# Ex-Gay Watch

> Monitoring the ex-gay movement since 2003.


## Posts

- [Connect the Dots, Ex-Gay Spokesman](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/connect-the-dot/): Randy Thomas is the spokesman for Exodus, but he also operates his own personal blog. In polishing and extending his April 9 mini-reviews of two...
- [Fewer Journalists Say They’re Democrats](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/fewer-journalis/): More from the American Journalist Survey, as reported at Poynter: Compared with 1992, the percentage of full-time journalists who claim to be Democrats has dropped...
- [Journalists Far Better Educated?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/journalists-far/): From the American Journalist Survey at The Poynter Institute: U.S. journalists are much more likely to have earned college degrees than the overall adult population...
- [Of God, Man And the Oval Office](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/of-god-man-and/): This is an old op-ed — the column appeared Feb. 28 in The Washington Post, and I’ve been busy moving for the past 40 days...
- [Exodus: Gays, Be Noisy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/exodus-gays-be/): The exgay umbrella group Exodus now protests when gays are silent. (Of course, the organization objects when gays speak out, too.) In recent years, the...
- [Exodus: Stop Tolerance in Florida Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/exodus-stop-tol/): Exodus is alarmed at tolerance in Florida. Legislation being considered by a Florida senate panel targets harassment committed in public schools on the basis of...
- [Fox News: Blame the Liberals](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/fox-news-blame/): How would Fox News report the Hindenburg, the JFK and MLK assassinations, the Last Supper?
- [Kernel of Truth About AIDS-Chasers](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/02/kernel-of-truth/): The Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation demands that Rolling Stone magazine publish a lengthy correction of a seriously flawed article on a niche of...
- [Confused News Reports From Ex-Gay Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/02/confused-news-r/): Notes from yesterday’s Exodus news briefing. 1. Regina Griggs, executive director of PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays), misportrays the reasons why station KBYU pulled...
- [Against Violence, But in Favor Of… What](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/02/against-violenc/): An Exodus media spotlight acknowledges and opposes antigay violence in U.S. schools. That’s a good thing; religious-right organizations regularly deny the existence of antigay violence...
- [The Enemy of My Enemy Is… My Enemy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/the-enemy-of-my/): I don’t understand the tendency among some partisans to defend someone only because they claim to be fighting the same enemy. The religious right’s defense...
- [Postscript: Christian Newspaper Revisited](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/postscript-chri/): The Charlotte World interviewed two people: one who, as previously noted, felt homosexuals should not be permitted to use public pools, and another who felt...
- [Christian Newspaper Opposes Gays in Public Pool](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/christian-newsp/): The Charlotte World, a self-described Christian newspaper in Charlotte, N.C., published an article suggesting that a gay group shouldn’t be allowed to use a local...
- [Campus Crusade Official: Parents, Invade Your Coaches’ Sex Lives](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/campus-crusade/): Revised Feb. 16, 2005 The Washington Post ran an article Jan. 24 (2003) depicting the state of affairs in colleges’ recruitment of student athletes. Some...
- [Ties That Bind Some Gays And Christianity](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/ties-that-bind/): When someone asks why gays would be attracted to Christianity, I have to ask: Which Christianity? Which gays? Same-sex-attracted folks who reject their sexual status-quo...
- [Fundamentalism Hurts](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/fundamentalism/): Great stuff from the Real Live Preacher blog: If you want to know about the Taliban, ask an Afghani woman. If you want to know...
- [Celibate But Not Ex-Gay?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/celibate-but-no/): “For religious reasons, I no longer have sex with men and don’t plan to. … Homosexuality is a choice.” –David Bianco, founder of the gay-press...
- [Satan Does Not Assault Ex-Gays; Exodus Assaults Itself](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/satan-does-not/): Randy Thomas is a friendly, good-natured, nonviolent fellow who happens to be a spokesperson for Exodus International. His personal weblog offers a frank view of...
- [Hospitality](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/hospitality/): “I don’t hate you. I just think that you’re being a pervert … God is angry with your kind of moral behavior.” –The Rev. Jerry...
- [Exodus Fights for Discrimination in Orlando](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/exodus-fights-f/): From the Interfaith Working Group: The Orlando City Council passed a non-discrimination ordinance 4-3. As part of its coverage, the Orlando Sentinel published a long...
- [Ex-Gay Ministries Not Incapable of Respect for Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2002/07/ex-gay-ministri/): Ex-gay minister Tom Cole remembers being gaybashed as a child. I was called a fag, a queer, or a sissy. Although I did not fully...
- [A Bit of Narcissism From Exodus Ex-Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2002/07/a-bit-of-narcis/): In its June 13, 2002, press release, the ex-gay network Exodus International reflected on recent meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention: Prayer & Action for...
- [Life Complicated for Gay Mormons](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/life-complicate/): From the Tri Valley Herald of Northern California: Gay Mormon supportive of his faith It’s not easy being a gay Mormon. Just ask Nick Lee....
- [CWFA Passes Judgment on Presbyterians](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/cwfa-passes-jud/): Concerned Women for America labels as “sin advocates” anyone who disagrees with its support for discrimination against gay Presbyterians. CWFA claims it was a bad...
- [Mock, Then Play Victim](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/mock-then-play/): Concerned Women for America joins an African Catholic cardinal in mocking gay graduates and parents at a Georgetown University graduation ceremony. Then CWFA plays the...
- [Knight V. Horowitz, Part VI](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/knight-v-horowi/): If Robert Knight ever calls a truce in his battles against other conservatives, it is not presently apparent. Here is Knight’s latest reiteration of earlier...
- [Socially Conservative Pediatricians](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/socially-conser/): The religious right has formed a small organization of pediatricians who espouse socially conservative, patriotic values. The “American College of Pediatricians” screens its membership according...
- [Ex-Ex-Gay Speeches](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-ex-gay-speec/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas responded June 3 to news that former Exodus ministry leader Jeremy Marks is giving speeches with the gay-affirming group Evangelicals Concerned,...
- [Bombers Not Extremist?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/bombers-not-ext/): The Anti-Defamation League reports that white supremacists, anti-Semites, and clinic bombers are rising in praise of Eric Rudolph. Some of them are vowing to retaliate...
- [Threats to Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/threats-to-marr/): Ken Connor of the Family Research Council today describes his support base as “fellow defenders of family, faith and freedom around the country.” Divorce rates...
- [Which Side Can’t Think Or Listen?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/which-side-cant/): On May 28, I said: Some day perhaps I’ll understand my fascination with attempting to dialogue with folks with limited ability to listen or think...
- [False Fly-Over](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/false-fly-over/): From The Orlando Sentinel: Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has become the first to welcome folks to Gay Days at Disney, saying “I’m the first mayor...
- [Young Gay America](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/young-gay-ameri/): Knight Ridder Newspapers reports on a web site that records a social shift in the journeys of gay youths. Younggayamerica.com features hundreds of stories that...
- [Civil Rights Based on Choice?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/civil-rights-ba/): Ex-Gay Watch reader Rev. D.L. Foster appeared on CWFA radio, discussing his life and his concern that the push for civil rights for gays demeans...
- [Exodus Spokesman’s Battleships](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/exodus-spokesma/): From Randy Thomas’ blog two days ago: At church today Pastor Clark Whitten said “The church needs to get out of the cruise line mentality...
- [Amos And the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/amos-and-the-re/): Very interesting commentary by Bob Griffith: If those of the Christian Religious Right are looking expectantly for the second coming of Christ as vindication [against...
- [Presbyterian Speaks on Ex-Gay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/presbyterian-sp/): Cleveland K. Evans, Ph.D, developed an overview of research involving ex-gay sexual conversion therapy. This summary might prove handy the next time one hears an...
- [California Domestic Partnership](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/california-dome/): Exodus sister organization Focus on the Family urges Californians to contact their legislators to stop a domestic partnership bill. The bill would give partnerships rights...
- [Philadelphia Boy Scouts](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/philadelphia-bo/): Focus on the Family and Concerned Women for America oppose local autonomy for Boy Scout councils, such as one in Philadelphia that professes tolerance of...
- [Anti-Islamic Double Standard](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/anti-islamic-do/): Exodus ally Focus on the Family and Gary Bauer warn that the term “Judeo-Christian” is under assault from Muslim groups. “The country was built on...
- [‘FRC Criticizes ‘Amazing Race’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/frc-criticizes/): Wherever CWFA’s Robert Knight treads, other religious right groups usually follow.
- [Fund-Raising for Ex-Gays Via Gay Days](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/fund-raising-fo/): The Virginia-based Family Policy Network says it will “turn ‘Gay Days’ into ‘Hope Days.'” Sponsors needed for Christian outreach to homosexuals The press release certainly...
- [Know A Good Comic Strip?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/know-a-good-com/): James Asal is an exceptional comic-strip artist. Adam and Andy finds light humor in ordinary gay life. I’ve looked around, and I’ve yet to find...
- [‘Married’ Gays on CBS](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/married-gays-on/): Submitted by an Ex-Gay Watch reader: WorldNetDaily, a religious-right publication edited by Joseph Farah, and Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America are teaming up...
- [‘You Don’t Have to Change’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/you-dont-have-t/): This is something that gays have never heard clearly from Exodus. Exodus and its religious right allies declare, “You can change.” But in the presence...
- [Traditional Values Coalition Needs A Shepherd](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/traditional-val/): An Ex-Gay Watch reader sent me this item from The Washington Post. The article is about the upcoming gay-dating reality show, “Boy Meets Boy”: Among...
- [Concerned Women Vs Horowitz](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/concerned-women/): Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America has added a new chapter to his string of arguments against conservative David Horowitz and other defenders of...
- [Gay Pride Parades](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/gay-pride-parad/): Item 3 on this week’s news release from Exodus seems remarkably balanced, both in its assessment of sexual minorities’ different attitudes toward the parades and...
- [Dizzy Yet? Exodus Spin on Columbine](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/dizzy-yet-exodu/): Item 2 from this week’s Exodus news release protests the Gus Van Sant film Elephant. The film: comes from a gay filmmaker, dramatizes the chronic...
- [Tolerance = War?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/tolerance-war/): Highlights from the response to my note to the ex-gay activist: I was deemed to have a confused notion about genetics vs innate characteristics because...
- [Render Unto Caesar](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/render-unto-cae/): Conservative David Horowitz strikes back against Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America: Render Unto CaesarBy David HorowitzFrontPage magazine Last week, Horowitz criticized the religious...
- [Discussion with An Ex-Gay Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/discussion-with/): Janet is a regular participant on the Ex Gay Discussion Board, where a number of ex-gay ministry leaders discuss the war against homosexuality. When on...
- [FRC Official’s Misstatements on Sodomy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/frc-officials-m/): Robert P. George, board member for the Family Research Council, says Rick Santorum Is Right in the National Review. George starts with a lie —...
- [Ex-Transsexual](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/ex-transsexual/): From the Straits Times, Singapore: The ex-transsexual has thrown the dresses – together with a few skeletons – out of his closet. Religion, he says,...
- [Good Gesture](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/good-gesture/): Pastor D.L. Foster of witnessfortheworld.org wrote last week: Your ideology is truly modern, but over 2,000 years ago Christ said “render to Caesar things that...
- [Mature Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/mature-ministry/): An Ex-Gay Watch reader found this item on Yahoo’s exgaydiscussionboard group. Someone there had asked whether an ex-gay should “minister” to gays at a gay...
- [Foley’s Privacy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/foleys-privacy/): Nick at morons.org defends Rep. Mark Foley’s right to privacy, which seems to have been violated by both the Christian Coalition and Florida Democrats in...
- [Antigay Dems, Progay GOP?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/antigay-dems-pr/): From today’s Orlando Sentinel: U.S. Senate candidate and Florida GOP congressman Mark Foley blames unnamed Democrats for circulating a rumor in the media that he...
- [Freedom to Lobby](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/freedom-to-lobb/): Thoughts of blogger Bob Griffith on PFOX and Ex-Gay Lobby Days. Thoughtful reading — respectful of the right to lobby, stating that some gay activists...
- [PFOX-Approved Racial Strife](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/pfox-approved-r/): Regina Griggs, executive director of PFOX, approvingly shares confused strawman arguments, racial stereotypes, and conspiracy theories about those she claims to minister to. Read about...
- [Overgeneralization](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/overgeneralizat/): As often as ex-gay political leaders emulate the anger and the strawman arguments of the religious right, I believe it’s important to avoid overgeneralizing. I...
- [Micro-morality](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/micro-morality/): From an article in today’s Denver Post: “American society is good at focusing on micro-morality but it misses the larger morality,” media historian Robert McChesney...
- [Mockery?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/mockery/): From today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution: An African cardinal and leading candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II disrupted a Georgetown University graduation ceremony when he used...
- [Religious Right Vs YWCA](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/religious-right-2/): The New York Times reports today on the religious right’s declaration of financial warfare against the Young Women’s Christian Association. The Traditional Values Coalition is...
- [Exgay Faceoff](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exgay-faceoff/): Love Won Out and Love Welcomes All will face off June 21 in Portland, Ore. Love Won Out is a touring political rally organized by...
- [Comparing Moralities](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/comparing-moral/): Focus on the Family publishes a daily newsletter of political propaganda called CitizenLink. CitizenLink is worth a look, if only to observe the organization’s extraordinarily...
- [Conservative Defends Racicot](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/conservative-de/): Invoking the Sermon on the Mount, David Horowitz criticizes Gary Bauer and Paul Weyrich over their threats against Republican Party official Marc Racicot — and...
- [Muslims on Judeo-You-know-what](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/muslims-on-jude/): Last week, I objected to the phrase “Judeo-Christian” as something of an oxymoron and a myth. Since then, Mark O’Keefe of the Religion News Service...
- [Wayne Besen’s Ex-Gay Quotes](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/wayne-besens-ex/): The web site for Besen’s upcoming book offers “Loving Ex-Gay Quotes” suggesting that ex-gay messages are far from loving. I’ve already ordered the book on...
- [Call to Renewal](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/call-to-renewal/): Christian evangelicals nail down an agenda for 2003 and 2004 that focuses on genuine social-morality issues. Of interest to those who are committed to legitimate...
- [Positive Message](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/positive-messag/): From the questions and answers page of the exgay Reconciliation Ministries: What does Reconciliation think of the homosexual? “We must reach out with a clarion...
- [Focus on the Family: Word Game](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/focus-on-the-fa/): Focus on the Family agrees with the Human Rights Campaign: Gays are making progress toward equal rights in localities across the United States. Pro-family activists...
- [Exodus on MSNBC](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-on-msnbc/): Alan Chambers, executive director of Exodus, appeared on MSNBC’s “Buchanan & Press,” co-hosted by Pat Buchanan and Bill Press, last Friday (May 16). Read the...
- [Media Coverage of Ex-Gay Lobby Days](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/media-coverage/): A search of Google News finds only one article about Ex-Gay Lobby Days. The Harvard Crimson reports about Larry Houston, an ex-gay chef who went...
- [Religious Right Protests YWCA](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/religious-right/): The American Family Association accuses the Young Women’s Christian Association of promoting “homosexual indoctrination” and its new leader of promoting teen-age sex-change operations. Before resorting...
- [Defeat in Baghdad?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/defeat-in-baghd/): From the New York Post via Andrew Sullivan: Having won the war in Iraq, the Bush Administration is throwing the victory away. According to a...
- [God And George W. Bush](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/god-and-george/): Bill Keller’s essay in today’s New York Times helps to explain Bush’s response to Sen. Santorum — a response called “tepid” by the Family Research...
- [Listen, Don’t Lie](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/listen-dont-lie/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas repeats his earlier remarks about the ex-gay agenda, in the context of promoting Ex-Gay Lobby Days and an appearance by Exodus...
- [Ex-Gay Lobby Days](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/ex-gay-lobby-da/): PFOX’s key points in its press release today, copied below, are representative of the spin that I’ve been seeing lately from the ex-gay umbrella group...
- [Conservative Tammy Bruce on Sen. Santorum](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/conservative-ta/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas (yes, the ex-gay guy) spoke highly of conservative lesbian author Tammy Bruce. Now Bruce speaks out on Santorum.
- [Focus/Family Again Seeks to Mandate Funding for Boy Scouts](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/focusfamily-aga/): A “news brief” from Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink today: Boy Scout Funding Pulled The United Way of Miami-Dade County has pulled its yearly grant...
- [The Real Gay Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/the-real-gay-ag/): Required reading for aspiring, ex-gay political activists. By Andrew Sullivan.
- [Marvin Olasky’s Muddle](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/marvin-olaskys/): FRC praised Marvin Olasky’s defense of Sen. Santorum. Olasky says: Good politics, good theology, and good constitutional law go together here. Good politics? Santorum made...
- [FRC Opens Fire on Bush Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/frc-opens-fire/): The Family Research Council ratchets up its threats against President Bush’s new 2004 campaign chief, Marc Racicot. In today’s Washington Update, FRC president Ken Connor...
- [Gallup Poll: Recognize Gay Relationships, Majority Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/gallup-poll-rec/): From The Gallup Organization: May 15, 2003Six Out of 10 Americans Say Homosexual Relations Should Be Recognized as Legal But Americans are evenly divided on...
- [Exodus Vague in Defending Discrimination, Slapping ‘Gay Elite’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-vague-in/): Exodus News reports that ex-gays and religious-right activists will visit their congressmen and senators in Washington. They will be exhorting our leaders to hear more...
- [PFOX Right to Privacy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/pfox-right-to-p/): In regard to the PFOX webmaster’s personal web site: Is it appropriate to hold PFOX partly responsible for the public (albeit anonymous) actions of its...
- [Is PFOX Webmaster’s Hateful Parody of Hate, Hateful?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/is-pfox-webmast/): An old acquaintance of mine, Johanna, notes in fairness to the PFOX webmaster that his lengthy 1/10/2002 death threat against homosexuals is a parody or...
- [FRC: White House ‘Gay Strategy’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/frc-white-house/): Ken Connor, president of the Family Research Council, expresses dismay in today’s FRC Washington Update. He’s upset about the meeting of White House senior aides...
- [Sen. Santorum’s Department of Sexual Security](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/sen-santorums-d/): A safer, less private America, by cartoonist Mark Fiore.
- [The ‘Judeo-Christian’ Oxymoron](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/the-judeo-chris/): The term is an offense to many Jews, and a blending of incompatible ethical and spiritual beliefs. Some would argue that this blending amounts to...
- [AFA’s One-World Empire](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/afas-one-world/): From the American Family Association: …Where America’s influence is exerted in the world, we see living standards rise, human rights honored, well-being increased. The question...
- [FRC Threatens Gays Working in Bush White House](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/frc-threatens-g/): AgapePress, a religious-right propaganda service frequently cited by Exodus as a source of accurate Christian news, reports that FRC is pursuing a witchhunt to root...
- [Exodus Steers for PFOX-GOP Shipwreck](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-steers-f/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas says he’s glad that Republican National Committee is going to meet with ex-homosexuals. Does Randy believe that PFOX reflects well on...
- [Ex-Gay Spokesman Likes A Lesbian: Tammy Bruce](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/ex-gay-spokesma/): Randy Thomas, Exodus spokesman, reviews the Tammy Bruce book The Death of Right and Wrong. Surely for an Exodus official to discover diversity in lesbian...
- [PFOX Webmaster’s Violent Web Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/pfox-webmasters/): His online handle is Burning Black Triangle, or BBT for short. BBT is a Straight Pride advocate who has told PFOX’s online support group about...
- [Kerusso Offline](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/kerusso-offline/): For many weeks, the web site for Kerusso Ministries has been offline. Kerusso is a political organization rather than an ex-gay support group. It is...
- [Christian Satire Against Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/christian-satir/): In response to my note about evangelicals who criticized anti-Islamic bigotry among the religious right, Jayelle pointed me to LarkNews.com, a Christian version of The...
- [GOP Snaps Back At Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/gop-snaps-back/): Following a stormy meeting with the leadership of the religious right, senior White House aides conferred with 200 gay Republicans, according to the New York...
- [PFOX to Threaten the GOP?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/pfox-to-threate/): Regina Griggs, executive director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, tried to blackmail Home Depot into making a $3,000 donation to PFOX, after...
- [GOP to Meet with PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/gop-to-meet-wit/): Concerned Women for America reports that Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot will meet with Parents and Friends of Ex-gays and Gays, an organization whose...
- [PFOX Secret Agent](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/pfox-secret-age/): A recent letter to the editor at the Fredericksburg, Va., Free-Lance Star: A recent letter by Cris Elkins seemed to express a phobia of former...
- [Immoderate Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/immoderate-benn/): William Bennett has swung from defending gambling losses of something like a million dollars a year, to a promise of total abstinence from all gambling....
- [Dissenting Evangelicals](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/dissenting-evan/): From AP: …Leading evangelical Christians condemned derogatory statements about Islam by the Rev. Franklin Graham and others among their fellow religious conservatives. They also pledged...
- [Sports Fans At Exodus?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/sports-fans-at/): Denver Rockies reliever Todd Jones stands by his threats last month against gay baseball players. Jones’ original remarks, as reported by The Denver Post: Colorado...
- [Exodus on Hospitality: What New Testament?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-on-hospi/): Exodus News defends churches that kick out not only homosexuals, but anyone else who treats them with Christian hospitality. The defense makes repeated reference to...
- [Exodus Blames the Messenger (Again) Over Santorum](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-blames-t/): Exodus News again blames the media, this time for presenting one side of Sen. Rick Santorum’s meeting with parents. Exodus overlooks the key fact that...
- [Church Expelled for Welcoming Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/church-expelled/): Religion News Service, May 3, 2003 A Southern Baptist church was been expelled from a regional group of churches after its pastor baptized two gay...
- [Exodus: Speaking for God](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-speaking/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas reports: Evelyn Reilly of the Massachusetts Policy Institute invited Alan Chambers and I to share our testimonies as a panel before...
- [Bruce Bawer: In Santorum World, Where Gay Couples Are Illegal](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/bruce-bawer-in/): Conservative American author Bruce Bawer points out how Sen. Rick Santorum [who now has support from Exodus] has sought to make it illegal, wherever possible,...
- [No, Antigays Are Not Nazis](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/no-antigays-are/): But I encourage conservative Christians opposed to privacy to see the movie, “The Pianist,” which depicts the government invasion of privacy and home, followed by...
- [Santorum Claims Right to Privacy for Himself](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/santorum-claims/): Four parents of gay children visited with Sen. Rick Santorum — and Santorum verbally abused them for 30 minutes. More puzzling, Santorum’s office declined to...
- [Why Don’t Gay Crowds Like Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/why-dont-gay-cr/): Randy Thomas, spokesman for Exodus, testified in favor of a ban on gay marriage in Massachusetts. Here’s his account: Dr. Satinover mentioned that homosexuality was...
- [Homeless Christian Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/homeless-christ/): I encounter many ex-gays online who call themselves “born again” and “Christian.” But when they pray aloud, in some cases I do not hear them...
- [Exodus: Mum’s the Word on Adultery](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-mums-the/): Two Exodus officials took the time to fly to Massachusetts and support a ban on marriage. Marriage for gay couples, that is. No word on...
- [Evangelizing Those You Misunderstand](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/evangelizing-th/): A survey of U.S. evangelical leaders finds that they: are grossly misinformed about Islamic beliefs and practices; and are determined to evangelize and convert Muslims...
- [FRC: Bush “Tepid” on Santorum, Sex Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/frc-bush-tepid/): President Bush says he supports Sen. Rick Santorum, but not necessarily Santorum’s verbal attacks on privacy and same-sex couples. — CNN In response, FRC escalates...
- [Exodus: Few Blacks in This Glass House](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/exodus-few-blac/): Exodus News favorably quotes an antigay African-American who’s very upset at gay groups for playing tokenism with racial minorities. Well, some gay groups play that...
- [Exodusism: Ex-Gay Turns Sexual Attraction Into an Ideology](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/exodusism-ex-ga/): From Exodus News, April 23: Christine Sneeringer of Worthy Creations ministry in Fort Lauderdale Florida wrote “All We’re Created to Be” and describes her personal...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Re: Bush Silence on Santorum](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/exodus-ex-gays/): Over the past three days, the Family Research Council has harshly criticized the GOP for not defending Sen. Rick Santorum. It has done so not...
- [Ex-Gay Culture War: Where It’s Not Easter Just Yet](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/ex-gay-culture/): Our Christian traditions tell us that Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead today, victorious over sin that had enslaved humankind. Faithful Christians are thankful...
- [Do Exodus Ex-Gays Support Enforcement of Sodomy Laws Or Not?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/do-exodus-ex-ga/): Is Exodus playing a bit loose with the truth when it says it supports sodomy laws? The possibility does exist. In the legal case Lawrence...
- [Pat Robertson to Supreme Court: Get Sick And Retire](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/pat-robertson-t/): Pray-TV evangelist Pat Robertson is sending prayers of ill will to Supreme Court justices who flout his ill will toward gays and the American right...
- [Town Bullied for Not Discriminating Against Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/town-bullied-fo/): The Florida-based Liberty Counsel, which was an ally of Exodus executive director Alan Chambers in the battle to promote antigay job discrimination in Orlando, is...
- [Exgay Leader Joins with Christian Reconstructionists](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/exgay-leader-jo/): Exodus executive director Alan Chambers will speak at the Center for Reclaiming America’s 2003 political conference.
- [Additional Information on Ex-Gay Coalition](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/additional-info/): Earlier today, Mike A. noted that an ex-gay coalition has launched a web site, PATHinfo.org. At this point, there is no evidence to suggest that...
- [Exgaywatch.com Is Back in Service](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/exgaywatchcom-i/): I was called out of town on emergency business on Monday. Sorry for the absence of new content. New items were added overnight, and more...
- [God to Punish America for Legalizing Sodomy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/god-to-punish-a/): Gary North is one of the leaders of Christian Reconstructionism. In a commentary on the Supreme Court ruling on sodomy laws, he writes: I have...
- [Ex-Gay Statement of Principles](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/ex-gay-statemen/): This web site: P.A.T.H.: Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality reiterates the agenda spelled out by ex-gay organizations who lobbied on Capitol Hill last month. Nice agenda...
- [Ex-Gays to Gays: Get Out of the Military](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/ex-gays-to-gays/): Love Won Out conference organizer Focus on the Family warns ominously that the Supreme Court ruling against sodomy laws may encourage gay servicemembers of the...
- [Does Ex-Gay Therapy Work?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/does-ex-gay-the/): This was passed along by Christopher of Chronotope and safersex.org: Two therapists explain the counterproductive outcomes of reparative therapy. I’ve mentioned periodically that I know...
- [Christian, Jewish Clergy Affirm Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/christian-jewis/): Colorado Christian and Jewish clergy members condemned Colorado’s ban on gay marriage. The clergy will battle an effort led by Colorado U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave...
- [Gay Dating, Straight Marriage: Comparing Apples to Oranges](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/gay-dating-stra/): The Washington Times, Concerned Women for America, and Family Research Council are timid in reporting on the flimsiness of heterosexual relationships. So when a recent...
- [Why Is Gary Bauer Losing the Culture War?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/why-is-gary-bau/): Gary Bauer tells Focus on the Family: Marriage has been, for thousands of years of Judeo-Christian civilization, the uniting of one man and one woman....
- [Finding Obscenity in Sodomy Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/finding-obsceni/): Knight Ridder columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote last week: Five years ago, in an apartment in Houston, an obscene act was committed. And it wasn’t...
- [Taking the Court System Out of Marriage?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/taking-the-cour/): Matt Daniels, president of the Alliance for Marriage, told Fox News’ Brit Hume on June 30: The [Federal Marriage Amendment] says two things. Marriage in...
- [Focus on the Family’s Cheap Marriage Certificates](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/focus-on-the-fa-5/): In a July 2 news brief e-mailed to CitizenLink subscribers, Focus on the Family gripes that the Chicago area has begun to treat gay domestic...
- [Focus on the Family’s Moral Relativism](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/focus-on-the-fa-4/): Claiming that most Americans oppose gay “marriage,” Focus on the Family promotes moral relativism with a definition of marriage based on the whims of public...
- [Vacation](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/vacation/): Remember the Go-Gos song? Vacation All I ever wanted Vacation Had to get away Vacation Meant to be spent alone I’ll be back Sunday night,...
- [GOP’s Frist Follows Democratic Mentors?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/gops-frist-foll/): Democratic Socialist Thomas Scott Tucker has penned the following. When Bill Clinton signed the vindictive Defense of Marriage Act under cover of darkness — I...
- [Frist Faces Opposition Over Federal Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/frist-faces-opp/): Here are some of the organizations that have criticized Senate majority leader Bill Frist for supporting an antigay Federal Marriage Amendment that would undermine states’...
- [Musical Ex-Gays And Churches That Hate](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/musical-ex-gays/): In “Musical Ex-Gays” earlier today, I neglected to note how Chambers meant well. I was referring to his appeal to ultraconservative churches not to damn...
- [Ill.  Church Split Over Gay Music Director’s Firing](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/ill-church-spli/): In Christianity, there are thousands of sins over which a church could perform litmus tests, firing or evicting anyone who fails the test. An Illinois...
- [Churches Need Musical Ex-Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/churches-need-m/): The executive director of Exodus apparently means well. From ReligionJournal: Ex-gays are one of the most gifted groups of people in the areas of creativity...
- [Senate Majority Leader Supports National Ban on Gay Marriages](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/senate-majority/): From KIRO TV, Seattle: Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” [Senate Majority Leader Bill] Frist says he’s concerned that legalizing gay sex could lead to such...
- [New Web Address for Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/new-web-address/): You may now visit us here: www.exgaywatch.com No need to remember a complicated Salon.com address — exgaywatch.com will find this Salon blog for you.
- [Blame the Media? Ex-Gays Can’t Find One Another](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/blame-the-media/): Exodus International and Focus on the Family refuse to say how many ex-gays there are, who they are, or where they are. They offer only...
- [Love Won Out’s Ex-Gays: Still Attracted to Gays, But Celibate — Sometimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/love-won-outs-e/): Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, head of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, reportedly displayed sexism and an insensitivity toward child abuse at the...
- [Sodomy-Law Proponents’ Hypocrisy on States’ Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/sodomy-law-prop/): The organizations listed below have accused the Supreme Court of violating “states’ rights” to set their own policies toward “sodomy.” However, the same organizations favor...
- [Ex-Gay Group Launches African-American Media Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-gay-group-la/): From WitnessForTheWorld.org: Asserting that America’s black gay and lesbian community needs to come home to God, members of a group of African American former homosexuals...
- [Religious Right Obstructs Parents’ Rights Over School T-Shirt](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/religious-right-4/): With her parents’ approval, a lesbian teen-ager in New York wore a T-shirt to school that said “Barbie is a Lesbian.” The school suspended her,...
- [Janet Parshall on Apostasy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/janet-parshall/): According to Agape Press and former Family Research Council spokeswoman Janet Parshall, Christians who dare to disagree with them on such matters as abortion and...
- [Focus on the Family: Doomsday for Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/focus-on-the-fa-3/): Ex-gay movement underwriter and convention organizer Focus on the Family continues to blame “homosexual activists” for broad public opposition to sodomy laws. And it continues...
- [Traditional Values Coalition Battles Transgender Americans](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/traditional-val-2/): The Traditional Values Coalition seems to view unimprisoned gays and the “transgender agenda” as threats to its vision for the United States. Here’s what TVC...
- [FRC Redefines Civil Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-redefines-c/): FRC dictates “The Meaning of Marriage.” Colin Stewart, executive vice president of the Family Research Council, pens a comparison between marriage and Humpty Dumpty. However,...
- [Gay Teenager’s Prison Term Voided](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gay-teenagers-p/): In 2000, 18-year-old Matthew Limon was sentenced to prison in Kansas for having voluntary oral sex with someone three years younger. Both teen-agers were developmentally...
- [NYT Doesn’t Know What A Conservative Is](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/nyt-doesnt-know/): An article in today’s New York Times interviews “conservatives” who are uniformly angry at the Supreme Court ruling against sodomy laws. However, all the interviewees...
- [Ex-Gay Difference of Opinion on Sodomy Ruling](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-gay-differen/): Two top Exodus officials seem to be saying very different things, in reaction to the Supreme Court ruling against Texas’ sodomy law. Mike Airhart offered...
- [Focus on the Family: Sodomy Ruling A Loss for Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/focus-on-the-fa-2/): In a Focus on the Family article, moral conservatives argue that the Supreme Court ruling on sodomy laws is a loss for gay activists. They...
- [White House: No Comment on Sodomy Ruling](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/white-house-no/): Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer, June 26, 2003: QUESTION: And on the Texas sodomy case, does the President believe that gay men have the legal...
- [Salon.com Commentaries on Sodomy Ruling](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/saloncom-commen/): The next war: Bush and the Supreme Court With William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor considering retirement, activists on all sides are preparing for a...
- [Supreme Court Ruling on Sodomy: Activist Quotes Pro And Con](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/supreme-court-r/): Public-domain quotes from the Associated Press: “This is a giant leap forward to a day where we are no longer branded as criminals.” – Ruth...
- [Gays in Military: Sodomy Ruling May Affect ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gays-in-militar/): From Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, June 26, 2003: In 2001, a blue ribbon panel of military law experts called for repeal of the sodomy statute...
- [Episcopalians: No Major Denomination Supported Texas Sodomy Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/episcopalians-n/): From Integrity USA, June 26, 2003: We would point out that no major US Christian denomination supported Texas in this appeal. The days of Christian-supported...
- [Libertarians on Sodomy Ruling: Constitution Restrains Government](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/libertarians-on/): From the Cato Institute: In a 6-3 decision delivered today, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law prohibiting consensual sex between partners of the...
- [Ex-Gays Say Gays Feel Unfairly Singled Out By Sodomy Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-gays-say-gay/): From Exodus, June 26, 2003 Exodus encourages fellow Christians to respond with compassion and reason on this historic turn in public policy regarding homosexuality. While...
- [Joke: Why Do Straight Men Die Earlier?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/joke-why-do-str/): This PowerPoint presentation file asks the question.
- [FRC on Sodomy: Give Us Self-Government on Our Terms Only](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-on-sodomy-g/): From the Family Research Council: By extending legal protections to homosexual behavior, the court majority not only struck down the 1986 precedent in Bowers v....
- [Soulforce: After Sodomy Ruling, Maybe Some More Churches Will See the Light](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/soulforce-after/): From Soulforce, a national interfaith organization: “This is a fantastic day for all people because the Supreme Court has recognized that our government has no...
- [Family Research Council Insults the U.S. Supreme Court](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/family-research/): FRC’s Ken Connor describes the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, including no less than five conservatives, as “judicial activists” and “unelected warriors wearing black...
- [Clarence Thomas: Texas Sodomy Law ‘Uncommonly Silly’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/clarence-thomas/): JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting. I join JUSTICE SCALIA’s dissenting opinion. I write separately to note that the law before the Court today ‘is … uncommonly silly.’...
- [NGLTF: Sodomy Case Showed Sorry State of U.S. Legal Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ngltf-sodomy-ca/): From the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: This court case epitomizes the sorry state of legal rights for gay people in this country. In...
- [Family Pride Coalition: Texas Sodomy Law Obstructed Gay Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/family-pride-co/): From the Family Pride Coalition: “Today, the Supreme Court ruled for fairness for all Americans,” said Aimee Gelnaw, executive director of the Family Pride Coalition....
- [Reform Jews: Sodomy Laws Violate Equal Protection](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/reform-jews-sod/): From the Religious Action Council of Reform Judaism: The Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis are committed to the...
- [Amnesty: Sodomy Laws Violate International Human Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/amnesty-sodomy/): From Amnesty International USA: Even as we celebrate today’s decision we must not forget that some 70 countries still have laws prohibiting homosexual relations and...
- [Americans United: Criminal Law Can’t Be Based On Religious Beliefs](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/americans-unite/): From Americans United for Separation of Church and StateJune 26, 2003 “This decision is a strong reaffirmation of the principles of secular government and personal...
- [Presbyterians: Supreme Court Ruling ‘One More Step Toward Equality’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/presbyterians-s/): From More Light Presbyterians (mlp.org): In the 1960’s all 50 states had sodomy / anti-gay laws. In 1986 when the Hardwick decision was made upholding...
- [Dignity USA: Supreme Court Ruling Promotes Justice, Fairness for All](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/dignity-usa-sup/): Marianne Duddy, Executive Director of DignityUSA: “The best news is that Judeo-Christian values are no longer being used to uphold clearly discriminatory laws.” Duddy also...
- [Agape Press: Supreme Court Exchanges Truth of God for A Lie](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/agape-press-sup/): From Agape Press, a religious-right propaganda service: In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul says men whose “foolish hearts were darkened” exchanged the...
- [Quakers: Ruling Against Sodomy Law Good, But Falls Short](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/quakers-ruling/): From the American Friends Service Committee, June 26, 2003: “We regard this as a victory in the struggle for justice, not only for lesbians, gays,...
- [Falwell: Pedophilia Is Consensual, Too](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/falwell-pedophi/): From Falwell Confidential, June 26, 2003: Mathew Staver, President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel called the [Supreme Court] decision [overturning a Texas sodomy law]...
- [United Church of Christ Favors Ruling Against Sodomy Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/united-church-o/): In a statement released today, the Rev. Michael Schuenemeyer, the church’s Minister for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns and HIV/AIDS Ministry, says, “With the...
- [Texas Sodomy Law Overturned](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/texas-sodomy-la/): CNN offers a report that’s being updated periodically, with details added. The legal aspects of the ruling are discussed today on Fox News Channel’s DaySide...
- [A Bit About Your Ex-Gay Watch Blogger](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/a-bit-about-you/): I should have plenty to report about the Supreme Court ruling tonight. In the meantime, check out this discussion at GayChristian.net. To what extent does...
- [Bulletin! Gay And Ex-Gay Christians Get Along!](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/bulletin-gay-an/): An Ex-Gay Watch reader points out calm, thoughtful discussions among Christian gays and ex-gays at GayChristian.net. The tone of the talk is wonderful to see.
- [Gay Marriage, Conservative Values: Win-Win Scenario](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gay-marriage-co/): Steve Chapman writes an excellent opinion piece in the Chicago Tribune. While I excerpt key points, the whole article is worth reading, even if one...
- [Antigay Flyover Sponsor’s Win-Lose Scenario](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/antigay-flyover/): Scott Lively is the director of Abiding Truth Ministries and its political lobby. ATM is co-sponsoring the antigay flyovers of Gay Days at theme parks...
- [FRC, HRC Duke It Out Over Antigay Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-hrc-duke-it/): On MSNBC’s “Buchanan and Press” on Monday, FRC’s Ken Connor seemed to be unable to move beyond stereotypes about homosexuals as AIDS-ridden sex workers all...
- [Jeffry G. Ford’s Ex-Gay Journey](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/jeffry-g-fords/): He was the head of the Twin Cities ex-gay ministry Outpost, a national speaker for Exodus, and for 10 years a former homosexual. His parents...
- [One-Way Conversation with An Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/one-way-convers/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas recounts a conversation with a gay-tolerant professor. The woman apparently couldn’t stop talking to herself about ex-gays long enough to listen...
- [Hopeforhomosexuals.com: False Advertising?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/hopeforhomosexu/): The Family Policy Network advertises hopeforhomosexuals.com as a place where real ex-gays offer testimonies about the success of “change” in their lives. Yet the ex-gay...
- [FAQ on Antigay Theme-Park Fly-overs](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/faq-on-antigay/): The Family Policy Network has published an FAQ regarding the group’s fly-overs at Gay Days. Q: “Is this a protest?” A: “No. It is merely...
- [Opportunity Missed By Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/opportunity-mis/): Stephen Bennett has posted a transcript of his CNN appearance to his website’s discussion forum. He and Elizabeth Birch of the Human Rights Campaign were...
- [Blundering Toward Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/blundering-towa/): Scholars quoted in The New York Times argue that North America is rushing into gay marriage with far too little public discussion of definition, ethics,...
- [A Ministry of Name-Calling](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/a-ministry-of-n/): The folks at the exgaydiscussionboard frequently exhibit a bad habit. Hobbled by addictions, absolutisms, co-dependencies, and low self-esteem, many of them failed to form healthy...
- [Discrimination Good for Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/discrimination/): As reported by Wayne Besen, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers has promoted discrimination by “Christians” against gays. A new study by the Human Rights Campaign...
- [FRC: Tax the Unmarried](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-tax-the-unm/): I’m catching up here. Earlier this week, the Family Research Council blasted Sen. Bob Graham, presidential candidate. Graham wants to offer federal tax breaks, which...
- [Illogical Analogy to Racism](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/illogical-analo/): The Analogy War’s latest salvo: Task force calls churches to help gays abandon lifestyle “There is no such thing as a gay Christian,” Wilkins said....
- [Religious Freedom](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/religious-freed/): Southern Baptists resolve “to oppose steadfastly all efforts by any court or state legislature to validate or legalize same-sex marriage or other equivalent unions.” And...
- [Freedom of Association](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/freedom-of-asso/): Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice writes in The Washington Post that while conservatives defend freedom of association for the Boy Scouts, they oppose...
- [Canadian ‘Homosexual’ Group Opposes Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/canadian-homose/): From Friday’s Calgary (Alberta) Herald: It is “selfish and rude” for the gay community to push for same-sex marriage legislation and “redefine society’s traditions and...
- [Focus/Family Markets Gay-Marriage Scare](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/focusfamily-mar/): If a conservative three percent of the population were gay, then there would be roughly nine million gay people in the United States. As of...
- [Exodus Targets Churches](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/exodus-targets/): An Exodus press release today declares “Exodus Conference Targets Broader Audience.” Exodus emphasizes its outreach this year to churches; outreach to gays is not mentioned....
- [Ex-Gay Video At So. Baptist Convention](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-gay-video-at/): “The Way Out,” an ex-gay video, was to be presented June 17 by Exodus and Southern Baptist Convention leaders at the SBC convention in Phoenix....
- [FRC Rewrites Rivals’ Agendas](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-rewrites-ri/): The Family Research Council falsely links the “gay agenda” to Hillary Clinton’s support of benefits for heterosexual partners of federal employees. As this National Review...
- [We’re On Vacation, You Don’t Have to Be](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/were-on-vacatio/): Ex-Gay Watch is on leave until Wednesday, June 19, 2003. But you can still participate. Please leave feedback about the blog’s first two months of...
- [Philly Boy Scouts Go Back on Their Word](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/philly-boy-scou/): From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Shortly after enacting a nondiscrimination policy, the Philadelphia Boy Scout council has kicked out a gay scout. Under pressure from the...
- [Focus/Family’s Hometown Gay Pride](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/focusfamilys-ho/): According to The Denver Post, Focus on the Family calls its home city’s support of Gay Pride Week “shameful.” Gay Pride Week is an opportunity...
- [FRC Calls for War to Save Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-calls-for-w/): The Family Research Council expresses outrage at Canadian judges for honoring that nation’s constitution and expanding the pool of marriage candidates. FRC claims that marriage...
- [Exodus, Self-Marginalized on Radio?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/exodus-self-mar/): Alan Chambers will be a guest on the moral-conservative radio show “Janet Parshall’s America.” Parshall is a longtime spokeswoman for the Family Research Council. Her...
- [Principles Behind Ex-Gay Lobby Days](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/principles-behi/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas spells out the “core principles” of Ex-Gay Lobby Days. CHOICE: Many people who experience same-sex attractions choose not to act on...
- [Talking with Stephen Bennett Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/talking-with-st/): Here are the criteria for participation in the discussion forum at Stephen Bennett Ministries. What can get your post/topic deleted? Since we are devoted to...
- [Sullivan on Ontario Gay Marriage Ruling](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/sullivan-on-ont/): Andrew Sullivan comments on the Ontario gay marriage ruling: Gay marriage strengthens straight marriage; and marriage will help integrate gays into society and the family...
- [Antigay Movement Miniscule Among AT&T Shareholders](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/antigay-movemen/): The antigay movement lost its latest battle to encourage antigay discrimination at AT&T. Focus on the Family sought to rally AT&T shareholders to vote for...
- [Ex-Gay Leader Criticizes Gay Tolerance At Avis](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-gay-leader-c/): Exodus board member and Focus on the Family activist Mike Haley thinks Avis should shut up and turn back the clock — way back —...
- [Intolerance for Mormons](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/intolerance-for/): Over at the exgaydiscussionboard, several of the Yahoo group’s most active ex-gay participants are insulting two ex-gay Mormons and threatening them with damnation. I find...
- [Gay Left, Religious Right: Who’s More Wrong?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gay-left-religi/): Steve Miller, neoconservative blogger for the Independent Gay Forum, writes in David Horowitz’s FrontPage magazine: Take the charge hurled by gay activists that the Bush...
- [FRC: Marriage Under Challenge](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-marriage-un/): From the Family Research Council: Speaking on behalf of the Family Research Council, Allan Carlson will deliver a lecture, “Marriage on Trial,” on Capitol Hill...
- [Gay Marriage in Ontario](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gay-marriage-in/): The Ontario high court opinion is here in PDF format. Reuters, June 10, 2003 Toronto Starts Issuing Gay Marriage Licenses CBC Ottawa, June 10, 2003...
- [Religious Right to AT&T: Fire Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/religious-right-3/): Ex-gay movement underwriter Focus on the Family wants AT&T to discriminate against gay employees in the name of “family values.” This week, AT&T shareholders have...
- [Withered Tolerance](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/withered-tolera/): Last weekend, The Gazette in Colorado Springs published an article on tolerance, written by Kamon Simpson. Unfortunately, the article is not online. America is full...
- [Gay Partner Abuse](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gay-partner-abu/): From Salon.com: Abuse and NeglectBy David Tuller Domestic violence occurs as often among gay couples as among hetereosexuals, according to a new study, but victims...
- [Evangelical Ex-Ex-Gay Reflections](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/evangelical-ex/): Christian evangelical ex-ex-gay man Mike Williams offers a testimony of emotional pain, faith and reconciliation toward the ex-gay minister who harmed him as a young...
- [Christians Fighting Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/christians-figh/): A quick reflection: A while back on XGW, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas objected to the expectation that Exodus should publicly criticize its political allies when...
- [Anything But Straight](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/anything-but-st/): Haworth Press set today as the release date for Wayne Besen’s book on the ex-gay movement, “Anything But Straight.” The unveiling will be accompanied by...
- [Exodus Ensnares Itself in Anti-Gay-Marriage Week](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/exodus-ensnares/): In yesterday’s Exodus commentary on reparative therapy, spokesman Randy Thomas appears unwilling to read or accurately summarize the literature that he cites — so he...
- [Focus on the Family Mocks Marriages](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/focus-on-the-fa-8/): Exodus chairman and ex-gay activist Mike Haley runs the antigay politics division of Focus on the Family. Today, Focus reminded its CitizenLink newsletter readers that...
- [Antigay Group Censors Itself](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/antigay-group-c/): This afternoon, Concerned Women for America removed from its web site an article, discussed at XGW here, that described a gay Canadian couple as “domestic...
- [Gays = Terrorists?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/gays-terrorists/): Is it terrorism when a gay couple from Canada wishes simply to cross the border as a couple? Concerned Women for America now labels them...
- [Rumor: John Paulk Criticizes Christian Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/rumor-john-paul/): From a message posted to the Silt blog, and mentioned briefly in comments at XGW some time back: John Paulk called into Mike Signorile’s radio...
- [Conservative Churches Not Growing After All?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/conservative-ch/): “Conservative” Christian church leaders occasionally boast that their churches are growing like gangbusters while so-called “liberal” denominations (mainline and orthodox Christian denominations, or any denomination...
- [Exodus Reflects on Being Associated with KKK](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/exodus-reflects/): Exodus International executed a political stunt in July when it asked an Orlando city councilwoman to proclaim July 21 “Exodus International Day.” When some Orlando...
- [Exodus Spokesman on Freedom of Speech](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/exodus-spokesma-3/): The Exodus national office displayed a selective respect for freedom of speech and self-determination in its news release for Sept. 16. Exodus promotes “freedom from...
- [CWFA Gives Texas Rangers Fans A Bronx Cheer](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/cwfa-gives-texa/): Texas Rangers Gay Day received a modest turnout of gay sports fans — but Concerned Women for America apparently has its cities mixed up: It...
- [Marriage Is…](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/marriage-is/): Anti-gay-marriage advocates commonly portray marriage as unitary and monolithic, capable of being nullified if stretched too far. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), for...
