claire Mitchell for district 56 representative. Shes a champion for education as well as entrepreneurship. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alabama Hosts Convention Of Still Completely Homosexual "Ex-Gays"

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 720
  Focus On The Familys final "ex-gay" conference is being held in Birmingham this weekend, where anti-"ex-gay" activist Wayne Besen spoke at the University of Alabama to expose the myths and dangers of their "pray away the gay" campaign. Embroiled in financial difficulties and layoffs, Focus of the Family has handed ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Pernicious "Choice Myth" and "Change Myth"

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 150
  Two of the key elements utilized by Christianist enemies of gay equality are the myths that (1) sexual orientation is a "lifestyle" choice as opposed to an immutable aspects of GLBT individuals and (2) gays can "change" their sexual orientation and become heterosexual if they but want to. These myths bolster the ...
  2 weeks ago

• My Prayer

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 662
  This weekend Focus on the Family will host their final Love Won Out ex-gay dog and pony show before washing their hands of the movement and turning it over to Exodus International. And, knowing that there will be the usual protest, Exodus Youth Director Randy Thomas is calling for prayer . I (Randy) won’t ...
  3 weeks ago

• Focus on the Family makes another attempt to peddle its quack ‘cure’ for gays

  
  The Freethinker — Authority: 522
  TOMORROW sees yet another attempt by a bunch of featherbrained Christian fundies to convince America (and no doubt the rest of the world) that homosexuality is “a lifestyle choice” which, through the power of Jesus, can be “cured”. The event, at the Metropolitan Church of God in Birmingham, Alabama, is being ...
  3 weeks ago

• Last nights victories

  
  Bessemer Opinions — Authority: 420
  One might expect me to be down this morning, with equality voted down in Maine yesterday. But Im not. One thing you learn when fighting for equality, is to look ahead, not behind. There were certainly victories yesterday that progressives and democrats and GLBT can celebrate. Chapel Hill, NC has a gay mayor. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Around town, in DC and Besen at UAB

  
  Bessemer Opinions — Authority: 420
  Around Town For several days I have driven by this trash can in my neighborhood with the words "Help Keep Our City Clean" on the side. The garbage trucks have picked up garbage in this neighborhood at least twice with the corner looking this way. Im just saying... Downtown, at the corner of Fourth Avenue North ...
  3 weeks ago

• Evolving in Monkey Town

  
  Existential Punk — Authority: 455
  My dear friend, Rachel Held Evans, has her first book coming out next year. She was kind enough to interview me for the book and i made the final cut! i am honored and wish to share the details of...
  3 weeks ago

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