- [Kansas AG Distorts, Misleads, Inflames](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/kansas-ag-disto/): Matthew Limon was convicted of having consensual but criminal sex with a nearly-15-year-old boy when he was 18 and both lived at a group home...
- [Factoid: CBN Rakes In $200 Million](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/factoid-cbn-rak/): The antigay Christian Broadcasting Network/700 Club, which represents only a portion of Pat Robertson’s corporate empire, reported $199 million in income in the year ended...
- [Dr. Dobson Ignores Marriage, Scapegoats Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/dr-dobson-ignor/): Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson writes “from [his] heart” that the institution of marriage is failing. He points out the conditions he...
- [Invisible Ex-Gays in Orlando?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/invisible-ex-ga/): The controversy surrounding Orlando city council member Vicki Vargo’s proclamation of Exodus International Day on July 21 was noted in an earlier Ex-Gay Watch item...
- [Ex-Gay Flyover Ban At Walt Disney World](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-flyover/): Focus on the Family is again flouting national security — and the private-property rights of Disney — as it protests an FAA ban on planes...
- [Ex-Gay Ads And TV Appearances](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-ads-and/): Focus on the Family celebrated on Sept. 12 with the announcement that its lawsuit against a Florida bus company, over ex-gay ads that the company...
- [Ex-Gay Day in Orlando](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-day-in-o/): Orlando gay rights activists are challenging Orlando’s proclamation of July 21 as an official ex-gay day. City Council member Vicki Vargo proclaimed July 21 as...
- [Montana “Christians” on Gay Reality TV](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/montana-christi/): Julie Millam, executive director of the Montana Family Coalition, says “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” should not be on TV: “To me, that’s not...
- [Jesus And Miracles](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/jesus-and-mirac/): Off-topic: Here’s a worthwhile reflection from Joel Sax about Christians’ modern-day, heretical preoccupation with “miracles.” Do some conservative Christians lash out at “paganism” in part...
- [Input Welcome From Ex-Gays’ Family, Friends](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/input-welcome-f/): Reading the life stories any of us write about ourselves, whether gay or ex-gay, family or friend, it’s not always easy to get a sense...
- [Gay Terrorists: Misguided Generalizations](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/gay-terrorists/): 365Gay.com reports a bomb scare at a Lutheran school near Cleveland. It was evacuated after a caller threatened to blow up the school unless the...
- [Ex-Gay Minister’s AIDS-Cure Appeal](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-minister-2/): Previous discussion of this ex-gay ministry. From: “Matthew C. Manning” Reply-To: newsletter@matthewcmanning.com Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 04:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: MatthewCManning.com FREE VIDEO COUPON...
- [Hidden Updates At Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/hidden-updates/): I have added new material to these messages: Queer Eye vs. Shmomosexuals Musician A Possible Role Model for Ex-Gays
- [Prof. Throckmorton’s Stereotypes](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/prof-throckmort/): Warren Throckmorton, an antigay psychology professor at a small Pennsylvania conservative-Christian college, is a prolific writer on behalf of the ex-gay movement. (Google search.) Unfortunately,...
- [Ex-Gay Spokesman’s Lost Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-spokesma-2/): XGW readers have already noticed that Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas discontinued his blog on Aug. 28. Eventually the blog is likely to be purged from...
- [Simply Being, Sans Labels](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/simply-being-sa/): Tom McGeveran names himself a “shmomosexual” and frets over the work of the Fab Five becoming more prominent in public consciousness than that of the...
- [Malaysian Condemns Lipstick Ex-Lesbians](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/malaysian-conde/): Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad reminded the world of how much the Islamic nation of Malaysia dislikes gays. Same-sex acts in Malaysia are punishable by up...
- [Ex-Gay Finances: Double-Talk?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-finances/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas says that while two of the largest gay-rights groups, Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD, reported a hypothetically combined income of $27...
- [Ex-Gay Group Pans Madonna-Britney Kiss](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-group-pa/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas says: Madonna’s special performance was to passionately kiss Britney and Christina on stage. This caused only a brief and not very...
- [Queer Eye Vs. Shmomosexuals](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/queer-eye-vs-sh/): Like Jody at Naked Writing, I’ve discovered I’m a shmomosexual. Someone please inform Randy Thomas before he refers to us unpaid shmomos as the “gay...
- [Labor Day And Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/labor-day-and-e/): Exodus, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, and Pat Robertson were essentially silent — near as I can tell...
- [Musician A Possible Role Model for Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/musician-a-poss/): Musician Rufus Wainwright tells the New York Times about his journey to “Gay Hell” and back. Wainwright is blunt about his recent-past drug abuse and...
- [The Human Face of Schism](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/the-human-face/): It’s tempting to use war language to describe the politics that affect gays and ex-gays: Battles, attacks, retreats, wins, and losses. In the end, much...
- [“Right Christians” Eye Family Values Vs. “Christian Right”](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/right-christian/): The Rev. Allen Brill spent a week in June contrasting family values with the political goals of the religious-right organizations. He also examined how politically...
- [Exodus Spokesman Flip-Flops on Sodomy Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-spokesma-2/): In an interview with Christianity Today, Exodus spokesman and ministry manager Randy Thomas warns that the Supreme Court ruling against sodomy laws will shape public...
- [Former Ex-Gays Await Stephen Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/former-ex-gays/): Stephen Bennett, who heads the ex-gay ministry named after him, was scheduled to preach and market music to gays in Provincetown, Mass., last weekend. A...
- [Exodus Chairman’s Day Job: Doomsday Warnings](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-chairman-3/): Exodus board chairman Mike Haley’s day job is the management of antigay activism at Focus on the Family. In Focus’ CitizenLink newsletter, Haley’s operation warns...
- [Preview: Ex-Gay Minister Matthew C. Manning](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/preview-ex-gay/): XGW reader David B. points out ex-gay minister Matthew C. Manning. Mr. Manning’s web site states that he has miraculously received and maintained an HIV-negative...
- [Exodus on ‘How to Be Gay’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-on-how-t/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas earns a one-thumb-up approval rating for accurately describing — albeit momentarily — the Michigan university class, “How to Be Gay.” Unfortunately,...
- [Exodus Chairman Protests the Hospitable Workplace](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-chairman-2/): A Human Rights Campaign study found that most Fortune 500 companies have policies opposing discrimination against same-sex-attracted workers. And a rising number of top companies...
- [Ex-Gays Might Enjoy “Queer Eye”](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/ex-gays-might-e/): In the Aug. 26 Exodus media spotlights report, Randy Thomas frets that the Fab Five on the hit TV show Queer Eye for the Straight...
- [Civility And Thoughtfulness Amid the Culture War](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/civility-and-th/): I’ve been very busy doing technical work for the IGF site and, for this blog, researching the facts behind Exodus’ all-too-frequent misstatements and political diatribes....
- [Exodus Chairman’s Misquotes on Gay Demographics](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-chairman/): Mike Haley, chairman of the board of Exodus International and a spokesman for Focus on the Family, fumed at CBS Aug. 21 for “The Amazing...
- [Biblical Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/biblical-marria/): Alex Frantz at Public Nuisance discusses how the Bible defines traditional marriage: Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Speak the Bible. But Do They Read It?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-ex-gays-2/): In an Aug. 12 news statement, the Exodus national office cites Matthew 18 as a guideline for Episcopalians responding to the naming of a monogamous...
- [Wayne Besen: Ex-Gay Group Can Blame Itself for NEA Lockout](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/wayne-besen-ex/): PFOX Can Blame Itself for NEA Silence By Wayne Besen The audacity was breathtaking. The same week ex-gay poster boy Michael  Johnston was revealed as...
- [Wayne Besen: Groups Concealed Unsafe Sex By Ex-Gay Leader](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/wayne-besen-gro/): From the Express Gay News in South Florida: The ‘Ex-Gay’ Coverup, Aug. 18, 2003 Besen, the author of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and...
- [Coming Up At Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/coming-up-at-ex/): I’ve been busy elsewhere the past several days, but there’s plenty of material to be posted tonight: News from Exodus and Wayne Besen, draft principles...
- [Exodus: Failures Not So “Minute”](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-failures/): Alan Chambers spoke to Orlando Weekly reporter Jeffrey Billman: By Chambers’ estimate, only 30 percent of those who seek to switch orientations succeed. Fifty percent...
- [Lawyer for Alleged Victim of Ex-Gay Activist Speaks](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/lawyer-for-alle/): The attorney for one of ex-gay activist Michael Johnston’s alleged victims wrote to XGW today: I wanted to say that I appreciate your web site...
- [Gays Vs Ex-Gays: Slander?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/gays-vs-ex-gays/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas protests XGW’s reflections on the Michael Johnston tragedy here. My response: Thomas neglects to mention that, after he blogged about his...
- [Prosecute Michael Johnston on Sodomy, HIV Charges?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/prosecute-micha/): We are unlikely to see ex-gay activists call for that. Because, despite the desire of Exodus leaders and the religious right to see the nation’s...
- [Exodus: Not Ministering to Gays, But to Antigay Churches](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-not-mini/): At a news conference in late July, reported by religionjournal.com, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers publicly acknowledged that the national office has shifted away from...
- [Coral Ridge Ministries Shortchanges Repentance](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/coral-ridge-min/): I received a press release, not posted online, issued by Coral Ridge Ministries. It was forwarded to me by Wayne Besen. Here is the full...
- [Exodus Confuses Discussion of Ex-Gay “Change”](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-confuses/): A Baptist Press interview with Exodus executive director Alan Chambers: misrepresents popular debate about the origins of homosexuality attempts to distract public attention from the...
- [Followup on Ex-Gay Michael Johnston](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/followup-on-ex/): Excellent, sad, gloat-free commentary by journalist Natalie Davis.
- [Groups Cook the Books on Gay Domestic Violence](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/groups-cook-the/): In March 2001, Gary Glenn of the American Family Association of Michigan declared that upwards of 50 percent of gay relationships are beset by domestic...
- [Exodus: Sadly, Not So Compassionate After All](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-sadly-no/): Last Wednesday, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers issued a responsible and compassionate response to news about ex-gay ministry leader Michael Johnston’s efforts, deliberate or incidental,...
- [Opportunity for Exodus to Promote Accountability And Responsibility](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/opportunity-for/): I share Natalie’s thoughts and prayers for Michael Johnston. It’s tough when I find myself acting contrary to my deeply held values and beliefs, and...
- [Author Wayne Besen Comments on Ex-Gay Ministry’s Collapse](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/author-wayne-be/): Read it all right here.
- [Exodus Prays for Safety of Michael Johnston’s Partners](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-prays-fo/): Exodus executive director Alan Chambers expresses concern for former ex-gay ministry leader Michael Johnston — and for those who might have been infected in the...
- [Exodus Poetic But Misleading Over Bishop Robinson](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-poetic-b/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas waxes sweetly poetic with his subhead about the Episcopal Church in today’s press release: “Pro-homosexual advocacy cracks a denomination’s scriptural foundation...
- [‘Moral Failing’: Michael Johnston, Kerusso Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/moral-failing-m/): The American Family Association confirmed that Michael Johnston, the ex-gay HIV-positive head of Kerusso Ministries, had closed his ministry after numerous unsafe sexual encounters with...
- [Overgeneralizing](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/overgeneralizin/): Several people have told me that I’ve been overgeneralizing about ex-gay ministries lately. I believe they are right. This blog works best, I believe, when...
- [Apology](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/apology/): I retract what I said Friday about Ron B. of Courage Seattle. I am sorry for associating Ron with ex-gays. I have deleted the remark...
- [Gay Sexual Liberation Movement, R.I.P.?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/gay-sexual-libe/): Here is a Boston Phoenix article by gay progressive Michael Bronski, published this week. Bronski criticizes the mainstream gay population and the major activist groups...
- [Dependence Vs Co-Dependence on God](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/dependence-vs-c/): Ex-Gay Watch reader Johanna strongly disagreed with my message about co-dependent expressions of the Christian faith. I don’t believe I said that evangelicals promote a...
- [Concerned Women, Focus on the Family Escalate the Paranoia](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/concerned-women-3/): Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family have steadily increased the volume of their antigay press releases this week. One item in particular...
- [Gay Christians in An Evangelical World](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/gay-christians/): For two years as a teen-ager, I was a born-again Christian and an evangelical. By age 18, however, my faith had matured toward a politically...
- [Focus on the Family: Fear Instead of Facts About Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/focus-on-the-fa-7/): From the July 29 CitizenLink newsletter, there’s plenty for me to comment on later today. Focus on the Family seems to have taken its conspiracy...
- [The Unwelcome Mat At Exodus’ Front Door](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/the-unwelcome-m/): As recently as the mid-1970s, television confined its depiction of homosexuals to suicidal whimperers and psychopathic lesbians. This bizarre caricature has faded from mainstream culture...
- [Author: ‘Gays Reclaim Jesus’ Words’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/author-gays-rec/): Fenton Johnson, author of “Keeping Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey” (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), reflects thoughtfully and deeply upon his own faith journey in a Los Angeles...
- [Portland, Ore., Newspaper Covers Bases on Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/portland-ore-ne/): In a July 27 commentary, Portland Oregonian associate editor David Reinhard wrote that gays should be content with a tattered patchwork of half-baked legal rights...
- [N.Y. Media Ignore Violence Prompting Gay School](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/ny-media-ignore/): Both the editorial board and columnist Steve Dunleavy at the New York Post call the New York City public schools’ announcement of a predominantly gay...
- [American Family Association Defends Bias, Harassment At Pa. School](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/american-family/): Having already helped remove harassment-free zones from a northwestern Pennsylvania high school, the American Family Association is battling to silence a Gay-Straight Alliance that has...
- [Concerned Women: Daily Propaganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/concerned-women-2/): Concerned Women for America has issued its daily selection of propaganda. The headlines below are verbatim from CWA; the summaries are mine. In Their Own...
- [Antigay TVC Seeks Bailout From Retirees, Drug Companies](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/antigay-tvc-see/): The July-August 2003 issue of the AARP Bulletin reports about financial troubles at the antigay Traditional Values Coalition. According to the article, “Christian Crusaders? Or...
- [Anti-Gay-Marriage Movement’s Difficult Predicament](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/anti-gay-marria/): Lee Bockhorn, associate editor at The Weekly Standard, summarizes the predicament of the anti-gay-marriage movement: In the upcoming battle, defenders of marriage must find a...
- [Response to Jeff Jacoby on Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/response-to-jef/): More old news here (I promise, I’m almost caught up). Jeff Jacoby argued July 3 in The Boston Globe that 40 percent of Vermont gay...
- [Pat Robertson’s Bad Supreme Court History](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/pat-robertsons-2/): Useful for future reference: Last week, Linda Campbell of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram noted historical and mathematical inaccuracies in Pat Robertson’s “prayer offensive” against the...
- [Public Gay Sex in the Hamptons](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/public-gay-sex/): A small number of presumably wealthy gays in the Hamptons are complaining after a crackdown by police and neighbors against public sex on the beaches....
- [Antigay Group Markets Flawed Testimony Against ‘Lesbianism’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/antigay-group-m/): Concerned Women for America profiles Valerie Pegues’ victory over “lesbianism.” To be lesbian means to be attracted to women. But Pegues says she was always...
- [Support for Marriage Amendment Stalling?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/support-for-mar/): There has a been a rapid public diversification of conservative views on gay marriage. Religious Right Rethinks Strategy as Agenda Stalls By Mark O’Keefe Religion...
- [Lipstick Graffiti: The Ex-Gay Theme Park Flyovers](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/lipstick-graffi/): Ex-Gay Watch reader Jayelle Wiggins lives in Orlando, operates her own blog, and dialogues with ex-gays in various venues. Here’s her thoughtful and respectful commentary...
- [Pat Robertson’s Cure for Aging (and Retirement)](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/pat-robertsons/): Are you an aging Supreme Court justice? Feeling your heart skip a beat now and then? There’s no need to retire — Pat Robertson’s age-defying...
- [Antigay Group’s ‘Dark Obsession’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/antigay-groups/): Family Research Council Senior Analyst Tim Dailey has written “Dark Obsession: The Tragedy and Threat of the Gay Lifestyle.” FRC recommends the book for its...
- [Antigays Say Government, Not Church, Should Control Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/antigays-say-go/): In a column praised by the Family Research Council, antigay columnist Maggie Gallagher argues that marriage should not be privatized and given to the churches...
- [Antigay Group on the Military: Gays Get Out, Dunno Why](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/antigay-group-o/): Concerned Women for America warns that gay-equality advocates want to end the U.S. armed forces’ aggressive campaign to dismiss gay servicemembers. [The] law states, “The...
- [Focus on the Family Wants White House to Lock Out Gay Conservatives](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/focus-on-the-fa-6/): From today’s Focus on the Family newsletter, CitizenLink: One of the leading homosexual activist groups in the country said that the White House consults with...
- [Boy Scouts: Antigay Discrimination Required to Be Christian?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/boy-scouts-anti/): Concerned Women for America reports that a federal court has sided with the state of Connecticut against the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA was...
- [Pat Robertson Rationalizes About Prayer Against Supreme Court](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/pat-robertson-r/): In an interview with CNN, Pat Robertson rationalizes about his prayer that three Supreme Court justices — only one of them liberal — will retire....
- [Misuse of Prayer At Ex-Gay Discussion Board](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/misuse-of-praye/): The gay son of antigay PFOX executive director Regina Griggs is said to be ill with a heart problem. No doubt prayers for good health...
- [Exgay Declaration of Independence?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/exgay-declarati/): In June, I analyzed the principles espoused by the ex-gay movement during Ex-Gay Lobby Days. This week, PFOX executive director Regina Griggs changed her description...
- [Prayer Offensive: Pat Robertson’s Sin of Idolatry?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/prayer-offensiv/): Dr. Rembert Truluck, a Christian preacher, blasts Pat Robertson’s “prayer offensive” against the Supreme Court justices, calling it a form of idolatry. Truluck argues that...
- [Santorum Turns Deaf Ear to Antigay Bullying](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/santorum-turns/): Susan Wheeler, mother of seven, is touring the Philadelphia area, sharing her documentary video, “Jim in Bold.” The video brings together stories about gay youth...
- [Rev. Flip Benham Wages Tactic of ‘Terror’ Against Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/rev-flip-benham/): Rev. Carol Anne Lawler writes in The Charlotte Observer: To the Rev. Philip "Flip" Benham: Who died and left you God? Benham’s group, Operation Save...
- [Books Analyze Pat Robertson’s Misuse of Christianity](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/books-analyze-p/): Journalist Natalie Davis has collected an Amazon user-friendly list of books that critically analyze Pat Robertson’s decades-long exploitation of Christianity. Browse the book list at...
- [Redesigning Ex-Gay Watch (cont’d)](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/redesigning-ex/): As you can see, I’m gradually putting back the past design features that worked well — wide fluid columns, black sans serif type. More to...
- [Classical Values: Rufus And Emo-Sexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/classical-value-2/): Eric at Classical Values expands on our comments about Rufus Wainwright. Eric offers a hilarious definition of “emo-sexual.” The depression, lack of self-esteem, and binges...
- [Gay Group to PFOX: Fight Fire with Fire](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/gay-group-to-pf/): The Human Rights Campaign is launching anti-exgay ads in the Washington, D.C., subway system, according to 365gay.com. The action is in response to ads in...
- [Exodus Slaps GLSEN, Promotes ‘Gender-Affirming’ Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/exodus-slaps-gl/): Yesterday, I noted that Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas said ex-gay ministries don’t emphasize “gender-affirming” role modeling. Here’s an indication to the contrary: A statement by...
- [Updates on Gay Louisiana Mom](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/updates-on-gay/): The situation surrounding Sharon Huff, the mother of the 7-year-old who was reprimanded for mentioning that he had two moms, will be considered during a...
- [Designing Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/designing-ex-ga/): The columns are too narrow, the text is too small, the colors are all wrong, the writers are too friendly to ex-gays… These are just...
- [Romantic Comedy to Feature Ex-Gay Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/romantic-comedy/): The film “Save Me” is in pre-production and may appear in art houses in 2005, according to the Windy City Times.
- [Support Our Boys in the War on Terrier!](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/support-our-boy/): Joel Sax reports from the front.
- [Ex-Gay Clarification on Gay “Culpability” for AIDS](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/ex-gay-clarific/): On his personal blog, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas today issued a clarification to his official comments, quoted by Focus on the Family, blaming gays as...
- [Classical Values: A Homosexual Morality?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/classical-value/): Eric at Classical Values adds to an already lively debate on morality: Are gays amoral souls who need monitoring by heterosexual morality police, or have...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Neglected By Gay Media?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/exodus-ex-gays-4/): The Washington Blade, Dec. 5, offers a he-said-she-said between gay activist and author Wayne Besen and Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas. “What I can say is...
- [Finding Humor in Ex-Gay Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/finding-humor-i/): From The Spectator, Seattle University, Dec. 4: “Straight” uses humor to express views “Straight” is the name of a one-man comedy written and played by...
- [Collaboration Cuts Park Cruising By Utah Gays & Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/collaboration-c/): Salt Lake City police, frustrated that constant arrests did not noticeably deter men cruising public park restrooms for sex, collaborated with public health officials, gay...
- [Analysis:  Balance, Objectivity of WaPo’s “Bad Wurd” Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/analysis-balanc/): Washington Post Staff Writer Laura Sessions Stepp wrote yesterday about the dispute between Sharon Huff and officials at her 7-year-old son’s school in Youngsville, Louisiana....
- [Conflicting Statements By School That Harassed Son of Lesbian](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/conflicting-sta/): Via Morons.org: According to The Advertiser, a Louisiana public school district is unapologetic in its punishment of a boy after he explained to a classmate...
- [Matthew Limon Update (17-Year Sodomy Conviction)](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/matthew-limon-u/): XGW has previously commented on the Matthew Limon case: June 28: Gay Teenager’s Prison Term Voided Sept. 17: Kansas AG Distorts, Misleads, Inflames Oct. 1:...
- [Focus on the Family Offers Abstinence Alone — Not Accurate Information](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/focus-on-the-fa-9/): A followup on two XGW messages on AIDS earlier this week. Focus on the Family asserted on Tuesday that homosexuals should fight HIV/AIDS through abstinence...
- [Ex-Gay Flames At Illinois Conservative Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/ex-gay-flames-a/): On Nov. 21, the conservative Illinois Leader published a review criticizing gay-affirming Hollywood celebrities and alleging inequity in media coverage of antigay hate crimes and...
- [Dr. Throckmorton’s Web Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/dr-throckmorton/): Warren Throckmorton, outspoken pro-ex-gay associate professor at a small Christian college, has launched his own independent web site, DrThrockmorton.com. The site is useful for its...
- [Public-School Harassment: Exodus Vs ACLU And GLSEN](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/public-school-h/): PlanetOut reports that “a 7-year-old Louisiana boy was scolded by his teacher, sent to the principal’s office and required to attend a discipline session after...
- [FRC Promotes Closets That Contribute to AIDS](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/frc-promotes-cl/): In browsing Google News today, I found a handful of articles linking high risk of HIV infection to closeted and homophobic same-sex-attracted populations (and their...
- [New Zealand Ex-Gays At High Risk of HIV/AIDS?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/new-zealand-ex/): A New Zealand news site reports on a survey finding that men resembling the ex-gay profile — “men who were isolated [from other gays] or...
- [Credentials of International Ex-Gay Therapist Challenged](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/credentials-of/): Melvin W. Wong was the lead speaker at a group of ex-gay seminars organized by Focus on the Family in Singapore last week. Wong is...
- [Focus Expands Ex-Gay Campaign to Asia](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/focus-expands-e/): Focus on the Family extended its ex-gay political campaign to Singapore late last week with seminars marketing “recovery therapy.” And already the lead speaker faces...
- [Antigay Christians’ High Divorce Rates (cont’d)](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/antigay-christi/): Continuing the selective morality discussion: Froma Harrop of The Providence Journal wrote an excellent commentary Nov. 26 on the extremely high divorce rate among Bible...
- [Judgment And Unbelief From Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/judgment-and-un/): On Oct. 31, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas accused people who disagree with his opinion on homosexuality of worshiping “personal interest” and having “compromised the integrity...
- [How Other Fla. Private Schools Handle Gay Students](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/how-other-fla-p/): The Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale) asked different Florida private schools how they might handle a gay student differently from Jupiter Christian, which allegedly demanded the student...
- [Columnist Brent Bozell Joins Ex-Gay Campaign Against ‘Law & Order:SVU’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/columnist-brent/): Exodus International launched a campaign last week against ‘Law & Order:SVU’ over an episode that it apparently didn’t watch, or only saw parts of. Conservative...
- [Ex-Gay Greg Quinlan Warns Against Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-greg-qui/): Pro-Family Network is a Dayton, Ohio-based project of ex-gay activist Gregory Quinlan, who periodically uses ConservativePetitions.com to promote antigay political measures. ConservativePetitions.com collects $1.95 for...
- [Ex-Gay Asks Lesbian Advice Columnist for Help with Fiance](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-asks-les/): Meryl Cohn, a.k.a. Ms. Behavior, today advises an ex-gay man on his lack of honesty with his (female) fiance about his gay past, about their...
- [Ex-Gays And the Sin of Gluttony](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gays-and-the/): Further to our ongoing discussion of selective morality among antigay activists, the Dallas Morning News reports today on the complete failure of America’s clergy to...
- [Celibate Catholic Gays Dismiss Co-Existence](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/celibate-cathol/): Conservative Catholic celibate gays in Providence, R.I., say that if God allowed it, they would like to be in monogamous relationships. But a Nov. 23...
- [Deb Price Profiles Anti-Exgay Activist Wayne Besen](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/deb-price-profi/): On Nov. 17, Creators Syndicate columnist Deb Price profiled Wayne Besen’s first experience with an ex-gay ministry and his subsequent encounters with people who felt...
- [Ex-Gays And “Bourgeoisie Religion”](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gays-and-bou/): Extending earlier discussion a bit: Lars Gaardfeldt of Sweden wrote a 1998 lecture, The Bible as Medicine: Bible and Prayer as Miraculous Cure Against Homosexuality....
- [ExGayWatch Categories](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/exgaywatch-cate/): (Updated Nov. 24) I have added Categories to the sidebar. Thus far, the site’s entries are indexed by category from July 25 to the present....
- [ExGayWatch E-Mail Problem](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/exgaywatch-e-ma/): Ex-Gay Watch’s main e-mail address, editor @ exgaywatch.com, has apparently been bouncing messages for more than a week. We believe the problem is fixed. If...
- [Antigay Teacher Could Have Used Ex-Gay Lessons](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/antigay-teacher/): 365gay.com reports that a Bronx high school teacher was fired for “15 specific incidents of discrimination, harassment and misconduct during the 2001-2002 school year.” Other...
- [Does Ex-Gay Contempt for Gay Couples Help Ex-Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/does-ex-gay-con/): In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, Exodus could have informed its membership of the diversity of thoughtful, faithful and...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays: Accountability = Persecution?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/exodus-ex-gays-3/): In a Nov. 10 “media spotlight,” Exodus cites actions by a British law enforcement and a Colorado family court as proof that U.S. homosexuals (“the...
- [Noted Elsewhere: Moral Tunnelvision Among Some Evangelical Protestants](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/noted-elsewhere/): Camassia nicely weaves together some recent debate across the blogosphere over a tendency among evangelical Protestant churches to scapegoat homosexuality for their own declining commitment...
- [ExGayWatch Profile: Michael B. Hamar](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/exgaywatch-prof/)
- [Ex-Gay Advocate Throckmorton Gets TV Facts Wrong](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-advocate/): Prof. Warren Throckmorton, an advocate for ex-gay politics, admits he didn’t see Law and Order: SVU last week. (Original XGW entry on L&O:SVU). But then...
- [Profile: Ex-Gay Activist Carlton Quattlebaum](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/profile-ex-gay/): Carlton Quattlebaum (e-mail) operates as the Healing Choices Ministry in Canton, Mich. He is hosted by Tri-City Christian Center. Quattlebaum formerly worked for Reconciliation Ministries...
- [Numerous Exgays Support Ohio Ban on Gay Partnerships](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/numerous-exgays/): Go read the Gay People’s Chronicle, Cleveland, Nov. 21. Note, Aug. 22, 2004: The remainder of this message was a short excerpt from the article;...
- [Child-Porn Charge Dismissed Against Ex-Gay Counselor](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/child-porn-char/): Relayed to XGW by Wayne Besen: The Dallas Voice reported two weeks ago that an ex-ex-gay man, Mark Hufford, has dropped a lawsuit against Texas...
- [Wayne Besen Commends Law And Order: SVU](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/wayne-besen-com/): Press release from Wayne Besen about last week’s Law & Order: SVU episode: AUTHOR ON EX-GAY MYTH COMMENDS NBC’S LAW AND ORDER FOR HIGHLIGHTING SCIENTIFIC...
- [Ex-Gays for Reform](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gays-for-ref/): Ex-Gay Watch is launching a “brother blog,” Ex-Gays for Reform. If you believe homosexuality is a sin, but you are displeased with antigay and ex-gay...
- [Poll Tracks Churches’ Impact on Acceptance of Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/poll-tracks-chu/): The Pew Research Center released a poll yesterday correlating attitudes toward homosexual persons with religious affiliation. The poll data reflect an apparent backlash: opposition to...
- [Updates on Bush And the MCC](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/updates-on-bush/): See the comments section of last week’s XGW entry about Bush congratulating the predominantly gay Metropolitan Community Church for updates: 11/12: XGW reader Rich sees...
- [Ex-Gays in Cleveland](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gays-in-clev/): Relayed from Wayne Besen: ‘Ex-gays’ to be focus of three Cleveland events By Anthony Glassman, Gay People’s Chronicle (Cleveland), Nov. 14, 2003 “Ex-gays” will be...
- [Exodus Condemns NBC’s ‘Law And Order:SVU’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/exodus-condemns/): Like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Exodus regrettably sees far-reaching evil conspiracies behind those who disagree with it. The organization this morning issued a condemnation of the...
- [School Defends Expulsion of Gay Christian Student](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/school-defends/): I have updated the original XGW story. In addition to accusing the student of having bad grades, the school continues to assert that the student...
- [Ex-Gay, Ex-Ex-Gay: Two Women’s Stories](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-ex-ex-ga/): From Natalie Davis: Two Roads Diverged is an excellent feature story, originally published November 2001 in Mademoiselle, about two women’s paths through the ex-gay movement....
- [Baffling? Intriguing? You Decide!](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/baffling-intrig/): Dear ex-gay supporters, Didja hear about this? President Bush sends this note: I send greetings to the members of the Metropolitan Community Church Los Angeles...
- [Ex-Gay Murder on ‘Law And Order:SVU’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-murder-o/): The Tuesday night episode was about the murder of an ex-ex-gay man. It eventually became apparent that one suspect was a reparative therapist of the...
- [Change Your Religion with ‘Plug ‘n’ Pray’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/change-your-rel/)
- [Ex-Gays See Ally in Lesbian](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gays-see-all/): Exodus International executive director Alan Chambers and spokesman Randy Thomas frequently publish broad accusations against “radical” and “elite” gays without identifying specific individuals or citing...
- [Ex-Gay Mom Fights Ruling Against ‘Homophobia’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-mom-figh/): The conservative Christian legal group Liberty Counsel is aiding a Denver ex-gay adoptive mother in a battle against the woman’s female former partner, who had...
- [Ex-Gay Ads: Throwing Out Baby with Bathwater](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-ads-thro/): The ex-gay group PFOX may no longer be able to post ads for free in the Washington, D.C., subway system. One of the city’s gay...
- [Blogwatch: Biological Factors in Sexual Orientation](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/blogwatch-biolo/): Rich Blinne summarizes the findings of the recent study of sexual “identity” reported by Reuters.
- [Ex-Gays Spell Out Planned Legal Threats](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gays-spell-o/): Here is the memo from ex-gay activist Arthur Goldberg announcing the ex-gay movement coalition’s detailed plan to sue schools, counselors, insurers, doctors, and organizations such...
- [Rembert Truluck on ‘Ex-Gay Wars’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/rembert-truluck/): Former Southern Baptist pastor and gay Christian speaker Rembert Truluck offers a positive review of Wayne Besen’s new book, Anything But Straight. An XGW review...
- [Activist Dares Ex-Gays to Sue Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/activist-dares/): Gay activist Wayne Besen responds to a threat by an ex-gay political coalition to sue school districts that do not promote ex-gay claims, or that...
- [Comments on Eviction From Pro-Ex-Gay School](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/comments-on-evi/): Camassia points to worthwhile comments about the eviction of a gay Christian student from a pro-ex-gay school (XGW story). Read the discussion at Joshua Claybourn’s...
- [Ex-Gay Coalition Seeks One-Way Freedom](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-coalitio/): Cybercast News Service reports today that a political coalition representing numerous U.S. ex-gay organizations, including hundreds of local affiliate groups, “is developing a legal strategy...
- [How to Prevent Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/how-to-prevent/): Author and gay activist Wayne Besen, to Express Gay News, Oct. 6: Besen concedes that the gay community is partly to blame for the ex-gay...
- [Exgay Media Notes: Alleged Death Threats By Coral Ridge Speakers](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/exgay-media-not/): Besen: Coral Ridge Gang Trying to ‘Reclaim the Dark Ages’ Express Gay News, Oct. 10 At an Oct. 10 rally hosted by a South Florida...
- [Media Notes: Ex-Gay Workshop, Oklahoma City](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/media-notes-ex/): Online media coverage of the ex-gay “Love Won Out” conference in Oklahoma City, and related protests, seems to be sparse. If you have seen articles...
- [PFOX Ex-Gay Ads: History Repeats](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/pfox-ex-gay-ads/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays promotes job discrimination against homosexuals. A past webmaster promoted the killing of gay people and arson against gay-tolerant...
- [Catholic Sexual Abuse: Bishop’s Moral Relativism?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/catholic-sexual/): The Raving Atheist and Arthur Silber offer thoughtful commentary on Bishop Wilton Gregory’s alleged appeal to moral relativism. Rev. Gregory, head of the U.S. Conference...
- [Pro-Exgay School Outs, Expels Gay Christian Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/pro-exgay-schoo/): A few hours’ drive south of the Exodus national office, an 18-year-old gay Christian student and his mother are suing his Jupiter, Fla., private high...
- [Ex-Gay Fears on Display for Oklahoma City](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-fears-on/): On Sept. 29, Exodus chairman and Focus on the Family operative Mike Haley accused gay people of intolerance for daring to disagree with his message...
- [FRC: Bigotry Is ‘Truth,’ Gays Are Sick, Change Is Simple](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/frc-bigotry-is/): The Family Research Council today defended Lt. Gen. William Boykin’s assertion that Muslims are idolaters and that the Iraq conflict is a war by Christians...
- [Ex-Gay Finance: Dire Straits](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-finance/): The following text is from The Exodus Impact (print newsletter), October 2003. XGW commentary forthcoming. “From Alan’s desk” [Exodus executive director Alan Chambers writes:] Dear...
- [Ex-Gay Group Concedes Possible Gay Link to Biology](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-group-co/): From Exodus News: The Exodus subheadline reads, “Media spin reaches new pseudo-scientific heights.” But the spin isn’t coming from the media; it comes first from...
- [Followup: YWCA Fires Patricia Ireland](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/followup-ywca-f/): …according to the New York Times via Amy Welborn. Back in May, I said the YWCA had a right to redefine its mission, though the...
- [Ex-Gay Group Calls Culture Warrior ‘Balanced’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-group-ca/): In a “Breaking Praise Report” sent via e-mail today, Exodus says: Greetings! During this historic season of gay rights legal victories, Exodus has been called...
- [Wayne Besen, Ex-Ex-Gay in Miami Herald](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/wayne-besen-ex-2/): Steve Rothaus of The Miami Herald wrote Oct. 11 about an ex-ex-gay Christian man, Jerry Stephenson, who is featured in Wayne Besen’s new book, Anything...
- [Exodus Opens Door to Insubordination](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/exodus-opens-do/): The Exodus Spotlight for Oct. 14 says this letter from an “anonymous high school counselor” is “very moving”: I am currently a high school counselor...
- [Ex-Gay Fatigue](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-fatigue/): From Exodus Spotlights, Oct. 14: The Exodus staff has been working overtime to get the message out that freedom from homosexuality is possible through a...
- [C.S. Lewis on Marriage Protection](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/cs-lewis-on-mar/): From Mere Christianity, Chapter 16: Before leaving the question of divorce, I should like to distinguish two things which are very often confused. The Christian...
- [Ex-Gay Ally Demands Virginia Discriminate](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-ally-dem/): Family Policy Network, known for its ex-gay theme-park flyover campaign during Gay Days last summer, is again seeking headlines. FPN criticized Virginia Attorney General (and...
- [A Visit to the Homo No Mo Halfway House](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/a-visit-to-the/): If I had to pick one glaring, gaping, horrifically, horrendously obnoxious hole in the vast majority of conversations about being gay or lesbian or ex-gay...
- [MAFS: Mentally Anguished Fence Sitters](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/mafs-mentally-a/): Rich Blinne, thoughtful XGW reader and commenter, found this article intriguing like I did: Supporting gays, but not gay marriage For many, equality is one...
- [Alternatives to Fundamentalism: Two Glimpses](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/alternatives-to/): Having grown up in the Episcopal Church, it seems to me the press struggles to get its arms around recent events. Coverage of the gathering...
- [XGW: Status Report](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/xgw-status-repo/): I received Wayne Besen’s book from Amazon today. I’ll read it as soon as possible. Steve B. is still working on Part II of his...
- [Ex-Gay/Religious Right Financial Power](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gayreligious/): I’ve been busy the past two weeks planning a high school reunion, so my postings have been rare and Steve B. has been filling in....
- [Spitzer Study I: A Micro Target](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/spitzer-study-i/): Dr. Robert Spitzer’s study of 200 self-identified former homosexuals is back in the news. The Archives of Sexual Behavior, the official journal of the International...
- [FRC’s Cookie-Cutter Antigay Sermon](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/frcs-cookie-cut/): The Family Research Council is mass-distributing this antigay sermon to thousands of churches for use by pastors during “Marriage Protection Week.” Comments welcome.
- [Exodus on Violence in Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/exodus-on-viole/): From Tuesday’s Exodus Spotlights: Today’s youth are bombarded with conflicting messages concerning sexuality and identity. The culture war has created such a clamor that it...
- [Exodus And Dr. Laura](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/exodus-and-dr-l/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas periodically blasts critics of Dr. Laura, broadly associating them with terrorism. Exodus should be more careful of who it defends, as...
- [Ex-Gay Petition](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-petition/): Ex-gay Gregory Quinlan of Pro-Family Network says all gays can not only change their orientation, they can all become lockstep, politically correct, social conservatives too....
- [Privacy And Civilization](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/privacy-and-civ/): From an article by Chris Matthew Sciabarra at Free Radical, a libertarian publication: “It is a tragic, ironic twist that some conservatives have posed as...
- [Focus/Family Barks At Gay Sportswriter](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/focusfamily-bar/): In its CitizenLink newsletter for Oct. 1, Focus on the Family questioned Boston Herald sportswriter Ed Gray’s motive for acknowledging his sexual orientation. From the...
- [Gender: Relevant in the Marriage Debate? How?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/gender-relevant/): Lynn at Noli Irritare Leones offers insightful analysis of the big debate over gender — whether and how it relates to the definition of marriage....
- [Religious Scientists on Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/religious-scien/): Courtesy of Rich Blinne, the American Scientific Affiliation, a somewhat diverse range of articles on homosexuality by scientists who are Christian. This is mainly a...
- [Focus/Family: Stop Gay Monogamy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/focusfamily-sto/): Focus on the Family is known for its opposition to gay marriage. In California, however, the organization doesn’t want gays to be monogamous and responsible,...
- [Focus/Family: Dunno What Gays Say, We Disagree Anyway](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/focusfamily-dun/): Focus on the Family will be conducting an ex-gay political rally in Oklahoma City on Oct. 25. Focus has heard that gay-tolerant counterprotesters will be...
- [Focus/Family Wants Gay Kid Imprisoned 17 Years](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/focusfamily-wan/): XGW commented two weeks ago on the case of Matthew Limon. Last week, Focus on the Family reminded its CitizenLink readers that it wants the...
- [Focus/Family: Married Abroad? Stay There](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/focusfamily-mar-2/): Focus on the Family declared gay Canadian couples unwelcome in the United States on Monday. Focus joined Concerned Women for America in demanding that foreign...
- [Former Catholic Priest Assesses Ex-Gay Science Studies](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/former-catholic/): Writing for the Southern Voice, former Roman Catholic priest Daniel A. Helminiak compares the Robert Spitzer narrow survey of “change” among ex-gay activists with Ariel...
- [Randall Terry Learns Anti-Family Lesson From Ex-Gay Role Models](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/randall-terry-l/): Rewrite, April 17: When I started this entry last week, I said simply that I was busy putting out a technical wildfire at another site,...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Mario Bergner](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-watch-pr/): This has been sitting in my outbox for days now. I’d hoped to write a longer item; instead, I will start this entry now, and...
- [Guardian Report on Ex-Gay Expo’s Use Or Abuse of Science](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/guardian-report/): Wayne Besen and James Barber both point me to an excellent Apr. 3 article in the Guardian (London). Using Focus on the Family’s “Love Won...
- [NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus Seeks Funds, Members](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/nea-ex-gay-educ-2/): Exodus today issued a call for support by Jeralee Smith of the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus. The caucus goal is to inject ex-gay activists into...
- [GLAAD Protests Univision Segment on Ex-Gay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/glaad-protests/): E-mailed to me by Jayelle: GLAAD protests a segment of the Univision talk show “Casos de Familia” that aired March 25. GLAAD says: The program...
- [Ex-Gay Rally At Illinois State Capitol](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-rally-at/): The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., reports today on an ex-gay rally at the state Capitol, sponsored by Concerned Women for America and Peter LaBarbera’s...
- [Can’t Afford A CD Burner, Huh?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/cant-afford-a-c/): Somebody is attempting to save Ex-Gay Watch pages to floppy disk and then view the pages from the disk. Bud, I think your disk is...
- [Focus on the Family: ‘Be Intolerant’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/focus-on-the-fa-11/): An April 2004 newsletter of Focus on the Family declares that God will destroy the United States and Western civilization will crumble if life-long gay...
- [Exodus Voices Anger At Methodists — And ‘liberal’ Churches](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/exodus-voices-a/): After a "lesbian identified" Methodist minister is acquitted in an official church trial, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers criticizes the church leadership before launching into...
- [Ex-Gay Network Changes Its Mind on Massachusetts Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ex-gay-network/): On Monday, Exodus applauded a Massachusetts constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage but permit civil unions. Quite likely the Exodus leadership overlooked the whole...
- [Ex-Gays, FRC Initially Disagree Over Mass. Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ex-gays-frc-ini/): Proclaiming “Beacon Hill not bullied by judicial tyranny,” Exodus International applauded the Massachusetts legislature’s approval Monday of a constitutional amendment that would ban marriage for...
- [Comparing Antigay Speech And Anti-Jewish Speech](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/comparing-antig/): Michael Hamar points out one of John Aravosis’ sites, HateCrime.org, which compares the factoids used by Nazi German propagandists to justify discrimination against Jewish people,...
- [Village Voice Writer Seduced By Ex-Gay Activist on Geraldo? Ugh.](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/village-voice-w/): Village Voice writer Michael Musto accused an unnamed ex-gay activist of making overtures to him, when both happened to be in the green room for...
- [Ex-Gay Media Blog: ‘Gay Marriage’ Leads to Incest](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ex-gay-media-bl/): The Exodus media blog yesterday promoted a WorldNetDaily item categorically accusing gay parents, who seek marriage to protect their kids, of promoting incest. Exodus claims...
- [The False Link Between Gays, NAMBLA](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/the-false-link/): I’m mainly noting this for future reference. Lynn at Noli Irritare Leones remembers attending a San Francisco gay parade decades ago. NAMBLA isn’t welcome among...
- [Writer Looking for Ex-Gays, Ex-Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/writer-looking/): Jody at Naked Writing is looking for people who have been in the ex-gay movement. He is writing an article about the movement for a...
- [Anniversary: Archbishop Oscar Romero](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/anniversary-arc/): Jeanne D’Arc of Body and Soul remembers Archbishop Romero, who was an outspoken advocate for El Salvador’s population. He risked (and lost) his life defending...
- [NARTH Defends Dishonored Transgender Book](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/narth-defends-d/): From PlanetOut: The Lambda Literary Foundation withdrew J. Michael Bailey’s book “The Man Who Would Be Queen” from award consideration. Even the relatively conservative authors...
- [Gay Activist Wayne Besen Visits Rapid City, S.D.](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/gay-activist-wa/): The Rapid City Journal reported Mar. 17 on Wayne Besen’s appearance Mar. 21 at the Midwest Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Resource Conference. The article...
- [Reality Check: Gay Youth, Young Adult Blogs](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/reality-check-g/): As a mid-40-something, it’s easy for me to lapse into hope that the world is a much better place for gay teens and young adults...
- [Ex-Gays Could Model Tolerance to Antigay Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ex-gays-could-m/): David Morrison, in Sed Contra: And They Wonder Why Parents Homeschool Their Kids, says: Parent’s are rightly protective of their kids and the ideas and...
- [Minnesota Republican Suffers for Ties to Holocaust-Denying Ex-Gay Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/minnesota-repub/): From Michael Hamar: 365gay reports that Minnesota state Rep. Arlon Lindner has lost the state GOP’s endorsement to run for another term of office. In...
- [Extortion Against Southern Gospel Singer Kirk Talley](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/extortion-again/): Find the most recent XGW coverage of Kirk Talley here. March 23, 2004 This page’s original post is below, heavily revised. The links have also...
- [GOP Official: Orientation Can Be Punished; Ex-Gays Fair Game?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/gop-official-or/): The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is charged with investigating allegations of discrimination by federal employees. The 1978 Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) created...
- [Focus/Family Defends Secularism, Fears End to Antigay Culture War](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/focusfamily-def/): Focus on the Family and the Eagle Forum today admitted key objectives motivating their war against gay couples: Preserve secular control over marriage, and its...
- [Gay Marriage, Pro-Chastity Advocates Debate Over Stanley Kurtz](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/gay-marriage-pr/): I am debating gay marriage at David Morrison’s pro-chastity blog, Sed Contra. Addendum: In a May article in Slate, Prof. M.V. Lee Badgett thoroughly refutes...
- [N.Y. Gay-Tolerant Clergy Charged for Performing Marriages](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ny-gay-tolerant/): USATODAY.com – New York clergy charged for marrying gay couples My first thought: This is going to fan the so-called wildfire. My second thought: Charges...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Rip Youth Antiviolence Group, Condemn Gay Activists to Hell](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/exodus-ex-gays-7/): I’ve been dismayed and discouraged at the Exodus national office’s March 5 defense of antigay bullying in schools, and its condemnation of gay people to...
- [Usenet Flamewar Over Ex-Gay Polemicist Stephen Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/usenet-flamewar/): E-mail rebel Ace Fumigators started a flamewar in Usenet’s alt.censorship group on March 1 by posting Stephen Bennett’s press release, “Former Homosexual: ‘Gay Marriage is...
- [Lobbying Your Elected Officials to Protect ALL Families](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/lobbying-your-e/): The Human Rights Campaign makes it easy to contact your state and federal elected officials. Whatever our beliefs about sexuality may be, lawmakers need to...
- [Paul Cameron As Bob Dole?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/paul-cameron-as/): Samantha Bee did an investigative news parody on Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Is it a problem, she asks, to publicize...
- [Beside the Point: ‘You Don’t Have to Be Gay’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/beside-the-poin/): Posted today to Ex-Gay Watch’s former location at blogs.salon.com: From: Frank Blakely I will get straight to the point. This entire controversy of homosexuality exists...
- [Ex-Gay Book Review: Wayne Besen’s ‘Anything But Straight’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ex-gay-book-rev/): Writing for Vermont’s monthly Out In The Mountains, Robert William Wolff praises gay activist Wayne Besen’s book about the ex-gay movement, Anything But Straight.
- [Celibate Catholics Respond to Antigay Polemicist](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/celibate-cathol-3/): David Morrison and Ron Belgau are members of Courage, a group of same-sex-attracted Roman Catholics who believe homosexual behavior is sinful and therefore choose to...
- [Ex-Gays for Bush: Turning Away From Christianity?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gays-for-bus/): Exodus leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas have frequently expressed support for President Bush’s re-election in 2004 — most recently they did so on Janet...
- [‘Gestapo’ Language And Ex-Gay Tolerance](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gestapo-languag/): Andrew Sullivan is widely regarded among conservatives as an example of tolerance and accommodation. He addresses antigay individuals and arguments on a case-by-case basis. He...
- [Celibate Catholic Praise for Randy Shilts, Dorothy Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/celibate-cathol-2/): Catholic pro-celibacy blogger and Courage participant David Morrison remembers gay journalist Randy Shilts, who died ten years ago this month. Shilts was among the first...
- [Catholic Sexual Abuse: Crunching the Gay Numbers](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/catholic-sexual-2/): From The Washington Post: A Catholic lay panel found that 4 percent of the nation’s Catholic priests who have served since 1950 were at one...
- [Ex-Gay Stephen Bennett Criticizes Bush, Civil Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gay-stephen/): In his State of the Union address, President Bush popularized a misunderstanding of the Federal Marriage Amendment. He said, more or less, that he supported...
- [Ex-Gay ‘Passion’ for Mel Gibson Flick](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gay-passion/): Eric Scheie at Classical Values nicely summarizes pundits’ up-and-down votes for ‘The Passion of the Christ.’ Hopefully, Exodus ex-gay spokesman Randy Thomas will broaden his...
- [Exodus Praises Bush, Slaps Marriage for Gays on Janet Parshall Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-praises/): Janet Parshall, former spokeswoman for the Family Research Council, operates a Christian Right radio show that appears to uphold themes of joyous secularism. Exodus executive...
- [Background Memo: PFOX Webmaster’s Calls for Antigay Violence](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/background-memo/): PFOX was instrumental in the recent formation of the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus. PFOX’s history of support for discrimination and opposition to antibullying programs in...
- [Attracted to the Same Sex: Am I Gay Or Not?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/attracted-to-th/): People often come to realizations about themselves — as well as changes in their perspective — as they approach middle age. What happens when someone...
- [Gay Marriage And Ambivalent Conservatives](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gay-marriage-an/): An excellent article from Tech Central Station. I’ve been looking at it since yesterday, and will try to comment further by this weekend. Advance feedback...
- [Gay Marriage Licenses in New Mexico — And Cambodia](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gay-marriage-li/): From an Associated Press story: Apparently unprompted by activists, the county clerk in Sandoval County, N.M., said she will issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples,...
- [Bloggers, Ex-Gay Eye Where the Marriage Debate Stands](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/bloggers-ex-gay/): Animator Mark Fiore comments on the Attack of the Gay Agenda. Bill (and Kent) tally the mayors that have said they support marriages for gay...
- [Overlawyered: No to the FMA](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/overlawyered-no/): Overlawyered summarizes numerous conservative legal arguments against the Federal Marriage Amendment.
- [The Battle Isn’t Between Gays And Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/the-battle-isnt/): XGW participant Raj commented to Rich: “So do you really believe that your side wouldn’t do that elsewhere?” I’m not sure what sides are being...
- [NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus Formed](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/nea-ex-gay-educ/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) appears to have played a key role in organizing the caucus, but its current role in the caucus is...
- [Ex-Gay Official Criticizes ABC for Showing Married Gays Kissing](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gay-official/): In his first action since banning and erasing all comments on his blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers wrote an open letter to ABC on...
- [Correction About Ex-Gay Activist Larry Houston](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/correction-abou/): On Feb. 7, I wrote about Massachusetts ex-gay activist Larry Houston. Mr. Houston wrote me on Feb. 14 to politely request a correction: I was...
- [DearMary.com: Antigay Constitutional Amendment Sparks Backlash](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/dearmarycom-ant/): I commented here and here that President Bush’s effort to write antigay discrimination into the U.S. Constitution had sparked a creative backlash. In San Francisco...
- [Exodus Director, Frist Misunderstand Impact of Marriage Ban](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-director-4/): On his “Just Think!” blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers reprints statements by Sen. Bill Frist supporting a nationwide constitutional ban against marriages and civil...
- [Exodus Ex-Gay Position on Adoption](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-ex-gay-p/): Exodus executive director Alan Chambers spells out his opposition to adoption by gay people, as well as his preference that gay biological parents either give...
- [Exodus Explains Ties to Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-explains/): On his blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers explains the organization’s political advocacy on behalf of Focus on the Family this way: My trip was...
- [Exgay Darryl L. Foster on Exgay Politics](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exgay-darryl-l/): Updated July 20, 2004 D.L. Foster operates Witness for the World, an ex-gay ministry. On his web page, Understanding Exgays: People or Politics, Foster shares...
- [Exodus Spokesman: ‘A Lesser Love’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-spokesma-5/): In his essay, Sacrificing A Lesser Love, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas attempts to explain why, based solely on his own life experiences, he presumes to...
- [Exodus Spokesman on S.F. Marriages: ‘Judicial Activist Mayor’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-spokesma-4/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas must be at a loss for words about the marriages of gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco. Judicial tyranny, activist...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Launch Media Synopsis Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-ex-gays-6/): Mixing literalist meditations on unrelated (prooftexted) Bible passages, news story leads, links, and religious right propaganda, Exodus International launched a political news blog yesterday (Feb....
- [Gay Teen Can Sue Pro-Exgay Florida School](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gay-teen-can-su/): Last October, XGW briefly covered the case of Jupiter Christian School in Central Florida. The mother of Jeffrey Woodard, a Christian, accuses the school of...
- [Ex-Gays Say Again: No Marriages for Mass. Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gays-say-aga/): Exodus sent the following press release yesterday: Breaking News! Exodus International, North America * P.O. Box 540119 * Orlando, FL 32854 Internet: www.exodus-international.org Media Inquiries:...
- [The Right Christians: ‘Hiding Behind Hatred’ Over Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/the-right-chris/): From Allen Brill today: Having problems with your credibility on issues like war and peace, the economy and the military record you try to flaunt?...
- [Ex-Gay Spokesman Lobbies Against ‘Special Rights’ for Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gay-spokesma-4/): While in Nashville for Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out,” Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas took the time to lobby 25 state lawmakers: I am...
- [Vanderbilt Experts, Former Ex-Gay Put Ex-Gay Leader on the Defensive](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/vanderbilt-expe/): When Focus on the Family announced that “Love Won Out” — its one-sided program promoting ex-gay ministries and antigay therapies — would come to Nashville,...
- [Classical Values: Conservatives, Feminists Bureaucratize Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/classical-value-3/): Eric at Classical Values wonders whether the ever-growing role of government — driven by conservatives and feminists — is helping to crush marriages and families.
- [Gay Teens And Marriage: XGW Responds to Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gay-teens-and-m/): I have responded on Exodus executive director Alan Chambers’ blog to his public complaint against the Boston Globe. In case he deletes my response, here...
- [Exodus Leaders Inspire Massachusetts Antimarriage Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-leaders/): Exodus leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas testified in Massachusetts last year, encouraging lawmakers to outlaw gay marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships. According to...
- [Gays And Ex-Gays: Broken Friendships](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gays-and-ex-gay/): Exodus executive director Alan Chambers was a guest on gay activist Michelangelo Signorile’s satellite radio show Jan. 27. He posted his reaction to his guest...
- [Exodus Director Mystified By Gay Teen Couples](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-director-3/): On his personal blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers shares his letter to the Boston Globe, responding to a Jan. 20 article (archive fee required)...
- [Exodus Director: Think What of the Liberty Counsel?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-director-2/): On his personal blog yesterday, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers reprinted, without criticism, a press release by the Liberty Counsel, an organization that files lawsuits...
- [Janet Jackson: Ex-Gay Spokesman’s Oversight](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/janet-jackson-e/): Was he so distracted by a woman’s breast that he overlooked the obvious? On his personal blog, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas says: Tammy [Bruce] is...
- [NYT Pans ‘Latter Days’ Depiction of Ex-gay Treatment](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/nyt-pans-latter/): In a movie review of “Latter Days” for the New York Times last Friday, Dave Kehr praises the film for charting one man’s journey —...
- [CSIndy Publishes Feature on Denver Ex-Gay Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/csindy-publishe/): John Dicker of the Colorado Springs Independent has penned a level-headed and sensitively written feature story about Where Grace Abounds, an unusual ex-gay ministry located...
- [PFOX Cheers Ex-Gay Testimony on Faith-Based Funding](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/pfox-cheers-ex/): The antigay parents organization PFOX issued a press release Jan. 30 praising Exodus chairman and Focus on the Family exgay activist Mike Haley. Haley had...
- [Focus on the Family Cheers Imprisonment of Gay Teen-Ager](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/focus-on-the-fa-10/): In the news briefs section of its Feb. 2 CitizenWatch electronic newsletter, Focus on the Family cheered the Kansas appellate court ruling against Matthew Limon....
- [Conservatives Opposed to Federal Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/conservatives-o/): Citizen Outreach has launched a web site, Leave Marriage to the States, at lawfullywedded.com. The site consists of conservative voices — many of them antigay...
- [Kansas Court Keeps Matthew Limon in Prison](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/kansas-court-ke/): Following its decision in Lawrence v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Kansas Court of Appeals to reconsider the conviction of gay teen-ager Matthew...
- [CWA: Marriage Amendment Intended to Abolish Civil Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/cwa-marriage-am/): In an interview with Human Events, Sandy Rios of Concerned Women for America maps out the organization’s strategy on gay marriage. Specifically, CWA believes the...
- [Exodus Director: Prosecute Michael Johnston?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/exodus-director/): On his blog “Just Think!” on Jan. 7, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers says those who knowingly transmit HIV should be prosecuted, regardless of sexual...
- [Why Ex-Gays Must Oppose Gay Couples?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/why-ex-gays-mus/): In the Jan. 23 issue of Spotlights, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers attempts to explain why Exodus lobbies ex-gays and Christians to discriminate — and...
- [Anne Paulk: Re-Stereotyping TV Lesbians](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/anne-paulk-re-s/): Ecclesiastes 1:9 has nothing to do with “lesbianism” or the Showtime cable network, but that didn’t stop Exodus from cutting-and-pasting a random Bible verse into...
- [Exodus: Either/Or Politics](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/exodus-eitheror/): Commentator Deroy Murdock wrote an op-ed for Scripps Howard, reminding heterosexuals that their non-monogamous straight peers — not homosexuals — are the ones with a...
- [Courage Founder: Blame Imbalanced Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/courage-founder/): The conservative Roman Catholic media agency Zenit published a lengthy interview Jan. 24 on the alleged parental and social origins of homosexuality. The sole subject...
- [Chambers Vs. Signorile: Ex-Gay on Gay Radio](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/chambers-vs-sig/): Exodus executive director Alan Chambers was a guest on gay author and activist Michelangelo Signorile’s radio show Jan. 27. Chambers’ blog entry about the show...
- [Courage: Ron Belgau on Catholicism And Chastity](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/courage-ron-bel/): Ron Belgau of Courage Seattle gave a talk at Georgetown University last week: “The Love That Does Not Count the Cost: A Biblical Reflection on...
- [Morons.org on Taxpayer Handouts to Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/moronsorg-on-ta/): Nick of Morons.org doesn’t appreciate Focus on the Family’s effort last week to steer federal funding of faith-based initiatives.
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Overlawyered](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/ex-gay-watch-ov/): Overlawyered.com is a blog that tracks the high cost and the threat to liberty posed by Americans’ habit of suing one another instead of discussing...
- [Ex-Ex-Gay Takes Comedy on the Road](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/ex-ex-gay-takes/): Performer Peterson Toscano takes his one-man show, “Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House — How I Survived the Ex-Gay Movement!”, to Washington,...
- [Wayne Besen on Faith-Based Prisons](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/wayne-besen-on/): In an op-ed column for The Tallahassee Democrat, anti-ex-gay activist Wayne Besen warns that Florida’s plan for a faith-based prison may lead to favoritism for...
- [Private Ad Firm Rejects Ex-Gay Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/private-ad-firm/): Stephen Bennett Ministries says it merely wanted to post an ex-gay billboard in Albany, the capital of New York state: The Stephen Bennett Ministries billboard...
- [Focus/Family: How to Treat Gay Loved Ones?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/focusfamily-how/): Blogger Jayelle Wiggins attended Love Won Out in Orlando in November 2001, then wrote up her experience. Recently, Focus on the Family surveyed her on...
- [Taxpayer Handouts to Ex-Gays — Yes Or No?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/taxpayer-handou/): The following media outlets cover an uproar over Focus on the Family ex-gay activists’ appearance at a Congressional hearing on funding of faith-based initiatives: The...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Reopens](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/ex-gay-watch-re/): The boxes are unpacked in D.C., and two very helpful Comcast representatives finally connected us to the ‘Net today, after the company bureaucracy had spent...
- [Greed Is Good? Focus on the Family Agrees…](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/greed-is-good-f/): … with an author who praises profit motive and self-interest as Christian motives to advance society.
- [Blogging And Libel](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/blogging-and-li/): For our fellow bloggers out there, a brief primer on libel and blogging. The Libel Defense Resource Center has an FAQ page. Here’s an excerpt:...
- [Ex-Gay Minister Threatens Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/ex-gay-minister/): The first threat occurred here. The second threat occurred here in response to an earlier posting. XGW discusses the legalities of blogging and libel here.
- [Ex-Gay Watch Moving to D.C.](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/ex-gay-watch-mo/): Readers have noticed activity slowing to a trickle. The reason is that XGW is moving to Washington. We’ll be moved in, and ready to blog...
- [Ex-Gay Spokesman: No ‘Division’ From Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/ex-gay-spokesma-3/): On Dec. 9, Ex-Gay Watch observed that Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas had complained publicly about being quoted out-of-context by Focus on the Family. The next...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Say Rosie Exploits Children](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/exodus-ex-gays-5/): Exodus International spokesman Randy Thomas accuses homosexuals of exploiting children. Specifically, he says Rosie O’Donnell is exploiting children by helping the bullied gay youths at...
- [Sojourners: ‘God Is Not a Republican… Or a Democrat’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/sojourners-god/): Blogger Chuck Currie reprints yesterday’s press release from Sojourners for takebackourfaith.org. How has the love of Jesus, the Prince of Peace – and his good...
- [A Silent Protest: How Gay-tolerant Families Might Respond to Ex-gay Talk of God’s Hate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/a-silent-protes/): Stephen Bennett defends his hostility to gay parents, their families, and supportive straight parents during his Aug. 7 protest in Provincetown, Mass. Other online coverage:...
- [Pro-exgay Prof Defends Ad, Blasts GLAAD](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/pro-exgay-prof/): The Exodus web site features a press release penned late last week by Warren Throckmorton. Instead of explaining or defending the odd language and overly...
- [Gay Blogger to Kerry Supporters: Wake Up!](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/gay-blogger-to/): Patrick Connors is guest blogging at the Gay American blog. Like XGW, he is becoming unhappy with John Kerry. It is the will of the...
- [Reflections on Gay Family Week in Provincetown](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/reflections-on/): Paul E. Keith wrote about Stephen Bennett’s demonstration in Provincetown, Mass., over the weekend. Since then, Paul has reflected some more, and writes: My original...
- [New Study: Male Sexual Orientation Influenced By Prenatal Factors, Birth Order](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/new-study-male/): A newly published study suggests sexual orientation in males is influenced by prenatal development. Blanchard, R. (2004). Quantitative and theoretical analyses of the relation between...
- [Soulforce Local Group Confronts Antigay Catholic Group Courage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/soulforce-local/): Virginia Stephenson of Soulforce Albuquerque provides a first-hand account of her group’s encounter with Courage, a Catholic organization that promotes chastity among same-sex-attracted individuals. Courage...
- [Kids, Clowns, And Prayers Confound Ex-gay Stephen Bennett in P’town](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/kids-clowns-and/): Paul of Gay Christian Network provides a first-hand account of activist Stephen Bennett’s ex-gay leafletting effort in Provincetown, Mass.
- [Off-topic: ‘Are Liberal Christians Phony?’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/off-topic-are-l/): David Batstone is the executive editor of Sojourners, an evangelical Christian magazine with a history of pro-life, pro-human-rights, antipoverty and antiviolence activism rooted in the...
- [Off-topic: Morality of the Cherry-pickers?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/off-topic-moral/): Tommy Tomlinson of The Charlotte Observer (free subscription required) comments on Catholic bishops who pick and choose which Biblical moralities to uphold and which to...
- [‘Hate Crime’: Kirk Talley’s Extortionist Sentenced](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/hate-crime-kirk/): Find the most recent XGW coverage of Kirk Talley here. August 6, 2004 The antigay Southern Baptist who attempted to extort money from southern gospel...
- [Missouri Votes Against Existing Families with Gay Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/missouri-votes/): Jason Kuznicki of Positive Liberty sums it up, adding that single parents are starting to turn against Bush.
- [Ex-gay Stephen Bennett in P-town on Saturday](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-stephen-3/): Time to follow up on Stephen Bennett’s plans to bring Bible gift bags to gay and lesbian families and their children in Provincetown Massachusetts this...
- [Lutherans Concerned: ‘Is Ex-gay a False Hope?’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/lutherans-conce/): Lutherans Concerned is selling this 15-minute video for $12 (plus $3 for shipping and handling). At $1 per minute, I think I’ll wait for a...
- [Promise And Problems At Portland Fellowship](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/promise-and-pro/): XGW reader Norm notes that John Paulk is no longer listed on the staff of Portland Fellowship. And the Fellowship’s founder, Phil Hobizal, remains on...
- [Latest Victim of ABC’s John Stossel](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/latest-victim-o/): Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) reminds us that antigay activists like Alan Chambers aren’t the only victims of ABC commentator John Stossel. This time,...
- [ABA Reports on Virginia Ban on Civil Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/aba-reports-on/): The American Bar Association reports on legal expert reactions to a Virginia law, enacted July 1, which voided gay civil unions — and, some say,...
- [Gay Intolerance of Christians in Sweden?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/gay-intolerance/): Numerous culture warriors in July pointed to Sweden’s enforcement of laws against antigay defamation as proof that all gay activists are intolerant of antigay Christians....
- [Who’s Politicizing Gay Parenting? Certainly Not (ahem) FRC](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/whos-politicizi/): The Family Research Council takes issue with the American Psychological Association again over gay parents. The FRC declines to link its readers to last week’s...
- [Focus/Family Criticizes Democrats for Abstaining on Gay-marriage Policy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/focusfamily-cri/): A couple weeks ago, Christianity Today reported that Focus on the Family is blurring the line between its tax-deductible operations and its partisan political advocacy...
- [Christian Libertarians? Sometimes Not](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/christian-liber/): Jon Rowe comments that Christian Reconstructionists have infiltrated libertarian circles by labeling themselves “Christian libertarians.” Unlike real libertarians who wish to eliminate big government, however,...
- [Illinois Church Sign Sparks Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/illinois-church/): The church sign lacked both originality and insight: “God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve” and “Marriage is between a man and a...
- [Big-government Resolution to Support Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/big-government/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays is rallying support for U.S. House and Senate resolutions supporting tolerance for “former homosexuals and lesbians.”
- [Scary Places Frem 20,000 Feet](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/scary-places-fr/): Aerial view of Washington’s Dupont Circle. I see upscale shoppers and workers sipping chais or chowing on wraps. Ben claims to see a place where...
- [Psychotherapist Joe Kort on Ex-gay ‘extreme Makeovers’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/psychotherapist/): In late June, web site and the Gay Spirituality blog, Michigan psychotherapist Joe Kort offered his own lengthy clinical and personal assessment of reparative therapies....
- [Wayne Besen Responds to Ex-gay Ad Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/wayne-besen-res/): Here is activist/author Wayne Besen’s press release.
- [Andrew Sullivan: Christ-centered Faith Vs ’subordination’ of Women](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/andrew-sullivan/): Responding to an e-mail defending the subordination of women, Andrew Sullivan writes: The strength to be subordinate! And this comes from a religious tradition that...
- [L.A. Times Publishes Full-page Ex-gay Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/la-times-publis/): Exodus announces the second ex-gay ad, published today in the L.A. Times. (Here’s other XGW coverage of the Exodus ads.)
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Discussed Elsewhere](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/ex-gay-watch-di/): Dalai Banana discusses the allure of spiritual regression (OK, this is my own spin) — the temptation to limit oneself to an immature, beginner-level spirituality...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Site Updates](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/ex-gay-watch-si/): Bit by bit, I’m updating old sections of the site. Here are updated entries and their revision dates: July 20, 2004 Exgay Darryl L. Foster...
- [Cincinnati Background Info](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/cincinnati-back/): I figured I’d dig around for a little background info on Cincinnati Ohio, where Exodus published a full-page ad in the Cincinnati Enquirer on Thursday.
- [Exodus Ad: Question Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/exodus-ad-quest/): Exodus International has launched an ad campaign starting with a full page in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Headlined, “I Questioned Homosexuality,” its theme is also reflected...
- [Discussion: Fluidity in Sexual Orientation](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/discussion-flui/): I really appreciate the depth and range of insights coming through the comments on the flexibility and fluidity post. For those who follow new posts...
- [Flexibility And Fluidity: Personal Reflection](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/flexibility-and/): A good discussion has ensued under the Gay Story With an Ex-Gay Theme post. I want to continue that with my thoughts on the flexibility...
- [Stephen Bennett Updates](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/stephen-bennett-3/): Two months ago we took a look at Stephen Bennett Ministry’s (SBM’s) fundraising efforts for an evangelism trip to Provincetown MA. At that point, the...
- [A Gay Story With an Ex-gay Theme](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/a-gay-story-wit/): The July issue of Instinct Magazine (on newsstands only, not online) includes a piece titled “Meet The World’s Most Boring Homo,” by Parker Ray. It...
- [Gay Marriage Helps Taxpayers? FRC Skips A Heartbeat](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/gay-marriage-he/): The Congressional Budget Office said gay marriage would, on the whole, benefit U.S. taxpayers. The Family Research Council responded, as Scott Lewis notes, with non...
- [Liberal Catholic Analysis of Courage Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/liberal-catholi/): A liberal Catholic blogger thoughtfully and methodically analyzes the recent and sometimes stereotypical reasoning of Ron Belgau, who is an activist in Courage, the Catholic...
- [Focus/Family Smears Moderate Evangelicals As Leftists](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/focusfamily-sme/): Focus on the Family attempts to smear two leading evangelicals — Tony Campolo and Jim Wallis — as New Age leftists. Both evangelists have spent...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Agree: Constitution’s Defenders Are Anti-Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/exodus-ex-gays-9/): Exodus, the Orlando-based network of ex-gay activists, joins the American Family Association, Focus on the Family, and other anti-tolerance organizations in inventing a remarkably blatant...
- [Attack on Antigay Preacher: Focus Twists Facts](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/attack-on-antig/): Focus on the Family, which opposes unfettered free speech for gay-tolerant viewpoints, digs up a 2001 incident in Britain, in which an antigay street preacher...
- [Focus on the Family Profiting From Son of Sam?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/focus-on-the-fa-13/): David Berkowitz murdered six people and severely injured others during a 1970s killing spree. Now ex-gay movement marketer and underwriter Focus on the Family is...
- [Some Things Never Change](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/some-things-nev/): This month, my job changed, my salary rose, my office moved… but ex-gay activists remain as committed to conflict, resentment, and tired old refrains as...
- [Former Ex-Gay Returns to NYC with One-Man Satire](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/former-ex-gay-r/): Former New Yorker Peterson Toscano, who endured 17 years of ex-gay reparative therapy in Manhattan and elsewhere, returns to the city to present his one-man...
- [The Politics of Science: Distinguishing Between Love And Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/the-politics-of/): If love and sexual desire are distinct experiences with distinct and separate biological underpinnings, then what does that mean for the ethics and politics of...
- [Reagan’s Loose Cannon: Ex-Gay Leader Stands By Oliver North](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/reagans-loose-c/): Founded as a day for Americans of all faiths, the National Day of Prayer is now closely tied to Focus on the Family. It is...
- [NYT Columnist on GOP Convention’s Gay-Aversion Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/nyt-columnist-o/): New York Times columnist Frank Rich comments today on the GOP convention organizers’ floundering effort to administer “gay-aversion therapy” to the city of New York.
- [FRC: Getting Straight the Research on Homosexuality?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/frc-getting-str/): Someone recently wrote to XGW, requesting a copy of Getting It Straight: What the Research Shows About Homosexuality. FRC’s description of the booklet is not...
- [Briefly: Remembering Patrick Cusick](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/briefly-remembe/): Patrick Cusick, 72, a longtime gay rights activist and an active participant in the 1960s black civil rights movement, died May 10. The June 4...
- [Psych Advice for Gays And Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/psych-advice-fo/): Psychotherapist Joe Kort wrote a book, published last year, titled 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Improve Their Lives. What smart things does...
- [Wayne Besen: ‘Doom’ for Gay Republicans](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/wayne-besen-doo/): Wayne Besen, author of Anything But Straight about the ex-gay movement, comments in a June 4 op-ed in The Washington Blade about the difficulties facing...
- [Throckmorton Tells Mental Health Pros to Host Antigay Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/throckmorton-te/): Warren Throckmorton, a professor at a Bible college in Pennsylvania, is frequently cited as a scholar by PFOX and other ex-gay political activists. In an...
- [Scattered Words: Ex-Gay Blogger](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/scattered-words/): Twenty-two-year-old D.C.-area blogger Ben at Scattered Words exemplifies the agreeable ex-gay Christian: Someone who pursues an ex-gay sexual and spiritual path primarily because it’s right...
- [Ex-Gay Anne Paulk: Who Owns Traditional Values?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/ex-gay-anne-pau/): In a June 1 op-ed column in The Oregonian (Portland), Exodus board member, author and Focus on the Family associate Anne Paulk reacts to an...
- [Pediatricians, Sexual Orientation, And Adolescence](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/pediatricians-s/): The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association on June 2 applauded the publication of an American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement, “Sexual Orientation and Adolescence,” in...
- [Mel White on Falwell, Bush, And Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/mel-white-on-fa/): Pridesource.com today published an interview with the Rev. Mel White, head of Soulforce, the U.S. network of gay-affirming, faith-based, nonviolent activist organizations. White has much...
- [Ex-Gay Activist Seeks Mutual Respect in the Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/ex-gay-activist/): Chad W. Thompson is a rising individual in the ex-gay movement. Formerly a media specialist for the Iowa Family Policy Center, Thompson is the founder...
- [‘Anything But Straight’ Book A Finalist for Two Awards](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/anything-but-st-2/): Chicago’s Windy City Times interviewed gay activist Wayne Besen on June 2. Besen’s book about the ex-gay movement, Anything But Straight, was nominated for the...
- [Focus/Family Invites Anecdotes on Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/focusfamily-inv/): James Dobson of Focus on the Family is releasing a new antigay/exgay book, “Marriage Under Fire,” in mid-June.
- [Robert Knight’s One-Eyed View of Hate Crimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/robert-knights/): In a May 29 essay at the WorldNetDaily web site, reprinted four days later at Concerned Women for America, Robert Knight blasts a newly proposed...
- [Ex-Gay: Visibility ‘Glorifying the Homosexual Lifestyle’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/ex-gay-visibili/): Ex-gay quote of the day, from Focus on the Family’s daily CitizenLink e-mail, regarding MTV’s new gay cable network: Melissa Fryrear, gender issues analyst at...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: A Glance At the News](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gay-watch-a/): Democratic Catholic Lawmakers Warn Bishops From The Washington Post: Forty-eight lawmakers, including several who are anti-abortion, warned the bishops not to harm the church by...
- [Exodus Double-Speak on Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/exodus-double-s/): In his early movie, Bananas, Woody Allen’s character Fielding Mellish complains: This trial is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham...
- [Exodus Leader: Gay Elite Kidnapped Brown Anniversary](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/exodus-leader-g/): Exodus International‘s executive director, Alan Chambers, writes a personal blog titled Just Think! Encourage it in others. Demand it of yourself. In an entry yesterday,...
- [Ex-Gays And the (Right-Wing) Morning News](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gays-and-the-2/): Oliver Griswold of The Morning News did for 30 days what some ex-gay activists do for their entire adult lives: Live solely on an all-reactionary...
- [MinistryWatch Analyzes Finances of Ex-Gays, Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ministrywatch-a/): The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability monitors the financial integrity of evangelical Christian ministries on an annual basis. Christianity Today notes this week that ECFA’s...
- [Ex-Lesbian Staffer At Focus on the Family to Debate Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-lesbian-staf/): Via e-mail from Focus on the Family today: Former lesbian Amy Tracy and Focus anti-marriage activist Glenn T. Stanton will debate against marriage for gay...
- [Ex-Gay Tim Wilkins: Bridge-Builder?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gay-tim-wilk/): Ex-gay activist Tim Wilkins of Wake Forest, N.C., spotlights an effort that he made to establish friendly rapport with gay activists in Tucson, Ariz. His...
- [Ex-Gay Greg Quinlan: Homosexuality A Personality Disorder](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gay-greg-qui-2/): Ten speakers with diverse perspectives on gay rights debate before high school honors students in the Toledo area on May 10. Among the speakers was...
- [Christians Seek Mutual Understanding About Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/christians-seek/): While the leadership of the Exodus International ex-gay network opposes dialogue that might lead to mutual understanding between gay and ex-gay people of faith, especially...
- [Ex-Gay Selects CD Partner with Ties to Racism, Anti-Semitism](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gay-selects/): Ex-gay activist Stephen Bennett enthusiastically promotes his antigay CD as a joint project with World Net Daily. As it happens, the current issue of the...
- [Survey Casts Doubt on Ex-Gay Protests of ‘Liberal’ Media](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/survey-casts-do/): Greg Valiga notes a Media Matters survey finding that “a plurality of the American electorate has concluded that conservatives have the most power and influence...
- [Ex-Gay Spokesman Pans Sexual Abuse in Iraq](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gay-spokesma-5/): U.S. military intelligence officials broadly and systematically authorized or tolerated abuse against Iraqi detainees. That much is made clear by the International Committee of the...
- [Stephen Bennett Plans $50K Evangelism Trip to Provincetown](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/stephen-bennett-2/): Last year Stephen Bennett Ministries (SBM) chartered a bus and took 30 Christians from Connecticut to evangelize gays and lesbians vacationing in Provincetown, MA for...
- [Bureaucrats And Bathhouses Vs. AIDS](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/bureaucrats-and/): While Los Angeles bureaucrats and bathhouses drag their feet, the pro-gay AIDS Healthcare Foundation is demanding that city bathhouses either clean up or shut down....
- [Aversion Therapy Survivor Reports on Love Won Out in Vancouver](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/aversion-therap/): Toronto Star reporter David Graham reports from the Love Won Out conference over the weekend, comparing and contrasting it with his experience as a voluntary...
- [Tradition Vs. ‘Traditional Values’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/tradition-vs-tr/): Dalai Banana offers a wonderful reflection on tradition. Genuinely traditional cultures offer some extreme advantages — and disadvantages — over the largely traditionless cultures of...
- [Dr. Satinover Politicizes Science to Advocate Discrimination](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/dr-satinover-po/): CPT_Doom provided a lot of the info and some of the writing for the following. Thanks, CPT. — Mike A. == Jeffrey Satinover, one of...
- [The Way of the Cross…](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/the-way-of-the/): … is not culture war. A long, thoughtful post from a progressive Christian, Catholic perspective. (Upon opening the page, you may need to scroll up...
- [Bulletin! Most Evangelicals Are Not Evil](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/bulletin-most-e/): Few Christian evangelicals are culture warriors. This is a fact, though one might hear otherwise from reactionaries (like James Dobson and Alan Chambers) who claim...
- [University of Minnesota Staffer’s Ex-Gay Testimony: A Work in Progress](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/university-of-m/): Minnesota’s Six Foot Pole pointed me to the ex-gay personal story of Michael David Wallen, an athletics staffer at the University of Minnesota. If Wallen...
- [Stephen Bennett Markets WorldNetDaily Antimarriage CD](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/stephen-bennett/): Ex-gay and antigay movement leaders see profit in the battle against marriage and civil unions for gay couples. As Stephen Bennett sees the situation, one...
- [Randall Terry And Gay Son Jamiel Revisited](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/randall-terry-a/): I finally found a newsstand copy of the May issue of Out magazine, featuring an interview with antiabortion activist Randall Terry’s gay son Jamiel. I’ll...
- [Ex-Gays Used As Weapon Against Tolerant Students in Illinois](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gays-used-as/): Students who contemplatively or prayerfully honor a “Day of Silence” in protest against antigay violence and harassment in the schools should be punished, according to...
- [Bigotry Toward Berkeley: Lessons Not Learned By Ex-Gay Director](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/bigotry-toward/): Earlier this month, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers charged into Berkeley, Calif., determined to thwart hordes of hateful and violent liberals. What he found, but...
- [Exodus Exgays Bend the Golden Rule in Tennessee](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/exodus-exgays-b/): Rhea County, Tenn., made headlines a couple weeks ago when it sought to pass laws to arrest the county’s homosexual residents and run them out...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Administrative Note](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-watch-ad/): I spent the weekend catching up on matters at “the other site” that I work on. I’ve got plenty of XGW e-mail and news to...
- [Focus on the Family’s Battle Against Research on Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/focus-on-the-fa-12/): Focus on the Family must be satisfied with what little scientific study has been done on gays and ex-gays. What makes me say that? Well,...
- [Antigay Math on Gay Couples Doesn’t Add Up](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/antigay-math-on/): The Exodus media blog cites a new press release promoting the Gay and Lesbian Atlas, an almanac of facts and figures about gays in America....
- [Ex-Gay Network’s Favorite ‘Secular’ Newspaper](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-networks/): That newspaper is The Washington Times, of course. And Kevin Drum notices that something is amiss with the policies on accurate reporting at Exodus’ favorite...
- [Exodus Ex-Gay Director Insults Lutheran Presiding Bishop](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/exodus-ex-gay-d/): In an April 8 news release, Exodus International executive director called upon the “true Body of Christ” — fundamentalists — to sign a petition demanding...
- [Berkeley Marriage Symposium Features Ex-Gay Director](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/berkeley-marria/): Exodus International executive director Alan Chambers appears today at a symposium on same-sex marriage at the University of California-Berkeley. The symposium program places Chambers on...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays: Outlaw Homosexual Parenting](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/exodus-ex-gays-8/): In an April 16 issue of “Media Spotlights” that contains numerous errors of basic grammar as well as fact, Exodus International says: 1) The American...
- [Focus/Family Sees Gay Marriage As Evil Conspiracy to Silence All Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/focusfamily-see/): A couple months ago, Focus on the Family exgay operative and Exodus chairman Mike Haley begged a gay-tolerant, largely Christian audience at Vanderbilt University for...
- [Bob Enyart Interviews Gay-Marriage Author](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/bob-enyart-inte/): Gay author Jonathan Rauch is touring the nation to promote his new book, “Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and...
- [Ex-Gay News Brief: Wayne Besen Book Tour Visits Charleston, S.C.](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-news-bri/): The Charleston Post and Courier on April 14 briefly noted gay activist/author Wayne Besen’s then-upcoming speech April 15. Besen is touring the country to promote...
- [Ex-Gay Stephen Bennett, Feature Writer for Far-Right Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-stephen-2/): My mind is getting slow — time for me to pop some Paxil. I knew that Stephen Bennett has been publishing articles about his victimization...
- [Anti-gay Parents Say Satire = Evidence](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/anti-gay-parent/): The Thames Valley District school board in London, Ontario was considering expanding its safe schools program to include gay and lesbian students. A parents group,...
- [New Science Study Directed At Therapists of Ex-Gays, Change-Seekers](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/new-science-stu/): The April issue of the APA journal Professional Psychology: Research & Practice (Vol. 35, No. 2) includes an article, “Treating Patients Distressed Regarding Their Sexual...
- [Exodus Says Gay Couples Costly to Co-Workers’ Health Premiums](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/exodus-says-gay/): The spokesman for much of the ex-gay movement wants America’s workers to resent gay couples because, he says, they’re AIDS-infected and will cost their co-workers...
- [PFOX Asks Cheneys to Support Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/pfox-asks-chene/): Wayne Besen’s commented last week on the furor over John Kerry mentioning Mary Cheney’s sexual orientation — a public disclosure that was based on her...
- [‘Gays Are Heterosexuals with Homosexual Problems’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/gays-are-hetero/): Oct. 21, 2004, on the PFOX Yahoo group (closed to non-members, and not archived): “No one is gay to begin with. We are all born...
- [Exodus: Vote for Absolute Right Vs. Absolute Wrong](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/exodus-vote-for/): Here are some excerpts from the October 2004 issue of the Exodus newsletter. Unfortunately, Exodus does not make its newsletter available online. Boldface print was...
- [Plain Dealer Skims the Surface of Exgay Science Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/plain-dealer-sk/): In reporting on the scientific debate over sexual orientation — what causes it, can it be changed — Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper interviews an Ohio...
- [Wayne Besen Questions Exgay Stephen Bennett’s Ties to Demon-deliverance Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/wayne-besen-que/): Here is a press release dated today from Wayne Besen. Author Calls on Ex-Gay Leader to Explain Involvement with Bizarre, Backwoods Demon Deliverance Cult Stephen...
- [Homosexuality And Pedophilia: The False Link](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/homosexuality-a/): By Joe Kort, MSW Originally published in “In the Family” magazine, Fall 2003 I thought I would publish this here on this site as I...
- [‘How an Ex-gay Ministry Set Me Free’ to Be Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/how-an-ex-gay-m/): Credibility suffers a bit whenever identity can’t be verified, but this person’s anonymous testimony at GayHealth.com is still worth reading, because it exemplifies a common...
- [Quaker Remembers Fundamentalism And Two Exgay Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/quaker-remember/): Beppe (Joe G.), a Quaker blogger, shares some of his journey through two exgay ministries. One of them, OutPost, was led at the time by...
- [Antigay Parents Group Asks Why the Lack of Support From Kerry/Edwards](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/antigay-parents/): Aggrieved-antigay-relatives group PFOX complains that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has been strangely quiet on the issue of equal treatment for former homosexuals. Said [executive...
- [Catholic Antigay Teaching And Heterosexism](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/catholic-antiga/): Gay-spirituality blogger Joe Perez discusses Catholic moral theology and homosexuality with chastity advocate, Courage member and author David Morrison. Joe’s reflections are remarkably civil. I...
- [On the Consistency of Abstinence And Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/on-the-consiste/): Pro-feminist Christian blogger Hugo Schwyzer comments on a consistent ethic of desire that supports both abstinence and gay marriage.
- [Irrational E-mail](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/irrational-e-ma/): The recent e-mail message was short, and completely devoid of substantiation: Mr. Editor Person- Umm… yes… I know you will dismiss me as a conspirator...
- [Houston Weekly Profiles Ex-gays, Ex-exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/houston-weekly/): The news and entertainment weekly Houston Press profiles exgays in its Oct. 14 issue. Sometimes sarcastic, often serious, the article balances the journeys of several...
- [Vote ALL Your Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/vote-all-your-v/): People of faith remind us to vote ALL our values, not just hot-button issues.
- [Citing Extremes, Exodus Protests Diversity And Tolerance in General](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/citing-extremes/): Writing for Exodus, exgay activist Nancy Brown complains that gay-tolerant and antigay activists were treated unequally at two separate events in two different states. Tolerance...
- [Wayne Besen Says Cheney Family Humiliated Daughter Mary](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/wayne-besen-say/): Gay author/activist Wayne Besen comments on the contrived hullaballoo over Mary Cheney, the openly lesbian daughter of the vice president who formerly served as gay...
- [Ex-gay Pastor Promotes Georgia Ban on Gay Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/ex-gay-pastor-p/): The Southern Voice reports that a Georgia state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and domestic partnerships is causing division among the state’s churches. Among...
- [Exgay Comedy Show Continues National Tour](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/exgay-comedy-sh/): “Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House — How I Survived the Ex-Gay Movement,” the original one-man comedy by Peterson Toscano, continues to...
- [Focus/Family Overcounting Antigay Rally Attendance?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/focusfamily-ove/): Focus on the Family mobilized a political rally against gay couples — and in favor of antigay politicians — on the National Mall in Washington...
- [Thanks, Advocate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/thanks-advocate/): I wish to extend my appreciation to Etelka Lehoczky and The Advocate, for talking with me and mentioning Ex-Gay Watch in Lehoczky’s article on gay...
- [Exgays Claim Kerry ‘born Gay’ Remark Insults Them](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/exgays-claim-ke/): According to CNSNews.com, exgays across the spectrum are “enraged” at John Kerry’s debate remark that people could be born gay. Kerry said: “I think if...
- [Tolerance in Southern Gospel Music Land](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/tolerance-in-so/): Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley has opted to downplay the antigay extortion committed against him early this year — and to go silent about the...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Michael Marcavage of Repent America](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/ex-gay-watch-pr-5/): On October 10, 11 antigay activists affiliated with Repent America, a pro-exgay religious group, were arrested for disrupting a gay-pride festival in Philadelphia. AgapePress and...
- [Wayne Besen Criticizes Ex-gay Ad Ruling](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/wayne-besen-cri/): Focus on the Family this week won the right to post exgay ads on Tampa Bay, Fla.-area bus shelters, according to 365gay.com. Gay activist/author Wayne...
- [Science Study Boosts Asexual Pride Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/science-study-b/): “LONDON, England (CNN) — About one percent of adults have absolutely no interest in sex, according to a new study, and that distinction is becoming...
- [Study Links Genes, Male Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/study-links-gen/): “LONDON, England (Reuters) — Genetic factors, along with cultural and early experiences, influence male homosexuality, Italian scientists said on Wednesday.” One study is by no...
- [Wayne Besen Debates Author of Exgay Book](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/wayne-besen-deb/): Gay activist and author Wayne Besen debates Talbert W. Swan II, editor of the exgay book “Closing the Closet: Testimonies of Deliverance from Homosexuality.” (Previous...
- [Kirk Talley Restoration Team Leaves Key Questions Unanswered](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/kirk-talley-res/): Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley has the backing of his “restoration team” to resume a concert/ministry, according to an e-mail newsletter from the singer dated...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Begins Discussion Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/ex-gay-watch-be/): On an experimental basis, I am opening a Yahoo group to discuss exgay and ex-exgay news, politics and science. Join the XGW e-mail discussion group...
- [Washington Post Series on Gay Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/washington-post/): I have updated my original entry on Parts I and II of the Washington Post series on gay youth struggles. I’ll comment here later on...
- [‘Real Manhood’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/real-manhood/): Anabaptist/Episcopalian consistent-life blogger Hugo Schwyzer thoughtfully discusses the subject, which sadly tends to be addressed with unrealistic and counterproductive stereotypes by religious-right activists.
- [Wayne Besen Keynotes March for Matthew Shepard](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/wayne-besen-key/): Gay activist and author Wayne Besen keynotes the Chicago Matthew Shepard March, a commemoration today of the sixth anniversary of the antigay murder of Wyoming...
- [Antigay Illinoisans Rally for Discrimination; LaBarbera Rebukes Peaceful Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/antigay-illinoi/): Exgay activist Stephen Bennett lent his support Sept. 26 to an Oak Park, Ill., antigay church’s rally against marriage and civil unions for gay couples....
- [Exodus Confuses the Sex-ed Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/exodus-confuses-2/): Speaking for Exodus on Oct. 1, exgay activist Nancy Brown collects unrelated factoids from the ideologically antiliberal publication Human Events and assembles an illogical case:...
- [PFOX Sees ‘red’ Over Vandalized Exgay Billboard](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/pfox-sees-red-o/): Aggrieved-relatives group PFOX complains to the religious-right media that its exgay billboard in Richmond, Va., has been vandalized. But a closer look at the billboard...
- [Nice But Irrelevant: Exgays Exist](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/nice-but-irrele/): Prof. Warren Throckmorton and TownHall.com editor Ryan Zempel want antiliberalists to know that exgays exist. According to Zempel, Throckmorton’s exgay video I Do Exist demonstrates...
- [Antigay AFA Activist Compounds His AIDS Error](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/antigay-afa-act/): Activist Gary Glenn, of the American Family Association-Michigan, talked the religious-right news service AgapePress into distorting HIV/AIDS statistics on Sept. 22. Glenn inflated the incidence...
- [Even NYC Schools Unsafe for Same-sex-attracted Students](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/even-nyc-school/): I just stumbled across a story in today’s New York Daily News. The bottom line: Even in “liberal” school systems like New York’s, teen-age students...
- [Exgay Leader Comments on Swaggart Death Threat](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-leader-co/): After 12 days of silence about the subject, Exodus president Alan Chambers on Sept. 24 criticized Jimmy Swaggart’s Sept. 12 death threat against gay people....
- [Open Thread: Does Kerry Hope to Lose?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/open-thread-doe/): Does anyone else wonder whether the Democratic Party leadership might — through intent or apathy — be forfeiting the presidential election? Kerry/Edwards have offered no...
- [I Read You Loud And Queer!](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/i-read-you-loud/): I Read You Loud and Queer! by Joe Kort, MSW Coming out is a very hard thing to do. National Coming Out Day is October...
- [Eugene Volokh: Who Are the Real Moral Relativists?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/eugene-volokh-w/): Eugene Volokh (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars) challenges the myth that liberals are moral relativists while conservatives are paragons of moral absolutism.
- [Oklahoma Schools: Gay Hell, Recruiting Ground for Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/oklahoma-school/): Some exgay political activists like Prof. Warren Throckmorton accuse the nation’s schools of promoting “homosexuality.” They imply, usually without evidence, that pro-tolerance advocacy in education...
- [Citing Gay Boycott for Equality, Exgays Allege Elitism](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/citing-gay-boyc/): Speaking for Exodus, exgay activist Nancy Brown scolds gay people today for wanting the same things that heterosexuals take for granted: marriages, kids, trustworthiness, jobs,...
- [PFOX Erects Exgay Billboard in Virginia](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/pfox-erects-exg/): Aggrieved-relatives group PFOX has launched an exgay billboard on Interstate 64 near Richmond, Va. The billboard, an enlarged and repurposed version of its 2003 Washington,...
- [Evangelist Colson Agrees with Radical Muslims About U.S. Decadence](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/evangelist-cols/): Read Chuck Colson’s article at Christianity Today.
- [Exgay Cure for AIDS: Ignored Condoms And False Stats](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-cure-for/): (Updated Oct. 18, 2004 to reflect Gary Glenn’s assignment of blame for uncorrected factual errors in the AgapePress article.) From the religious-right propaganda service, AgapePress:...
- [Conservative Discovers Danger in Gay-marriage Ban](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/conservative-di/): Daniel A. Crane of Yeshiva University writes in Christianity Today that giving the government increased authority over marriage may seriously harm the family: “If the...
- [Gay Bloggers Defend the Freedom to Discriminate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/gay-bloggers-de/): Gay libertarian bloggers Jason Kuznicki and Jonathan Rowe have been thoughtfully debating a constitutional freedom to discriminate.
- [Wayne Besen Details Virginia Newspaper’s Exgay Bias](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/wayne-besen-det/): On September 15, gay author and activist Wayne Besen accused the Norfolk, Va., Virginian-Pilot of suppressing disturbing news about Michael Johnston (an exgay with AIDS...
- [Exgay Video Update: Relaunch During National Coming Out Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-video-upd/): I have updated the I Do Exist video page. The video has been available since June but is being relaunched as a challenge to National...
- [Exgay Mother Violates Vermont Custody Order](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-mother-vi/): Exgay mother Lisa Miller-Jenkins, who fled her Vermont civil union and took her daughter to the antigay state of Virginia, again refused to comply with...
- [Exgays Silent As Celebs Issue Death Threats Against Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgays-silent-a/): Reggae stars Beenie Man and Capleton and televangelist Jimmy Swaggart have all made front-page news with death threats against gay people. While independent and conservative...
- [Slanted Tolerance: Exgay Official Reviews Gay-marriage Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/slanted-toleran/): Conservative gay law professor and columnist Dale Carpenter debated gay marriage with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family on Sept. 16 at the University...
- [Exgay Ad in Search of a Willing Billboard](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-ad-in-sea/): An outdoor advertising firm confirmed that it refused to post exgay activist Stephen Bennett’s billboard. The ad, sponsored by the New York Christian Coalition, would...
- [Exodus Reiterates Support for Constitutional Bans Against Gay Civil Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exodus-reiterat/): Exodus president Alan Chambers participated in a Sept. 19 antimarriage simulcast sponsored by the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, the National Association of...
- [How Are ‘gay Rights’ Not ‘civil Rights’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/how-are-gay-rig/): Bose (in collaboration with Mike) here… The Washington Blade has begun a series “examining similarities and differences between the African-American civil rights movement and the...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Frank Worthen](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/ex-gay-watch-pr-4/): Frank Worthen is a grandfather of the exgay movement. He is profiled (and criticized) at length by former ex-gays in Wayne Besen’s book, Anything But...
- [Exgay Pastor Criticizes Gay Author Wayne Besen](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-pastor-cr/): In a Sept. 10 press release, exgay activist D.L. Foster defends the GOP’s exgay convention entertainer, Donnie McClurkin — and criticizes gay activist Wayne Besen,...
- [AFA, Focus on the Family Boycott Procter/Gamble](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/afa-focus-on-th/): Focus on the Family yesterday joined the American Family Association in a boycott against Procter & Gamble, which is headquartered in Cincinnati and supports a...
- [Activist Says Virginia Newspaper Suppressed Exgay Scandal](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/activist-says-v/): From today’s press release by Wayne Besen: ACTIVIST CHARGES THAT THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT SUPPRESSED INFORMATION ON EX-GAY LEADER FOR IDEOLOGICAL REASONS Puff-Piece Shows That ‘Virginian-Puppet’ Can’t...
- [Uncloseted? Rep. David Dreier, Televangelist Paul Crouch](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/uncloseted-rep/): From Daily Kos via Chuck Currie and others: BlogActive, Raw Story and Hustler magazine (ugh) have apparently outed antigay Republican Rep. David Dreier of California....
- [Ex-gay Assesses C.S. Lewis, Freud](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/ex-gay-assesses/): Randy Thomas reviews a PBS program, The Question of God, about the perspectives of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud on science and religion. In part...
- [Hugo Schwyzer on Well-balanced Masculinity](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/hugo-schwyzer-o/): Few of my friends or acquaintances consider “traditional” notions of masculinity and femininity — soccer dads and cookie moms — suitable for role modeling in...
- [Nature Vs. Nurture Debate At Evangelical Outpost](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/nature-vs-nurtu/): Joe Carter at The Evangelical Outpost launched a “gay gene” discussion that satirically touches upon the difficulties facing heterosexual couples when one partner suddenly identifies...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: In the News, Sept. 14, 2004](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/ex-gay-watch-in-4/): Hugo Schwyzer and his commenters thoughtfully analyze the Barna Research Group’s findings on high divorce rates among born-again Christians. A three-time divorcee and religious convert,...
- [The Face of Gay Americans](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/the-face-of-gay/): By Joe Kort, MSW Originally published in the Detroit Jewish News, September 2004 I am a Gay American too, just like New Jersey Gov. James...
- [Exodus Ex-gays Say California Child-abuse Bill Promotes Pedophilia](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exodus-ex-gays-10/): Exodus on Friday accused the California professional therapy community, volunteer organizations, a task force on child abuse, and state Sen. Sheila Kuehl of “promoting pedophilia.”
- [McGreevey’s Struggle Compared to Exgay Life](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/mcgreeveys-stru/): In The Psychology of the Closet: Governor McGreevey’s New Clothes, psychotherapist Jack Drescher, M.D., contrasts New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey’s struggle to come out as...
- [Biblical Morality May Be Tougher Than Exgay Pols Say It Is](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/biblical-morali/): United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie and the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice offer a timely Bible study and litany, “On Labor Day...
- [Exodus Spokesman Randy Thomas Comments on Zell Miller](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exodus-spokesma-6/): On his personal blog, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas defends Democrat Zell Miller, who spoke at the Republican National Convention in New York:
- [Exgay Chad Thompson Seeks Moderate Course on Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-chad-thom/): Exgay youth advocate Chad W. Thompson wrote a Sept. 1 article for Christianity Today, declaring “Banning Gay Marriage Is Not The Answer.”
- [Kirk Talley’s Southern Gospel Music Comeback: What Others Think](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/kirk-talleys-so/): Averyfineline.com commented a couple weeks ago with the usual insight and sensitivity, as well as some concern, about the comeback of Southern gospel music singer...
- [‘I Do Exist’: New Exgay Video By Prof. Warren Throckmorton](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/i-do-exist-new/): Prof. Warren Throckmorton of the conservative Christian Grove City College has produced a new exgay video. The 48-minute program, “I Do Exist,” features interviews with...
- [Activist Wayne Besen Criticizes New Ex-gay Book](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/activist-wayne/): Activist/author Wayne Besen today criticized a new exgay book, “Closing the Closet: Testimonies of Deliverance from Homosexuality.” The book, edited by pastor Talbert W. Swan...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: In the News, Sept. 4, 2004](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/ex-gay-watch-in-3/): In today’s New York Times, an op-ed by Michael Hout and the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley finds that Christian evangelicals are “remarkably pluralistic in their...
- [Exgay Advocates Appeal to Anglican Church of Canada](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-advocates/): In August a Canadian exgay coalition wrote a letter to the Anglican Eames Commission. The letter complains of feeling victimized and oppressed by advocates for...
- [Liberal-conservative Wars Distract Us From the Real Enemy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/liberal-conserv/): This is what I’ve been thinking about lately: The failure of the United States, and the West, to take substantive action against real terrorism.
- [Handling Homophobia: Gay Rights Or Children’s Needs?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/handling-homoph/): Handling Homophobia: Gay Rights or Children’s Needs? By Joe Kort, MSW Copyright © 2004 When people think about children, rarely is their focus on how...
- [Exgay’s Big Night At GOP Convention](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgays-big-nigh/): Tonight’s highlights (lowlights?) at the GOP convention: Bishop Keith Butler, Southfield, Mich. Outspoken opponent of marriage and civil unions for gay people (Google search) Ex-gay...
- [Ex-Gay Watch By the Numbers](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/ex-gay-watch-by/): Curious to know a little about XGW’s readership relative to other weblogs? Here’s what I have found: TruthLaidBear counts 30 unique incoming links to XGW,...
- [Off-topic: CNN Rejects Log Cabin Republican Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/off-topic-cnn-r/): BoiFromTroy reports: Cable news channel CNN is refusing to air the new “Hopes not fears” ad by the Log Cabin Republicans because images in the...
- [GOP Convention Opener Compares Gay Unions to Nazism](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/gop-convention/): I noted some time ago that the exgay network Exodus and some of its political allies periodically associate gay equality under the law with Nazism....
- [Is That Edible? FRC ‘fortune Cookies’ At GOP Convention Contain Spitballs](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/is-that-edible/): At the political organizations steered by James Dobson — Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, and Exodus, among others — insults seem to have...
- [Psychotherapists Debate “change” Via Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/psychotherapist-2/): Psychotherapist Joe Kort wrote “Queer Eye for the Straight Therapist for the May/June issue of Psychotherapy Networker. The article traces Kort’s winding road from struggling...
- [Exodus Applauds GOP Convention’s Exgay Entertainer](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/exodus-applauds/): Updated Aug. 27 to include reaction by the ex-gay network Exodus. John Aravosis first pulled together the news Aug. 26 that an antigay ideologue will...
- [Focus/Family Takes the Low Road As Cheney Defends His Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/focusfamily-tak/): By Dan Gonzales, www.modern.prosaic.nu for Ex-Gay Watch I was baffled by the Family News in Focus audio program (Windows Media, Real) even more than normal...
- [‘People Can Change’: Ex-gay, Ex-exgay Mormons](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/people-can-chan/): The Deseret Morning News profiles Glenn Wyler, founder of People Can Change, an online ex-gay ministry. The article gives due attention to Wyler’s journey, his...
- [Ex-gay Noe Gutierrez And the Matter of Mushrooms](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-noe-guti/): I’ve got bigger stories than this to report, but I’ve been busy. A couple folks gave me a gentle push about this item, though, so...
- [Evangelizing Homosexuals: Right Way, Wrong Way, Or No Way?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/evangelizing-ho/): XGW recently banned one antigay activist who disrupted the site. She felt that threatening people, making false statements, refusing to substantiate her accusations, posting off-topic...
- [Gay Male Relationships: Toads And Princes](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/gay-male-relati/): Some gay relationships are looked up to, with admiration, by gay and nongay peers alike. And like heterosexual relationships, some gay pairs serve are fodder...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Mark Yarhouse](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-watch-pr-3/): A quick glance at Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D
- [‘It’s Elementary’: Noe Gutierrez Turned Ex-gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/its-elementary/): Here’s an old story, well-known among ex-gays for a long time now; not so well-known among gays. Noe Gutierrez, a star of the safe-schools/pro-tolerance video...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Prof. Warren Throckmorton](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-watch-pr-2/): A quick overview of Warren Throckmorton
- [Ex-Gay Watch: In the News, 21-22 August 2004](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-watch-in-2/): No Milk Please offers a parody today of what makes gay people unhappy, and why people “change.” Jon Zuck of the normally peaceful and meditative...
- [Hypersensitive Over the Word ‘homosexual’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/hypersensitive/): Sean Kinsell comments today on persnicketiness over the identification of people as “gay” or “homosexual.” Both gay and antigay people can become very touchy when...
- [One Quaker’s Thoughts on Ex-gay Stephen Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/one-quakers-tho/): Joe G. of beppeblog yesterday added his own fresh thoughts on Stephen Bennett’s pro-apocalypse article for the American Family Association.
- [Exodus Announces Third Recent Ex-gay Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/exodus-announce/): Exodus announces its third recent ex-gay ad claiming “freedom” from “homosexuality.” This time the ad appears in the conservative Christian men’s magazine New Man. In...
- [Ex-gay Stephen Bennett’s Assistant Vents Against Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-stephen-4/): This morning, Janet Hensley — a volunteer for Stephen Bennett Ministries and an online "researcher" for Yahoo’s exgaydiscussion board — resumed spamming Ex-Gay Watch with...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: In the News…](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-watch-in/): George W. Bush told Larry King last week that states can provide gay civil unions. Never mind that his Federal Marriage Amendment would have (depending...
- [The Connections Between Exodus And Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/the-connections/): Mike Haley of Focus on the Family occupies the chairmanship of the Exodus board of directors. His predecessor as Exodus chairman, John Paulk, was also...
- [Asia Newspaper Promotes Exgay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/asia-newspaper/): The Star, a major newspaper in Malaysia, published a package of stories about exgays on Jan. 12: Helping homosexual persons resolve long-standing issues  Circumstances may...
- [Religious Right Plans Exgay Campaign in U.S. Public Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/religious-right-9/): The exgay movement’s small publicity coup in an Asian newspaper appears to be part of a growing effort by the religious right to "prevent" homosexuality...
- [Falwell/Robertson: Sincere But Misguided — Or Fraudulent?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/falwellrobertso/): Is it "hackneyed, inappropriate, and immature" to call Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson "frauds" — particularly when they regularly lie about the positions and activities...
- [Christian Nation? Jon Rowe Weighs the Arguments](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/christian-natio/): Is the United States a Christian nation? Libertarian lawyer and college professor Jon Rowe thoughtfully and concisely weighs the arguments (and actions) of the culture...
- [Careless Or Complicit? Exodus Director on Ann Coulter’s Muslim-bashing](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/careless-or-com/): One of Alan Chambers‘ favorite pundits is Ann Coulter. She’s at the top of the Exodus president’s blogroll, and his own tone of writing often...
- [Porn Filters: Blocking the Benign, Sparing the Sleaze](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/porn-filters-bl/): Revised for clarity While surfing the ‘Net this afternoon, I stumbled by accident into my firewall’s content filtering application, which disagreed with a site that...
- [Ex-exgay Artist Announces ‘Burning Bush World Tour’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/ex-exgay-artist/): FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gay performance activist Peterson Toscano announces his 2005 “Burning Bush World Tour” which brings his original one-person ex-gay satire, “Doin’ Time in...
- [Peterson Toscano: Ex-exgay Artist Announces Winter Tour Dates](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/peterson-toscan/): Ex-exgay performance artist Peterson Toscano, whose show "Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo’ Halfway House" has been reviewed previously by XGW, announces winter tour...
- [Exgay Blogs And Accountability](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/exgay-blogs-and/): Commenters have noticed that I removed the direct navigation links to the few active exgay blogs on the Net. First, a reassurance: I will continue...
- [Antigay Parents to Catholic School: Evict the Kids](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/antigay-parents-2/): Imagine a group of Catholic parents demanding that their church school throw out the children of parents who are divorced or employed as usurers, death-row...
- [700 Club Profiles Exgay Phillip Tucker](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/700-club-profil/): The 700 Club spotlights the journey of one exgay man, Phillip Tucker. Can a single man’s anecdotes substantiate the exgay political movement’s stereotypes about same-sex-attracted...
- [The Gay Disease? Why Couples Don’t Show Public Affection](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/the-gay-disease/): In his column for Jan. 5, 2005, gay activist/author Wayne Besen examines the possible reasons why gay couples in nearly all of America remain afraid...
- [Exgay Expert Fails to Defend Arkansas Ban on Gay Foster Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exgay-expert-fa/): From 365gay.com: Finding that children are not harmed by living with gay or lesbian parents, an Arkansas court Wednesday struck down a state regulation that...
- [The Academic Freedom — to Be Ignorant?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/the-academic-fr/): Liberals often fight for the academic freedom to study topics deemed taboo. Now, CNN reports, some conservative students are battling for the academic freedom not...
- [Family Values Ploy? Harass Gay-tolerant Employers](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/family-values-p/): John Aravosis, ImpossibleMike, and Big Muddy IMC comment on the latest Alan Keyes/Larry Klayman political fundraising scam: A national shareholder campaign to force major employers...
- [Reasons Why Exgays Should Support Civil Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/reasons-why-exg/): This is an "open draft" — meaning that I welcome input in creating the list of reasons why exgays should support civil unions. I’ll be...
- [Lesbian Mom? Antigay Group Vouches for Violent Dad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/lesbian-mom-ant/): Dispatches from the Culture War continues to perceive dishonesty and outright brutality in the political religious right’s battle to split up some families where the...
- [Ex-gay Myth Disputed: Do Gay Men Have Body Image Hangups?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/ex-gay-myth-dis/): From Reuters: Both gay and heterosexual men are equally likely to aspire to an unattainable body type, or to harbor a distorted image of their...
- [Judge Bans Anti-exgay Testimony in Gay Marriage Case](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/judge-bans-anti/): 65gay.com reported Dec. 28: San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer … has told the city it cannot include arguments countering the assertions made...
- [Religious-right Criticisms of Scandinavia Disputed (again)](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/religious-right-8/): The journal Issues in Legal Scholarship published a full issue not too long ago on single-sex marriage. Among the articles is "Nordic Bliss? Scandinavian Registered...
- [Religious Right’s Failure of Action: Orthodoxy Vs. Orthopraxis](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/religious-right-7/): Episcopal seminarian Bob Griffith comments on the divide between Christians who, like the fabled Pharisees, demand "right belief" and wage war against independent thinkers and...
- [LA Times Profiles Concerned Women for America](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/la-times-profil/): Richard T. Cooper and Johanna Neuman of the LA Times profile the obsessively antigay religious-right outfit Concerned Women for America. While it cites conservative critics...
- [Official Christianity Vs. Authentic Christianity](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/official-christ/): Bishop Yvette Flunder of the United Church of Christ finds hateful rhetoric, redefined “moral values,” fear, intolerance, exclusion, racism, sexual bigotry, zeal for war, and...
- [Columnist Finds Apostasy Among the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/columnist-finds/): From numerous other blogs: Liberal columnist Jennifer Barnett Reed of the Arkansas Times demands the return of her Christian faith, stolen by amoral, greedy, hypocritical,...
- [UCC Blogger: ‘Christian’ College Kicks Out Top Student for Sexual Honesty](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/ucc-blogger-chr/): United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie links to this Washington Times story about Trinity Christian Academy in Texas. The Academy apparently admits political idolaters...
- [Exodus Again Buries Some Facts About Hate Crimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exodus-again-bu/): Last week I discussed the Exodus media blog’s distortion of hate-crimes statistics — and its unapologetic republication of violent threats against gay people. On Friday,...
- [BigFib.com Parodies PeopleCanChange.com](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/bigfibcom-parod/): BigFib reports that People Can Change has launched two websites: MostPeopleChangeBack.com and ChristiansCanChange.com I wish! The world could use some exgay activists who are broad-minded...
- [Sfweekly.com Profiles Three Unnamed Exgay Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/sfweeklycom-pro/): Sfweekly.com lampoons a trio of Northern California ex-gay ministries. One group helps parents reinforce their own stereotypes about “the gay lifestyle” that they imagine their...
- [Christianity Today Redefines Secularism](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/christianity-to/): Based on a single unidentified survey, writer David Klinghoffer helps Christianity Today redefine “secularist” as irreligious and unethical. Secularism, as I see it, is a...
- [Testing BlogJet](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/testing-blogjet/): I have installed an interesting blog client for Windows — BlogJet. Let’s give it a whirl….
- [Gay Adolescence: Does Your Gay Age Match Your Chronological Age?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/gay-adolescence/): Gay Adolescence: Does Your Gay Age Match Your Chronological Age? By Joe Kort, MSW Ex-gays love to point the finger at lesbians and gays "bad...
- [Questioning Exgays About Hate Speech](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/questioning-exg-2/): The Christmas message reprinted below is directed at the leadership of the Anglican Communion. But it is perhaps even more applicable to the U.S. exgay...
- [Focus/Family Blends Love Won Out with Politics](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/focusfamily-ble/): Dan Gonzales wrote last week: The Dec. 2 broadcast of Focus On The Family Radio features the testimony of an ex-lesbian at a Love Won...
- [Exgay Mother in Utah Fights Visitation](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exgay-mother-in/): Another Vermont civil union has ended in an exgay custody battle. According to Boston.com, exgay mother Cheryl Pike Barlow is asking the Utah court system...
- [Exodus Reacts to Methodist Trial of Lesbian Minister](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exodus-reacts-t/): Exodus regularly tells gay people to closet their sexuality, and suggests that to do otherwise lacks sexual and spiritual integrity. But for the church trial...
- [Blame Ex-exgays for Exgay Therapy Failures?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/blame-ex-exgays/): Important update, May 8, 2005: Read here. In Southern Voice (Dec. 10), Gareth Fenley comments on the exgay video "I Do Exist," developed by Warren...
- [Around the Block: Exgays in the News](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/around-the-bloc-2/): Focus on the Family cheers killers’ change of story in Matthew Shepard murder (Dec. 6) Focus’ press release, misquoting Katie Couric, is here. AgapePress helps...
- [Holiday Ripoff? Phantom Rebates At Roxio](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/holiday-ripoff/): Easy Media Creator 7 burns music, movies and data onto CDs and DVDs. I use it to back up data from my computer. The software...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Administrative Note](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/ex-gay-watch-ad-2/): Here is an automatically updated list of new web pages mentioning ex-gays, courtesy of Google. This is a possible future addition to XGW. I need...
- [New Focus/Family Campaign Against Tolerance in Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/new-focusfamily/): Exodus membership director Randy Thomas’ blog on Thursday identified Exodus’ new spokeswoman: Julie Neils, who was a spokeswoman for Focus on the Family during the...
- [The Heterosexual Questionnaire, Provided By Joe Kort, MSW](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/the-heterosexua/): The following is a tongue-in-cheek questionnaire designed to illustrate the heterosexism implied in these same questions asked of lesbians and gays. Imagine as you read...
- [Exodus: ‘When Being Gay Is Not So Merry And Bright’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exodus-when-bei/): In a Dec. 3 news release riddled with boldface print worthy of an amateur fundamentalist Bible tract, Exodus criticizes honest depictions of "gay life" and...
- [Are You a Homosexual Masochist?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/are-you-a-homos/): Are you a Homosexual Masochist? by Joe Kort Since writing my book, “10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives” in August,...
- [Draft Comment Guidelines for Exgay Discussions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/draft-comment-g/): Analysis of the latest Exodus press release (posted to their web site on most Fridays) is forthcoming. In the meantime, some draft guidelines for comments...
- [Administrative Note: TV Ban Against UCC Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/administrative/): Rather than post fresh entries here, since this issue is off-topic, I am directing interested people to UCC seminarian Chuck Currie’s weblog for updates, as...
- [PAX-TV Tonight: Exgay Says Gays Can’t Be Christian](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/pax-tv-tonight/): Exgay activist Stephen Bennett will debate whether people can be gay and Christian on PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m....
- [Religious Right’s Sen. Frist: An Unwise Investment](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/religious-right-6/): According to the Associated Press, Senate majority leader Bill Frist invested a fortune in campaign funds in lousy stocks since 2000 — and ran up...
- [Religious Right’s Awkward Christmas Boycotts](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/religious-right-5/): Dan Gonzales wrote last Friday with an update on the American Family Association and Concerned Women for America. Knight, of CWFA, claims three times in...
- [Christian Blogger Mourns Defrocking of Lesbian Minister](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/christian-blogg/): United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie writes: I have a great deal of love for the United Methodist Church and the local congregations that...
- [Anti-gay-marriage Activists Broaden Efforts Against Churches, Libraries, Colleges, Science](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/anti-gay-marria-2/): Focus on the Family and its political allies failed this week to convince the Supreme Court that marriage is imminent danger from a relative handful...
- [20/20 on Matthew Shepard: No Comment From Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/2020-on-matthew/): Responses to ABC’s 20/20 program revising history in the case of Matthew Shepard: Chris Matthew Sciabarra: God hates fags… But Shepard’s killers don’tChris Bull: Antigay...
- [Focus/Family Honors Group Accused of Felonies](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/focusfamily-hon/): Michael Marcavage and his antigay Repent America group await a Dec. 14 hearing on several felony and misdemeanor charges related to their raid against OutFest,...
- [Thanks, And an Apology: Red/blue Moral Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/thanks-and-an-a/): Apologies to Avery at southern Gospel music blog averyfineline.com for letting down my guard against the red/blue-state myth that the major media pundits seem to...
- [Double-talk on Civil Unions And Benefits](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/double-talk-on/): According to PrideSource, throughout the campaign to constitutionally ban marriage for gay couples in Michigan, antigay advocates said that Proposal 2 was "only about marriage….this...
- [Commentary: Gospels Say the Religious Right Is Wrong](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/commentary-gosp/): Rick Mercier of the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., pens a thoughtful commentary, too rarely seen in larger news media. Introductory paragraphs: I cracked open...
- [Focus on the Family Vs Kinsey Expert: You Decide](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/focus-on-the-fa-15/): Focus on the Family bases its campaign against Alfred Kinsey upon a foundation of hearsay. It may be refreshing, then, listen to NPR’s Fresh Air,...
- [Congressman Alleges Inaccuracies in Abstinence-only Programs](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/congressman-all/): This morning’s Washington Post reports: Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can...
- [Exodus ‘elitism’: Gays Who Break the Exgay Mold](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exodus-elitism/): I have quoted little from Exodus leaders Randy Thomas and Alan Chambers recently, because they repeat the same ludicrous, unimaginative, thoughtless, unresearched mantra that has...
- [Media Refuse Gay-inclusive Religious Ads](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/media-refuse-ga/): CBS, NBC, and UPN Major broadcast TV networks have refused to run an uncontroversial Christian ad campaign that emphasizes the United Church of Christ’s welcome...
- [Former APA Chief Defends Exgay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/former-apa-chie/): NARTH reports on Robert Perloff, former president of the American Psychological Association. Perloff keynoted the annual NARTH conference in mid-November. Excerpts from Perloff: I am...
- [WT: Antigay Parents Battle Mutual Tolerance](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/wt-antigay-pare/): Mutual tolerance means, "You don’t have to agree with one another, but you do have to get along." The Washington Times reported Nov. 30 that...
- [True Moral Mandate Vs Religious-right Mandate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/true-moral-mand/): Recent responses to religious-right distortions of American voters’ moral mandate: ABC reported, with no opposing viewpoints, that Coral Ridge Ministries sees the election as a...
- [How Many Gays Are There? A Lot, GQ Poll Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/how-many-gays-a/): From journalist Rex Wockner (link is not permanent — visit this week): Intriguing results in a survey conducted for GQ magazine and reported in its...
- [Report: HRC Fires Its Executive Director](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/report-hrc-fire/): Updated below. According to Christian Grantham at OutletRadio: Cheryl Jacques, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign, has been fired. According to sources that...
- [How the Grinch Stole Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/how-the-grinch/): How the Grinch Stole Marriage by Mary Ann Horton, Lisa and Bill Koontz (with apologies to Dr. Seuss) Every Gay down in Gayville liked Gay...
- [Red-state Morality? Kirk Talley Testifies At a Southern Church](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/red-state-moral/): From Kirk Talley’s e-mail newsletter today: Sunday morning I sang in Kilgore, Texas at the First Bapt Church of Danville. Pastor Freeman Pierce invited me...
- [New PFOX Ally on Maryland School Board? Not Quite Yet](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/new-pfox-ally-o/): We’ve previously addressed PFOX’s undiplomatic statements against public officials who are skeptical of exgay ideology. In the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., PFOX fought unsuccessfully...
- [Exgay Mom’s Custody Battle Continues in Va.](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/exgay-moms-cust/): Lisa Miller and her partner, Janet Miller-Jenkins, exchanged vows in a civil union ceremony four years ago in Vermont. Through artificial insemination, Lisa conceived and...
- [Ad Policy Under Fire At Washington Post](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/ad-policy-under/): The Washington Post included an antigay "magazine" insert in last Friday’s edition of the newspaper. The insert was loaded with disputed statistics, some from discredited...
- [You Belong To Me: The Truth About Sexual Abuse](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/you-belong-to-m/): “YOU BELONG TO ME” The Truth about Sexual Abuse By Joe Kort, MSW This article’s title reflects the perpetrator’s belief, that the victim now belongs...
- [FBI: 1,200 Hate Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation in 2003](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/fbi-1200-hate-c/): CNN reports that the FBI knows of six homosexuals reportedly murdered in 2003 because of their sexual orientation. The 1,200 hate crimes committed due to...
- [Dispute Over Tolerance At the University of Maryland](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/dispute-over-to/): Kevin Rector, a student at the University of Maryland, writes in an op-ed about the bigotry of a university physics department staff member, Bill Norwood,...
- [Around the Block: Exgay Headlines](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/around-the-bloc/): Half-truth = whole truth? Exodus reprints Prof. Warren Throckmorton’s recent article of half-truths about the failure rate of exgay ministries. Exodus’ headline for Throckmorton’s article...
- [Exgay Stephen Bennett to Debate Gay Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/exgay-stephen-b/): Exgay activist Stephen Bennett will debate the topic "Gay and Christian" on PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire on Saturday, Dec. 4. Other debate participants: Ron Poindexter,...
- [Exgay D.L. Foster to Debate Gay Parents on PAX-TV](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/exgay-dl-foster/): Exgay activist Darryl L. Foster will appear on Lee Strobel’s Faith Under Fire program Saturday evening, Nov. 20, on PAX TV. He will debate gay...
- [A Response to ‘Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/a-response-to-l/): From songwriter/inspirationalist Marsha Stevens via the southern gospel music blog averyfineline.com: I like Mark Lowry‘s take on the old saying. He says, "What if we...
- [Kirk Talley Sings On, Despite Resistance](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/kirk-talley-sin/): The place: Calvary Baptist Church, Hazel Park, Mich.The source: Kirk Talley’s e-mail newsletter, Nov. 15, 2004:Excerpt: I was standing backstage ready to sing when Victor...
- [Ex-Gay Or Sexual Anorexic?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/ex-gay-or-sexua/): Ex-Gay or Sexual Anorexic? By Joe Kort, MSW The term sexual anorexia isn’t a common term. Anorexic usually describes people with an eating disorder who...
- [Target of PFOX Threat Responds](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/target-of-pfox/): PFOX this month issued implicit threats against the Montgomery County, Md., school board and a committee assigned to update the school system’s sex-education curriculum. In...
- [Homo for the Holidays!](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/homo-for-the-ho/): Homo for the Holidays! By Joe Kort, MSW We gays and lesbians are still recovering from the trauma of the recent political elections; the passing...
- [Questioning Exgay Claims About Gay Health](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/questioning-exg/): Discredited researcher Paul Cameron’s rigged reports on gay health still get passed off as fact by a variety of exgay web pages, including Exodus archives....
- [Hugo Schwyzer: Straight Man, Gay Bar](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/hugo-schwyzer-s/): While heterosexual women often feel unsafe in straight bars, heterosexual male blogger Hugo Schwyzer reports no discomfort and no harassment while dancing in gay bars....
- [Wayne Besen: Democrats Betray Gays At Their Own Risk](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/wayne-besen-dem/): From Wayne Besen’s latest column: The gay movement is the canary in the coalmine for the future of the Democratic Party. If party leaders move...
- [Exgay Pundit Throckmorton Criticizes Wayne Besen](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/exgay-pundit-th/): At the social-conservative website MichNews.com, Warren Throckmorton editorializes against gay author/activist Wayne Besen. Comments about Prof. Throckmorton’s criticisms began at XGW here but should continue...
- [Antigay Protests Against ‘Kinsey’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/antigay-protest/): I mentioned briefly here that Focus on the Family has been orchestrating a national smear campaign against legendary sexuality researcher Alfred C. Kinsey — and...
- [PFOX Threatens Suburban D.C. Sex-ed Panel](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/pfox-threatens/): PFOX complains in a Nov. 5 press release that exgay propaganda is being excluded from sex-ed school curricula in suburban Washington, D.C. The press release...
- [Media Coverage of Exgays And Marriage: Imbalanced?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/media-coverage-2/): Has news reporting about gay marriage been imbalanced in favor of tolerance for gay people — or are the critics and ombudsmen giving more weight...
- [Wayne Besen: ‘Piranha in the Fish Tank’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/wayne-besen-pir/): From activist/author Wayne Besen’s column for this week: Perhaps the left is guilty, as Neo-Puritans claim, of denying religion a more prominent space in the...
- [Why Don’t Gays Condemn Pedophilia? Actually, They Do](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/why-dont-gays-c/): I received this message over the weekend: From: Nina & Buzz Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:38 AMTo: editor@exgaywatch.comSubject: Your statement requested.Dear Editor,Child sex abuse,...
- [Post-election Briefs From Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/post-election-b/): From the New York Times, Nov. 9: Researchers say the religious right continues to suppress research into human sexuality. The research is aimed at reducing...
- [Poll: Voters’ Moral Values Are Not Conservative](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/poll-voters-mor/): The Washington Post last week published an exceptionally sloppy article that imagined the nation’s churches spontaneously and miraculously rebelling from the grassroots up — against...
- [Exgay Tim Wilkins: ‘I Still Love Homosexuals’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/exgay-tim-wilki/): Exgay testimonies have a way of circling the Internet. As they move around, they are re-dated and passed off as new. Tim Wilkins’ web site...
- [A Look Back: Switch to Canada?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/a-look-back-swi/): Since the election, Canada’s immigration site has enjoyed a sizable increase in traffic from worried [or interested] Americans. Should one consider emigration? Is Canada really...
- [Focus on the Family Keeps Doomsday Threat Handy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/focus-on-the-fa-14/): Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson threatened the United States with doomsday while campaigning for the re-election of George Bush. (Previous XGW coverage.) According...
- [Jewish Religion Supporting Gays And Lesbians](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/jewish-religion/): Jewish Religion supporting Marriage for Gays and Lesbians When I read anything about those suggesting or demanding that they use their faith to change their...
- [The Straight Dope on Pedophilia](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/the-straight-do/): The Straight Dope message board debates antigay activists’ claim that pedophilia is linked somehow to homosexuality. In linking to XGW’s article on the subject by...
- [Ex-gay Meet-ups Online](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/ex-gay-meet-ups/): Ex-gays have their own meet-up section for support and companionship at ex-gay.meetup.com. No need to visit right now — no one has joined.
- [How Do You Define ‘gay’ And ‘homosexual’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/how-do-you-defi/): The discussion here about the false link between homosexuality and pedophilia drifted into a debate about how different people define “gay,” “homosexual,” and “heterosexual.” I...
- [From James Dobson: Doomsday Threat And the “L” Word](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/from-james-dobs/): According to The Oklahoman, Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson last week accused Oklahoma Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Brad Carson of lying. The...
- [Comment Registration Troubles](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/comment-registr/): Two people have had difficulty registering to comment via TypePad. If you wish to comment but are encountering obstacles with TypePad, please let me know....
- [The Ex-Gay Watch Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/the-ex-gay-watc/): This old copy of the About XGW page needs a bit of a rewrite. Feedback is welcome from everyone — but especially from exgay readers...
- [Simpsons Dares to Take The “Straight Pill”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/simpsons-dares/): If there were a pill you could take that would make you straight, would you take it? Yeah, we’ve all heard this question. Tonight on...
- [Changes At Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/changes-at-ex-g/): Ex-Gay Watch has been located at exgaywatch.com for two years, but some web sites still link to an old address, exgay.blogs.com. That old address eventually...
- [PAX Hosts Peaceful Debate Between Exodus Leader, Former Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/pax-hosts-peace/): Heard on PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire, hosted by Lee Strobel, a few hours ago: Strobel:  When it comes to gays and God, there are two...
- [Exgay Leader Faces Christian Ex-exgay Actor Tonight on PAX](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/exgay-leader-fa/): Peterson Toscano appears tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m. CT/MT, on the PAX cable network’s program Faith Under Fire, hosted by Lee Strobel. Toscano,...
- [Organizations Refuse to Acknowledge Failure of Attack on Gay Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/organizations-r/): Yesterday was the “Day of Truth.” The following news and propaganda sites have no follow-up coverage today: Cybercast News ServiceWorld Magazine BlogSBC Baptist Press NewsFamily...
- [Taking Responsibility for Our Lives](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/taking-responsi/): It’s encouraging to see the spate of recent articles like this opinion piece from the Palm Springs Desert Sun, talking honestly about certain kinds of...
- [Evangelical Warns of Movement’s Materialism, Worldliness](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/evangelical-war/): Christianity Today interviews evangelical Ron Sider, who for decades has preached — better than I can — against the anticommunity individualism, legalism, materialism, worldliness and...
- [PFOX Scores Near-Miss on Hate Crimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/pfox-scores-nea/): They’ve opposed the inclusion of sexual orientation in hate crimes laws. Now they’re calling for the inclusion of former homosexuals in a Maryland hate-crimes bill...
- [Ex-Gays Join ADF’s “Day of Truth”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/ex-gays-join-ad/): Given the smashing success [sarcasm] that was “National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day” the religious right has created “Day of Truth” this Thursday following GLSEN’s...
- [A Brief History of Daniel Gonzales](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/a-brief-history/): After finding myself sending Mike numerous emails to the effect of “please post this” (including the one below) I’ve decided to join the team here...
- [Exgay Teen Radio Program a Prisoner of Its Own Rhetoric](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/exgay-teen-radi/): By Dan Gonzales Last Saturday, "Life On The Edge Live," Focus on the Family’s two-hour teen radio show, dealt exclusively with homosexuality and the guest...
- [My XGW Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/my-xgw-agenda/): In case anyone is curious, I’d like to fill you in on how I came to be an XGW contributor. It actually started with a...
- [Support for Gay Marriage Declining?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/support-for-gay/): I’m not sure if it’s true, but it has the folks at the Conservative Voice all atwitter. The press release comes complete with an approving...
- [Another Study on Gene Theory](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/another-study-o/): Covered by Agape Press and followed, of course, by the requisite bleating press release from Warren Throckmorton, denouncing the reported findings. Blah, blah, blah. On...
- [Apologies From Mike](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/apologies-from/): My real-world partner Steve and I are hosting out-of-town relatives this week. A handful of XGW readers has been sending helpful news tips via e-mail;...
- [Exgays: What Are They Good For?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/exgays-what-are/): I’m just musing here, but it occurs to me that in some ways the existence of the ex-gay movement does the gay movement quite a...
- [Gay Writer Keith Boykin, Readers Assess Exgay Darryl Foster](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/gay-writer-keit/): Gay writer Keith Boykin says that he has been receiving considerable criticism via e-mail in response to an old article criticizing exgay activist Donnie McClurkin....
- [Conservatives And Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/conservatives-a/): One thing that always strikes me when discussing gay rights with conservatives, is their underlying wish (sometimes expressed explicitly) that the whole issue will just...
- [Leaving Fundamentalism](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/leaving-fundame/): David L. Rattigan launched LeavingFundamentalism.org in mid-March, according to WHOIS. Already, Leaving Fundamentalism has numerous thoughtful articles of interest to Christians who are recovering from...
- [About Joe Kort](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/about-joe-kort/): Joe Kort, psychotherapist, has been in practice since 1985. He specializes in Gay Affirmative Psychotherapy as well as IMAGO Relationship Therapy. Joe also specializes in...
- [About Steve B. (Bose)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/about-steve-b-b/): Steve B. is a writer on alcoholism-awareness and alternative-treatment issues. He specializes in moderation management.
- [About Mike Airhart](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/about-mike-airh/): Mike Airhart is a business news editor, online content specialist, and free-lance writer. He has a B.A. in Communication. In college, he specialized in the...
- [A Constructive Alternative to Exgay Road Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/a-constructive/): "Love Won Out" had an unintended but positive effect on the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Straight and Allies organization at the University of Texas Medical Branch....
- [Media Cloud the Picture of Boy Scouts Child-porn Offender](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/media-cloud-the/): The Washington Blade’s Steve Koval notes that several news media outlets have been squeamish about discussing the nature of the child porn that was discovered...
- [Exgay Network Launches School Antitolerance Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/exgay-network-l/): Exodus has launched Groundswell 2005, a campaign that declares: Homosexual activists are using the public schools to promote dangerous life policies. How will you respond?...
- [Pro-exgay Pundit Criticizes Dear Abby](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/pro-exgay-pundi/): On March 30, pro-exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton criticized Dear Abby, who in a recent column told a parent: "It is not uncommon for the parents...
- [Gay Quaker Calls Anti-exgay Protests Counterproductive](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/gay-quaker-call/): Stop the counterprotests against ex-gays — or at least rethink them, says Michigan-based Quaker (Christian) gay-issues director Michael Gibson Faith.  In an article today at...
- [PFOX, Pro-exgay Pundit Seek Special Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/pfox-pro-exgay/): AP reported today (via Newsday) that Prof. Warren Throckmorton had been "removed" from a national advisory board of Magellan Health Services. That much appears to...
- [Bisexuality, Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/bisexuality-ex/): Jon Rowe has been blogging recently on the nature of bisexuality.  Jon’s a very smart guy and his posts always provide interesting reading–and there are...
- [Who Killed Terri Schiavo?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/who-killed-terr/): 1. Terri Schiavo. She killed herself when her bulimic behavior led to a persistent and, in time, irreversible persistent vegetative state. 2. Michael Schiavo. He...
- [About Joe Riddle](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/about-joe-riddl/): Greetings, Everyone! Thanks very much to Mike for giving me the chance to guest-blog on his site. XGW is a great resource, and I’m excited...
- [Researchers: Don’t Trouble Us with Exgay Facts](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/researchers-don/): "Atheist psychiatrist argues that gays can change," reports Christianity Today. That subheadline, a misquote, is refuted by the story’s first paragraph — which acknowledges that...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: A New Author, a Small Shift in Direction](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/ex-gay-watch-a-2/): Please welcome Joe Riddle as an author for Ex-Gay Watch. Joe has first-hand experience with the exgay movement, as a former participant in the Mormon...
- [Biased About Bias: Exodus, Focus on the Family Rant At Magellan Health](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/biased-about-bi/): TO: Ex-Gay Watch (via e-mail) CC: Focus on the Family (via e-mail) RE: Focus on the Family broadcast, 3/22/05 It’s somewhat odd that today on...
- [Exgay Pundit Threatens U.S. Judiciary Over Terri Schiavo Case](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/exgay-pundit-th-2/): Most bloggers and pundits have taken sides in the Terri Schiavo debacle, and a few have actually contributed constructively to the debate. Among them: Charles...
- [Reacting to Scandal, PFOX Changes the Subject](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/reacting-to-sca/): In a March 18 op-ed in The Washington Blade, aggrieved-parents group PFOX responds publicly to the disclosure (months ago) that its president, Richard Cohen, had...
- [Are Exgay Groups Ever Worthy of Support?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/are-exgay-group/): Jackie asked: Suppose Exodus changed their beliefs to be in line with what you described. But suppose that they continue to assert that "SOME people...
- [Factoid: American Medical Association Position on Exgay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoid-america-3/): American Medical Association position on reparative therapy and health care for the homosexual The AMA: opposes, the use of "reparative" or "conversion" therapy that is...
- [1997: Focus on the Family Co-founder Apologizes to Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/1997-focus-on-t/): PRESS CONFERENCE A statement to the press on August 15, 1997 at the Gay and Lesbian PrideCenter, 125 N. Parkside Drive Colorado Springs, Colo., Offices...
- [Factoids: Critiques of Antigay Researcher Paul Cameron](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoids-critiq/): Dr. Gregory Herek:The facts about Paul Cameron Mark E. Pietrzyk, The New Republic, October 3, 1994:Queer Science Rainbow Alliance:Paul Cameron: The conservative Christian art of...
- [Factoids: Political Assessments of Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoids-politi/): Political Research AssociatesCalculated Compassion: How the Ex-Gay movement Serves the Right’s Attack on Democracy National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, PRA, Equal Partners in FaithChallenging...
- [Factoid: Pediatric Policy on Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoid-pediatr/): American Academy of PediatricsHomosexuality and Adolescence, American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, October 1993 Confusion about sexual orientation is not unusual during adolescence. Therapy directed at...
- [Reviews: Research on the Effectiveness And Safety of Reparative Or Conversion Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/reviews-researc/): Dr. Gregory HerekAttempts to Change Sexual Orientation Douglas Haldeman, Ph.D. The Pseudo-Science Of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy(PDF format) Jeramy TownsleyBibliographies: Assessments of evidence for change...
- [Factoid: American Psychological Association Exgay Q&A](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoid-america-2/): American Psychological Association exgay Q&A The Q&A answers questions including: What Is Sexual Orientation?What Causes a Person To Have a Particular Sexual Orientation?Is Sexual Orientation...
- [James Dobson’s False Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/james-dobsons-f/): Soulforce is an interfaith organization that organizes nonviolent resistance to spiritual violence against gay and gay-tolerant individuals. In conjunction with its prayer vigil this year...
- [Factoid: American Psychiatric Association Position on Exgay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoid-america/): The American Psychiatric Association position paper (PDF format) on reparative or conversion therapiesMarch 2000 The potential risks of "reparative therapy" are great, including depression, anxiety...
- [Throckmorton Interviews Mrs. SpongeBob](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/throckmorton-in/): Pro-exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton "interviews" Mrs. SpongeBob. Throckmorton joins James Dobson in accusing the We Are Family Foundation, without substantiation, of promoting "gay rights causes."...
- [Health Provider Removes Pro-exgay Pundit From Advisory Panel](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/health-provider/): From Focus on the Family’s "Family News in Focus" radio broadcast and an accompanying article for March 3, 2005: Magellan Health Services, the largest health...
- [British Exgay Group Defends Death Penalty for Homosexuals](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/british-exgay-g/): British gay human rights group OutRage is criticizing London mayor Ken Livingstone criticism, after the mayor thanked the anti-gay Islamic StraightWay Foundation for supporting his...
- [Exgay’s Funeral Stunt Embarrasses Catholic Diocese of San Diego](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/exgays-funeral/): Revised Mar. 23, 2005 Earlier this month, American Family Association propaganda service AgapePress profiled James Hartline, an HIV-positive exgay activist. Hartline claimed to be battling...
- [Wisconsin Group to Gays: Tolerate Imprisonment](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/wisconsin-group/): Without a trace of criticism, Exodus exgay media blogger Nancy Brown promotes AgapePress’ March 4 defense of Wisconsin Christians United as a group of martyrs...
- [Activist Calls PFOX Leader Richard Cohen ‘dishonest’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/activist-calls/): In correspondence published in January 2005 by Teach The Facts, the professional American Counseling Association said it found merit in six specific ethical-misconduct charges against...
- [Focus/Family: ‘Satan Uses’ Equality Activists](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/focusfamily-sat/): News from Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out” ex-gay road show in Houston, Feb. 19, 2005. From the Galveston Daily News: Bill Maier, child/family...
- [The Ban Has Been Lifted!](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/the-ban-has-bee/): The Ban Has Been Lifted! By Joe Kort, MSW I am not talking about the government’s "Don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on gays in the...
- [Vigil Against Alleged Untruths At Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/vigil-against-a/): The faith-based, gay-affirming organization Soulforce is gearing up for a May 1 vigil at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. Soulforce contends...
- [Exgay Trackback Spam](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/exgay-trackback/): A few weeks back, I got fed up with Scattered Words’ repeated insertion of duplicate trackbacks, or links to Scattered Words, into pages at Ex-Gay...
- [Exgays in Houston: Which Side Is Being Intolerant?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/exgays-in-houst/): In a Feb. 15 American Family Association article that is reprinted as a Feb. 18 press release, exgay umbrella group Exodus accuses unnamed "homosexual activists"...
- [Oops. Exgays Hand HRC a Valentine, Thanks to Dolly Parton](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/oops-exgays-han/): A member of Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley’s exgay restoration team sang backup on a song Dolly Parton recorded a few years back, when he...
- [Facts Vs. Bias in Media Coverage of Maryland Sex Education](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/facts-vs-bias-i/): David Fishback, chairman of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education’s Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development, responds in the Washington area’s...
- [Documentary Seeks Brothers: One Gay, One Antigay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/documentary-see/): Allan Johnson wrote to Ex-Gay Watch with an update to the original post that appeared on this page. I have deleted the earlier comments, simply...
- [Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/free-speech-for/): Demanding free speech for themselves, antigay parents in inland California on Feb. 11 angrily protested free expression by high school students who chose to support...
- [Dr. Jeffrey Satinover: Sexual Orientation Is a ‘fiction’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/dr-jeffrey-sati/): In an interview with Marvin Olasky for World magazine, longtime exgay movement pundit Dr. Jeffrey Satinover argues that because: homosexuality is not a uniform attribute...
- [Alan Keyes Sets Bad Example for Antigay Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/alan-keyes-sets/): Some 69 times, the web site of exgay movement marketer and financier Focus on the Family promotes antigay politician and commentator Alan Keyes. So did...
- [Uniform Hate Crime Statistics Are Not So Uniform](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/uniform-hate-cr/): Uniform Hate Crime Statistics Are Not So Uniform By Jim BurrowayUpdated version, March 29, 2005  "Gay-slaying verdict: guilty." This was the top story on the...
- [Ex-exgay Peterson Toscano’s ‘a-musing’ Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/ex-exgay-peters/): Peterson Toscano, gay Christian (Quaker) creator of the sensitively written one-man comedy, "Doin’ Time in the Homo NoMo Halfway House," has resumed blogging. Check out...
- [Exgay Testimonial: Roberta Laurila](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/exgay-testimoni/): Exodus seems to be updating its web site’s exgay testimonials — several pages of the Exodus web site have been added or changed, according to...
- [Gay Penguins Reject Exgay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/gay-penguins-re/): Six gay male German penguins rejected advances from four hot Swedish penguinettes. From 365gay.com: "The males pined for their mates until they were reunited." In...
- [Antigay Swedish Pastor Wins Appeal in Defense of Hate Speech](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/antigay-swedish/): From The Washington Post, Feb. 12: A Swedish appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a Pentecostal pastor found guilty of violating the country’s...
- [700 Club Implies Former NFL Player Is Ex-gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/700-club-implie/): Former NFL player Roy Simmons came out as gay in 1992. (Google search.) After disappearing from the public eye for a decade, he now tells...
- [Zoo Attempts Exgay Therapy on Penguin Couples](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/zoo-attempts-ex/): 365gay.com, Feb. 8: A German zoo is trying “to cure” three gay penguin couples using a form of aversion therapy. The Bremerhaven Zoo is splitting...
- [Ex-gay Promotes Indiana Ban on Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/ex-gay-promotes/): From Dan Gonzales: Advocate OutQ News, which is broadcast on Sirius satellite radio, features a short clip of exgay activist Brad Grammar speaking in favor...
- [Wallis: Democrats Must Rediscover Pro-life Moral Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/wallis-democrat/): In an interview with Christianity Today, progressive evangelical Jim Wallis — who has argued for many years that religious fundamentalists have too much influence in...
- [Throckmorton Offers Exgay Spin on Study of Gay Genetics](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/throckmorton-of/): Pro-exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton issued the press release "New Genetics Study Undermines Gay Gene Theory" on Feb. 9. Exgay activist group Exodus International reprinted the...
- [Gay Web Sites Delink Ex-gay ‘crisis’ Line](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/gay-web-sites-d/): From the Houston Voice (Feb. 11): Four gay and lesbian Web sites that unknowingly listed the National Youth Crisis Hotline as a resource have deleted...
- [Demand for Virginia Schools to Showcase Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/demand-for-virg/): In suburban Virginia, the Fairfax County school board censured Stephen M. Hunt for using his authority as a board member to pressure principals into inviting...
- [Keith Boykin: 10 Things You Should Know About the Down Low](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/keith-boykin-10/): Keith Boykin skillfully separates facts from media hype and political propaganda.
- [The Old Design Is Back](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/the-old-design/): Until I find time to implement the new one. I welcome constructive criticism.
- [Hate Crimes: After 15 Years, What Progress?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/hate-crimes-aft/): In late 1989, I wrote the following article about hate crimes statistics. The article was published by Sojourners, a progressive Christian evangelical magazine that publishes...
- [First They Came For Bert And Ernie](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/first-they-came/): By Joe Kort(Corrected Edition) As the years go by, a growing number of cartoon characters have been forcibly "outed." I am amazed that anyone would...
- [Protecting Maryland Marriage, Pastor Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/protecting-mary/): Alas, A Blog comments today on DefendMarylandMarriage.com — another one of those antigay web sites that names none of its authors, but lobbies for discrimination...
- [What Did Dobson And SpongeBob Have in Common?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/what-did-dobson/): Religious-right organizations, including the American Family Association and Focus on the Family, launched a media frenzy last week when they criticized a pro-tolerance video starring...
- [Ex-ex-gay Profiles](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/ex-ex-gay-profi/): Sept. 26, 2000, The Advocate: Wade Richards, associate of Peter LaBarbera Nov. 24, 1998, The Advocate: Clint Trout Chris Ponticelli Mark SatterleeSame article with pictures...
- [ExGayWatch Profile: Jeremy Marks](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/exgaywatch-prof-4/): Jeremy Marks Leader of the British evangelical Christian group Courage This organization was formerly Britain’s leading ex-gay organization, but Marks has since declared ex-gay ideologies...
- [ExGayWatch Profile: Wade Richards](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/exgaywatch-prof-3/): Wade Richards Advocate story Worked with Peter LaBarbera Now ex-ex-gay. Featured prominently in Wayne Besen’s book, Anything But Straight To be continued…
- [ExGayWatch Profile: Anne Paulk](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/exgaywatch-prof-2/): Anne Paulk Husband: John PaulkLocation: Portland, Ore. Author: In a 1998 New York Times full-page ad, Paulk proclaimed, "I’m living proof that Truth can set...
- [Prof. Throckmorton Launches Exgay Internet Radio Station](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/prof-throckmort-2/): Exgay pundit and PFOX ally Prof. Warren Throckmorton launched Identity Radio on Jan. 24. By "identity," Prof. Throckmorton means the exgay political "identity" that defines...
- [PlanetOut Reports on Exgay Richard Cohen](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/planetout-repor/): In a Jan. 26 report on the professional decline of PFOX president Richard Cohen, Tom Musbach of PlanetOut interviews Ex-Gay Watch participant "Rick from Fredonia,...
- [Maryland Educators Challenge Exgay Claims](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/maryland-educat/): A group of suburban Maryland educators and parents continues to challenge claims being published by exgay pundit and PFOX ally Prof. Warren Throckmorton via the...
- [Counselors Group Confirms Exgay’s Expulsion](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/counselors-grou/): TeachTheFacts.org is a web site that defends comprehensive sex education in suburban Maryland public schools against a recent campaign by exgay and political religious-right organizations...
- [What Were You Doing During Inauguration Week?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/what-were-you-d/): Exgay leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas spent the week in Washington celebrating with a who’s who of the religious right. Thomas met, saw, or...
- [Evangelical Opposition to Protest Group Repent America](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/evangelical-opp/): Earlier this month, Exodus exgay leader Alan Chambers joined Concerned Women for America in offering support for antigay protest group Repent America — specifically, for...
- [Exgay Review of ‘Anything But Straight’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/exgay-review-of/): "Unmasking the lies of Wayne Beeson [sic]" — that’s what more-or-less-anonymous exgay blogger Ben aspires to do. But then he doesn’t do it. He and...
- [Counseling Professionals Expelled PFOX President for Ethics Violations](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/counseling-prof/): Update: The American Counseling Association confirms that Richard Cohen’s expulsion occurred in May 2002. Press ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, Jan.  25, 2005 website: www.WayneBesen.com ANTI-GAY P-FOX...
- [G-d Is Not Homophobic By The Rev. J. Alton Cressman, 1995](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/g-d-is-not-homo/): G-d is not homophobic by The Rev. J. Alton Cressman, 1995 The following article originally appeared in the Port Huron, Michigan Times Herald as a...
- [Gratitude And Frustration](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/gratitude-and-f/): I’m grateful to folks like Dan Gonzales and averyfineline, who send me factoids and tips via e-mail — or who post them directly to the...
- [Subjective Views About the Founders of Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/subjective-view/): It is often reported that two cofounders of Exodus, Michael Bussee and Gary Cooper, became lovers and left the organization. Bussee and Cooper appear together...
- [Profile: Exodus International](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/profile-exodus/): Board of Directors Mike Haley Tom ColeLiving Hope Ministries in Arlington, Texas Rev. John J. Smid, TreasurerExecutive director, Love In Action, Memphis, Tenn. Divorced and...
- [Profile: Parents And Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/profile-parents/): Family Research Council, a religious-right organization  launched and still guided behind the scenes by James Dobson, founded PFOX in 1996. Press release, 1996Profile at ReligiousTolerance.org...
- [Where’s A ‘Live-In Ministry’ Near You?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/wheres-a-live-i/): Exodus calls them “live-in ministries” and helps market them. Critics call them “ex-gay camps” or compulsory “brainwashing” facilities. Whatever one calls them — we’d like...
- [AgapePress Quotes Local Bigot Who Offers Substantiation Based On His Collection Of Private Files](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/agapepress-quot/): Today the Agapepress gleefully reports homosexuals have been arrested for public sex at Richfield County Park in Michigan. Gary Glenn, the apparent head of the...
- [Religious Right Slips Up Again](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/religious-right-10/): Shhhush… don’t tell anyone but the religious right’s charade slips up again regarding their motives for supporting the ex-gay cause. (Hint: It has to do...
- [Ex-Gay Ad Policy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/ex-gay-ad-polic/): Several readers have noticed ex-gay ads appearing on the margins of the Ex-Gay Watch home page. This web site does have the ability to filter...
- [Why It Sucks to Be a Gay Kid of Fundamentalist Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/why-it-sucks-to/): Reflecting on a June 19 New York Times article about the rapid growth of politically organized, grassroots antigay bigotry, Joe Riddle explains — from his...
- [Note From Mike](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/note-from-mike/): Dear Reader, If you have some writing experience, convey messages with a civil and factual tone, and believe you could improve on our content (such...
- [Note From Daniel](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/note-from-danie/): Note From Daniel: Please send news, story leads and tips to Mike through this weekend. I really appreciate the flood of helpful emails readers have...
- [Love In Action Statement On Children Sent To LIA’s “Refuge” Ministry Program Against Their Will](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/love-in-action-3/): Love In Action had their press conference today and as of my lunch break here in LA only a few statements had been posted online...
- [Love In Action To Hold Press Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/love-in-action-2/): [Update: Press conference has been held, to view analysis click here.] Love In Action has finally announced a press conference for Thursday morning. It will...
- [Tell The Gay Media To Get Off Their Duff](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/tell-the-gay-me/): Ok folks, I’m sick of the national gay media NOT covering the current Love In Action fiasco. How about we take some of that energy...
- [Friend Or Foe? How Must We Respond to Embarrassing Quotes](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/friend-or-foe-h/): Blogger Mike Ditto confirms that a March 1994 article in We The People quoted former Love In Action participant Tom Ottosen recalling LIA director John...
- [Put Warning Label on Homosexuals, Exgay Ad Sponsor Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/put-warning-lab/): The New York Christian Coalition — which last year sponsored an exgay billboard on behalf of exgay activist Stephen Bennett — now says that gay...
- [Comparing ‘Love In Action’ to A Cult](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/comparing-love/): Blogger Mike Ditto itemizes ways in which the Love In Action rules for participants resemble the rulebook of a cult.
- [Censorship? Anonymity Requested Over Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/censorship-anon/): I am moving the comments about this issue to their page of origin here. I believe that concerns over one individual, “Zach,” are a distraction...
- [Troy, Michigan High School Gay Poster](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/troy-michigan-h/): There is currently a debate going on in a high school in Troy, Michigan about a poster that hangs in a teachers’ classroom reading, “Gay...
- [Can’t We All Just Get Along?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/cant-w/): I have been reading about Love In Action and all that they are about. Organizations like Love In Action and AFA prey on the gay...
- [Questioning Love In Action Director’s Affirmation of Suicide](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/questioning-lov/): In March 1994, according to this second-hand source, a Santa Rosa, Calif., gay periodical called We The People published an article written by someone named...
- [Love In Action Staff Credentials Questionable](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/love-in-action/): After careful review of the “Love In Action” website, it appears there are only TWO, count em TWO staff members listed who even have college...
- [Blog Of A 16 Year Old Sent To “Love In Action” Live-In Program Against His Will](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/blog-of-a-16-ye/): A 16 year old named Zach in Bartlett, Tennessee recently came out to his parents who reacted by announcing they are sending him to an...
- [Focus To Use “Love Won Out” Conference To Attack Rights Of Those Who Chose To Remain Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/focus-to-use-lo/): FOTF’s next Love Won Out ex-gay roadshow is being held in Seattle on the 25th of June. Focus hasn’t posted a schedule online yet but...
- [Not Another March on Washington](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/not-another-mar/): Five years after the Millennium March fiasco, veteran activist Robin Tyler calls for an April 2008 March on Washington. (Source: The Washington Blade, June 10)...
- [AFA’s Ed Vitagliano: Homosexuals Who Identify With Classic TV Lack Intimacy And Connection](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/afas-ed-vitagli/): The TV Land network is airing a special this month called “Tickled Pink” which discusses classic TV shows and characters gay viewers have historically identified...
- [Another Paul Cameron Study…](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/another-paul-ca/): In case anyone is interested, Paul Cameron has come up with yet more “proof” that homosexuality causes an early death. But if the press release...
- [1975: LA Chief of Police States He’d Rather Convert Gays Than Participate In Pride](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/1975-la-chief-o/): Los Angeles Pride is this weekend June 10-12 and the parade grand marshall is… Paris Hilton. No, I’m not kidding. Here’s some pride related history...
- [AgapePress Brutal Attack on Message of Tolerance And Peace for Gay Children](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/agapepress-brut/): Two years ago at Troy High-school in Troy, Michigan a teacher put up a poster that read “Gay people are everyday people.” That’s the full...
- [Spitzer Quoted in Southern Voice Supporting APA Resolution on Marriage Equality](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/spitzer-quoted/): Alert Reader Regan DuCasse brings a story at Southern Voice titled “Leading mental health group backs same-sex marriage” this to my attention. Yes I know...
- [New Life Church Featured in Harper’s: “Homosexual Deamons Can Leap In Your Bones”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/new-life-church/): Via WORLD Magazine Blog, an excerpt from Soldiers of Christ an article appearing in the current issue of Harpers Magazine: Linda Burton was “specifically called...
- [New Documentary Profiles Ex-exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/new-documentary/): PRESS RELEASE Filmmaker Tom Murray is pleased to announce the premiere of his recently completed documentary project, “Fish Can’t Fly.” www.fishcantfly.com The screening will take...
- [Exodus Loves a Misquote of PFLAG](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/exodus-loves-a/): In a May 9 story about the National PTA’s differing treatment of PFLAG and PFOX, the Washington Times misquoted a key source. This misconduct by...
- [Good for the PTA](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/good-for-the-pt/): The PTA has turned down a request from PFOX to exhibit at its annual show, while approving a request from PFLAG. Now, why exactly would...
- [Dust Bunnies in Your Closet](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/dust-bunnies-in/): Dust Bunnies in your Closet By Joe Kort, MSW Recently, a high school in Troy, Michigan made the news when the Detroit area Lesbian and...
- [“One-Sex Marriage” Takes To The Water, Will She Float?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/one-sex-marriag/): I apologize for the high number of off-topic posts this last 48 hours but I felt we could use a new thread on which to...
- [“Gay” Vs. “Homosexual” Affects Gallup Poll Results 10 Percentage Points](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/gay-vs-homosexu/): Advocate.com/Sirius OutQ Radio report today on a new Gallup poll surveying moral attitudes placed onto the lives gay and lesbian Americans. Given that I do...
- [A Call For Neurological / Physiological Study to Confirm Ex-Gay Claims of Heterosexual Functioning](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/a-call-for-neur/): WorldNetDaily readers all too often exhibit ugly, heinous and hateful worldviews** but published on May 20th, 2005 is a letter of interest. Unfortunately, letters are...
- [Boycott of Disney Ends](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/boycott-of-disn/): The [AFA] is announcing the end of its years-long protest against the Walt Disney Company. For nine years, the pro-family organization has urged its supporters...
- [A Glimpse At PFOX Supporters’ Prejudices](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/a-glimpse-at-pf/): PFOX publicly declares that it favors tolerance for gays and exgays. But PFOX’s own Yahoo-based e-mail discussion and “support” list, advertised on the front page...
- [Comment Registration/Review](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/comment-registr-2/): Because of a deluge of spam in the past couple days, I’ve turned on comment moderation, which means that readers may comment as follows: 1....
- [Another Gay Teen Suicide, Unlikely to Matter to Fryrear](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/another-gay-tee/): Alert reader Scott Hutcheson brought a story of the gay-teen-suicide of Jeffrey Price to my attention. Excerpts: His battle, involving his sexuality and his depression...
- [Update on Booklet in GLSEN Boston Sex-Ed Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/update-on-bookl/): I’ve read Stephen Bennett’s blog entry about an inappropriate booklet found by antigay activists a Boston-area sex-ed program. (Previous XGW coverage.) I’ve read Bennett’s quotations...
- [This Post Is For SoCal Residents Only](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/this-post-is-fo/): Conversion-therapy themed art film Fixing Frank (2002) will be showing at the Laemmle Sunset 5 for the week beginning May 20th. If you don’t know...
- [AFA Describes Bennett Ministries, No Mention of Helping Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/afa-describes-b/): Mike did an excellent job of discussing Throckmorton’s reaction to a GLSEN brochure in his previous post. Today I noticed Stephen Bennett joined the fun...
- [Throckmorton Protests GLSEN Sex-Ed Brochure](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/throckmorton-pr/): Exgay movement pundit Warren Throckmorton protests sex-ed literature that was allegedly distributed at Brookline High School on April 30 at an event hosted by GLSEN...
- [Southern Baptists Consider Public-School Inquisition](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/southern-baptis/): A resolution is being proposed at this year’s Southern Baptist national convention, demanding Southern Baptists investigate their local public school systems and withdraw their kids...
- [AFA to Wal-Mart: Discriminate, Or We’ll Shop At Target](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/afa-to-wal-mart/): The American Family Association is rallying consumers to think twice before their next shopping trip, and then write letters to Wal-Mart demanding that the retailer...
- [Stephen Bennett Misquotes Gay Journalists](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/stephen-bennett-4/): From an interview in the April edition of the American (Anti)Family Association “Journal.” (Hat tip: Freedom Of….) Exgay activist Stephen Bennett says: But overall, the...
- [OutOfTheCloset.tv Invites Exgay Videos](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/outoftheclosett/): Exgay ministries are invited to post their exgay videos — for free — at OutOfTheCloset.tv. Surely, there must be a catch.
- [Antigays Furious After Judge Preserves Nebraska Couples’ Access to the Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/antigays-furiou/): A Nebraska state constitutional amendment, approved by voters, banned not just gay marriage but any legal agreement between same-sex couples, including contracts to share health...
- [Exodus Gives Nod to Anti-Education Rant](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/exodus-gives-no/): This rant has nothing to do with exgays — so naturally, Exodus media blogger Nancy Brown gives a favorable nod to it. Traditional morality used...
- [LaBarbera: Your Immorality’s Worse Than Mine](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/labarbera-your/): Conservative Christians may be corrupt — but that’s OK because liberal Christians are worse. So suggests antigay activist Peter LaBarbera in a press release that...
- [Cynical Toward Women: Exodus, Focus Promote Sexism](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/cynical-toward/): In Exodus’ weekly media synopsis, Exodus and Focus on the Family promote this account of God’s plan for men and women. Dorothy Kelley Patterson is...
- [FDA Sperm Ban: Fear of AIDS, Or Gay Reproduction?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/fda-sperm-ban-f/): Since the mid-1980s, the Red Cross — with FDA support — has prohibited men who have had sex with men, at any time since 1977,...
- [National PTA Chooses PFLAG Over PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/national-pta-ch/): The National Parent-Teacher Association has agreed for a second year to feature a pro-homosexual group [PFLAG] at its annual convention while rejecting a group [PFOX]...
- [Bill Maier, As Norm He Wanna Be](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/bill-maier-as-n/): Good times over at Focus today. Four, count em, four of today’s six FNIF stories mention gay issues. That’s quite a preoccupation Bob Ditmer has...
- [Dan Savage Confesses His Sissy Love](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/dan-savage-conf/): Dobson was whining about the Judicial filibuster again yesterday(*) and I’ll be honest with you, it’s beginning to exhaust me. I need something to listen...
- [Christian Schools’ Heterosexism Can Work in Favor of Gay Students](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/christian-schoo/): According to the Seattle Times (via World Magazine Blog) There are still Christian schools here on the “left coast” that won’t allow their male wrestlers...
- [Gay Marriage = Social Good](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/gay-marriage-so/): Rick Sincere has a post on his blog today, discussing new research that documents a decline in sexually transmitted diseases with the advent of gay...
- [Studies: Biology Influences Sexual Orientation AND Gaydar](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/studies-biology/): From Medical News Today, there’s news of a biological basis for “gaydar,” the rumored ability of some gay people to identify one another through poorly...
- [Punish Peds — But What About Their Hosts?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/punish-peds-but/): NGLTF today demanded that (unnamed) people stop extending sympathy to Spokane, Wash., mayor Jim West (because he’s an antigay conservative?), and insisted that West resign...
- [‘Family’: Remembering Akili Tyson](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/family-remember/): I pause for a moment to remember my former housemate, Akili Tyson, who died nine years ago today. What follows is a transcript from NPR’s...
- [Deal with the Devil? Exodus Call to Political Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/deal-with-the-d/): In The Exodus Impact (April 2005, not available online), a front-page article by Exodus president Alan Chambers: defends his use of the Exodus presidency to...
- [Joe Dallas to Exodus Ministries: Fight Gays. Discriminate.](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/joe-dallas-to-e/): In the April 2005 issue of Exodus’ monthly Impact newsletter (not available online), exgay author and Exodus speaker Joe Dallas joins president Alan Chambers in...
- [Antigay Mother’s Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/antigay-mothers/): It’s Mother’s Day… a day for phone calls, greeting cards, flowers and chocolates. But what can you do for your mother, when an antigay denomination...
- [Postgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/postgay/): Ex-Gay Watch’s Joe Riddle also has his own blog, Purple America. Over at Purple America, Joe observes that the importance that he assigns to his...
- [Exgay… Or Ex-sexual?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/exgay-or-ex-sex/): Maria at Daily Dose of Queer has been reading some exgay blogs, and now she, too, is getting the impression that some exgays turn not...
- [Report: Spitzer Regrets Role in ‘I Do Exist’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/report-spitzer/): Last fall, Gareth Fenley, a licensed psychiatric social worker, attended the Atlanta premiere of Warren Throckmorton’s exgay video, “I Do Exist.” The premiere was emceed...
- [What Goes Around: Exgay Accusations About Canada](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/what-goes-aroun/): In the April 2005 issue of Exodus’ Impact political newsletter, organization president Alan Chambers defends his involvement of Exodus in political extremism by claiming that...
- [If Gay Were Straight, Could You Change? Exodus Doesn’t Answer](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/if-gay-were-str/): Jeff Postelwait is the author of a light-hearted op-ed titled If gay were straight, could you change yourself?, posted April 8 at the Daily O’Collegian....
- [Where to Go Next in Exgay Battle Against Maryland Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/where-to-go-nex/): A judge this week issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Montgomery County, Md., Public Schools from testing a revised sex-education curriculum.
- [Focus/Family Sees Bogeymen in Christian Protesters](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/focusfamily-see-2/): On May 2, Focus on the Family offered half-truths and misrepresentations to explain its arrest of a family during a gay-tolerant Christian protest at the...
- [Friends of Exodus: Dominionists Dream of U.S. Theocracy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/friends-of-exod/): Exodus leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas, and Exodus media blogger Nancy Brown, frequently applaud the political activism of people like Alan Sears (Alliance Defense...
- [Prof. Warren Throckmorton And the Real Issues](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/prof-warren-thr/): In an Advocate.com article posted April 29, Prof. Warren Throckmorton says he doesn’t believe that Concerned Women for America, the Illinois Family Institute, or Stephen...
- [Same-Sex Unions May Reduce Sexually Transmitted Illnesses](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/same-sex-unions/): Thomas S. Dee, a professor of economics at Swarthmore College, has released a statistical study of the impact of gay marriage and civil unions in...
- [But Remember…He’s Not ‘Gay’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/but-rememberhes/): NY Times is reporting that the mayor of Spokane, Wash., James West (a Republican and outspoken opponent of gay rights), has been accused of molesting...
- [Tolerant Words From Exgay Stephen Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/tolerant-words/): Stephen Bennett’s blog entry for May 1 is titled Learning to Respectfully Agree to Disagree: Something Impossible for Most Homosexuals?. Bennett’s essay is a model...
- [Uncovered: Exgay Pundit Throckmorton’s Political Ties](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/uncovered-exgay/): In his May 2 column, author/activist Wayne Besen uncovers seemingly well-established, far-right political affiliations of exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton.
- [PFOX Suing Maryland Schools to Stop Sex-Ed](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/pfox-suing-mary/): The Washington Post reports today that the antigay parents/spouses group PFOX plans to join a Maryland religious-right group, Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum, in suing...
- [Tolerant Ex-Gays? Gay-Tolerant People of Faith Arrested](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/tolerant-ex-gay/): Six months ago, the antigay militant group Repent America raided a Philadelphia autumn pride festival. According to witnesses, they shouted down the stage performers and...
- [Showtime Comedy Show Profiles PFOX President](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/showtime-comedy/): Tonight I happened to catch political comic duo Penn & Teller’s latest episode, “Family Values,” in a TV series with a name that can’t be...
- [Antigay Violence Up Eight Percent](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/antigay-violenc/): From Chuck Currie: On April 26, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released a report documenting an 8 percent increase of violent attacks against people...
- [Focus/Family Gets Special Rights on ABC](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/focusfamily-get/): From Chuck Currie: In December and again in March, ABC television denied requests by the United Church of Christ to purchase airtime for a national...
- [Double Speak From Dobson (As If That’s Anything New)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/double-speak-fr/): Today’s broadcast of Focus On The Family featured the previously recorded ex-gay testimony of Mike Haley. For that matter Dobson’s introduction was prerecorded as well...
- [Focus Closes It’s Doors to Public On Day of Soulforce Planned Visit](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/focus-closes-it/): After being tipped off by a commenter it came to my attention that Focus is closed to the public today. I verified this by calling...
- [FOTF Broadcast to Feature Ex-Gay Mike Haley Same Day As Soulforce Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/fotf-broadcast/): On Monday May 2nd when Soulforce is protesting by taking the public tour at Focus headquarters, the Focus On The Family daily broadcast is scheduled...
- [Focus Quietly Responds to Soulforce with Nonsense](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/focus-quietly-r/): Tucked away on their CitizenLink, Focus On Social Issues, Homosexuality and Gender page Focus issues a rebuttal to various charges made by Soulforce against James...
- [Lesbian Health Organization Speaks Up Against Throckmorton Reappointment](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/lesbian-health/): Pro-gay groups have been mostly silent on Throckmorton’s reappointment to Magellan Healthcare’s board. [correct me if I’m wrong, I can only read so many sites]...
- [An Anti-Gay Timeline](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/an-anti-gay-tim/): Some of you might be interested in seeing this 30-year timeline of the anti-gay movement compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. I consider myself...
- [Opinion & Analysis: Soulforce’s Confrontation of Dobson Anti-Climactic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/opinion-analysi/): Reminder, Soulforce‘s two-day rally at Focus On The Family’s Colorado Springs headquarters begins Sunday. (Previous XGW coverage) Soulforce makes little mention of Focus in connection...
- [‘Things Gay Men Can Do to Find Real Love’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/things-gay-men/): Christmas is eight months away — and so is Joe Kort’s new book, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Find Real Love. But...
- [Wayne Besen: Capitulate Or Fight Back](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/wayne-besen-cap/): In his April 26 column, activist/author Wayne Besen says U.S. gays have a choice: Sequester themselves in their closets, or don boxing gloves. Besen sees...
- [Exodus’ Alan Chambers Raises Money for Gay Pride](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/exodus-alan-cha/): According to PrideSource.com, Chambers spoke April 6 — Pride Week — at Central Michigan University. Taking a strategy from the playbook of [garble] Bar’s fundraiser/protest...
- [Ex-gay Lutheran Character in Gay Novel](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/ex-gay-lutheran/): Van Gower of Southern Voice reviews the new novel “Sex Camp” by Brian McNaught. Of the many compelling characters, the writer struggled most to fairly...
- [Ex-gays to Gays: Marry And Be Sexless?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/ex-gays-to-gays-2/): Guided by two unnamed exgay activists, Minnesota state senator Michele Bachmann vowed Apr. 8 to win a constitutional ban against gay unions. Bachmann told them...
- [At Exgay Speech in St. Louis, Is the Tolerance Mutual?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/at-exgay-speech/): The Journal, at Webster University near St. Louis, profiled exgay Dan Colombo on April 7 following his campus visit. Dan Colombo used to be gay,...
- [Cheated By Tolerance — Or By a Cult of Blame?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/cheated-by-tole/): This is an oldie, but worth bringing up, I think. The December 2004 issue of Christianity Today published this exgay smear against Christians. Hiding behind...
- [Magellan Health Dust-up: A Chance to Sell Exgay Videos](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/magellan-health-2/): I see from PFOX’s April 22 press release that Prof. Throckmorton and PFOX are using their self-generated Magellan Health news story to sell copies of...
- [Falwell University’s Ex-gay Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/falwell-univers/): Soulforce organized a visit by 60 gay-tolerant students to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University on April 25. Inside Higher Ed quotes Jake Reitan, an organizer of...
- [AFA Reports Stephen Bennett Has Nothing New to Say](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/afa-reports-ste/): Evidently it’s a slow news day over at AFA’s AgapePress, which decided to reprint a fluffy little interview from last month with Stephen Bennett whom,...
- [Gays And Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/gays-and-christ/): I’m sure many of you have already seen this article from the Galveston Daily News, highlighting efforts by local Christian groups to counter the anti-gay...
- [MobyNetDaily](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/mobynetdaily/): “We’re convinced that if we have children, we’re going to do everything in our power to make them gay. [emphasis added] Like maybe drinking a...
- [Magellan Health Services Invites Throckmorton Back](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/magellan-health/): Magellan Health Services has invited Warren Throckmorton back to it’s advisory board. (Previous coverage at XGW) Quoting this AP article at Advocate.com: Magellan spokeswoman Erin...
- [NARTH To Akinsanya: Failure Is Your Fault](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/narth-to-akinsa/): NARTH has a recent press release on the documentary film maker David Akinsanya. A link is given through to the article in The Independent but...
- [Sometimes Pictures Speak Louder Than Words](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/sometimes-pictu/): Yesterday was the second of the conservative Christian’s telecasts called Justice Sunday. Ironically, although there was much denunciation of the Supreme Court’s recognition of some...
- [Globe Article About Theories Re Sexual Orientation Basis](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/globe-article-a/): There is a very good article in the Sunday Boston Globe about the various theories as to the origins of sexual orientation. The author, Neil...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Agenda Revisited](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/ex-gay-watch-ag/): Ex-Gay Watch is developing both an FAQ and a priority list for future projects. So I turn to you, our readers: What questions are worth...
- [Gay Rams Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/gay-rams-study/): There’s another article out today about research done at Oregon State University on gay sheep. The researchers found marked differences in the brain anatomy and...
- [Lutherans Vote on Gay Issues](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/lutherans-vote/): UPDATED AT 2:50 PST The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the fifth largest church in the country, is voting today on three provisions relating...
- [NARTH Rapid Response Team](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/narth-rapid-res/): NARTH sent out an email looking to form a rapid response team to counter “misinformation in the media or other cultural institutions about reorientation therapy.”...
- [Is My Child Becoming Homosexual?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/is-my-child-bec/): That’s the sub-title of Focus on the Family’s web page entitled, “Helping Boys Become Men, and Girls Become Women.” The page goes on to offer...
- [BBC2 to Air Unhappy Gay Reporter’s Ordeal At Exgay ‘Love In Action’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/bbc2-to-air-unh/): Britain’s BBC2 will broadcast “Sad to Be Gay” tonight at 9 p.m. local time. From the program description: David Akinsanya hates being gay. He has...
- [Wayne Besen: ‘The High Calling of the Low Road’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/wayne-besen-the/): From WayneBesen.com: It is the 21st Century and the cover of Time Magazine has pictures of a chimpanzee and God under the bold headline, “Evolution...
- [XGW Seeks to Compile Media Contacts List](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/xgw-seeks-to-co/): Recently XGW has been deluged by media interview and referral requests. We do not currently maintain a formal list of individuals willing to be publicly...
- [Fish Can’t Fly: Response Action Planned Against ‘Ex-Gay’ Film](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/fish-cant-fly-r/): NEWS ADVISORY: For Immediate Release August 9, 2005 RESPONSE ACTION PLANNED AGAINST “EX-GAY” FILM In response to an initiative underway aimed against the spirit of...
- [British Paper Reports One Man’s Reorientation Attempt](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/british-paper-r/): There’s a quite interesting article in The Independent about David Akinsanya, a British man who is seeking to change his sexual orientation from gay to...
- [Tolerance OK? Powerful PFOX Rep Overrides Group’s President](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/tolerance-ok-po/): Compare the recent public statements of two PFOX officials regarding public education, and one finds that PFOX can’t make up its mind whether to claim...
- [Hate-Crime Statistics, Penalties, And Enforcement](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/hate-crime-stat/): Patrick Yaeger assesses the impact of hate crime statistics collection and enhanced penalties upon state and federal government activity against violent criminals who previously were...
- [Truth Sets Free: Creating Inclusive Christian Community](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/truth-sets-free/): From Straight, Not Narrow comes word of a well-designed web site called TruthSetsFree.net. Founder Justin R. Cannon, a student at Earlham College in Indiana, says:...
- [Exgay Stereotypes to Play Advisory Role in Maryland Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/exgay-stereotyp/): The Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education will limit a reconstituted sex-education committee to an advisory role in planning a new sex-ed curriculum, according to...
- [Transcript of CNN Debate Between HRC, Warren Throckmorton](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/transcript-of-c/): Joe Solmonese, a longtime Democratic operative who now leads the Human Rights Campaign, debated exgay movement pundit Warren Throckmorton on “CNN Sunday Night,” July 31....
- [Co-Founder ‘Sickened’ By Exgay Attempts To Rewrite History](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/co-founder-sick/): From WayneBesen.com Reprinted with permission Friday, August 05, 2005 John Evans: I’m Sickened By Attempts To Re-Write LIA History by Wayne Besen The History of...
- [Recycling Antigay Catholic Stereotypes](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/recycling-antig/): Social-conservative website MichNews.com in mid-July reprinted the boilerplate exgay sales pitch of the Rev. Richard Perozich, who for years has been influential in the U.S....
- [Book Review Under Fire: What’s ‘Mental Health’ In A Theocracy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/book-review-und/): Mel Sheesholtz, Ph.D, voices skepticism about Destructive Trends in Mental Health (Amazon link), a new book edited by Rogers H. Wright and Nicolas A. Cummings....
- [Gay Activists React to Zach’s Post-LIA Statement](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/gay-activists-r/): Memphis, Tenn.-area gay-equality activist Morgan Fox and national actvist Wayne Besen react to Zach today in Southern Voice.
- [Peterson Toscano Cracks the Zach Code](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/peterson-toscan-2/): Through a process of exacting literary and scientific analysis, the Love In Action survivor, performance artist, and comedian deciphers — once and for all —...
- [Queer Day: ‘Exgays Drive Ratings And A Homophobic ‘View’ ‘](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/queer-day-exgay/): Queer Day comments on ABC’s “The View”: On “The View,” the often annoying morning talk show, the women decided to take a closer look at...
- [Jim Burroway: ‘Liar Detector’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/jim-burroway-li/): Jim Burroway of Looking for Sam crunches some numbers and discovers that Arizona antigay activists are marketing several statistical lies as “facts.” Among the misrepresentations:...
- [Writer Seeks to Talk with Exgay Or Ex-Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/writer-seeks-to/): James Hannaham (Google search) is writing a novel in which the main character enters a live-in ex-gay ministry. Hannaham would like to talk with someone...
- [Gus Cairns: ‘I Fell For An Ex-Gay’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/gus-cairns-i-fe/): British psychotherapist and writer Gus Cairns offers advice to a Miami man whose Canadian boyfriend has gone ex-gay on him.
- [Zach Speaks Out: Leave the Guy Alone](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/zach-speaks-out/): Sixteen-year-old Zach’s run-of-the-mill online diary drew unintended global attention several weeks ago when his parents sent him off to several weeks of antigay group counseling...
- [Frank Worthen Takes Credit](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/frank-worthen-t/): There has been some posting on this site and around the web about whether or not certain ex-ex-gays were ever involved with the founding of...
- [Boston Globe: Antigay Researcher Paul Cameron Buys His Way to Infamy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/boston-globe-an/): The Boston Globe ran an excellent story July 31 about religious-right researcher Paul Cameron. According to the article, Cameron and his “Family Research Institute” —...
- [Cleveland Gay, HIV/AIDS Services Say Exgay Minister Misled Them](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/cleveland-gay-h/): From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 30, via 365gay.com: The Rev. James Jones is one of two organizers of a July 31 prayer and healing...
- [Tell CNN To Cover The Facts About “Reparative Therapy”!](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/tell-cnn-to-cov/): Tell CNN to Cover The Facts About “Reparative Therapy”! Joe Kort, MSW This is from the PFLAG 7/28 e-newsletter. Please consider sending an email to...
- [Love In Action Co-Founder: ‘My Ministry Shatters Lives’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/love-in-action-4/): by Wayne Besen FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, July 30, 2005 CO-FOUNDER OF MINISTRY THAT RUNS TEEN ‘EX-GAY’ BOOT CAMP SAYS GROUP SHATTERS LIVES AND CAN...
- [Radio Show Discussion’s 3-to-2 Exgay-Gay Ratio](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/radio-show-disc/): The NPR radio program On Point aired a one-hour discussion of exgay “therapy” on July 29. According to the Making Gays Straight program description, the...
- [Movement Co-Founder Coaches Exgays in Troubled Marriages](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/movement-co-fou/): The Houston Voice and New York Blade follow up earlier reporting with a new story today on Jerry Falwell’s July 21 appearance at the week-long...
- [Exodus Antigay Youth Director to Be on ABC’s ‘The View’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/exodus-antigay/): Received from Exodus International via e-mail just now: Scott Davis, director of Exodus Youth, is scheduled to appear on ABC’s daytime talk show, The View,...
- [Note From Andrew](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/note-from-andre/): FYI, I’m on vacation through Sunday, August 7th. Have a good week, everyone!
- [Exgay Therapy: NPR Show to Air One-Hour Discussion](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/exgay-therapy-n/): The National Public Radio program On Point will discuss Love In Action and “conversion therapy” for a full hour tonight — 7 p.m. Eastern time....
- [Friday Moment of Zen](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/friday-moment-o/): In cased you missed the Jon Stewart Show’s hilarious Samantha Bee, in this week’s segment on the “gayification” of NASCAR, click here. The segment includes...
- [Kirk Talley: ‘Out of the Lord’s Closet, Revisited’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/kirk-talley-out/): The August issue of GQ still is not at my local newsstand, so I turn over the mike to southern gospel music blogger averyfineline.com for...
- [The Good Morning America Segment](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/the-good-mornin/): As reported yesterday, Good Morning America had a segment on Zach’s story this morning. It had many features similar to the CNN story, yet many...
- [Note From Daniel](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/note-from-danie-2/): FYI, I’m on vacation through the end of next week.
- [LIA on CNN](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/lia-on-cnn/): Deborah Feyerick covered the LIA / conversion therapy story last night on CNN. She glossed over many of the rules that have bloggers upset, generalizing...
- [Seeking Models of Support for Gay-Affirmative Abstinence](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/seeking-models/): I attend a predominantly gay church (although, ironically, the musicians are all straight). In discussion with my pastor this Sunday, I learned that a mutual...
- [Evangelicals Concerned: ‘ABC-TV Debates Ex-gay Myth’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/evangelicals-co/): Press release issued today by Evangelicals Concerned ABC-TV Debates Ex-gay Myth EC Member is Guest on ABC-TV This Thursday Morning Watch this Thursday morning’s Good...
- [Zach Featured in NYT](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/zach-featured-i/): A story that rather fell through the cracks here on XGW: Zach’s story made the New York Times. In terms of raw information, it adds...
- [Why I Believe the Ex-gay Movement Will Fail](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/why-i-believe-t/): It’s about economics. More specifically, it’s about economic sociology. Consider: the social cost of coming out and living openly as a gay person continues to...
- [About Andrew](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/about-andrew/): Ex-Gay Watch welcomes its newest writer: Andrew is a web designer, blogger, and citizen media specialist. He is currently attending Purdue University in Indiana, where...
- [A Composite Look At Exgay Prejudices And Demands](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/a-composite-loo/): Gay libertarian blogger Jason Kuznicki presents a composite look at the exgay e-mail that he receives several times per year. Kuznicki concisely captures the trickle-down...
- [Demonstration July 29 Against Antigay Boot Camp](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/demonstration-j/): The Queer Action Council of Memphis, Tenn., has announced two vigils July 29 at antigay boot camp Love In Action: Please join us for what...
- [PFLAG Statement on the Release of Tennessee Teen From ‘Ex-Gay Camp’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/pflag-statement/): 7/26/2005 1:44:00 PM Contact: Taylor Thompson of PFLAG, tthompson@pflag.org WASHINGTON, July 26 — As Zach Stark, the Tennessee teen who recently gained national attention after...
- [Are Homosexual Men’s Lives 20 Years Shorter? No, Says Exgays’ Source](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/are-homosexual/): The Ex-Gay Watch health section tracks exgay activists’ frequent criticisms of gay individuals’ health and longevity. Exgay literature frequently cites two statistics: 1. Homosexuality takes...
- [Falwell: It’s Okay to Force Kids Into Ex-gay Camps](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/falwell-its-oka/): Speaking at a conference of Exodus International, the largest religious group promoting the idea that gays can can change their sexual orientation, Rev. Jerry Falwell...
- [Cruise Control: Gay Men And Sexual Addiction](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/cruise-control/): CRUISE CONTROL: A Book for Gay Menby Robert Weiss, MSW, CAS Review by Joe Kort, MSW July 25, 2005 No, this book isn’t about how...
- [Presbyterians To Take Moderate Position On Sexuality. My Prediction: Focus Will Try to Create Chaos](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/presbyterians-t/): “Presbytarians Issue Draft Report On Gay Debate” from the Louisville Courier-Journal: The drafts released so far are heavy on advice on how Presbyterians could learn...
- [WORLD Magazine Attacks United Methodist Church For Tolerating Gay Church Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/world-magazine/): Marvin Olasky’s World Magazine has taken to attacking the United Methodist Church for simply allowing the gay-friendly Methodist group, Reconciling Congregations, to use its facilities....
- [Political Cartoonist: Exgays ‘Teaching (In)tolerance’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/political-carto/): Alarmed by an exgay partial victory in Montgomery County, Md., public schools, Boston Bay Windows political cartoonist Mikhaela Reid illustrates perceived similarities between exgay educational...
- [GQ Profiles Kirk Talley](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/gq-profiles-kir/): Southern gospel weblog averyfineline.com reports that the August 2005 issue of GQ profiles southern gospel singer Kirk Talley. The article is not available online. Talley...
- [Metrosexuality Outpaces Exgay Resistance](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/metrosexuality/): Metrosexuality may be gaining ground — against the wishes of one exgay activist and the leading antigay media organizations. Google finds several articles in the...
- [Penn & Teller on Showtime And Richard Cohen’s MANLOVE](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/penn-teller-on/): I was contacted by Penn & Teller last January, 2005, and asked if I conducted Reparative Therapy. I told them no and they asked if...
- [Salon.com Tackles the Ex-Gay Story](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/saloncom-tackle/): I hope you’ve all been catching Salon’s four-part series on the work of ex-gay ministries. In Part I, they cover PFOX’ efforts to prevent anti-bullying...
- [Focus On The Family Adds Podcasting](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/focus-on-the-fa-16/): Family News In Focus and all other Focus programs now offer podcasting. Grab the URL for FNIF here. Advocate OutQ needs to get with it...
- [Review of “Fish Can’t Fly” By T Joe Murray](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/review-of-fish/): (OK, so hot boys on the web page movie poster…. Ya not in the actual film. Fred Phelps isn’t mentioned either.) Whereas OutFest LA ignored...
- [Briefly Noted: ‘Christian’ Adoption Chain Bans Homosexuals, Catholics](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/briefly-noted-c/): Bethany Christian Services is a national antigay adoption chain that advertised (via Google ads) at Ex-Gay Watch until I banned them a couple weeks ago....
- [Thought Toddler Gay, Dad Kills Son](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/thought-toddler/): This article at 365gay.com https://www.365gay.com/newscon05/07/071405childMurd.htm is an illustration of the damage that Reparative Therapy and the ex-gay movement does to children–particularly males. In Preventing Homosexuality...
- [Antigay Father Outs ‘Zach’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/antigay-father/): “Zach” is real. His name is Zach Stark. A Google search finds that, until today, Zach had only been identified by full name in one...
- [Exodus Cancels Tolerant Speaker](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/exodus-cancels/): According to his online calendar, Jay Bakker’s speech to the 2005 Exodus “Freedom” conference has been canceled. (Hat tip: XGW commenter Sarah.) Exodus has not...
- [Can Gays Change Their Orientation?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/can-gays-change/): I don’t know–but you can find out what MSNBC’s readers think by checking out the online poll. It’s live right now, go vote! The accompanying...
- [Family & Friends Interviews Love In Action Director](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/family-friends/): Family & Friends magazine of Memphis, Tenn., published an excellent package of articles this month, following the controversy surrounding Love In Action, a regional exgay...
- [Love In Action’s Rev. John J. Smid Talks Openly](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/love-in-actions/): By Patricia Pair, publisher with Anita Moyt, managing editor Family & Friends magazine, July 2005 Memphis, Tennessee familymag@aol.com Reprinted with permission In a recent interview,...
- [Three Individuals Offer Advice to Love In Action Protesters, Teen, Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/three-individua/): By Anita Moyt, managing editor Family & Friends magazine, July 2005 Reprinted with permission Family & Friends asked two individuals knowledgeable about Love in Action...
- [The Memphis Protest Heard ‘Round the World](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/the-memphis-pro/): By Anita Moyt, managing editor Family & Friends magazine, July 2005 Reprinted with permission On May 29, 2005, a set of words appeared on a...
- [Seventeen Magazine Seeks Interview](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/seventeen-magaz/): The Love In Action debacle has caught the interest of Seventeen magazine. Does anyone know any ex-gay therapy survivors under age 23? If so please...
- [New Blog: Straight, Not Narrow](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/new-blog-straig/): Jim Johnson has just started a blog titled Straight, Not Narrow. Johnson has attended a GLBT-affirming church for several months, and says he wants to...
- [QNotes: Featured Speaker May Be Too Tolerant for Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/qnotes-featured/): According to David More, editor of QNotes, Jay Bakker (son of Jim and Tammy Faye) is threading a religious and political needle by agreeing to...
- [New Religious Liberal Political Group Forms -and- The Conservative Love Affair With Declaring The Left Half Of America “Un-American”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/new-religious-l/): It’s no secret many XGW readers feel religion is disproportionately wielded politically by the right. Jerry Falwell’s column at the WorldNetDaily takes aim at a...
- [Exodus Again Refers Supporters to Discredited Statistician](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/exodus-again-re/): Blogger Brady of “Some Guys Are Normal” first noticed on June 14 that Exodus was distributing propaganda by long-discredited “researcher” Paul Cameron. Cameron runs an...
- [One Blogger’s Dialogue with Exgay Live-In Program Director](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/one-bloggers-di/): Blogger Willie Hewes of Free Z. has been dialoguing a bit with Love In Action executive director John Smid. Here is Hewes’s letter and Smid’s...
- [Falwell, Purported Victim to Speak for Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/falwell-purport/): Exodus, the exgay political network, may be drifting toward the particular fringe of Christianity represented by Jerry Falwell. In fact, Falwell is a Featured Speaker...
- [Antigays Repent, But Moral Tunnelvision Persists](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/antigays-repent/): Some antigay Christians are uncomfortable thinking about the world in tangible, rational, measurable, logical terms. These individuals — indeed, whole denominations — may be more...
- [PFOX Wants Antigay Polemicist to Steer D.C.-Area Sex Ed](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/pfox-wants-anti/): Teach The Facts is a group of Montgomery County, Maryland, parents and educators that is defending comprehensive sex education from attack by the religious right....
- [Victim Or Aide? Dr. Spitzer And Those Who Distort His Work](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/victim-or-aide/): When I reviewed recent MSNBC coverage of exgays on July 4, I confess I had not thoroughly read this article: Choosing research to prove your...
- [Comment Difficulties](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/comment-difficu/): Updated July 10, 2005: I discarded many antispam restrictions on July 8, and I hope that commenting is becoming easier. The tradeoff is that I...
- [Abstinence Or Death? Exgay Battle Against Sex Education](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/abstinence-or-d/): As regular readers know, in the past year Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) has (quite literally) cashed in on a new pet cause: the...
- [Scientology And Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/scientology-and/): A reader pointed out today that Ex-Gay Watch has no articles on the Church of Scientology’s efforts in the ex-gay marketplace. (We have had comments...
- [PFOX Claims It’s Tolerant](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/pfox-claims-its/): Richard Cohen, M.A. President, PFOX July 6, 2005 Statement to the Montgomery County Board of Education (Statement on behalf of a broader campaign with the...
- [Insurances DO Pay for Reparative Therapy!](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/insurances-do-p/): Insurances DO pay for Reparative Therapy! by Joe Kort, MSW I was recently asked how psychotherapists get paid for providing Reparative Therapy (RT) if most...
- [Alan Chambers Infographic [Click To View Full Size Version]](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/alan-chambers-i/): Alan Chambers Infographic [Click To View Full Size Version]
- [Math By Alan Chambers, Ex-Gays To Take Over World By 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/math-by-alan-ch/): All of these quotes are from Alan Chambers: [hint, watch the bold text] While the news is being touted in the homosexual community as another...
- [“81 Words” That Changed The World](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/81-words-that-c/): Raj sent this to me a while back. Back in 2002 PRI and NPR’s This American Life ran an hour long show revealing the story...
- [Question of Bias in MSNBC Coverage of Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/question-of-bia/): Updated July 4, 2005 Two recent articles at MSNBC.com offer fairly well-written primers on recent exgay activism — though, in sticking to the basic issues,...
- [Throckmorton Opposes Programs Mixing Ministry And “Treatment”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/throckmorton-op/): In the same Washington Blade article as the post below, Warren Throckmorton weights in on the risk of unlicensed programs such as Love In Action...
- [New Investigation of Love In Action Launched](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/new-investigati/): Last week the Tennessee Dept. of Child Services conducted an investigation of allegations of child abuse at Love In Action. Now the Tennessee Department of...
- [Have You Seen Shawn O’Donnell?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/have-you-seen-s/): I have scattered reports that ex-ex-gay Shawn O’Donnell was involved in Exodus’ group publicity photo a few years back and has since left the ex-gay...
- [Review of “Bullying Prevention Information: Resources for Schools” By Warren Throckmorton](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/review-of-bully/): Review of “Bullying Prevention Information: Resources for Schools” by Warren Throckmorton, June 2005. In a personal email from Prof. Throckmorton to myself dated June 27th,...
- [AFA Praises Parent Who Stopped Student GSA By Distributing Ex-Gay Literature](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/afa-praises-par/): Alert reader Timothy brought my attention to a very ugly article published at the Agapepress today regarding events last December. (As if the fundamentalist media...
- [Note To Commenters, You Must Provide a Source](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/note-to-comment/): Today I had to delete two five comments for failing to provide a source. Whenever a commenter uses a quote, mentions an article or posts...
- [State Investigation Of Love In Action Ends](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/state-investiga/): Alert reader Regan brought this story to my attention. The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services has concluded it’s investigation and announced allegations of child abuse...
- [PFOX Yet To Disclose Anti-Bullying Materials Presented At Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/pfox-yet-to-dis/): Update: Throckmorton emailed me this same evening with the material presented. He directed me to www.respectandthefacts.com. I’ll have a look in the next day or...
- [State of Tennessee Announces Investigation of Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/state-of-tennes/): The state of Tennessee has begun an investigation in response to allegations of child abuse at Love in Action, a Memphis facility that advertises homosexual...
- [One Weapon Removed From Anti-Gay Arsenal](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/one-weapon-remo/): Reports suggest that a vaccine has been found that is 100% effective at preventing certain strains of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). These strains are...
- [Exgay Offers ‘Complete Healing From Homosexuality’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-offers-co/): A message received via e-mail today from exgay activist Chad Thompson: Hey guys, I wanted to let you know that I just got back from...
- [Antigay Opposition to Violence Reduction in Iowa](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/antigay-opposit/): From the Des Moines Register via Gay News Blog and Good As You: Exgay activist Chad Thompson’s former employer, the Iowa Family Policy Center, opposed...
- [Did CNN Cover ‘Concerned Women’ on Gay Youth?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/did-cnn-cover-c/): Good As You provided a heads-up Oct. 6 that Concerned Women for America spokesman Robert Knight was to appear on CNN’s Paula Zahn NOW program...
- [Exgay, Abstinence-Only Parody of ‘Basic Instinct’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-abstinenc/): Those of you over age 35 may remember a 1970s youth program called “Scared Straight.” The idea of the program was that, by sending delinquent...
- [In Miers Media Confusion, Exodus President Sees Proof of Media Bias](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/in-miers-media/): In the same week that a Time magazine cover story granted substantial print space to the Exodus exgay outreach program to youth, Exodus president Alan...
- [Exodus President Trusts Bush on Miers Nomination](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-presiden/): On his personal weblog, Exodus President Alan Chambers on Oct. 4 stated his disappointment that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has not expressed the clear...
- [Throckmorton: GLAAD Denies Packing Audience For Taping Of Dr. Phil](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/throckmorton-gl/): On Monday I was forwarded an email supposedly written by Heidi Lee, an officer at GLAAD detailing how the Dr. Phil show was taping a...
- [Meeting the Fundies](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/meeting-the-fun/): There is an article by Steve Satterwhite in the Texas Observer allowing “some of the more vociferous amendment proponents” a chance to put in their...
- [Ex-Ex-Gays In Central New York Wanted For Media Interview](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/ex-ex-gays-in-c/): Would any ex-gay therapy survivors in the Central New York area please contact Gaetano Pollice, a student reporter at Syracuse University. gpollice@syr.edu
- [Stephen Bennett All Up In A Tizzy Over Time](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/stephen-bennett-5/): On Monday Exodus sent out an emails proudly announcing the current Time Magazine cover story on gay teens which in my opinion gives a respectable...
- [Exodus International Testimonials Blame Homosexuality For Life Problems - Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-internat-2/): Click to enlarge Click to enlarge For documentation and notes click below.
- [GLAAD Seeks Supportive Studio Audience For Dr. Phil’s “Healing Gay Teens”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/glaad-seeks-sup/): I have an unverified report claiming this wednesday Dr. Phil is to tape a show tentatively called “Hope to Heal Your Gay Teen?” GLAAD wishes...
- [Richard Cohen Starbucks Quote Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/richard-cohen-s/): Concerned Women For America are concerned about pro-gay quotes printed on Starbucks coffee cups. We figured some anti-gay quotes aught be suggested to take it’s...
- [Study Shows Conversion Therapists Rate Well Amongst Clients - Second Analysis](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/study-shows-con-2/): Dr. Warren Throckmorton has written an article called “Sexual reorientation therapy clients rate their experience with psychotherapists” in which he discusses the results of a...
- [Ex-gay Quotes on Starbucks Cups?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/ex-gay-quotes-o/): The Concerned Women for America’s Culture and Family Institute has applauded Baylor University for pulling cups from the campus Starbucks that included a quote for...
- [Steven Bennett Opposes Connecticut’s Civil Unions And Gay People in General](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/steven-bennett/): Gadfly ex-gay activist, Steven Bennett, has issued a press release stating his firm stance “in direct opposition to his State’s new law legalizing homosexual civil...
- [Harrier Miers Involved With Which “Exodus Ministries” Exactly?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/harrier-miers-i/): From Bush’s nomination speech: She led by example. She put in long hours of pro bono work. Harriet Miers has given generously of her time...
- [Study Shows Conversion Therapists Rate Well Amongst Clients.](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/study-shows-con/): Dr. Throckmorton and Exodus Media are touting a new study that shows reorientation therapists rating well amongst their clients. Exodus brags for several paragraphs about...
- [Behind the Myths: Sexual Orientation And Pedophilia](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/behind-the-myth/): Jim Burroway analyzes the numbers, the perpetrators, and the survivors of pedophilia. Burroway’s analysis casts doubt upon religious rightists’ efforts to link molestation to gay...
- [Keith Boykin: Is Exgay Donnie McClurkin Still Gay?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/keith-boykin-is/): Keith Boykin analyzes exgay activist and gospel singer Donnie McClurkin in depth. Given McClurkin’s stubborn antigay prejudices and hostilities, Boykin finds reason to doubt McClurkin’s...
- [Campaign to Defend the Constitution From the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/campaign-to-def/): From Frederick Clarkson via Jesus Politics: Campaign to Defend the Constitution (DefCon) is a new Washington-based online campaign. The group’s mission: DefCon is an online...
- [Exgay Joe Dallas: (Hoping For?) Destruction And Doomsday](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-joe-dalla/): Exgay activist, author, and former Exodus official Joe Dallas was quoted Sept. 28 by the American Family Association media organ Agape Press (via Jesus Politics):...
- [Religious Right: ‘An Unholy Alliance Between Church And State’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/religious-right-11/): From Lee R. Shelton IV via Jesus Politics: The American Empire: An Unholy Alliance between Church and State
- [Love In Action: Christian ‘Fraud’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/love-in-action-8/): From Pastor Dan at Street Prophets via Jesus Politics, in response to this news of the exgay lawsuit against the elected leaders of Tennessee: It’s...
- [Focus on the Family: ‘Bearing False Witness’ Against Anglicans](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/focus-on-the-fa-17/): Normally sedate and often conservative, Episcopal blogger Bob Griffith (Hypersync) perceives “blatant mischaracterization, intentional misinformation, and forthright lying” by Focus on the Family in a...
- [Exgays’ Extreme Makeover?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgays-extreme/): Focus on the Family — heavily staffed by exgays — participated in this weekend’s episode of Extreme Makeover on ABC. With ample profanity (and a...
- [Southern Decadence: Exgay Twists Facts to Appear Sensible](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/southern-decade/): Once in a while, Exodus official Randy Thomas says something sensible. On Sept. 12, Thomas had the opportunity to do that — but then spoiled...
- [Exodus Exec Cuts Off British Interview](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-exec-cut/): Exodus International official Randy Thomas explained Sept. 17 on his blog that he had discontinued an interview with British journalists when they asked unspecified questions...
- [Exgay Executive Hits the Road](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-executive/): Exodus “membership director” Randy Thomas announced his travel plans last week: Wichita — Freedom at Last meeting with “regional leaders” [Sept. 30] and two workshops...
- [QAC Calls Exgay Live-In Program’s Allegations ‘Lies’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/qac-calls-exgay/): Received via e-mail tonight from the Queer Action Coalition, Memphis, Tenn.: AS OUTLINED HERE: LOVE IN ACTION LAW SUIT DETAILS FILLED WITH LIES ABOUT QAC...
- [Ex-Gay Therapeutic Facility, Religious-Right ADF Sue Tennessee](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/ex-gay-therapeu/): The Alliance Defense Fund and “Love In Action,” an exgay live-in facility in Memphis, are suing the state of Tennessee. Until recently, LIA claimed to...
- [Concerned Women Declare That 9/11 Priest Mychal Judge Was Not Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/concerned-women-4/): Concerned Woman, Dennis Lynch, has issued an article declaring that Father Mychal Judge was definitely not gay. Judge was the priest who died on 9/11/01...
- [Funny Word Games But a Sinister Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/funny-word-game/): The ex-gay movement exists, to a great extent, because of its usage of a language that allows them to say one thing and mean another....
- [Washington Times Champions Ex-Gays… Again](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/washington-time-2/): In keeping consistent with their anti-gay, pro-ex-gay agenda, the Washington Times has another non-news article about the Spitzer report. The excuse for this article was...
- [False Tom Cruise Rumor About Exgay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/false-tom-cruis/): Update: Based on a report by the Good As You blog, this XGW post originally cited a press release attributed to Bertram Fields. However, Good...
- [Dobson Quoted Saying Creationism / “Intelligent Design” Are The Same Thing](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/dobson-quoted-s/): In case you’re ever in an argument and want to prove “intelligent design” is creationism in disguise, here’s the proof from within the religious right:...
- [Ontario High School Contact Info](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/ontario-high-sc/): In case anyone wishes to contact Dianne De Groot, admissions director of Ontario High School, her email address is info@ocschools.org.
- [“Banned Books Week” Focuses on Gay Literature](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/banned-books-we/): WorldNetDaily published this wacky, factless diatribe on Banned Books Week, and how libraries are really banning the Christian view by not including antigay scripture tracts...
- [One Lutheran Family Takes a Stand](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/one-lutheran-fa/): As an anecdotal example of the trauma caused in families by the rigid and literal interpretation of selected scriptures on homosexuality, one woman put her...
- [Dobson’s Half-Truth About CDC Study of Gay Demographics](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/dobsons-half-tr/): Focus on the Family performed a disservice to its readership today when it raised the strawman argument that unnamed gay activists claim 10 percent of...
- [‘Love In Action’ Hangs On](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/love-in-action-7/): The Memphis, Tenn.-based Queer Action Coalition reported Sept. 22 that the exgay live-in “ministry” Love In Action had recruited unnamed antigay lawmakers to assist in...
- [Do Hate Crime Protections Result in Persecution Of Pulpit Speech?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/do-hate-crime-p/): Focus and the American Family Association are repeatedly claiming that adding sexual orientation to Federal hate crime protections will be used to persecute speech from...
- [Besen: PFOX President Richard Cohen Has ‘Meltdown’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/besen-pfox-pres/): PFOX President Richard Cohen appears to have suffered a meltdown following a televised debate with Wayne Besen. Wayne is author of Anything But Straight which...
- [90% Success Rate???](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/90-success-rate/): There is a nice article in the Columbia Missourian about how churches are increasingly divided about how gay people fit in. The article focuses on...
- [World’s First Exgay Penguin?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/worlds-first-ex/): Fox News reports on the splitting of famous gay penguins Silo and Roy at New York’s Central Park Zoo. Apparently, Silo left Roy for Scrappy,...
- [Focus Reminds Us Bible Condemns Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/focus-reminds-u/): Today’s broadcast (Real Audio) of Focus On The Family is entitled Biblical Perspective on Homosexuality, Pt 1 (of 2). It consisted of a prerecorded sermon...
- [Pope Benedict Starts a New Witch Hunt](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/pope-benedict-s/): The Boston Globe has an article explaining the Pope’s latest stance on why homosexuals should not be allowed to become priests, even if they are...
- [Students’ Right To Equal Access: AFA Espouses Hypocrisy From Week To Week](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/students-right/): In the AFA’s Agapepress last week: [Linda Harvey of Mission America] warns that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is disseminating information in an effort...
- [‘But I’m A Cheerleader’ Goes Song And Dance](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/but-im-a-cheerl/): The campy 1999 movie about a cheerleader who is sent off to ex-gay camp because she’s showing signs of lesbianism (she’s a vegetarian, doesn’t like...
- [‘Love In Action’ Exgay Facilities Warned to Close](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/love-in-action-6/): From the Associated Press via 365gay.com: The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities has ordered the closing of what it calls two unlicensed...
- [Anne Heche Forum Message Disavows Mother’s Exgay Activities](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/anne-heche-foru/): Actor Anne Heche’s mother, Nancy Heche, is a speaker for Focus on the Family’s antigay roadshow, Love Won Out. Queerty found an August statement attributed...
- [Exgay Richard Cohen + Howard Stern = Tawdry Circus](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/exgay-richard-c/): It’s come to my attention some XGW readers and contributors are displeased with Howard Stern’s Sept. 15 “interview” (I use the term loosely) of Richard...
- [American Baptist Church Splits Over Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/american-baptis/): Modern historians tend to couch the Civil War in terms of economic factors. However, I think they overlook the deeply felt religious war that preceded...
- [Calling Former ‘Love In Action’ Participants](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/calling-former/): Peterson Toscano, Jeff Harwood and others are pulling together data on all participants who attended the Memphis-based live-in ex-gay program Love In Action from 1995...
- [Love In Action Stalls for Time](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/love-in-action-5/): The Memphis-based Queer Action Coalition reports: A lawyer for Love In Action/Refuge contacted the State of Tennessee late yesterday [Wednesday?] claiming to have received their...
- [CDC Survey Provides Percentages of Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/cdc-survey-prov/): The CDC has released a report today about sexuality in persons age 15 to 44. The information is based on a survey in 2002 of...
- [Media Request: Researching Ex-Gay Ministries In The UK](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/media-request-r/): Yet another media request. Feel free to respond if you’re able to help this guy out. I’ll be writing a feature article for a British...
- [Audio Of Richard Cohen On Howard Stern](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/audio-of-richar/): From The Malcontent here’s an MP3 of Richard Cohen on the Howard Stern Show. I’ve got work so don’t expect any analysis out of me...
- [Serial Monogamous Penguins Please Conservatives](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/serial-monogamo/): From Wonkette.com: Today, the New York Times investigates the Christian conservatives’ fifth column: Penguins. Turns out conservatives have become unlikely champions of the documentary “March...
- [Citizen Magazine: Stupid](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/citizen-magazin/): Family.org’s magazine, Citizen, recently published an article responding to some of Soulforce’s claims of spiritual violence. Their response, however, requires a very illogical manner of...
- [From False HIV Test Result, Hope Ministry Operative Coerced Lesbian Into Exgay Religious “Treatment”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/from-false-hiv/): I recently discovered the following decade-old story and thought it should be added to our records at XGW. Quoted text is from a 1999 broadcast...
- [LIA/R May Face Cease And Desist Order](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/liar-may-face-c/): Morgan Fox at Queer Action Network has given us an update on the State of Tennessee’s inspection of Love In Action/Refuge. Coverage prior to this...
- [Blogger: Christian, Gay And Confused](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/blogger-christi/): From Brady at Some Guys Are Normal comes word of a new blog by a Christian woman trying to work through her same-sex attraction. Her...
- [Exgay Movement: Mostly White And Male. Why?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/exgay-movement/): Former exgay Peterson Toscano asks why the exgay movement is dominated by white males. One tentative guess among many possibilities: Denied equal power and privilege...
- [Peterson Toscano: Exgays And the Bible’s Unclean Woman](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/peterson-toscan-3/): Former Love In Action exgay live-in program participant Peterson Toscano compares his past journey as an exgay with that of the unclean woman in Mark,...
- [Alan Keyes: As Stupid As He Believes Gays to Be?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/alan-keyes-as-s/): Alan Keyes’ renewamerica.us web site published a rubbish-strewn article by Nathan Tabor on Sept. 8. Without attribution, the article relies upon: ostracized Dr. Paul Cameron’s...
- [Sen. Rick Santorum And Anti-Community Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/sen-rick-santor/): Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., is facing conservative and pro-life criticism for his new book against community values entitled It Takes A Family — the title...
- [Harshly Defining Fundamentalism](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/harshly-definin/): Answering those who say “fundamentalist” is too strong a word to describe antigay Episcopal bishops who have aligned with corrupt foreign bishops to destroy the...
- [Exodus Exec Lobbies Against Rights of Gay Couples](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/exodus-exec-lob/): Exodus membership director Randy Thomas planned to speak to Denver exgay ministry Where Grace Abounds on Sept. 1. Thomas also was to meet with an...
- [Exgay Silent on Ties to Antigay Katrina Opportunists](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/exgay-silent-on/): Last month, Pat Robertson blamed unnamed 1970s gay activists for establishing no-fault divorce laws, and accused unnamed lesbians of leading the battle for abortion rights....
- [Heresy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/heresy/): From certain evangelicals who cheer the destruction of New Orleans, to polls finding that churchgoers are far more likely than the general public to support...
- [Tennessee Counselor Turns Domestic Partner](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/tennessee-couns/): The Tennessean reports on a woman whose reparative therapy counselor became a “friend” and then a domestic partner to a woman attempting to change her...
- [Targeted Hurricane Katrina LGBT Relief Fund](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/targeted-hurric/): From: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Subject: [GLAAD Southeastern Update] Targeted Hurricane Katrina LGBT Relief Fund We continue to be encouraged by the outpouring...
- [An Open Letter to My Sixth-Grade Gym Teacher](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/an-open-letter/): An open letter to my 6th grade gym teacher which I mailed today. I believe as gays and lesbians we should go back and confront...
- [God Loves the Sinners, Hates the City (other Than the Gay Part)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/god-loves-the-s/): Anti-gay activist group, Repent America, has claimed that God destroyed New Orleans because it welcomes gay visitors. A few choice selections from its press release...
- [Pope: ‘Having Children Is a Gift That Brings Life And Well-Being to Society’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/pope-having-chi/): Everyone except the homosexuals; They’re not allowed to help “bring life and well-being to society”. And while we’re at it, we’re not going to let...
- [AFA Promoting Bible Supplements Deliberately Misinforming Children About HIV](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/afa-promoting-b/): Various arms of the AFA such as OneMillionYouth.com and the AgapePress have been promoting a new bible distributed by Tim Todd Ministries containing comic book...
- [Pope to Condemn Gay Priests](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/pope-to-condemn/): From 365Gay.com, a rumor that the Vatican will become even more anti-gay: The Vatican is preparing to bar gays from entering the priesthood and is...
- [Compiling Quotes For New Exodus Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/compiling-quote/): Word has it you people enjoy my info-graphics. I was thinking of putting one together on illustrating how various Exodus staffers’ definitions of “change” lands...
- [UK Story About Love in Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/uk-story-about/): An article in a UK paper, The Guardian, about the ex-gay movement. (hat tip Morgan Fox) Although part of the article reads like “aren’t those...
- [Exodus Agenda to Seduce Children Into Ex-gay Lifestyle](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/exodus-agenda-t/): The Christian Post had an article about Exodus. While it is basically a bland little information piece, there are a few items in it which...
- [Falwell Supports Equal Housing](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/falwell-support/): Southern Voice released an article yesterday highlighting Jerry Falwell’s newfound support for equal housing & employment rights for gays & lesbians, as shown on “The...
- [Common Childhood Experiences](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/common-childhoo/): I have to admit I enjoy the gay literary genre of autobiographical short stories. In that genre, I’ve found a frequently occurring archetype. (My most...
- [Exodus Membership Director Campaigns Against Gay Couples](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/exodus-membersh/): Randy Thomas, the membership director of Exodus, spoke at a press conference by the promoters of a constitutional amendment in Florida to ensure that gay...
- [Warning Straight Folks… You’re Next](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/warning-straigh/): The following quotes are from an article about a Focus on the Family forum where an Indiana congressman discussed how religion should influence public policy....
- [Reason #9 Why I Despise 365gay.com](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/reason-9-why-i/): The opening shots have been fired by both sides in the battle over a proposed amendment to the Texas state Constitution that would bar same-sex...
- [On A Lighter Note - Focus Interviews Knight Of Concerned WOMEN For America On Gender Confusion](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/on-a-lighter-no/): Kodak wants to make transgender employees comfortable by giving them their own bathroom. Mara Keisling is with the National Center for Transgender Equality. She commends...
- [Fabulous New Term- “Pick And Choose Absolutist”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/fabulous-new-te/): In case you didn’t hear Pat Roberton’s moronic comments about Hugo Chavez: You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he...
- [Washington Times Misquotes the Gay & Lesbian Atlas  (REVISED)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/washington-time/): This entry has been revised to respect the request of the respondent from the Urban Institute. The individual responding thinks it best for the authors...
- [Death Threats Against Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/death-threats-a/): There’s some buzz going about on the right about a death threat being put out against exgay activist James Hartline. Red State forwards this quote:...
- [Homosexual? Well Then Question Exodus - Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/homosexual-well/): Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge.
- [WORLD Magazine Fails To “Question Homosexuality” Or Even Exodus.](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/world-magazine-2/): Jamie Dean of WORLD Magazine wrote an article to examine sexuality serve as an unquestioning soapbox for Alan Chambers. I sent WORLD an editorial reply:...
- [Bennett (over)Reacts to Washington Post Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/bennett-overrea/): Stephen Bennett has reacted to the Washington Post article with a press release claiming that it is a “hatchet job.” He says: Bennett no longer...
- [WaPo: The Cohen Addendum](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/wapo-the-cohen/): The Washington Post does a two-fer today in covering the ex-gay agenda. The same Sandra Boodman has another article up that doesn’t quite make fun...
- [The Last Zach Update(?)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/the-last-zach-u/): Zach has updated his journal once again, and unleashed another torrent of support / debate / ranting / etc. on his MySpace account. He reaffirms...
- [WaPo: Setting the World Straight](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/wapo-setting-th/): Sandra Boodman has an article in the Washington Post discussing ex-gays and the psychology behind the issue. The article is well balanced, in the old...
- [XGW Still Needs Volunteers Willing To Tell Their Stories](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/xgw-still-needs/): Reminder, we REALLY REALLY need more people willing to be listed as media referrals! Volunteers are not expected to memorize or recite any sort of...
- [Dennis Prager - TownHall’s Theological Trannie Train Wreck](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/dennis-prager-t/): Dennis Prager wrote an article on TownHall.com prescribing his god’s judgment upon the transgendered. Well… most of them, assuming you’re able to follow his bizarre...
- [Dominionists Throw Tantrum Over Lawrence V. Texas Even Though The Country Is Over It](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/dominionists-th/): An interesting snippet from Peter Sprigg of FRC talking about the upcoming hearing on Roberts’ nomination to the Supreme Court. Peter Sprigg is the man...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 11/22/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-9/): After just a couple weeks on the air “straight talker” Stephen Bennett seems to be running out of things to say and so it now...
- [Infographic - Focus on the Family Pretends the First Amendment Won’t Protect Them](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/infographic-foc/): Click cartoon to enlarge I would really like to thank queer cartoonist Bruce Garrett for his time and ideas to generously shared with me in...
- [A Very Agape Thanksgiving](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/a-very-agape-th/): Actual headline: Thanksgiving: Thanking God for That Dead, Liberal Church The Agapepress helps spread some holiday spirit. Let’s face it though, no article can ever...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 11/21/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-8/): “Straight talker” Stephen Bennett launched into a bizarre tirade against virtually the entire modern mental health profession in today’s program. (Real Audio / Windows Media)...
- [A Parable](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/a-parable/): It seems that ya’all want to talk a bit about religion lately. So, I’m posting a little parable I’ve written. If you aren’t into parables,...
- [Curse the Fundamentalist Darkness, Or Light A Candle?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/curse-the-funda/): Few uses of prayer are more cynical than the Family Research Council’s weekly voodoo-doll ceremonies in which white male fundamentalists in Washington pray that God...
- [Jimmy Carter Protests Fundamentalist Egotism And Hate](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/jimmy-carter-pr/): (Week-old news. I’m posting this for the XGW archive.) Exodus President Alan Chambers likes to accuse his conscientious critics of being the agents of Satan,...
- [Welcome to AgapePress’ News Source](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/welcome-to-agap/): Oh goodie. Now AgapePress is quoting ExGayWatch for their “news” article about NARTH’s conference. If there was any question as to whether the rightwing anti-gay...
- [Peterson’s Trifecta: A Look At the Love In Action Handbook](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/petersons-trife/): Peterson Toscano has three recent posts he describes as “awesome” he feels have gone unappreciated by Ex-Gay Watch. Said posts are based on principals Peterson...
- [Los Angeles City Councilman Protests NARTH](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/los-angeles-cit/): NARTH chose Marina Del Rey as the convention site for their annual meeting. Marina Del Rey is an unincorporated part of the County of Los...
- [Gay Christian Author Now Ex-gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/gay-christian-a/): In 2002, K. Godfrey Easter wrote Love Lifted Me: In Spite of the Church about his experience as a gay Christian. He has now written...
- [When Is Someone Exgay?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/when-is-someone/): How do you define “exgay”? More to the point, what characteristics describe ALL exgays? Multiple answers are permitted. Definition: An exgay is someone who: (pick...
- [Focus Worried Next APA President Might Not Like Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/focus-worried-n/): Focus appears worried openly-gay Jack Drescher is a candidate for the APA Presidency in December. Focus quotes Drescher: “They can mask it in the language...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers Claims Satan Using Gay People to Further His Agenda to “Destroy the Kingdom of God”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/exodus-presiden-3/): [bold] Can you imagine a world where ministries like Exodus International were illegal? [/bold] There is a move not only to silence the voices of...
- [God’s Wrath?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/gods-wrath/): News reports today include: Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school board...
- [Focus Self-Identifies Resources on Sexuality with “Fag,” “Dyke” And “Flamer”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/focus-self-iden/): Meta tags are hidden code in a web page written by a webmaster to direct a search engine how to classify that page. Focus on...
- [Congratulations to Exgays of Maine](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/congratulations/): Ex-Gay Watch would like to congratulate the ex-gays of Maine on the results of yesterday’s election. Now, regardless of where a resident of Maine falls...
- [Some Thoughts on Marriage Equality](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/some-thoughts-o/): Today the California Court of Appeal is hearing arguments on why its opposite-sex only rule for marriage is unconstitutional. Arguments are being proposed that it...
- [Ex-Lesbian Shares Secret Psychic Insight on WNBA Star](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/ex-lesbian-shar/): Is Exodus handing out special glasses or something cos some select ex-gays have sure been reading minds recently. If anyone attends an exgay conference and...
- [Maine Vote](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/maine-vote/): I’m not so curious about Texas, but for those of you following Maine there seem to be coverage on MaineToday.com.
- [New Gay Current Events Humor Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/new-gay-current/): Fans of GoodAsYou.org will love the new site… [drumroll] FAKE GAY NEWS . COM [ta daaa!] Think of it as a gay version of The...
- [How Tony Orlando And Dawn Saved My Life](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/how-tony-orland/): How Tony Orlando and Dawn Saved My Life by Joe Kort, MSW When I was in middle school, I fell in love with a singing...
- [Melissa Fryrear of Focus Still Just Making Stuff Up - Love Won Out Boston](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/melissa-fryrear-2/): We’ve all seen this quote from Love Won Out Birmingham: “I never met a person who aspired to be homosexually challenged,” the gender issues expert...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 11/03/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-7/): (Audio link) Straight talker Stephen Bennett’s program today was comically titled “Cartoons, Children and ‘Gender Confusion’ – Is There a Correlation?” That’s an excellent question...
- [Evangelical Leader Supports Lawrence, Opposes Christian Theocracy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/evangelical-lea/): Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was interviewed in ChristianityToday about a new book he’s written. In this book, he argues that...
- [South Park Takes on Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/south-park-take/): South Park, the irreverent cartoon about a group of fourth graders living in South Park, Colorado, is one of the better satirists of current culture....
- [Hate Crime Hysteria - Focus Continues To Ignore Existence of First Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/hate-crime-hyst/): Focus continues to bury it’s head in the sand over hate-crime protections for gay Americans today. I sent them the following letter: For as much...
- [James Hartline’s Sordid Past Exposed](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/james-hartlines/): Periodically the AgapePress, WorldNetDaily or some other wingnut press will quote James Hartline, ex-gay of San Diego. Hartline can be counted on to provide some...
- [Financial Excesses At ACLJ: Jay Sekulow Exposed](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/financial-exces/): From Walter Olson at Overlawyered.com: The Pat Robertson-founded American Center for Law and Justice is ostensibly a religious-right nonprofit legal-advocacy organization. But Tony Mauro of...
- [The Revolution Will Be Podcast](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/the-revolution/): Mike is swamped with work and is going out of town till mid next week so I’m seizing control of XGW. Send all important leads/tips/money...
- [NARTH Promotes Racist Column On Townhall.com](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/narth-promotes/): On their website and by email, NARTH endorsed a delightful article on Townhall.com attacking essentially all multicultural studies college classes as evil. I’m not kidding,...
- [Love Won Out Boston Protests - Photos And Audio](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/love-won-out-bo/): Local hate group, Article 8, has some excellent photos of the protest at Love Won Out last weekend. Family “News” in Focus (ok let’s face...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 10/31/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/stephen-bennett-6/): Mr. Bennett points out there are no definitive studies proving sexuality is genetic. However Bennett deceives by omission. He repeatedly asserts sexuality is developmental but...
- [Exodus Media Blog Favors Anti-Gay Propaganda - Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-media-bl-2/): Click image to enlarge For documentation and notes click below.
- [Exodus Official Comments on Boston Globe LWO Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-official-2/): Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas comments on the Oct. 28 Boston Globe interview of him at Focus on the Family’s Love Won Out road show. I...
- [Family Research Council, Ex-Gays Gain Power in Suburban D.C. Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/family-research-2/): The Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education has identified the members of a sex-education curriculum development panel. This panel is is being recreated after the...
- [Toscano: How Sexual Abuse Made Me Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/toscano-how-sex/): Thoughts by former ex-gay Peterson Toscano: Lots of “ex-gay” proponents claim that one of the causes of same-sex attraction is childhood sexual abuse. I don’t...
- [Are Antigay Bullies Reacting to Their Own Arousal?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/are-antigay-bul/): Alas, A Blog casts a bit of doubt upon the widespread belief that suppressed sexual arousal prompts antigay bullies to act violently against persons assumed...
- [Washington State Subjected to Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/washington-stat/): Washington state was subjected a little puff piece on the ex-gay movement from KOMO TV news website. The ex-gay ministry, Groundswell, is quoted as saying...
- [Warren Throckmorton And the Gay Eunuchs](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/warren-throckmo/): Warren Throckmorton has adopted an interesting take on scripture in Matthew in which Jesus refers to “eunuchs because they were born that way”. Throckmorton’s interpretation...
- [AFA War Against Walgreen’s / Man Says Priest Didn’t Make Him Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/afa-war-against/): I see below that Dan Gonzales disagrees strongly with one of Wayne Besen’s posts this week. I hadn’t noticed that post, but there are at...
- [Guilty By Location - Wayne Besen Accuses Alive In Christ Ministry Of Politicking](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/guilty-by-locat/): In his blog today, Wayne Besen attacks Brenna Simonds, leader of a small Boston exgay ministry, the name of which he does not give. That...
- [When Reality Out Does Infographics](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/when-reality-ou/): Addendum: The above graphic is REAL. But here are some show topics I would like to suggest for Bennett’s show. Yes, these are JOKES but...
- [Melissa Fryrear Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/melissa-fryrear/): Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge
- [Straight, Not Narrow: Exgay Tim Wilkins A Bit Narrow](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/straight-not-na/): Jim Johnson of Straight, Not Narrow thoughtfully analyzed exgay Tim Wilkins and his organization, Cross Ministry, on Oct. 13. Johnson applauds Wilkins for his openness...
- [Former Exgay Peterson Toscano Performs in Maryland](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/former-exgay-pe/): GayLife of Maryland profiles Peterson Toscano, a former Love In Action live-in client who now performs several spiritual and comedic one-man plays, including “Doin’ Time...
- [Who Is Silencing the Ex-Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/who-is-silencin/): The political religious right, of course. Peterson Toscano explains.
- [Exodus Promotes Allies’ Ridicule of Dr. Phil, Co-Existence, And Antibullying Efforts](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-promotes/): The Exodus media blog promoted the following propaganda pieces by antigay political allies this week, and withheld alternative viewpoints from the Exodus readership. (Exodus does...
- [Judge Denies Exgay Mental Facility’s Effort to Avoid Licensure](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/judge-denies-ex/): Published today in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. (free subscription required): A federal judge denied a motion Friday that would have permitted Love In Action...
- [Exodus Official’s Folksy Agenda in Washington](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-official/): Whatever Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas was doing in Washington and Chicago this week, he isn’t ready to share with the public. Instead, on his vanity...
- [Conservative WSJ Columnist Finds Dobson Lying About Miers](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/conservative-ws/): Focus on the Family co-founder James Dobson has maintained that White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove did not give him assurances about how...
- [Longer Prison Terms for All Sex Crimes?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/longer-prison-t/): Exodus President Alan Chambers doesn’t say what the proper sentence for a teen-age consensual sex offender should be. But — given Exodus’ past support for...
- [Cause of Homosexuality Found: It’s Hip Hop](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/cause-of-homose/): Self-appointed youth “minister” G. Craige Lewis has found the cause of homosexuality: Hip-hop music. Lewis operates a profitable livelihood under the alias EX Ministries. His...
- [Critics of Lesbian Cleric: Follow the Money](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/critics-of-lesb/): United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie follows the mammon money underwriting Republican activists’ two-pronged effort to divide mainstream churches with partisan misinformation over hot-button...
- [Bloggers Dissect Maggie Gallagher](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/bloggers-dissec/): While guest-blogging at the conservative Volokh Conspiracy, anti-marriage activist Maggie Gallagher’s intellectual and moral shallowness were laid bare as she persistently declined to offer coherent...
- [Focus Broadcast Blames Absent Fathers For Causing Something Besides Homos For A Change](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/focus-broadcast/): The last three days of Focus On The Family broadcasts have been an panel of apologetics experts (apologeticists?) lamenting how few Evangelicals share their particular...
- [Exodus President Agrees with ACLU Against Kansas Sex Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-presiden-2/): Today at Ex-Gay Watch, Exodus President Alan Chambers agreed with me that homosexual and heterosexual sex crimes deserve equal punishment, and that the Kansas Supreme...
- [Kansas Bars Harsher Sentences for Gay Teen-agers](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/kansas-bars-har/): At age 18, Matthew Limon — a developmentally disabled young man — engaged in voluntary sexual activity with a 14-year-old male. This followed two prior...
- [Slippery Slope Story Was All Wet](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/slippery-slope/): Last week the far right news sources were exulting that their predictions had come true. They claimed that gay civil unions had led to a...
- [Does Harriet Miers Attend a Pro-gay Church?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/does-harriet-mi/): Much of the brouhaha surrounding the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has centered on her attitudes about homosexuality. The extremist on the...
- [Dr. Phil Episode On Gay Teens Air Date](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/dr-phil-episode/): According to Wayne Besen the recently taped Dr. Phil episode on gay teens will air Wednesday (tomorrow).
- [Bruce Garrett Cartoons Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/bruce-garrett-c/): Queer cartoonist Bruce Garrett takes on Love In Action. Click on image to view Garrett’s page and scroll down for full size cartoon. Via Peterson...
- [Protecting the Children](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/protecting-the/): In an article oddly titled First Person – Homosexuality, child sexual abuse, and foster care, Alan Sears, CEO of the Alliance Defense Fund, is riling...
- [TVC’s Sheldon Accepted Big Bucks to Support Gambling, Mislead Followers](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/tvcs-sheldon-ac/): The Washington Post reported Oct. 16 that the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition, accepted at least $25,000 in direct funds,...
- [For the Record: ‘Boot Camp’ Director Remains Vice Chair of Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/for-the-record/): Given John Smid’s numerous dubious claims — about his ordination, his education, his qualifications, and the mental-health activities of Love In Action — I just...
- [Viacom/CBS Again Refuses Gay-Inclusive Church Ads](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/viacomcbs-again/): From Queer Day: CBS has again refused to air United Church of Christ’s gay-inclusive television commercial saying it amounts to “advocacy” and therefore cannot be...
- [Are You Sexually Compulsive?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/are-you-sexuall/): From Patrick Yaeger of Queer Visions: Are You Sexually Compulsive? Many in the gay community still equate sexual promiscuity with gay liberation in general. Irresponsible...
- [Rescuing Jesus From the Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/rescuing-jesus/): Here are recent writings by others on the growing corruption and apostasy of the religious Right, and efforts at renewal offered by other Christians who...
- [Defining Anglican Homophobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/defining-anglic/): Courtesy of blogger Father Jake: Andrew Linzey is one of the editors of Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report (Amazon...
- [Two Views of Exgay Speech in Milwaukee](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/two-views-of-ex/): When exgay activist Tim Wilkins spoke to a forum at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Oct. 4, two campus newspapers offered two differing accounts of...
- [Exodus to Lobby in D.C., Chicago](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-to-lobby/): The not-exgay-but-something-like-it Exodus official Randy Thomas says he is traveling to D.C. again today.
- [Religious Lobby Uses Ex-Gay Lore](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/religious-lobby/): The Boston Globe has a story [free registration required] on Richard Land, the Souther Baptist Convention’s lobby in Washington. Gay leaders are particularly alarmed about...
- [XGW Seeking Other Patients Told By Their Therapists To Lie In Spitzer Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/xgw-seeking-oth/): In one of my last therapy sessions with Joseph Nicolosi of NARTH he asked me to participate in a self-reporting study on ex-gays being conducted...
- [TVC Claims Change Is Always Possible](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/tvc-claims-chan/): Last night Lou Sheldon of the TVC issued possibly the most nonsensical response to Time’s recent article on gay teens I have seen yet. (Yes,...
- [Blame the Priest, Ask for Cash](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/blame-the-pries/): New York Socialite “J. David Enright IV says that Father Joseph Romano sexually abused him at a Christian youth camp in the early 1960s, when...
- [I Hereby CHOOSE to Be Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/i-hereby-choose/): I laughed reading this account of ex-gay minister Tim Wilkins’ talk to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Apologetics Association, a student-led organization that exists to “promote...
- [A Look Back: Past Commentary on Fundamentalism](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/a-look-back-pas/): Almost three years ago, Ex-Gay Watch complimented Real Live Preacher regarding a thoughtful post on the difficulty that both Christians and people of other faiths...
- [Coming Out Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/coming-out-day/): Today is National Coming Out Day. Ex-gay activist Warren Throckmorton accurately identifies the purpose of Coming Out day in a Focus on the Family article:...
- [Exgay Battle in Montgomery County, Md., Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-battle-in/): Due to time constraints, I have been unable to cover this issue recently — a shame, since I live nearby and my best friends’ daughter...
- [Unintentional Self-Parody: Inter-Varsity Guide for Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/unintentional-s/): The Grace Pages briefly reviews A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality, authored by Joseph Nicolosi and published in 2002 by Inter-Varsity Press. The examples of...
- [Prof. Throckmorton’s College Rated Unsafe for Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/prof-throckmort-3/): The blogosphere noted this long ago; I’m posting this mostly for archival purposes. The Princeton Review rated Grove City College, home of exgay movement pundit...
- [Catholic Pro-Chastity Blogger on Sex Abuse And the Purge](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/catholic-pro-ch/): Sed Contra, written by Courage participant and chaste Catholic David Morrison has offered a great deal of nuanced thinking on this topic. More antigay than...
- [Seventeen Magazine Profiles Former ‘Love In Action’ Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/seventeen-magaz-2/): Seventeen, the teenage women’s magazine, profiles Love In Action survivor Wade Richards in its November 2005 edition. Richards also was featured in the documentary Fish...
- [Bennett to Gays: Get Off the Home And Garden Network!](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/bennett-to-gays/): Exgay activist Stephen Bennett, like a number of feminists and conservatives, would like to rid the television airwaves of pornography. Of course, Bennett defines pornography...
- [Oregon Christian Coalition Leader Accused of Molesting Girls](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/oregon-christia/): Lou Beres, the longtime chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition, faces molestation accusations from three female family members who were preteens at the time of...
- [Exodus Media Blog Upholds Kentucky Schools’ Antigay Bullying](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-media-bl/): The Exodus media blog on Oct. 4. promoted an antigay tirade by Richard Mullenax of TheRealityCheck.org. By failing to check the facts behind the polemics,...
- [Gay Teens Closer to Exgays Than to the Gay ‘Movement’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/gay-teens-close/): Once in a while, the Exodus media blog posts something that might conceivably be true — at first glance. “I don’t think the gay movement...
- [Focus Admits Exgay Program’s Agenda: Undermine Gay Couples’ Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/focus-admits-ex/): In a press release for its Boston “Love Won Out” conference, Focus on the Family briefly acknowledges that attacking gay couples’ partnership and marriage rights...
- [Focus/Family Misreports About ‘Love In Action’ Spokesman](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/focusfamily-mis/): In a story today on its CitizenLink web service, Focus on the Family reported (emphasis is XGW’s): Gerard Wellman, who joined the staff of Love...
- [“Preachin’ the Good News” in Philly](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/preachin-the-go/): Philadelphia had its gay pride festival, Outfest, this weekend. They were preached at by Repent America (the same good folks who told us God sent...
- [James Dobson’s Cronyism And Harriet Miers](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/james-dobsons-c/): Has Harriet Miers agreed to act as a High Court crony, obeying the wishes of George Bush and James Dobson no matter the facts of...
- [Nature AND Nurture, ‘Gay Gene’ Geneticist Dean Hamer Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/nature-and-nurt/): Dean Hamer is the geneticist whose groundbreaking 1992 research is periodically misused by exgay activists to conjure up an imaginary belief (among unnamed and impossible-to-find...
- [Exgay Leaders: If Not the Enemy, Then Who Is?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-leaders-i/): Former exgay Peterson Toscano finds reasons not to view the leaders of Exodus, “Love Won Out,” and Love In Action — people like Exodus board...
- [NARTH Announces 2005 Conference Speakers - Denies Media Access to XGW](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/narth-announces/): NARTH has announced a speakers list for this year’s conference November 11-13 here in LA. The majority of listings are names I don’t recognize and...
- [Speaking Truth And Reconciliation to Exgay ‘Boot Camp’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/speaking-truth/): Former exgay Love In Action participant Peterson Toscano has been thinking about appropriate and inappropriate tactics toward the Tennessee exgay inpatient therapeutic facility, Love In...
- [British Ex-Gay Movement: Down But Not Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/british-ex-gay/): People in the United Kingdom may have assumed that the exgay movement there was effectively crippled when the head of Exodus’ British flagship organization, Jeremy...
- [Christine: From Unhealthy Straight Lifestyle to Clean ‘Gay Lifestyle’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/christine-from/): From ex-ex-gay blogger Christine: One of the things that bothers me about many ex-gay testimonies is that they often talk about how horrible the “gay...
- [Catholic Bishops: Beware of Biblical Inerrancy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/catholic-bishop/): Biblical inerrancy has always been rejected by mainline Christian denominations, including the oldest of them all: the Roman Catholic Church. Tradition, history and science have...
- [Focus on the Family Equates Gay Couples, Donkey Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/focus-on-the-fa-18/): From Media Matters for America: Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson predicted on his radio program [MP3 file] that allowing same-sex...
- [Coming Out — Not As A Label, But As Oneself](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/coming-out-not/): Exgay activists affiliated with Exodus, Focus on the Family, and the American Family Association frequently attempt to shoehorn sexual strugglers into smallminded and unhealthy stereotypes....
- [It Keeps Going… And Going…: PFOX Word-War Against National PTA](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/it-keeps-going/): Good As You comments on the ongoing war of words by antigay aggrieved-parents group PFOX against a decision made half a year ago by National Parent Teacher Association....
- [Interview With Blogger Who ‘Questions’ Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/interview-with/): Last autumn (yes, I’m that far behind in my e-mail), Colleen Keating interviewed “Ben” of the Scattered Words blog. Read her article in The Vital...
- [Pastor Says Exgay Road Show ‘Blurs the Distinctiveness That Makes Us Who We Are’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/pastor-says-exg/): The Rev. Irene Monroe (email) writes a regular online column, “Queer Take.” Last month, Monroe commented at length on Focus on the Family’s October exgay...
- [Soulforce Responds to SBC Pastor’s Arrest for Alleged Gay-Sex Solicitation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/soulforce-respo/): Soulforce responds to the arrest of Southern Baptist Convention pastor Rev. Lonnie Latham: Robyn Murphy, Director of Public Relations and Media, for Soulforce: “Many people...
- [Exgay Lobbyist, Focus Smear Gay Efforts to Prevent HIV-Drug Misuse And Risky Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exgay-lobbyist/): In a recent radio broadcast and article coordinated with Focus on the Family, Exodus exgay lobbyist Randy Thomas falsely accused the “gay community” of failing...
- [Dead Horse? Beat Away: Exgay Lobbyist’s Fixation on the Formerly Fab Five](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/dead-horse-beat/): There is much that one might find wrong with the fashion industry — superficiality, materialism, runaway consumption, impractical and overpriced designs, and overrepresentation of New...
- [Southern Baptist Pastor Arrested for Gay Sex Offer](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/southern-baptis-2/): The Recording Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Church has been arrested for propositioning a male undercover officer for oral sex.
- [Net Access Outage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/net-access-outa/): As long as I’ve lived in my current apartment some unknown neighbor has been providing me with wireless internet. Their signal has been down for...
- [Are You Ex-Gay? How Did You Break Free?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/are-you-ex-gay/): In response to some advice that I posted for an exgay reader, another reader recently wrote to ask whether I am exgay, and if so,...
- [Locations for XGW Local Meetings](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/locations-for-x/): If you are interested in meeting other Ex-Gay Watch readers in Southern California or the Northeast Corridor (Washington-Boston), please sign up here. No dates for...
- [Seeking Participants for Joe Nicolosi Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/seeking-partici/): I’m preparing a new infographic on Joe Nicolosi. Does anyone have any high-resolution photos of him? Also I’m looking for former clients of Nicolosi willing...
- [Homosexuality - Biggest Problem of the Inner City According to Lou Sheldon](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/homosexuality-b/): Sometimes it’s nice to know we queers aren’t the only ones who find Lou Sheldon creepy; Tucker Carlson does too. My editor had just assigned...
- [How Straight Boys Made Me Stop Trying To Be Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/how-straight-bo/): I occasionally have inquiries about my own experience with ex-gay / reparative therapy. I was a client of Joseph Nicolosi for about a year between...
- [Infographic - Love In Action Advertises Help For “Sexual Sin” Parody](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/infographic-lov/): Click Image To View Full SizeClick Image To View Full Size It appears from Love In Action’s newest advertisment they now offer treatment for sexual...
- [MyExGaySpace](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/myexgayspace/): Exodus Youth is being all hip now and has set up a profile on Myspace. (Read this if you live on Mars and have never...
- [Fred Phelps Vs. Repent America: Exgay Doublespeak](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/fred-phelps-vs/): On Dec. 27, Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas prided himself on his rejection of “false prophet Fred Phelps.” Phelps is the patriarch of a Kansas fundamentalist...
- [The Moral Lessons of Brokeback Mountain](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/the-moral-lesso/): Even before they had seen the movie, exgay network Exodus and its prime benefactor Focus on the Family feared that Brokeback Mountain might prompt conservative...
- [Ex-Gay Tim Wilkins Agrees To Take Lie Detector Test](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/ex-gay-tim-wilk-2/): I recently learned blog Good As You has made offers to ex-gays asking them to appear on The 700 Club and take a lie detector...
- [New Advertisement From Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/new-advertiseme/): I’m open to ideas on how to infographic-ize this newest advertisement from Love In Action. There will be no comments on this post, please email...
- [Mobile Access to Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/mobile-access-t/): If you own a mobile phone or handheld computer with a JavaScript-enabled web browser, you may now visit the most recent entries at Ex-Gay Watch...
- [Exgay Blog Nominations](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/exgay-blog-nomi/): Quite some time ago, I withdrew exgay personal web sites from the XGW indexes of worthwhile web sites (located in the column to your right)...
- [Socarides And the Use of ‘Mental Health’ to Enforce Social Norms](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/socarides-and-t/): The death of Charles W. Socarides reminded libertarian lawyer Jonathan Rowe of opposing social factions’ efforts, over the decades, to misuse the concept of “mental...
- [Love In Action Associate Director Nathan Bell Gets Sacked](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/love-in-action-9/): Peterson Toscano reports Nathan Bell, associate director of Love In Action, has been terminated by the ministry. Peterson has extensive contacts associated (past and present)...
- [Socarides Dies: A Grandfather of Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/socarides-dies/): Charles W. Socarides, a grandfather of the reparative therapy movement and co-founder of the antigay National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, died Dec....
- [Exodus Earnings Jump; Exgay Network Gets ‘C’ for Transparency](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/exodus-earnings/): Exodus financial results for 2004 are now available, courtesy of MinistryWatch: Contributions to Exodus rose 36 percent, from $454,000 in 2003 to $617,000 in 2004....
- [Disconnect in Fund-Raising By Parents Critical of Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/disconnect-in-f/): Conservative Christian Blogger/journalist Justin McLachlan disagreed took issue with recent calls for an investigation of Focus on the Family’s tax-exempt status. In response, McLachlan researched...
- [Are We Hypocrites?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/are-we-hypocrit/): We here at exgaywatch have been recently criticized for not applying the same standards to those that oppose the ex-gay ministries as we do to...
- [Old Handouts From My Time In Therapy With Joseph Nicolosi](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/old-handouts-fr/): (Click to download packet in Acrobat) I was sorting through my old NARTH files at my parents’ place over Christmas and found some old handouts...
- [When You Just Can’t Say It](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/when-you-just-c/): Resource available for those people unable to bring themselves to purchase a book with “HOMOSEXUALITY” on the cover. Well I’m assuming the “H…” is for...
- [More Coverage on the Coverage](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/more-coverage-o/): In addition to the article in Christianity Today previously discussed here that addressed religious media coverage of Brokeback Mountain, an article in the New York...
- [Christmas Roundup: Dan’s Hometown Gay Bar & How Christmas Made Peterson Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/christmas-round/): Christmas greetings from Ventura, my hometown as well as home of the only gay bar between Santa Barbara and LA County. That bar, Paddy’s, serves...
- [Christianity Today Looks At Christian Media Response to Brokeback](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/christianity-to-2/): Christianity Today has an article today that reflects on the movie reviews given by Christian media for Brokeback Mountain. Author Jeffrey Overstreet doesn’t pay attention...
- [Feedback](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/feedback/): I’m gone (I hope) for five days. While I’m out, please offer constructive feedback about the James Dobson baseball card, XGW’s other infographics, and features...
- [Focus Dismisses Biblical Truth About Christmas](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/focus-dismisses/): The Chicago Tribune reports on true conservative churches — in other words, churches that reject trees, Santa, carols, consumer merchandise swapping, and other unbiblical icons of...
- [Hard Times At Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/hard-times-at-l/): Hard times, and rumors of such, are circulating around the Memphis, Tenn.-based antigay therapeutic outfit Love In Action. The Memphis-based Queer Action Coalition observes declining activity at LIA...
- [Infographic - Focus Claims ‘Evangelical Community’ Hasn’t Said Anything About Gays That Jesus Would Apologize For](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/infographic-foc-2/): Click Image to Enlarge.
- [Anti-gay Catholic “Interview” Posted At NARTH](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/anti-gay-cathol/): In reviewing NARTH’s posting of Zenit’s interview with Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons (described as “a psychiatrist, author and contributor to the Catholic Medical Association’s document “Homosexuality...
- [Open Forum](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/open-forum/): So saith a conservative judge: “It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would...
- [Watch Interview Today of Former Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/watch-interview/): Peterson Toscano will be interviewed live today for the Seattle public access TV program “Being in Seattle.” Toscano will be asked to speak about his...
- [NARTH: Analyze This](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/narth-analyze-t/): Ex-Gay Watch seeks writers to critically analyze the following recent NARTH antigay propaganda items: Researcher Studies How MSMs Organize Sexual Culture In Public Parks New...
- [With Ears Closed, Hearts Hardened, And Morals Compromised](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/with-ears-close/): The culture war over homosexuality is not, primarily, a battle between liberals and conservatives. It is often a war between those who refuse to discuss...
- [Exgays Silent on Bush Espionage Against U.S. Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/exgays-silent-o/): To my knowledge, exgay activists Alan Chambers, Randy Thomas, and Stephen Bennett — all unabashed supporters of President Bush — have yet to comment on...
- [Is There Red-State Demand for ‘Brokeback’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/is-there-red-st/): Wayne Besen observes some resentment brewing over the unavailability of “Brokeback Mountain,” thus far, outside of a few major cities. Is America nearly as red-state...
- [Brokeback: But What About the Wives?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/brokeback-but-w/): Perhaps I’ve missed it, but I have yet to see substantive, civil public discussion about the wives and children who were also harmed in the...
- [Brokeback: Good Questions From Christianity Today](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/brokeback-good/): If anything, Christianity Today’s questions for conservative-Christian viewers of “Brokeback Mountain” may be a bit too tolerant: 1. The tagline for Brokeback Mountain is, “Love...
- [TVC Repackages Exgay Message on ‘Brokeback’ Into Homo ‘Assault’ on Christmas](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/tvc-repackages/): ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and ‘Capote’ constitute a sinister homosexual “assault” on Christmas, according to the “Traditional Values” Coalition. Need proof of the assault? TVC’s Andrea Lafferty (who hasn’t...
- [Focus: “Evangelical Community” Hasn’t Said Anything About Gays Jesus Would Apologize For](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/focus-evangelic/): In today’s Family News In Focus broadcast propaganda reader Steve Jordahl stated that the “Evangelical community” hasn’t said anything about gay people Jesus would want...
- [Fox Snubs Brokeback](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/fox-snubs-broke/): At the risk of annoying you all with more news about Brokeback Mountain… Fox News has released Roger Friedman’s the top 10 movies of the...
- [AIM’s “Quit Gay Sex” Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/aims-quit-gay-s/): Did anyone else catch this Cliff Kincaid op-ed from the ironically named, “Accuracy in Media” news site? After praising ABC News for prompting people to...
- [Jim Venice And Pure Heart Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/jim-venice-and/): In an article in the St. Lewis Riverfront Times called Pray the Gay Away by Chad Garrison, Jim Venice expounds about his ex-gay counseling for...
- [Ford Update](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/ford-update/): It appears that Ford has taken an about face on advertising with gay press. After meeting with representatives of the community, Ford has issued a...
- [The Southern Baptists Join the Anti-Brokeback Parade](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/the-southern-ba/): Not to be left out of the lunacy, the Southern Baptists have now decided that Brokeback Mountain will destroy friendship between boys. Their logic is...
- [Stephen Bennett On Brokeback: A Porn Parody Come To Life](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/stephen-bennett-15/): So there’s this porno movie called “The Hole” which is a parody of “The Ring.” Story goes there’s this videotape you watch, and upon finishing...
- [Concerned “Women” for America Attack Brokeback](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/concerned-women-5/): Although the conservative christian movement was resolved not to protest Brokeback Mountain lest it raise visibility and increase sales, the men over at Concerned “Women”...
- [Brokeback Free At The New Yorker Magazine Archives](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/brokeback-free/): I was unaware Brokeback Mountain, the original short story, is available for free online at The New Yorker. Big ole thanks to Stephen Bennett for...
- [Queer Quotable](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/queer-quotable-3/): “He may have gay friends but he doesn’t want me as one of them.” -Peterson Toscano Peterson has tried unsuccessfully for the last five weeks...
- [HRC: ‘Inflammatory Ads Mislead Public on Hate Crimes’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/hrc-inflammator/): NEWS from the Human Rights Campaign For Immediate Release – Tuesday, Dec 13th, 2005 Contact: Steven Fisher | Phone: (202) 216-1547 | Cell: (202) 431-7608...
- [Ex-Gay Ads Oppose Hate-Crime Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/ex-gay-ads-defe/): Gay rights activist and author Wayne Besen comments on a newly launched exgay ad campaign (ad in PDF format): The “ex-gay” ministries launched a new,...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 12/12/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/stephen-bennett-14/): In numerous previous broadcasts, Stephen Bennett claims to have numerous unnamed gay and lesbian friends. In today’s program (12/12/05) Bennett claims he doesn’t know a...
- [Queer Quotable](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/queer-quotable-2/): “If I spent as much time thinking about lesbian sex as they do, I wouldn’t have time to do my real job.” [*] Kate Kendall,...
- [All Things Brokeback](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/all-things-brok/): Happy Brokeback Mountain Weekend, The movie is now out and the blogosphere, along with the media, is going crazy. In jumping on the bandwagon, I...
- [Gay Christian Response to D.C.-Area Exgay Ads](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/gay-christian-r/): The Washington Blade reported last week on an exgay TV ad campaign by a Washington, D.C.-area church. According to the report, critics including Wayne Besen...
- [Focus/Family Protests Victory of Community Values Over Obstructionists](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/focusfamily-pro/): From Teach The Facts (Montgomery County, Maryland): In early November, a three-judge panel ruled in favor of Palmdale, Calif., schools and the local community regarding...
- [Suburban D.C. Parents Monitor Antigay, Exgay Ideologues](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/suburban-dc-par/): In predominantly liberal Montgomery County, Maryland, the suburban D.C. public school district’s sex-education program is guided by a panel of education and health experts and parents...
- [Themes Contained in Brokeback Mountain Shared By Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/themes-containe/): Stephen Benentt and Exodus have issued statements condemning Brokeback having never indicated if they have so much read the original literary work or seen the...
- [Throckmorton: Youth Depression Could Be an ‘STD’ Spread By Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/throckmorton-yo/): From Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink web site: COMMENTARY: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DEPRESSION — THE NEW STD?Research reverses the thought that teen depression leads to risky...
- [Focus/Family Calls Brokeback ‘Twisted,’ Warns of ‘Ick Factor’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/focusfamily-cal/): Posted today on Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink web site: REVIEWERS CALL ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN’ TWISTED Gay love story carries a high “ick” factor.
- [Brokeback Mountain - Video of Alan Chambers on Good Morning America](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/brokeback-mount/): Click For Video From the report: Not everyone agrees. Exodus International, a Christian group that works to “cure” gays, is urging people not to see...
- [After Melee, Repent America Objects to Being Treated the Way It Treats Others](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/after-melee-rep/): Repent America is a southeast Pennsylvania antigay organization whose leader, Michael Marcavage, hopes a future fundamentalist federal government will make homosexuality punishable by execution. Repent...
- [Ex-Gay James Hartline Goes After Adult Businesses, Hasn’t Provided Evidence](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/ex-gay-james-ha/): San Diego’s very own and extra special ex-gay, James Hartline threw a press conference / tour of local adult businesses he claims violate city zoning...
- [PFOX Thought for the Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/pfox-thought-fo/): In early autumn 2000, I joined the PFOX Yahoo group to learn how PFOX parents cope with same-sex orientation in their families. Many of the...
- [Ford Dumps Gays for AFA](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/ford-dumps-gays/): For years, Ford Motor Company has been supportive of the gay community. Much of this support was generated in 2002 when Ford desperately needed Allan...
- [Soulforce Plans Summer Roadtrip - Equality Ride](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/soulforce-plans/): Soulforce** has announced a major event for next summer, a traveling protest called Equality Ride. At military and religious colleges around the nation, bans on...
- [Rocky Mountain Methodists Are Angry](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/rocky-mountain/): The United Methodist clergy in the Rocky Mountains are displeased with what they view as an anti-gay decision made by the church’s judicial body. The...
- [PFOX President Gloats That Most Ex-Gays Not Eligible for Priesthood](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/pfox-president/): As has been discussed here, the new Vatican policy on seminarians excludes ex-gay Catholics that have “deep-rooted homosexual tendencies”. Regina Griggs, president of PFOX, claims...
- [Author Demands American Family Association Pull ‘Fraudulent Video That Promotes HIV’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/author-demands/): From Wayne Besen: Press ReleaseTuesday, Dec. 6, 2005 AFA’s Video Features ‘Ex-Gay’ Leader Caught In HIV Scandal, Says Wayne Besen NEW YORK – Author Wayne...
- [Randy Thomas Makes [Unintentionally?] Hilarious Comment About ‘Fringe Group’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/randy-thomas-ma/): Exodus’ Randy Thomas recently blogged: Based also on minimal information, [Robinowitz] is far less an activist than Drescher. Drescher supports fringe activist groups [Randy’s link]...
- [HRC, Just Wondering](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/hrc-just-wonder/): Does HRC have any policy analysts watching the threat ex-gay “ministries” pose to civil equality of gay Americans? Using HRC’s search page with keywords “exgay”...
- [Stephen Bennett’s Radio Program to Do Call-in Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/stephen-bennett-13/): Announced on Straight Talk Radio’s website today: I would SO call in today and join the fun but alas I have work. Call In to...
- [Complaint And Petition Ask IRS to Investigate Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/complaint-and-p/): Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint Nov. 28 with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service against James Dobson’s Focus on the Family.
- [The Vatican’s Gay (and Ex-gay) Problem](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/the-vaticans-ga/): The contorted thinking behind the Vatican’s decision on seminarians is raising questions all along the political spectrum (other, of course, than the reactionary anti-gay activists)....
- [QUEERTY Freedom of Speech Update](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/queerty-freedom/): Sent them a little email to make sure I was reading things correctly: I’m sorry I might have misread your post but are you actually...
- [Advice to An Exgay Survivor of the ‘Gay Scene’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/advice-to-an-ex/): Here is a message that I recently wrote to an anonymous exgay individual who said it was “the gay scene” — which, he said, seemed...
- [Wells Fargo: Focus Closes Their Account, I Open One](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/wells-fargo-foc/): Basically all of today’s Focus On The Family broadcast was spent discussing how Focus chose to leave their old bank, Wells Fargo, for being too...
- [Chad And Dan Go to Dinner](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/chad-and-dan-go/): Chad Thompson is in Orange County speaking at a church conference on HIV/AIDS and we met for dinner. Until recently I haven’t followed Chad’s work...
- [The Only Queers I’ve Found Actively Unhappy About Sweden?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/the-only-queers/): From gay culture blog QUEERTY: A Swedish court convicted him under hate crime legislation but the ruling was appealed; Sweden’s Supreme Court has now utterly...
- [Don’t Just Read About the Religious Right…](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/dont-just-read/): …instead, take action. Visit Religious Right Watch, then consider becoming involved in Talk To Action.
- [Mother Jones: Where the Christian Right Is Leading Us](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/mother-jones-wh/): I still haven’t had time to read the December cover story and related articles thoroughly. Among the items of interest are stories about the Founding Fathers’...
- [Bitter Spirit: ADF Pollutes Biblical Teaching About Homosexual Persons](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/bitter-spirit-a/): While I congratulate Swedish pastor Ake Green on his acquittal by his country’s supreme court, I reject the Alliance Defense Fund’s assertion that calling homosexuality a...
- [Open Forum: Discrimination](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/open-forum-disc/): Facts solicited: Do same-sex-attracted persons suffer from discrimination? (Cite current examples and provide links.) Opinions solicited: Should it be illegal for private individuals or organizations...
- [Gays? Be Accountable. Exgays? Change the Subject](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/gays-be-account/): On his personal blog, Randy Thomas of the Exodus national office cheers Brown University columnist Carman McNary for protesting alleged “drunken orgies” organized by the...
- [Calling Oneself ‘Godly’: Self-Flattery Or Blasphemy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/calling-oneself/): Both Exodus president Alan Chambers and Exodus lobbyist/political organizer Randy Thomas have gotten in the habit, lately, of calling themselves, and fellow conservative Christians, “godly.” Latest example:...
- [Exodus Lobbyist’s Rant Against Freedom-Defending ‘Jihadists’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/exodus-lobbyist/): Neither liberals nor the ACLU have espoused “compassion” for Islamic terrorists, nor sought to ban Christmas. But Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas apparently needed someone to grumble...
- [Agapepress States Consequences of Homosexual Sin “more Grievous” Than Other Sins](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/agapepress-stat/): These less grievous sins of course include the time Agape editor Jody Brown thought herself too busy to bless a staff writer after they sneezed....
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 11/25/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-12/): Stephen Bennett seems to have different numbers than “mister not-so-straight mathematics” Alan Chambers. Perhaps Bennett’s numbers are from 2003 since that was the last time...
- [Queer Quotable](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/queer-quotable/): “You can’t promote homosexuality. You only can acknowledge it.”[*] Garrett J. McAuliffe, Professor, Old Dominion University. McAuliffe produced the DVD, Counseling Gay and Lesbian Youth,...
- [Press Release for Joe Kort’s New Book, “10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Find Real Love”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/press-release-f/): It is my hope that this book might be used to challenge those who use the “gender impaired” argument to promote the ex-gay movement. Yes...
- [26 Gay And Transgendered People Arrested in Emirates Could Be Given Hormones](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/26-gay-and-tran/): More than two dozen gay Arab men — arrested at what police called a mass homosexual wedding — could face government-ordered hormone treatments, five years...
- [Stephen Bennett Befriends Homosexuals, Flatters Self](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-11/): “Straight talking” Stephen Bennett explains precautions listeners should take when evangelizing to “the homosexual.” (11.23.05 Real Audio / Windows Media) (+11:25) Stephen: I believe homosexual...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 11/23/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-10/): “Straight talker” Stephen Bennett gets in the spirit of Thanksgiving on today’s show. (11.23.05 Real Audio / Windows Media) (+7:47) Stephen: Homosexuals are desperately looking...
- [Christian School Gets Confused About Christian Love](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/christian-schoo-2/): The San Diego Union-Tribune has a story about Michelle Williams, an Academy Award nominee for Brokeback Mountain. The principle of her childhood school decided Michelle...
- [Dan Being A Dork](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/dan-being-a-dor/): Woo! Focus just announced a Politics Won Out conference for September in beautiful Palm Springs. It’s been years since I was there and fall is...
- [FRC, LaBarbera Succumb to the Relativism of Lifeboat Theology](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/frc-labarbera-s/): The effort by Peter LaBarbera and the Family Research Council to lock HIV-positive gay travelers out of the United States reminds me of a Christian...
- [Pro-Exgay Vs Gay-Tolerant Reaction to UCLA Gay Genetics Finding](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/pro-exgay-vs-ga/): A UCLA study recently suggested that a mother’s genes may play a contributing role in their sons’ sexual orientation. (Previous XGW coverage.) Exgay movement pundit...
- [Exodus Ad Heroes, the ‘Philadelphia 11,’ Endorse Constitution Party](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/exodus-ad-heroe/): As Ex-Gay Watch has frequently noted, since late 2004 Exodus has periodically praised antigay activists who are euphemistically labeled the “Philadelphia 11.” The Philadelphia group...
- [Black Exgay Activist Admits Ties to Constitution Party](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/black-exgay-act/): On his web site, African-American exgay activist D.L. Foster acknowledged yesterday that he is an active supporter of the Constitution Party. Foster says he spoke...
- [Focus on the Family Compliments LWO Protesters](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/focus-on-the-fa-20/): Focus on the Family tonight acknowledged its host church’s observations that the gay-affirming protesters at “Love Won Out” in St. Louis were friendly, well-behaved and...
- [Alan Chambers, Semantics Dancer](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/alan-chambers-s/): Alan Chambers is quite adept at the semantics-dance as evidenced by a recent Exodus press release: “While there are some who may not agree with...
- [‘Love Won Out’ Parodies](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/love-won-out-pa/): Last weekend’s Love Won Out has set off a rash (relax, it’s a good kind of rash) of infographics but also some people took it...
- [Sign Maker’s First-Hand Account of ‘Love Won Out’ Vigil](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/sign-makers-fir/): Read NancyP’s commentary on the Feb. 25 St. Louis vigil at Pam’s House Blend.
- [Peter LaBarbera, Illinois Family Group Promote Racist Constitution Party](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/peter-labarbera/): Peter LaBarbera’s Illinois Family Institute identifies itself as an independently financed partner of Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, and the Alliance Defense...
- [‘Love Won Out’ to Parents: Discriminate With A Smile](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/love-won-out-to/): The St. Louis Post-Dispatch follows up on yesterday’s “Love Won Out” exgay road show. The newspaper counts more than 350 vigilers peacefully protesting the conference...
- [Blame Game: PFOX/FRC’s Peter Sprigg Passes the Buck Over Creationists’ Court Loss](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/blame-game-pfox/): Peter Sprigg is the representative of aggrieved-parents and exgay-lobbying group PFOX on the citizens’ sex-education advisory committee of the Montgomery County school district in suburban...
- [Vigil’s Message to Exgays: ‘Love Needs No Cure’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/vigils-message/): St. Louis-area gay-equality advocates conducted a peaceful vigil today outside the exgay political road show “Love Won Out,” which is sponsored by Focus on the...
- [Mike Tidmus: ‘Cash Won Out’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/mike-tidmus-cas/): Mike Tidmus has posted a slick infographic to his web site. I agree with Tidmus that John and Anne Paulk were once antigay profiteers —...
- [James Dobson: What Goes Around](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/james-dobson-wh/): Focus on the Family is supporting a watered-down reciprocal beneficiaries bill in Colorado that was discussed previously at Ex-Gay Watch. The bill offers little or...
- [‘Ex-Gay Research’: New Book Due Summer 2006](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/ex-gay-research/): Ex-Gay Research:Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics and Culture By Jack Drescher and Kenneth J. Zucker
- [Nominated As Best Single-Issue Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/nominated-as-be/): Ex-Gay Watch has been nominated for the 2005 Koufax Awards in the category of Best Single Issue Blog. Daniel Gonzales and Timothy Kincaid deserve most...
- [Open Forum: The ‘Me’ Generation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/open-forum-the/): At someone else’s suggestion, I thought that after 3 1/2 years at the helm, I’d take a moment to say just a little about myself....
- [Exodus, Proclaiming Freedom To The Straights](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/exodus-proclaim/): After posting my recent open letter to Alan Chambers I was privately contacted by an Exodus staffer regarding my seemingly logical, but incorrect assumption Exodus...
- [New Study Supports Genetic Basis to Orientation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/new-study-suppo/): A new UCLA study of chromosomes in 97 mothers of gay sons and 103 mothers without gay sons shows a difference in the occurrence rate...
- [First Hand Reports From “Mr. Hetero”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/first-hand-repo/): A couple first-hand reports from Mr. Hetero yesterday have begun trickling in. Peterson Toscano’s “part I” is up and so is an account written by...
- [How Being Ex-Gay Made Me Appreciate Fetishes](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/how-being-ex-ga/): I have a confession, until Thursday I had failed to properly live out “the homosexual lifestyle.” My gay-card had only been provisional. You see, Thursday...
- [Jerusalem WorldPride Condemned By Ex-Gay Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/jerusalem-world/): AgapePress reports that Jerusalem WorldPride 2006 is scheduled for August 6-12, 2006. The event was planned for last year. However, the pull-out of settlers from...
- [Bishop V. Gene Robinson Checks Into Rehab: AFA Responds By Pimping Out Stephen Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/bishop-v-gene-r/): From the Agapepress: However, the former homosexual says he was not surprised at the news of the Episcopal bishop’s problems with alcoholism, as homosexual men...
- [Anti-Gay Activists Debate Who’s Not Hateful Enough](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/anti-gay-activi/): In Colorado, there is a bill before the legislature to create a Domestic Partner registry allowing couples to become domestic partners and have some of...
- [The XGW 11,000 Award Goes To… Singer/Songwriter Steve Schalchlin](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/the-xgw-11000-a/): Congratulations to singer/songwriter Steve Schalchlin for posting the 11,000th reader comment at Ex-Gay Watch. Schalchlin and his partner Jim Brochu are the co-writers of the...
- [Mission America And Concerned Women Team Up to Defame Gay Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/mission-america/): For Valentine’s Day, the religious extremists have ratcheted up their barrage of hatred. Linda Harvey of Mission America, a rabid anti-gay organization, has a new...
- [Concerned Women Oppose Burial Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/concerned-women-7/): Sometimes I’m shocked at the degree to which anti-gay activists will go to bring pain and harm to gay people. This is one of those...
- [AFA Radio Hosts Gary DeMar Who Has Advocated Executing Homosexuals](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/afa-radio-hosts/): From Media Matters For America: Far-right Christian author and American Vision president Gary DeMar was the guest on the February 2 edition of American Family...
- [A Contrast in Families](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/a-contrast-in-f/): In Ohio, a bill was introduced to ban children from being placed for adoption or foster care in homes where the prospective parent or a...
- [Melissa Fryrear Makes Up More Numbers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/melissa-fryrear-3/): From today’s (02/13/06) broadcast of Family News In Focus: Love Won Out is a ministry of Focus on the Family that proclaims same-sex attraction doesn’t...
- [Open Letter To Alan Chambers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/open-letter-to/): Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International was recently quoted by Salon.com saying, “lifelong homosexual relationships are not possible.” Ex-Gay Watch’s own Timothy provided analysis in...
- [Exodus President: Lifelong Homosexual Relationships “Not Possible”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/exodus-presiden-5/): According to Salon, Alan Chamber spoke to the Conservative Political Action Conference: A 1:30 p.m. session on “Marriage in the States,” which was supposed to...
- [Former ‘Love In Action’ Patient Performs ‘Queer 101′](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/former-love-in/): Peterson Toscano, a performance artist and two-year survivor of the Love In Action exgay live-in “therapy” program, performed his sketch Queer 101 at the Lavender...
- [False Accusations: Dobson’s Exgay Activists Apoplectic Over Broken Eggs](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/false-accusatio/): When antigay fundamentalists periodically spray-paint walls, break windows or commit arson at gay-tolerant churches, Focus on the Family does not leap on the air and...
- [Exgays Behaving Indecently](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/exgays-behaving/): Atlanta-area antigay activist D.L. Foster has been temporarily prohibited from commenting at XGW. His privileges will be restored when: he permits civil discussion at his...
- [Love In Action’s Day in Court](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/love-in-actions-2/): Ben Popper of The Memphis Flyer reports on Love In Action’s day in court last week. The unlicensed exgay live-in therapy agency is suing to...
- [Dan Savage NYT Op-Ed “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Ex-Gay Cowboys”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/dan-savage-nyt/): An excerpt from Dan Savage’s New York Times op-ed February 10, 2006 titled “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay Cowboys.” Straight audiences...
- [Anti-Gay Parents Blame School Seminar](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/anti-gay-parent-2/): A North Carolina couple, Jim and Beverly Burrows, have outed their son. The boy attended a school seminar entitled The New Gay Teenager and, per...
- [Open Forum](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/open-forum-2/): Liberalism: The theory and practice of: freedom of expression freedom of religion freedom of the press rule of law Democracy: Rule by vote. In its...
- [Paul Cameron Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/paul-cameron-ar/): The Southern Poverty Law Center’s has an Intelligence Report written by David Holthouse that gives a synopsis of the career Paul Cameron has made out...
- [A Penguin Parable In The Style Of GoodAsYou.org](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/a-penguin-parab/): You all know the story: Swedish female penguins sent to seduce “homosexual” male Humboldt penguins in a German zoo failed to break up the male...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 02/09/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/stephen-bennett-2-2/): More gender expression obsession to be had on Benett’s show today courtesy of guest Christine Sneeringer, Executive Director of Worthy Creations: (+22:45) Christine: God is...
- [Hilarity At The AFA](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/hilarity-at-the/): As much as we complain (and usually rightfully so) about the Agapepress, it’s good to see their headline writer has a sense of humor. NBC...
- [Dan Seeks Mac Audio Editing Assistance](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/dan-seeks-mac-a/): As you can see from the below post, I’ve found a way to take take audio clips of Stephen Bennett’s show and save them for...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 02/07/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/stephen-bennett-18/): DL Foster was Stephen Bennett’s guest today. The conversation covered quite a bit of ground as Joe Brummer documents on his site. Most disturbing however...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 02/06/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/stephen-bennett-17/): Today’s program was the testimony of a woman only identified as “Maureen,” the mother of an independent, out, adult lesbian in a domestic partnership. Note...
- [Republican Jesus On Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/republican-jesu/): “Republican Jesus” a regular feature of the blog Jesus’ General takes on recent developments about Love In Action.
- [Dan’s Ex-Gay “Going In” Anniversary](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/dans-ex-gay-goi/): Superbowl Sunday 1999 is when I first told my mother “I am, but don’t want to be homosexual.” “I’m gay but don’t want to be,”...
- [“Day of Truth” Is Back And They Have A Hip New Video](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/day-of-truth-is/): Possibly realizing how un-hip attacking gay youth is, the “Day of Truth” is back this year with a “hip” new video that’s really just unintentionally...
- [Just Noticed](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/just-noticed/): Hmm… The Exodus Media Blog hasn’t been updated in almost a month now.
- [Survivor Protests ‘Love In Action’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/survivor-protes/): Three Memphis, Tenn., TV stations report on a hearing Feb. 3 between Love In Action and the State of Tennessee. A survivor of the inpatient...
- [Former Exgay Activist John Paulk Becomes A Caterer](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/former-exgay-ac/): Ex-poster-boi of the ex-gay movement John Paulk (not to be confused with Johan Paulk, google at your own risk) has opened up a Portland, Ore.,...
- [Focus/Family: Liberals=Nazis. Fascists=OK?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/focusfamily-lib/): In an interview plagued by mediocre English, selective memory, and confused politics, Hilmar von Kampe — who was a youth in Nazi Germany — tells...
- [Teenage Participant in Exgay Love In Action/Refuge to Speak Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/teenage-partici/): A press release follows from Queer Action Coalition, Memphis, Tennessee. The unidentified teenager will appear at 3 p.m. today outside a hearing between the unlicensed...
- [Physical Attraction To Gender In Trans V.s. Ex-Gay Couples: A Double Standard From Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/physical-attrac/): Last weekend I braved the heterosexual-gridlock on the Sunset Strip to see Transamerica. In keeping with Pat “take him out” Robertson’s logic God was clearly...
- [Open Forum: Alert — There Are Homosexuals on Project Runway!](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/open-forum-aler/): With Season Two of the Bravo network program entering its final phase, two semifinalists talk on video about their struggle with sexual orientation and self-disclosure....
- [Muhammad Cartoon / AFA Threatens ‘Will & Grace’ Over Caricature of Crucifixion](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/muhammad-cartoo/): Don Wildmon’s AFA yesterday announced a letter-writing campaign calling on NBC affiliates not to air the April 13 episode of “Will & Grace” because it...
- [‘Concerned Women’ Smears Teachers Who Oppose Antigay Bullying](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/concerned-women-6/): According to no less of an authority than Concerned Women For America’s Robert Knight, all but 5 teachers in the San Leandro Unified School District...
- [Straight Talk Radio To Host First Gay Friendly Guest After Sixty Five Air Dates](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/straight-talk-r/): Tomorrow (Tuesday) Stephen Bennett’s guest will be Jeff Tooley of the United Methodist committee at the Institute of Religion and Democracy will explain how “gay...
- [Exgay Chad Thompson Reviews ‘Brokeback’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exgay-chad-thom-2/): Chad Thompson, operator of Des Moines, Iowa-based Inqueery, has written a new review of Brokeback Mountain. Read it here. Thompson is also marketing his latest...
- [John Paulk Ranked Among High-Profile Religious-Right Scandals](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/john-paulk-rank/): The Rev. Steven Baines is an elder in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In a commentary published Jan. 26 at Advocate.com, Baines cites former...
- [Christian College Tells Student Not To Slap Fellow Athletes On The Butt](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/christian-colle/): In a meeting with [John Brown University] administrators, [expelled student Michael] Guinn said, he was given a code of conduct tougher than what other students...
- [A Tenable Belief: ‘Brokeback’ And Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/a-tenable-belie/): In mid-January, CNN’s Larry King Live aired a four-person discussion of Brokeback Mountain and marriage for gay persons. The guests were Janet Parshall and Albert...
- [Questioning ‘It’s Not Gay’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/questioning-its/): On the Exodus e-mail support list for antigay parents, a number of participants have been promoting the exgay-activist video It’s Not Gay. They say it...
- [Duncan Bouwer’s Exgay Talk - “Yes I Am In Denial”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/duncan-bouwers/): I’ve recently subscribed to Duncan Bouwer’s ExGayTalk podcast. Duncan is an ex-gay, music teacher, father and husband in Johannesburg, South Africa. His most recent podcast...
- [Redesign Ups And Downs](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/redesign-ups-an/): You may have noticed a few changes in the look of XGW: A new logo, a few color and font changes. More changes are planned,...
- [Disciplining Commenters (Again)](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/disciplining-co/): I closed a Brokeback Mountain discussion tonight because an anonymous commenter with the pseudonym “Charles” was repeating the same comment, arguing for the sake of...
- [Bewildered By Anti-Exgay Hostility](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/bewildered-by-a/): The Augusta Free Press in Virginia profiles Greater Hope exgay activist Jeff Watros, who says he doesn’t understand why he’s perceived as a loud, pushy...
- [Canadian Gays Rush to Be Alter-ed](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/canadian-gays-r/): From Google News via Colleen Keating…. Whatever alterations those poor Manitobans are undergoing, it sounds painful.
- [Prof. Throckmorton to Air on ‘Christian Dissent Live’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/prof-throckmort-4/): The following radio program was postponed; a new air date is to be announced. From Cole Wakefield at Christian Dissent Live, a progressive Christian radio...
- [Exodus Youth Resists XGW’s Attempts To Monitor](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exodus-youth-re/): As previously discussed on XGW, Exodus Youth has a Myspace profile. Using Myspace one is able to easily send out mass emails to other users...
- [Trackbacks](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/trackbacks/): Here’s a note solely of interest to other weblog or web site operators: XGW does not block trackbacks, except from likely spammers. If you encounter...
- [Foster Colleague: America Should Learn Anti-Gay Law And Violence From Nigeria](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/foster-colleagu/): A post at ex-gay pastor D.L. Foster’s blog, apparently by Nigerian Pastor Kingsley Nwafor (the attribution is implied by a double quote preceding and following...
- [Gays More Likely to Be Left Handed](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/gays-more-likel/): I’m quite late in addressing a finding published in July in Psychological Bulletin. As I was unable to find access to the original report, my...
- [Antigay Preacher Hutcherson’s Invisible Boycott](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/antigay-preache/): Daniel Gonzales commented on the lighter side of antigay preacher Ken Hutcherson — his choice of operating systems to boycott — here. But there’s a...
- [Responding Constructively to Focus/Family’s Moral-Superiority Complex](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/responding-cons/): From Greg McCandless, via e-mail: I’m only a recent visitor to your website but found that you had recently addressed Gary Schneeberger’s column on the...
- [Youth Pastor Writes About ‘Finding God on Brokeback Mountain’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/youth-pastor-wr/): Andrew Seely ministers to youth at a Presbyterian church in California. His review of Brokeback Mountain was published at RelevantMagazine.com, a Christian publication by and...
- [Open Forum: Project Runway Sucks](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/open-forum-proj/): Talk about anything except that &@!#? show.
- [Unrepentant Sins of an Antigay Advocate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/unrepentant-sin/): The following is my message to antigay activist Bernie Dehler (email, web) regarding his unrepentant sins, which became the subject of this unrelated discussion of...
- [Celibate Gay Man Eyes ‘Brokeback’ with Skepticism](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/celibate-gay-ma/): Readers who tire of imaginative Exodus propaganda about Brokeback Mountain are invited to read David Ben-Ariel’s commentary, Brokeback Mountain Blues: Thoughts of a celibate, gay...
- [Exodus Piggybacks on Media Attention to ‘Gay Cowboy’ Movie](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exodus-piggybac/): The exgay political network Exodus capitalizes on the commercial success of Brokeback Mountain with a Jan. 16 press release seeking media interviews. While the movie...
- [In Singapore, A Government Welfare Check for Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/in-singapore-a/): From Fridae of Singapore, Jan. 17: The government of Singapore has granted US$61,500 to an Exodus-affiliated exgay ministry. The so-called Liberty League breaks with mainstream...
- [‘Book Of Daniel’ Leads to Pre-Enlightenment Rhetoric From Focus/Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/book-of-daniel/): In what can only be described as a stunning display of pre-Enlightenment “thought,” Family News In Focus and the Institute on Religion and Democracy condemned...
- [Bennett Makes Up Words, Confuses Media of Tunisia And United States](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/bennett-makes-u/): God forbid anyone else in the religious right should top Stephen Bennett’s outrageousness on any given issue, he provided some recent thoughts on the Golden...
- [Microsoft Too Gay-Friendly - Like the Alternatives Aren’t, Too?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/microsoft-too-g/): From the 365gay.com story titled “Microsoft, Others Boycotted For Supporting Washington Gay Rights Bill“ When Democrats announced they would reintroduce the LGBT rights bill Microsoft...
- [Ex-Gays Now Number In The Millions According To Falwell](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/ex-gays-now-num/): In 2003 Exodus said exgays numbered in the “thousands…”In 2004 Exodus said exgays numbered in the “tens of thousands…”In 2005 Exodus said exgays numbered in...
- [Socarides Article in Boston Phoenix](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/socarides-artic/): An article by Michael Bronski in the Boston Phoenix is a well written concise recap of Dr. Charles Socarides and how he came to influence...
- [Focus on the Family’s Morally Superior Attitude](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/focus-on-the-fa-19/): Focus on the Family’s Gary Schneeberger has been feeling morally superior to gay people since he saw Brokeback Mountain.
- [Open Forum: From Meep Meep to Mahna Mahna](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/open-forum-from/): Talk about anything. About television: I really dislike Santino — what greater vice is there than arrogance? Nick’s designs are gorgeous — so where’s his...
- [Exgay D.L. Foster: One-Way Dialogue About Native Americans](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exgay-dl-foster-2/): Exgay activist D.L. Foster is challenging remarks made here at XGW by Regan DuCasse (e-mail). But Foster is denying DuCasse the opportunity to respond to...
- [Another Youth Blogger Pressured Toward Exgay ‘Counseling’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/another-youth-b/): In 2005, the parents of a teen-aged blogger named Zach forced him to attend more than a month of live-in exgay conditioning at Memphis, Tenn.-based...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 01/09/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/stephen-bennett-16/): Stephen Bennett’s guest today was straight talking Linda Harvey of Mission America who straight-up pulled a real gem of a statistic out of her ass...
- [Exodus President Joins Another Anti-Gay Effort](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exodus-presiden-4/): First, all-a-y’all should know I’m on sabbatical this month since I’m taking one of the graphical sections of the architectural registation exam (Site Planning) at...
- [‘It’s Not Gay’: Exgay Video Available Via Live Stream](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/its-not-gay-exg/): Updated An online religious webcam station, 24/7 WWJD, is hosting a free video stream of “It’s Not Gay,” a 28-minute video that has been sold...
- [Exgay Billboards in Spartanburg, S.C.](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exgay-billboard/): From the Spartanburg Herald-Journal via an XGW reader and also blogger Pam Spaulding: Spartanburg, S.C.-based Truth Ministry (an Exodus affiliate) has posted three antigay billboards...
- [Alan And Leslie Chambers Purchase New Home](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/alan-and-leslie/): While poking around public records (which I’m not going to specify in the interest of Alan’s privacy) I found last August Alan and Leslie Chambers...
- [Open Forum: Evangelism, Or Lifestyle Recruitment?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/open-forum-evan/): If an exgay activist posts a profile on the youth-oriented Myspace web site, this is euphemistically called “evangelism.” If a gay Christian posts a profile...
- [Socarides: ‘Legacy of Prejudice Wrapped in Pseudo-Science’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/socarides-legac/): Upon the death of psychiatrist Charles W. Socarides two weeks ago, Van of Head of the KweerWolf wrote a thoughtful and personal analysis. Van encountered Socarides’ book,...
- [Focus To Girlfriend Of Exgay: Dump Him](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/focus-to-girlfr/): Focus runs a number of other websites besides Family.org. In this case they have a site called Boundless.org which has an advice column written by...
- [Receive Ex-Gay Watch Via E-mail](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/receive-ex-gay/): If you are too busy to visit the site every day, and if mumbo-jumbo about “RSS/Atom feeds” makes no sense to you, our e-mail delivery...
- [A Deeply Insecure Faith](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/a-deeply-insecu/): Singer/songwriter Steve Schalchlin has lived out a 20-year journey away from superstition, insecurity, hubris, and stymied communication among antigay friends in east Texas. Steve was...
- [Parody Overkill](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/parody-overkill/): Inspired by Justinsomnia, who just found the Church Sign Generator.
- [Exodus Board Member Wants Condoms Locked Away](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exodus-board-me/): In an article today in The Washington Post, Exodus board member and Ohio antigay activist Phil Burress argues that drugstores should lock up condoms. Citizens...
- [Left-Handedness, Gay People, And the Gene Pool](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/left-handedness/): Joe Riddle comments. (March 27)
- [Garry Wills: Christ Among the Partisans](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/garry-wills-chr/): Utilizing a wealth of New Testament verses quoting Jesus of Nazareth, writer Garry Wills on Sunday reminded Americans that God is neither a Democrat nor...
- [Focus/Family Trivializes Exgay Struggle](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/focusfamily-tri/): From Good As You: In a review of Lucky Number Slevin, Focus on the Family refers to a rabbi’s son not by his sexual attraction,...
- [AFA Dehumanizes Same-Sex-Attracted Persons And Strugglers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/afa-dehumanizes/): The American Family Association periodically employs exgay Stephen Bennett as a writer and activist, and supplies Exodus International with much of its antigay “news” through...
- [Blogroll Lost: Help Us with Links to Other Web Sites](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/blogroll-lost-h/): Our listing of related web sites, located in the far right column of the front page, has been damaged. Lost were links to religious, social-reform,...
- [Personal Update](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/personal-update/): Hey kids, sorry I didn’t post much last week but I have some good news to report (having nothing to do with exgays). In my...
- [Evangelist’s Wife Cheers Gay Christians, Reunites Families](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/evangelists-wif/): Peggy Campolo, wife of Christian evangelical speaker Tony Campolo, wrote a long, undated article about her ties to the GLBT Christian movement. It is in...
- [Ex-Bisexual Ex-Porn Star Tom Katt Preaches the Bible…](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/ex-bisexual-ex/): …But antigay opportunists might not like this born-again Christian’s message. From The Dallas Voice, Feb. 23, 2006 (I’m still behind in my e-mail): For a...
- [Open Forum: Tom DeLay, Agent of Satan?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/open-forum-tom/): Tom DeLay, perhaps the most corrupt politician to walk the halls of Congress in a quarter-century, recently told his pastors that he is the Antichrist...
- [Fristgate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/fristgate/): Thanks to Good As You for bringing the following to our attention According to a Washington Post article, Bill Frist, the Senate Majority Leader (and...
- [Gay Couples May Pay Higher Taxes](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/gay-couples-may/): It’s tax season. At this time of the year we are reminded that regardless of how many years you’ve been together and whether you are...
- [Gay Duck Lifemates](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/gay-duck-lifema/): OK, this is a fluff piece. But it’s a sunny Friday and there’s not much ex-gay news going on, so this is for those who...
- [Focus/Family Misinforms Public About California Education Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/focusfamily-mis-2/): California Senate Bill 1437 begins: Existing law prohibits instruction or school sponsored activities that reflect adversely upon persons because of their race, sex, color, creed,...
- [Everstraight, Gay, Ex-Gay And Ex-Ex-Gay Families Welcome At White House Egg Roll](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/everstraight-ga/): “Mrs. Bush is the overseer of the event, and all families are welcome to attend” Spokesman to Mrs. Bush, Peter Watkins told Detroit News columnist...
- [Exgay Critic of NGLTF Report on Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exgay-critic-of/): The exgay blog Disputed Mutability posted some criticisms of the NGLTF’s recent report on the exgay movement. I haven’t read the report, so I don’t...
- [PFOX Defends Legal Threat Against Wisconsin Diversity Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/pfox-defends-le/): Legal threats from the fundamentalist, anti-diversity Liberty Counsel recently forced the cancellation of Diversity Day at a Wisconsin high school. In response, a columnist for...
- [PFOX Confuses Pro-Ex-Gay with Anti-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/pfox-confuses-p/): PFOX may be having difficulty distinguishing between support for ex-gays and hostility to gays. According to a WorldnetDaily article, PFOX was evicted from another educational...
- [Stephen Bennett Anecdotes](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/stephen-bennett-19/): I watched the video of Stephen’s September, 2004 sermon (a link is posted towards the bottom of the SBMinistries home page) and it struck me...
- [PFOX Reacts to Alleged Ouster From Virginia Educators Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/pfox-reacts-to/): As Timothy Kincaid notes, the less-than-objective WorldNetDaily and Warren Throckmorton say the antigay parents group PFOX was asked last week to leave a conference of...
- [Exgay Advocate, Pundit Defend Mutual Tolerance Framework in Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exgay-advocate/): The First Amendment Center, along with BridgeBuilders, school administrators, conservative Christians, and pro-tolerance advocates, recently drafted a framework within which local communities can discuss sexual...
- [Richard Cohen’s Vanishing Act… Well Sort Of](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/richard-cohens/): Update: PFOX assures me Richard Cohen is still their president. Hi Daniel, Your link didn’t work, but yes, Richard Cohen is still PFOX President. Thanks...
- [Alan Chambers Gives Insight In To Exodus’ Queer Statistics Collection](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/alan-chambers-g-2/): Recently I’ve called and emailed Alan Chambers several times asking him to elaborate on his claims exgays now number is the “hundreds of thousands” but...
- [Joe Kort to Appear on Montel Williams Show 4/11/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/joe-kort-to-app/): Hi Everyone, I just wanted to share with you that on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 I will be the expert psychotherapist on the Montel Show...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Mission Accomplished](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/ex-gay-watch-mi/): Exgay movement leader Alan Chambers announced today that exgays had been betrayed by the religious right. “Today I join Anthony Falzarano, an exgay who years...
- [Advice for Tim Wilkins](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/advice-for-tim/): The last we heard of Tim Wilkins of Cross Ministry fame he had agreed to take a polygraph test for gayasyou.org (I never heard how...
- [Bennett Opposes HIV Prevention](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/bennett-opposes/): Stephen Bennett’s latest press release is so chock-full of bizarreness that I hardly know where to start. But here goes:
- [Open Forum: I Have One Hour Today. What to Do?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/open-forum-i-ha/): 6 p.m. Read the new 300-page book “Ex-Gay Research” and write review. 6:17 p.m. Watch the 48-minute ex-gay video “I Do Exist” by Chad Thompson,...
- [Baptist Kids Reject Abstinence](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/baptist-kids-re/): Some conservative activists believe that if “abstinence only” is taught in schools it will eliminate the need for sex education and information on sexually transmitted...
- [Alan Chambers Trashes Gay Papers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/alan-chambers-t/): A library trustee in Ohio doesn’t want the Upper Arlington Public Library to carry the local free gay newspaper, the Outlook Weekly. In a Focus...
- [Ohio Constitutional Amendment Promotes Domestic Violence; Antigay Activist Fuels Spread of AIDS](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/ohio-constituti/): Brady at Some Guys Are Normal notes that Ohio’s antigay constitutional ban on nonmarital unions and any rights or services associated with such unions has...
- [Discredited Exgay Video Hits the Discount Bin](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/discredited-exg/): Activist/author Wayne Besen has picked up on the news, also noted on March 25 by XGW commenter Chalker Cross, that the antigay video “It’s Not...
- [Exgay Supports Minnesota Rally to Ban Gay Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exgay-supports/): Eleventh Avenue South has a picture of the Minnesota “Family” Council using exgay activist Janet Boynes to decorate its booth at a March 21 antigay...
- [Melissa Fryrear Says ‘Everyone Is Created Heterosexual’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/melissa-fryrear-4/): As reported by the TimesLeader, in a speech to a Pentecostal church in Pennsylvania, Melissa Fryrear went beyond “no one is born gay”: Fryrear said...
- [Origins of ‘Live Out Loud’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/origins-of-live/): I was feeling snarky after Exodus dropped its recent copyright and trademark case against Ex-Gay Watch and blogger Justin Watt. And so I challenged Exodus’...
- [New TV Ad for Inclusive Churches](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/new-tv-ad-for-i/): Street Prophets and United Church of Christ blogger Chuck Currie report on a TV ad unveiled March 27 by the United Church of Christ. The...
- [Another Survivor of ‘Love In Action’ Speaks Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/another-survivo/): Performance artist Peterson Toscano, who survived a long residency at exgay live-in program Love In Action, reports that another LIA survivor named J has begun...
- [Illinois Family Activist LaBarbera Solidifies Ties to Constitution Party](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/illinois-family/): The Illinois Family Institute is a state-level family policy council that claims independence from, but closely coordinates its activities with, Focus on the Family. Last...
- [Off-Topic/Open Forum: War Vs. Peace](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/off-topicopen-f-2/): While Focus on the Family and ideological allies such as Cal Thomas wage a cultural war against Christians and against other faiths, Christian Peacemaker Teams...
- [Focus Misstates Facts Behind Colorado Marriage Ban](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/focus-misstates/): Back on March 8, They Get Letters (via Mike Ditto) found James Dobson misinforming recipients of a fundraising letter that advocates amending the Colorado constitution...
- [Did Exodus Borrow ‘Live Out Loud’ Theme From Gay Group Without Permission?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/did-exodus-borr/): Live Out Loud is a New York organization whose goal is to “create a safe space for LGBT youth to learn about powerful and passionate...
- [Exodus Excommunicates Soulforcers, Misdirects Blame for Antigay Vandalism](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exodus-excommun/): The Soulforce Equality Ride brought its nonviolent call for fairness for gay Christian students to Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, in mid-March. (Here are first-person...
- [Practicing for Future Exodus Speech? Falwell Damns Jews to Hell](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/practicing-for/): In July 2005, Jerry Falwell was the keynote speaker at an Exodus conference. During his appearance, he approved of parents jailing their children at exgay...
- [Pew Research Center Poll on Attitudes About Gay Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/pew-research-ce/): The Pew Research Center has released a new poll that seems to show a favorable shift in attitudes relating to the rights of gay people.
- [Exodus Offices: Small Space, Big Reach](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exodus-offices/): In a suburb of Orlando, Florida, there is a small office building near the airport where six offices share 6,000 square feet of office space....
- [Exgay Group Drops Case Against Parody Blogger](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exgay-group-dro/): According to USA Today, Exodus has dropped its complaint against blogger Justin Watt, after Watt removed the Exodus logo watermark from his parody of Exodus’...
- [AFA Makes Baseless Claim About Ford](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/afa-makes-basel/): In a press release claiming that Ford ‘Proves’ Commitment To Homosexual Agenda, the American Family Association claims that Ford Motor Company “proved to the homosexual...
- [Parody: The Exodus Self-Contradiction](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/parody-the-exod/): Some friendly exgay advice from the desk reference that you’ve been using since you were eight years old. From Justinsomnia, inspired by Zortnac.
- [Ex-Gay Watch Defends Itself Vs. Exodus, Liberty Counsel](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/ex-gay-watch-de/): In September 2005, blogger Justin Watt published a parody of an Exodus exgay billboard and encouraged other web sites to republish it. On Feb. 27,...
- [ACLU Defends Blogger’s Right to Parody ‘Ex-Gay’ Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/aclu-defends-bl/): The ACLU announced its assistance today to blogger Justin Watt, who received a cease-and-desist letter this month after Exodus became aware of his parody of...
- [Exgay Leadership Tip of The Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exgay-leadershi/): Beginning any sentence with the phrase “every homosexual I’ve ever met…” is just a bad idea. Example 1 Example 2 Readers are welcome to submit...
- [Alan Chambers Claims Every Exgay He’s Met Has A Lack Of Relationship With Same-Sex Parent](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/alan-chambers-c/): Today (03/21/06) Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International, was the guest on Stephen Bennett’s Straight Talk Radio. Alan had something very interesting to share with...
- [Death Penalty for Christians? Obviously Bad. Execute the Gays? No Comment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/death-penalty-f/): The Family Research Council is justifiably outraged that in U.S.-liberated and U.S.-subsidized Afghanistan, people can be put to death for converting to Christianity. But the...
- [Thoughts on Liberty Counsel to School: Include Exgays in ‘Diversity Day’ Or Else](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/thoughts-on-lib/): It’s quite likely the only place many gay people will see the diversity day story is in 365gay.com. Mike covered the story in a previous...
- [Liberty Counsel Complaint Over Exgays Cancels School’s Diversity Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/liberty-counsel/): From the La Crosse Tribune, La Crosse, Wisconsin, March 21: In 2004, about 400 people signed a petition asking that speakers on gay, lesbian and...
- [Exodus Choses HRC’s #1 Most Gay Friendly Airline For Annual Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exodus-choses-h/): The website for this year’s Exodus conference touts discounted rates offered with American Airlines. HRC gives American a perfect score in their index of corporate...
- [Question Homosexuality, But Don’t Question Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/question-homose/): Two days ago I posted a comment to a post by straight white male Alan Chambers on the Exodus Live Out Loud blog where he...
- [Exodus Promotes Blog of Stacy L. Harp, Contributor to ‘Alains Newsletter’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exodus-promotes-2/): Google News has rejected a request to carry Alains Newsletter because they consider it hate speech. (Big surprise, I know.) Alains Newsletter tends not to...
- [FRC Rips Gay ‘Free Speech’ Agenda, Excuses St. Pat’s Parade Leader’s Namecalling](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/frc-rips-gay-fr/): The chairman of the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade used his leadership position this week to compare gay Irish Americans to the Ku Klux...
- [Focus Shifts Attention From A Detail of Its Role in Abramoff Scandal](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/focus-shifts-at/): The Campaign to Defend the Constitution last week accused Focus on the Family of lobbying on behalf of the Louisiana gambling industry. As Ex-Gay Watch...
- [Off Topic/Open Forum: Squelching the Moderates](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/off-topicopen-f/): Christian and Muslim peacemakers have both come under recent attack from Islamic fundamentalists. Meanwhile, Focus on the Family has been strangely silent about these threats....
- [Parody Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/parody-watch/): Lobal Warming has been keeping a list of web sites that have posted copies of Justin Watt’s parody of an Exodus antigay billboard. To its...
- [Bennett Claims Children Being “Used” By Gays, Ignores Right’s Use of Chase Harper](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/bennett-claims/): Today’s extra-special guest on Straight Talk Radio (03/15/06) was Michael Johnson of ADF talking about their upcoming event, The Day Of Truth. Johnson kept a...
- [GLSEN And Christian Educators Agree on Framework for Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/glsen-and-chris/): The First Amendment Center along with BridgeBuilders and others have drafted a framework within which communities can discuss issues of sexual orientation within the public...
- [AFA’s Ford Boycott Is Back On](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/afas-ford-boyco/): AFA has declared that it is boycotting Ford for a year because Ford advertises to gay people, has a non-discrimination policy, and supports organizations that...
- [Ex-Gay Movement: Time for Reinvention And A New Vision](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/ex-gay-movement/): Wanted: Suggestions and volunteers to take the concept currently known as Ex-Gay Watch in new and distinct directions. Future affiliation with Ex-Gay Watch not required....
- [Vote for Best Single Issue Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/vote-for-best-s/): Voting is coming to a close at the 2005 Koufax Awards for Best Single Issue blog. Ex-Gay Watch is among the nominees. Please consider voting:...
- [The Questions That ‘Love In Action’ Should Have Asked](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/the-questions-t/): Former Love In Action live-in patient Peterson Toscano asks the questions that Love In Action’s intake staffers should have asked — and might have asked...
- [Linda Nicolosi Talks About Exgays In Debate Having Nothing To Do With Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/linda-nicolosi/): (Part 1 of 2) These posts detail how my 4th year of college (2002) an incident of anti-gay vandalism prompted a civil debate on campus....
- [Nicolosi Asked Me To Lie To Spitzer - A Consistent Public Record](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/nicolosi-asked/): (Part 2 of 2) These posts detail how my 4th year of college (2002) an incident of anti-gay vandalism prompted a civil debate on campus....
- [Dobson Aims to Add Job-Benefit Discrimination to Alaska Constitution](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/dobson-aims-to/): Not content with its injection of partisan politics and religious bias into Alaska marriages, Focus on the Family is campaigning to add job-benefit discrimination against...
- [Read the Fine Print: Dobson Admits Aiding Abramoff’s Louisiana Gambling Interests](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/read-the-fine-p/): On March 8, the Campaign to Defend the Constitution launched an ad campaign including a full-page ad (PDF ad) in the New York Times. The...
- [How Separation of Church And State Saved Evangelical Christianity](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/how-separation/): Writing for the Washington Monthly, Stephen Waldman notes that 18th-century evangelicals sought out, and benefited greatly from, the separation of church and state at a...
- [‘Brokeback’ Prompts Man to Come Out — As Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/brokeback-promp/): My Dirty Little Former Secret God used a movie about gay cowboys to release me from the burden of my past. By Dennis Belkofer Christianity...
- [Attention Subscribers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/attention-subsc/): If you subscribe to Ex-Gay Watch via RSS or Atom feed, you may not see this site’s most recent infographics from within your newsreader at...
- [Exgay Activist Says He Warned School About Alleged Molester](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exgay-activist/): Exgay activist and parent Anthony Falzarano says he sensed trouble at a Florida Christian school with a 29-year-old teacher now accused of unlawful sexual activity...
- [Profile: Anthony Falzarano](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/profile-anthony/): According to his online testimony, Anthony Falzarano was molested by an older brother at age 12. He became a male prostitute, eventually catering to closeted...
- [Alleged Molester Attended Exgay Live-In Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/alleged-moleste/): According to WPTY Memphis: A Florida teacher accused of molesting young boys is behind bars after police say he confessed while staying at Love in...
- [Mr. Hetero Pastor Sues City](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/mr-hetero-pasto/): The pastor who officiated at a “Mr. Hetero” contest in Worcester, Mass., which featured the testimony of an ex-gay and several silly contests, has sued...
- [Discussion: Gay Sex in the ’70s](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/discussion-gay/): ”One for gay sex please…” It’s not often you walk up to a ticket booth and a legitimate theater and say that. I went to...
- [Besen to Exodus: Time to March Your Masses to Washington](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/besen-to-exodus/): According to activist/author Wayne Besen, it’s time for Exodus to put up or shut up. If “hundreds of thousands” of exgays really exist then, as...
- [Exgay Billboard Parody Revisited](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exgay-billboard-2/): The following postcard is based on this parody of this exgay billboard, which prompted this threat against Ex-Gay Watch by the fundamentalist Liberty Counsel. People...
- [New York Times: Gay Men with Straight Wives](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/new-york-times/): Today’s New York Times Health section features an article by Katy Butler titled, Many Couples Must Negotiate Terms of ‘Brokeback’ Marriages. Author, therapist, and Ex-Gay...
- [SCOTUS: Universities Must Accept Antigay Military Recruiters Along with Taxpayer Funding](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/scotus-universi/): On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimously that law schools could not bar military recruiters from their campus. The Cato Institute...
- [Heterosexuals Only Bumper Sticker Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/heterosexuals-o/): It’s about time somebody does a protest with this concept. Of course I have to question how difficult the stickers are to remove since if...
- [TVC Supports Its Internet Consultant’s Extremist Site; NARTH, Stephen Bennett Guest Also Linked](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/tvc-supports-it/): Update: Most of the TVC associated sites in this post have now been substantially altered or no longer accept referral traffic from Ex-Gay Watch. In...
- [TVC-Affiliated Newsletter Supports Constitution Party](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/tvc-affiliated/): “Alain’s Newsletter” receives logistical support from the Traditional Values Coalition — specifically, the TVC sends the newsletter to its e-mail subscribers, whether they asked for...
- [A Constitutionalist’s World](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/a-constitutiona/): When I was about 8 years old, the moon landings were still fresh and fascinating. Like many kids from that time, a couple of my...
- [Open Forum: Got Nuke?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/open-forum-got/): Fans used to tune in by the millions each week to watch government agents in La Femme Nikita who would resort to unethical means (such...
- [Bill Maier Turns Unproven Suspicions Into Fact](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/bill-maier-turn/): In Wednesday’s Focus on the Family broadcast (03/01/06) Vice President Bill Maier claims links between protests at Love Won Out and unknown vandals who threw...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 03/01/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/stephen-bennett-3-2/): In an stunning display of circa-1984 logic, today’s guest Peter LaBarbera pretends closing the baths will keep gay men from doing unsafe things. In the...
- [If Exodus Outsourced Their Call Center…](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/if-exodus-outso/): Since Exodus claims to be “contacted” over 400,000 times every year (that’s about once every 30 seconds during normal business hours) Peterson decided they will...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 02/28/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/stephen-bennett-4-2/): Today’s guest is Jerry Leach, a former pre-op MTF transsexual. Translation: He was about to have gender reassignment surgery but decided not to and now...
- [Youth in the Ex-Gay Crosshairs](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/youth-in-the-ex/): The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has released a report entitled Youth in the Crosshairs: The Third Wave of Ex-Gay Activism A key finding...
- [Liberty Counsel Threatens to Sue Over Exodus Parody](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/liberty-counsel-threatens-to-sue-over-exodus-parody/): Ex-Gay Watch this morning received a letter from Mathew D. Staver of the Liberty Counsel, a religious-right legal assault team based at Jerry Falwell’s fundamentalist...
- [Infographic: Alan Chambers Claims To Represent Ex-Gays, However Many There Are](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/infographic-ala/): Click Image To View Full Size If you can’t think of anything else to comment on, try and guess where I got the idea for...
- [X-Men: Looking Back At the Trilogy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/x-men-looking-b/): Howl of the Kweerwolf looks back at the X-Men trilogy and hopes that teen-agers watching X-Men: The Last Stand will discover the dignity and value...
- [On Video: Exodus Exgay Youth Recruiter](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/on-video-exodus/): Current.tv hosts a video interview with Exodus exgay youth recruiter Mike Ensley. From Current.tv’s description of the video: Can God really do anything? Mike Ensley...
- [Focus/Family Times D.C. Exgay Roadshow to Coincide with Pride Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/focusfamily-tim/): From The Washington Blade, May 26: Love Won Out, a controversial religious conference that espouses reparative therapy and encourages gays to change their sexual orientation,...
- [Peaceful Pro-Tolerance Vigil Planned As Exgay Boot Camp Escalates Talk of War](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/peaceful-pro-to/): The Queer Action Coalition of Memphis, Tenn., plans a June 5 vigil at Love In Action, marking one year since LIA’s involuntary detainment of sexually...
- [Focus on the Family’s New Ad Campaign Exploits Sad Kids](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/focus-on-the-fa-21/): A Tenable Belief and Good As You assess Focus on the Family’s latest ad campaign, which exploits stock photos of unhappy children. The ad campaign’s...
- [Funny And True For Your Friday](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/funny-and-true/): An Ex-Gay Watch operative called NARTH earlier this week to determine if Bill Curnow’s western Michigan based LIFE Coaching International is a member. I pray...
- [Congratulations to Pam Spaulding](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/congratulations-2/): Katherine Volin of the Washington Blade wrote a wonderful profile of Pam Spaulding’s work as a black lesbian blogger who specializes in monitoring the religious...
- [PFOX Moms Applaud Cohen Performance on CNN](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/pfox-moms-appla/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays operates a Yahoo group for antigay parents and relatives of adult gay persons. The e-mail discussions are tightly moderated by...
- [Video “It’s Not Gay” Only Serves To Further Reinforce Idea Of “Exgay For Pay”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/video-its-not-g/): Since 2000 the American Family Association has been peddling a video about exgays titled “It’s Not Gay.” Ex-Gay Watch reader Jim Burroway recently threw $10...
- [Gay And Lesbian Couples As Good Parents As Other Storks](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/gay-and-lesbian/): An all male stork couple and an all female stork couple at a Dutch zoo in Overloon were each given an egg. Zoo spokeswoman, Esther...
- [Richard Cohen on CNN; Exgay Leaders React](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/richard-cohen-o/): The Malcontent has video of Richard Cohen’s appearance on CNN. CNN’s website also has video. Pam Spaulding offers background on Cohen, and Steve at A...
- [Exodus Board Member: Wear Intolerance As A Badge of Honor](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exodus-board-me-2/): “They feel like we’re intolerant. So I guess we should wear that as a badge of honor.” — Phil Burress of the Cincinnati-based anti-gay Citizens...
- [Cohen on CNN](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/cohen-on-cnn/): [Editor’s Note: The content of this entry has been incorprorated into a more recent post.]
- [In Case There Are Still Any Doubts X-Men 3 Is About Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/in-case-there-a/): In case there are still any doubts X-Men 3 is about exgays: [Ian McKellen] has been openly gay since the 1980s, and he takes exception...
- [Where Do You Stand on The Political Compass?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/where-do-you-st/): There are no true “liberals” or “conservatives,” no simple “leftists” or “rightists.” As The Political Compass indicates, these labels are only somewhat accurate in describing...
- [Peace And Good Will From Both Gay-Affirming And Ex-Gay Advocates?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/peace-and-good/): From A Tenable Belief: I wish that anyone struggling with sexual orientation and religious issues could get a clear message from ex-gay ministries and gay-affirming...
- [What Forms Our Attraction to Gender Vs. Religion?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/what-forms-our/): Willful Grace asked last week: Here’s a question. Please comment. Let me know what you think about this. What if…..we are born not really sexually...
- [CNN / Paula Zahn To Air Piece On Richard Cohen](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/cnn-paula-zahn/): It appears the Paula Zahn show will air a segment on Richard Cohen this week, possibly Monday night unless it gets bumped by something constituting...
- [Exgays Share Common Cause with Sex Party: Opposition to Condoms](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exgays-share-co/): Exodus board member Phil Burress wants drugstore condoms locked away to discourage their purchase. Focus on the Family disapproves of condoms as a fallback when...
- [Fun With Captions - By Peterson](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/fun-with-captio/): Peterson Toscano wrote some amusing ex-gay themed captions for this animation taken from Battle Cry‘s website. Peterson describes Battle Cry as “a conservative Christian youth...
- [Black Churches And Homophobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/black-churches/): Last night on NPR’s Talk of The Nation the guest was gay Christian activist and author E. Lynn Harris. The full program is available on...
- [“Heterosexual Questionnaire” Creates a Stir](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/heterosexual-qu/): Just prior to the last Day of Silence, two teachers at Port Washington High School (Wisconsin) distributed a questionnaire meant to give students an inkling...
- [Dear Abby Weighs In](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/dear-abby-weigh/): I’m quite late to report this, but on April 21 “Dear Abby” gave her opinion about Dr. Dobson’s theories on the origins of sexual orientation....
- [FRC President Tony Perkins on O’Reilly Factor Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/frc-president-t/): Family Research Council President Tony Perkins will be on The O’Reilly Factor this evening (May 17) to discuss “Presidential leadership on protecting marriage” i.e. the...
- [Limbaugh Factually Ignorant](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/limbaugh-factua/): OK, that’s probably not the most surprising title for an entry, be it either Rush or David Limbaugh. And this isn’t really much of a...
- [X-Men Movie’s Mutant ‘Cure’ A Metaphor for Exgay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/x-men-movies-mu/): At the suggestion of Scott of Reality Cubed, I watched the seven-minute movie trailer for X-Men: The Last Stand. The movie’s story line appears to...
- [Open Forum: Exgay News Roundup](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/open-forum-exga/): What does ex-gay mean? Is the term offensive? Thoughtful discussions by two exgay/gay-celibate bloggers, Rainbow Unbroken and Disputed Mutability Exodus condones homophobia,criticizes Fall Out Boy’s...
- [AFA Claims Ford Is Just This Side of Bankruptcy Due to Boycott](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/afa-claims-ford/): Despite the overwhelming defeat of the recent shareholder introduced, AFA backed anti-gay family resolution (95-5% against), the AFA continues to send out alerts claiming that...
- [Attention LA Readers: Peterson Toscano Is Coming](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/attention-la-re/): Love In Action graduate and queer performing artist Peterson Toscano is coming to LA: Friday June 2, and Sunday June 4, 2006 at 8:00 PM...
- [Thank God You Are Straight](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/thank-god-you-a/): In his Good Friday sermon, Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr., pastor of Greater Mount Calvary Church in Northeast D.C., screamed that “it takes a real...
- [AP Parrots Exodus, Misreporting Number of Exgays And Extent of Change](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/ap-parrots-exod/): An article by Travis Reed of the Associated Press today misreports numerous facts about the exgay movement and its critics. The story was carried by...
- [Exgay Calls for Starbucks Boycott](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exgay-calls-for/): In a press release fashioned as an AgapePress “news” story, San Diego exgay activist James Hartline calls upon “Christians” (by which he means antigay social-conservative...
- [Practice Guidelines: A First Step By Throckmorton And Yarhouse](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/practice-guidel/): Warren Throckmorton has just published a preliminary document developed by himself and Mark Yarhouse. Titled Sexual identity therapy: Practice guidelines for managing sexual identity conflicts...
- [PGN Article Quotes Daniel Gonzales](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/pgn-article-quo/): An article in the Philadephia Gay News profiles an ex-ex-gay couple, Stephen Parelli and Jose Ortiz, that will be speaking to a Baptist group this...
- [Comment Security](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/comment-securit/): I have added some security measures to prevent spammers from posting ads for poker, pills, and porn to this site. In the past, these ads...
- [Focus Uses “National Day Of Prayer” To Push Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/focus-uses-nati/): (May 11, 2006) The title of today’s Focus on the Family broadcast was “National Day of Prayer 2006: America, Honor God (Part 2 of 2).”...
- [New Book Records the Rise of National Christianist Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/new-book-record/): Salon.com has printed a lengthy and worthwhile excerpt from the new book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. The excerpt is too long and...
- [Misquoting John Stossel, Exgays Protest Recognition of Ex-Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/misquoting-john/): Libertarian pundit and veteran ABC investigative reporter John Stossel upset the nation’s handful of exgay activists in 2004 when he interviewed both exgays and ex-exgays,...
- [Ford Shareholders Overwhelmingly Reject Anti-Gay Resolution](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/ford-shareholde/): A shareholder of Ford Motor Company introduced a resolution to have the company remove sexual orientation as a category against which employees could not be...
- [Straight Talk Radio Dramatically Slows Down](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/straight-talk-r-2/): Seems there’s a whole lot of white space on the Straight Talk Radio website these days. As far as Joe Brummer and I can recall,...
- [Melissa Fryrear Offers Explanation Of Her Ex-Gay Statistics](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/melissa-fryrear-5/): Last weekend Melissa Fryrear was quoted in the Miami Herald: ”You can’t make people want to overcome their sexuality. It must be an individual decision,”...
- [Silencing Fred Phelps](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/silencing-fred/): I believe that the men and women in uniform fighting for us in Iraq are honorable and are serving a cause that they believe is...
- [Whoops](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/whoops/): Today’s Family News In Focus referred to Randy Thomas as the president of Exodus International. Congrats to Randy on his unexplained and no-doubt brief promotion!
- [Open Forum: ‘Poseidon’ As ‘Death Porn’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/open-forum-pose/): Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice: A supposedly fun thing I may never want to do again after 9-11, disaster films are simple death porn…....
- [Dobson Recalls Pivotal Transition Towards Formation Of Heterosexuality At Age 2-3](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/dobson-recalls/): In Monday’s (05/08/06) Focus On The Family broadcast Dobson throws out a new term not even Google has a clinical definition for called “detachment and...
- [Throckmorton Quoted on Lesbian Pheromone Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/throckmorton-qu/): Dr. Warren Throckmorton was quoted in an article at HealthCentral.com about the just-released study identifying different brain processing of certain smells (potentially pheromones) between heterosexual...
- [TVC Complains About CBS PSA](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/tvc-complains-a/): Today, millions of young people fear that they will be rejected by family and friends simply because they are gay. But you have the power...
- [Exodus: Stop the Ministry, Resume the Sexual Peer Pressure](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exodus-stop-the/): Elizabeth McClung observes that Exodus has largely abandoned its ministry to gay youths, and replaced that effort with a program to teach heterosexual antigay “Christian”...
- [Study Gets 2nd Look: Exgays Harmed By Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/study-gets-2nd/): From Screw Bronze via A Tenable Belief via Some Guys Are Normal: In 2001, a peer-reviewed study by Drs. Ariel Shidlo and Michael Schroeder measured...
- [Study: Lesbians’ Brains Respond Like Straight Men](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/study-lesbians/): From AP/CNN: WASHINGTON (AP) — Lesbians’ brains react differently to sex hormones than those of heterosexual women. An earlier study of gay men also showed...
- [Leading Evangelical’s Change of Heart: Some Are Skeptical](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/leading-evangel/): Incite the slaughter of Muslims, imprison the homosexuals, and prosecute any religious or human-rights activists who seek to help the faggots: That’s been the policy...
- [Besen: Religious-Right War Against Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/besen-religious/): The battle to ban gay civil unions — and to subject all same-gender sexual partners to possible prosecution and imprisonment under sodomy laws — could...
- [Sun-Sentinel Fails to Look Below the Surface of Exgay Claims](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/sun-sentinel-fa/): An article published today in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel repeats many of the May 6 mistakes of The Miami Herald in covering rival exgay and...
- [Vatican Astronomer: Creationism ‘A Kind of Paganism’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/vatican-astrono/): From The Scotsman via Andrew Sullivan: Believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy...
- [Exgay Says Same-Sex-Attracted Soldiers, ‘Perverted’ Bisexuals Threaten National Security](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exgay-says-same/): From Pam Spaulding: In a newsletter article reprinted at Free Republic, San Diego exgay activist James Hartline describes gay former U.S. members of the armed forces...
- [Propaganda Won Out: Miami Herald Parrots Exgay Activists](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/propaganda-won/): Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is a logical choice of venue for the exgay Love Won Out roadshow: the church and its...
- [Exodus Conference Schedule Announced - Both Politically Oriented Workshops Run By Focus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exodus-conferen/): Exodus has announced workshops being held at this year’s conference. Not surprisingly there are twice as many workshops designed to prevent male-on-male sex than those...
- [Traditional Values Coalition Allies with Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/traditional-val-4/): GLAAD has joined with CBS to prepare a public service announcement (PSA) which will air during the As the World Turns soap opera on May...
- [Shawn O’Donnell Speaks At Northwestern University](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/shawn-o%e2%809/): Shawn O’Donnell, whose picture was included for a long time on the home webpage of Exodus International, spoke at the University Christian Ministry at Northwestern...
- [Virginity Pledges May Not Hold](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/virginity-pledg/): Abstinence-Only education is flawed in its approach to gay and lesbian students. Rather than set reasonable expectations on these youth regarding responsible sexuality, it tells...
- [T-Shirt Wars](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/t-shirt-wars/): According to a story in the Roseville Press-Tribune, on Tuesday, April 25, one day before the Day of Silence, between 20 and 25 students arrived...
- [Alabama School Distributes Sex-Ed Pamphlets Promoting Exgay Organizations](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/alabama-school/): In Alabama (via Good As You): The lesbian mother of a 12-year-old girl has objected to a sex education pamphlet handed out at a Dothan...
- [Linda Harvey Opposes Youth Access to HIV Testing](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/linda-harvey-op/): Former Stephen Bennett guest Linda Harvey of Ohio-based Mission America had this to say on AlainsNewsletter.com: Before… and After (Permission to distribute and repost is...
- [ATB: While Gay Couples Want Marriage, Antigay Couples Avoid Covenant Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/atb-while-gay-c/): From A Tenable Belief: In an April 29 column in The Washington Post, William Saletan “notes that 6,000-7,000 couples have taken up covenant marriage since...
- [ATB: Exgay Stephen Bennett Loves Rosie O’Donnell](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/atb-exgay-steph-2/): Upon the news of Rosie O’Donnell agreeing to co-host ABC’s daytime TV program The View, Steve Boese’s blog A Tenable Belief observes: Stephen Bennett touted...
- [ATB: Exgay Stephen Bennett Said God Is ‘Very Bigoted’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/atb-exgay-steph/): Blogger Steve Boese at A Tenable Belief has been spending too much time digging through the archives of exgay performer and activist Stephen Bennett. In...
- [Business to the Rescue](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/business-to-the/): Historically, the gay community has been associated with left-leaning politics and has been suspicious of “big business” and capitalism. Some of this is the result...
- [ADF Pres. Alan Sears Spouts “Day of Truth” Hypocrisy In Baptist Press - Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/adf-pres-alan-s/): Permission to reprint is granted to all. From Alan Sears, president of the Alliance Defense Fund: “Day of Truth” participants will hand out cards of...
- [Exodus’ Message to the Caribbean](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exodus-message/): For many years the Caribbean has had a culture that encourages abuse towards gays. This has been most visible in Jamaica where a popular style...
- [20 West Point Cadets Donate Money In Support Of Equality Ride](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/20-west-point-c/): This morning a donation appeared on Equality Rider Monica Carmean’s page from “friends of cadets” in the amount of $670. This hardly a coincidence since...
- [Homosexuality Isn’t Really the Problem Here](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/homosexuality-i/): In his latest newsletter, Exodus Youth Staffer Michael Ensley has some interesting things to say. I thought I would share some of them along with...
- [Liberty Counsel’s Motivation Behind Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/liberty-counsel-2/): I have long suspected that the primary motivation behind the championing of the ex-gay movement by religious conservative groups has more to do with justification...
- [Exodus Takes Credit for Equality Ride Bus Clean-Up](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exodus-takes-cr/): When the Equality Riders (a group of students traveling to anti-gay schools to present an inclusive message of Christ) went to Lee University in mid-March,...
- [Ex-Ex-Gay Becomes Assistant Pastor in Portland](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/ex-ex-gay-becom/): Out of Oregon, via the Willamette Weekly, comes the tale of a 25 year old double-ex who has just become the assistant pastor at Metropolitan...
- [Bus Driver Suspended, Not Fired; Will Return to Work](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/bus-driver-susp/): The Washington Blade reported April 14 about a bus driver who was fired for telling a passenger to go to the back of the bus...
- [XGW Invites Readers To Submit Their Own “Silenced” Photos](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/xgw-invites-rea/): Inspired by this photo from Quest, a Wisconsin gay news site, I invite all our readers to submit similar photos of themselves to be posted...
- [Anti-Gay T-Shirts Not Allowed - For Now](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/anti-gay-t-shir/): The AP is reporting that ADF’s cover-twink, Tyler Chase Harper, can be restricted from wearing a shirt that says “homosexuality is shameful” to school –...
- [Anti-Gay Confusion](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/anti-gay-confus/): The anti-gay right is waging a campaign to make them seem the victims of homosexual militant extremists. Sometimes in their efforts to seem reasonable average...
- [Randy Thomas’ Defines Homophobia For Readers And Covers For Falwell](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/randy-thomas-de/): Professional heterosexual Randy Thomas was kind enough to define “homophobia” for us today over at the Exodus: Live Out Loud blog. Homophobia is not some...
- [Ft. Lauderdale LWO Billboards Go Up!](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/ft-lauderdale-l/): Any XGW readers live in Ft. Lauderdale? I would just love to have some high-res photos of the billboards. South Florida motorists have already been...
- [School Board’s Club Ban Would Include PFOX Type “Gay To Straight” Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/school-boards-c/): From Sovo.com: The school board voted 7-0 April 10 to create a policy that would ban all “sexually oriented clubs, gay or straight or otherwise.”...
- [Wikipedia Page on Exodus Flagged After Changes Made By Exodus Staff](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/wikipedia-page/): After recent changes made to Wikipedia’s entry on Exodus International by Exodus staffers, the page has been flagged as “disputed” with the message seen above....
- [Mixed Orientation Marriages On Montel](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/mixed-orientati/): XGW contributing author, Joe Kort, was a guest on Montel last week and the boys over at The Malcontent have been kind enough to get...
- [Open Forum: A Message to Duke University](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/open-forum-a-me/): Men can stop rape. Men’s strength is not for hurting.
- [Warring Christian Lawyers?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/warring-christi/): Are two different anti-gay activist law groups using school children as pawns in a war over dominance, message, or contributions? For several years the Gay...
- [Another Anti-Gay Day At AgapePress](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/another-anti-ga/): Sometimes it seems that without gay folk to demonize, the conservative Christian press would have nothing to say. When AgapePress runs out of news on...
- [Bad Parenting And James Dobson](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/bad-parenting-a/): Discipline run amok: Christine of Rising Up Whole shares memories of a childhood tainted by parental abuse that she says was learned, in part, from...
- [Exgay in the Heart of Texas](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exgay-in-the-he/): From the Dallas Voice, April 13 No matter what causes a person to be gay, Living Hope Ministries, which is based in Arlington, has one...
- [Bioscience Journal Gives Paul Cameron a New Soapbox](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/bioscience-jour/): From Jim Burroway: Paul Cameron’s article, “Children of homosexuals and transsexuals more apt to be homosexual,” has just appeared in the May 2006 issue of...
- [Exgay Prayer Power in San Diego?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exgay-prayer-po/): From CityBeat, San Diego, April 12: After a 27-year run, San Diego’s oldest newspaper catering to the gay community, The Update, announced on March 29...
- [Exgay Clubs, Differing Opinions](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exgay-clubs-dif/): Although I recently poked fun at the lameness and PFOX’s hypocrisy in calling for a high school ex-gay club, I wouldn’t suggest students should be...
- [Traditional Values Coalition Still Uses Studies It Acknowledged As Wrong](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/traditional-val-3/): Lou Sheldon proves that ‘preachers do lie’ By Alvin McEwen. Reprinted with permission. April 8, 2006 — Recently, Traditional Values Coalition head Lou Sheldon gave...
- [Exodus Lobs Rotten Eggs At Easter Kids](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exodus-lobs-rot/): Much like Las Vegas, modern antigay religion is an industry of sin. It builds much of its business upon the profitable violation of the Ten...
- [PFOX Q & A](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/pfox-q-a/): PFOX now has a new leaflet designed for ex-gay strugglers to provide to their friends to help answer questions they may have. Unfortunately, PFOX’s leaflet...
- [Chrysler’s Silly Little Fairy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/chrysler-silly-little-fairy/): Unlike most of my friends, I’m not a car guy. When they tell me about the newest hottest BMW, or whatever, my eyes glaze over....
- [“Vagina” A Dirty Word Over At Agape](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/vagina-a-dirty/): A recent article over at the Agapepress about the Vagina Monologues did not once spell out the full word “vagina,” instead substituting the letter “V”...
- [Homos to the Back of the Bus in D.C.](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/homos-to-the-ba/): Exodus president Alan Chambers occasionally — and illogically — boasts that homosexual persons should not be entitled to constitutional rights because homosexuals and their allies,...
- [Robert Spitzer on “Choice”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/robert-spitzer/): ScienCentral News has a good piece up today summarizing the current scientific debate about the origins of homosexuality–and the political controversies attendant to it (I...
- [PFOX / Liberty Counsel Urge Kids To Form “Gay To Straight Clubs” Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/pfox-liberty-co/): Having grown weary of picking on internet satirists, Liberty Counsel has paired with PFOX to kick off the “Change is Possible Campaign.” PFOX’s press release...
- [Some Thoughts on Easter, Inclusion And Exclusion](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/some-thoughts-o-2/): This Easter season has caused me to think some about the distinction between limited inclusion and exclusion.
- [Vigil At Conference for Celibate, Antigay Catholics](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/vigil-at-confer/): The U.S. antigay Catholic group Courage, which contends there is a “homosexual identity” and then coaches same-sex-attracted Catholics to reject that identity in favor of...
- [Tim Wilkins: Talk Is Cheap, But Pardon Me While I Talk Up ‘Gay Theology’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/tim-wilkins-tal/): Exgay activist Tim Wilkins held a one-day conference titled “More Than Words” in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 8. He plans another one August 12 in...
- [‘Cultural Warfare Updates’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/cultural-warfar/): Solarbird.livejournal.com has been summarizing the day-to-day activiities of numerous religious-right organizations in the United States and Canada. Worth tracking….
- [Oh, Really? Rocker Accused of Threatening to Kill ‘Ex-Gay Lover’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/oh-really-rocke/): Corrected to indicate that the former boyfriend was erroneously described as “ex-gay lover.” From Gay Celebrity News, a story about former celebrity Pete Burns: The...
- [Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/top-10-power-br/): AlterNet on July 7 reprinted Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right, published in June by Americans United for Separation of Church and State....
- [Exgay NEA Activist Turns Out to Be Anti-NEA](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exgay-nea-activ/): Corrected to reflect Jeralee Smith’s exgay identity. Exgay activist Jeralee Smith formed the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus in early 2004, ostensibly to educate teachers and...
- [Schism in Australia’s Uniting Church](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/schism-in-austr/): The Uniting Church, Australia’s third largest Christian denomination, was formed in 1977 by the union of the Congregational Union, the Methodist Church, and the Presbyterian...
- [Who’s Secular Now? Take the Quiz](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/whos-secular-no/): From Talk To Action: Test your knowledge! Here are ten quotes from a pool of 20 well-known Democrats and Republicans, and leaders of the religious...
- [Dobson, the Slave Trade, And Antigay Cross-Burnings](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/dobson-the-slav/): James Dobson of Focus on the Family unfavorably compares the love and faith of gay couples to the slave trade. Meanwhile, Dobson’s unholy culture-war allies...
- [Exodus Promotes Schoolyard-Brawl Myth — But Antigay Parent Admits Story Is False](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exodus-promotes-3/): The exgay network Exodus International on July 1 joined other religious-rightists in parroting a political scandal over an ordinary schoolyard fight that occurred May 17...
- [Antigay Group Demands Medal of Honor: Will Exgays Provide It?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/antigay-group-d/): Repent America, as we’ve noted many, many times, is a Philadelphia-area group that illegally commandeers town council meetings, storms gay-friendly entertainment festivals, shouts down authorized...
- [Dobson And HRC: Both Secularist, Eager to Shun Gay People’s Faith And Morality](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/dobson-and-hrc/): In their CNN to-and-fro last week, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson wagged his finger at the media for not demonizing and ostracizing homosexuals —...
- [NARTH Responds Irresponsibly to the Birth Order Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/narth-responds/): Updated for NARTH reponse (see below) In the 1990’s, Anthony Bogaert released a study in which he and his fellow researchers had determined that birth...
- [Exgay Convicted Teen-Molester Offers Rosy Picture of Recidivism](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exgay-convicted/): An article about sex offenders in today’s Washington Post cites an unspecified Danish study which found a recidivism rate of 80 percent among sex offenders...
- [Dan’s on Vacation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/dans-on-vacatio/): I’m off on a family vacation through the 13th so please send tips and leads to your second favorite XGW authors in my absence. I...
- [Exgay Group JONAH Goes on Right-Wing Zionist Internet Radio Station](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exgay-group-jon/): Despite the fact he no longer has any relevance or credibility, DL Foster brought attention to two interviews JONAH recently gave to an extremist Israeli...
- [Truth Wins Out Press Conference At NEA Convention](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/truth-wins-out-2/): WHO: — Joe Saunders, Central Florida field organizer, Equality Florida— Wayne Besen, executive director, Truth WinsOut — Jim Merritt, ex-gay survivor— Pat Padilla, Parents, Families...
- [PFOX’s Richard Cohen on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/pfoxs-richard-c/): Richard Cohen is scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight. Update: Just watched it here in the Pacific time zone and was laughing so...
- [Protest At 2006 Exodus Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/protest-at-2006/): From the Marion Chronicle Tribune: As the annual Exodus Freedom Conference began in the Phillippe Performing Arts Center auditorium, a group of about 12 people...
- [Agape Story: A Small Irony](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/agape-story-a-s/): A story I came across today began thus: Former Lesbian Brings Ex-‘Gay’ Message to 2006 NEA Annual Meeting By Jim Brown June 26, 2006 (AgapePress)...
- [Open Forum: Best D.C. Casual Restaurants](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/open-forum-best/): Interested in D.C.-area restaurants? Check out the comments below….
- [Episcopals to Be Ejected From the Anglican Communion?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/episcopals-to-b/): The London Times is reporting that the Archbishop of Cantebury, Rowan Williams, is drawing up plans to remove the Episcopal Church – and other nonconforming...
- [Religious-Right Media Ignore National HIV Testing Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/religious-right-12/): You wouldn’t know it from the religious-right media but today is National HIV Testing Day. News sites which ignore this include: FreeRepublicTownhallFamily News In FocusWorldNetDaily...
- [Exodus Board Member, ‘Free From the AIDS Virus,’ Died in 2004](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exodus-board-me-3/): While researching the above post I came to learn the former Exodus board member who said: “Today with God’s abundant grace and His miraculous power...
- [‘Pro-Family’ Group in a Tizzy Over Schwarzenegger’s Gay Dinner](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/pro-family-grou/): The GOP governors just aren’t living up to the Hate the Gays promise that the right wing has in mind. First, Maryland Gov. Robert L....
- [Ex-Gay Message to NEA: Gays Choose Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/ex-gay-message/): AgapePress reports that the ex-gay movement will be trying to influence the NEA at their upcoming conference. Something called the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus will...
- [Men with Older Brothers More Likely to Be Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/men-with-older/): I can’t wait for the religious right to make up their own explanations for this. ::cough:: Fryrear
- [Chambers Discusses Motivation for Focus on Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/chambers-discus/): In an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Alan Chambers discussed the motivation behind Exodus International’s focus on youth. “There’s definitely an absolute push in...
- [Grove City Communications Student Continues Innuendo Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/grove-city-comm/): EDITED: I’ve edited this posting to narrow my focus of criticism. Addendum, July 7: CWFA has revoked intern Sarah Kuziomko’s original press release without explanation...
- [Former Exgay Mormon Takes One-Man Play to Atlanta](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/former-exgay-mo/): The arts publication David Atlanta profiles thirtysomething Steven Fales, an excommunicated Latter Day father of two who, after a successful run in New York, opened...
- [Eve Tushnet, Readers Discuss ‘Love Won Out’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/eve-tushnet-rea/): Eve Tushnet has posted a variety of reader reactions (along with her own responses) to her National Review Online article about Focus on the Family’s...
- [Anti-Gay Delegates Lose Church Battles](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/anti-gay-delega/): Conservative delegates to two national denominational conventions lost battles to either hold the line against gay ministers or to move it back. The Presbyterian Church...
- [Throckmorton Splits with PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/throckmorton-sp/): 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...
- [Colbert Report on Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/colbert-report/): Click image see it on YouTube.com. The Malcontent also has a copy.
- [Spitzer Says Focus on the Family Misused His Research](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/spitzer-says-fo/): “Although a third of the subjects in my study reported having had serious thoughts of suicide related to their homosexuality, not one of them blamed...
- [APA Director Scolds Military for Classifying Homosexuality As Disorder](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/apa-director-sc/): 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...
- [Focus/Family Adds to Its Distortion of Lesbian Teen-Suicide Research](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/focusfamily-add/): The Canadian Press — the Canadian branch of AP — has picked up and expanded upon the story first reported by Truth Wins Out last...
- [AFA Spreads Half-truth And Falsehood About Playground Assault](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/afa-spreads-hal/): Late this afternoon, the American “Family” Association’s AgapePress repeated an already disproven allegation about a playground altercation in Lexington, Mass., that is being promoted and...
- [Website Publishes Florida Petition Signers’ Identities](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/website-publish/): In Florida, one can vote to change the Constitution every two years. It takes approximately 600,000 signatures to get a proposed change on the ballot,...
- [Out And Cowed? Ex-Gay in the UK](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/out-and-cowed-e/): This article was originally published in Third Way magazine, June 2006 I ONLY had to say three syllables, and yet the simplest words turned out...
- [Nicolosi Offers Anger, Not Inspiration, to Antigay Families](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/nicolosi-offers/): 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...
- [Study Author Criticizes Fryrear’s Distortion of Research on Lesbian Youth Suicide](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/study-author-cr/): Last week Focus on the Family published an article in which gender issues analyst and “former homosexual” Melissa Fryrear blames “pro-gay advocates” for high suicide...
- [In-Depth Observations From Inside ‘Love Won Out’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/in-depth-observ/): 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...
- [Danforth Advises Against Episcopal Divisiveness](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/danforth-advise/): 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....
- [Rhetoric And Reality of the Ex-gay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/rhetoric-and-re/): Eve Tushnet makes an interesting observation in her recent article in the National Review: During the entire nine hours of the conference, none of the...
- [Friday Tangent: Getting Tested](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/friday-tangent/): 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...
- [Must-Read Conservative Insight Into Exgay Ideology](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/must-read-conse/): 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...
- [Exgay Thoughts](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/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...
- [REFUGE: No Law Against Forcing Your Child to Attend](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/refuge-no-law-a/): REFUGE, the new name for Love In Action, Memphis Tennessee, is a daughter ministry of Love In Action International, the largest member ministry of Exodus...
- [Exodus Begins to Distance Itself From Rev. DL Foster](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exodus-begins-t/): 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...
- [White Ravens And Hair Care in the Ex-Gay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/white-ravens-an/): 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...
- [Boston Globe Article on New Hope](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/boston-globe-ar/): The Boston Globe published an article on Sunday by Tanya Erzen about the ex-gay movement. Erzen focused her observations on New Hope Ministry in San...
- [Religion And Sexuality Week](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/religion-and-se/): This week will be very important in ongoing efforts of mainline denominations to determine the appropriate response to gay Christians within their family. The Episcopal...
- [Who Are the Real Successors of Hitler?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/who-are-the-rea/): So Wayne Besen has been likened to Adolf Hitler by a notoriously extreme ex-gay proponent for whom the extra attention of mentioning his name would...
- [Oh the Pain, the Pain](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/oh-the-pain-the/): It should not be surprising that those who describe themselves as former homosexuals would have a negative view of “the homosexual lifestyle”. The testimonies on...
- [Exgay DL Foster Not a Big Fan of Anti-Fraud Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exgay-dl-foster-3/): On the DL Foster has come completely unhinged over Truth Wins Out and posted this photo to his blog. Oh yes, that’s exactly what you...
- [Guidelines for Civility Among Commenters](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/guidelines-for/): Comments at XGW may be immediately deleted, or commenters may be banned, for the following reasons: Libel Slander Copyright violations Link spam Profanity Threats Namecalling...
- [Love Won Out - Washington DC](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/love-won-out-wa/): As people begin to post about their experiences at Love Won Out this weekend, I’ll continuously update this post. Steve Boese went inside the conference....
- [Attention “As the World Turns” Fans](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/attention-as-th/): AfterElton.com has this about an ex-gay camp plot: SPOILER ALERT Luke’s birth father (don’t ask–it’s a long story) recently reappeared, and next week will try...
- [Only “Ex-Gays For Pay” Callers Make It Past Alan Colmes Show Screener](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/only-ex-gays-fo/): [This post has been pulled so I can verify the extent to which David Blakeslee practices exgay therapy.]
- [We Love Bob Knight](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/we-love-bob-kni/): Can I just say I love the photo of Wayne Besen concerned woman Bob Knight is running in his story on Truth Wins Out. Watch...
- [Alan Chambers: One Week, Two Deceptive Figures](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/alan-chambers-o/): It’s been a schizophrenic past couple years for Alan Chambers. He never seems sure of how many queers his ministries have straightened out. On Monday...
- [XGWers At Los Angeles Pride](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/xgwers-at-los-a/): This upcoming weekend is Los Angeles Pride. Since I missed Peterson’s event, it would be great to have a chance to meet all of you...
- [A Look Back At Alan Chambers’ Political Motivation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/a-look-back-at/): Randy Thomas and Alan Chambers recently went to Washington DC to lobby for the marriage amendment. Ex-Gay Watch readers have likely thought many different things...
- [Former Exgays Launch ‘Truth Wins Out’ in D.C.](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/former-exgays-l/): Corrected to reflect Nick Cavnar’s biographical details. Truth Wins Out launched today with a press event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Here...
- [Article 8 Complaint Depends on Relativist Standards of Gender Expression](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/article-8-compl/): Lungi Offending mannequins Article 8’s two primary gripes with the Macy*s mannequins appear to be: “Very bizarre. One mannequin is wearing what looks like some...
- [Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendment Defeated](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/anti-gay-consti/): The Constitution of the United States of America, Amendment XIV, Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the...
- [FRC President Tony Perkins on MSNBC’s Hardball Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/frc-president-t-2/): It’s supposed to air at 5 p.m. (ET) so this is short notice.  He is there to discuss today’s US Senate vote on the “Marriage...
- [Maryland Coalition Challenges Exgay Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/maryland-coalit/): (Sorry for the delay in posting this. Better late than never….) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, June 1, 2006 BROAD COALITION COUNTERS DAMAGING RHETORIC OF “CONVERSION...
- [Ex-gay in the UK - a Related Practical Question](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/ex-gay-in-the-u-2/): Group A is a conservative Christian “ex-gay” ministry. It does not encourage people to expect a change of orientation, and is critical of groups that...
- [Ex-gay in the UK](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/ex-gay-in-the-u/): The main difference between the ex-gay movement in the UK and the US is that, well, that there isn’t really much of an ex-gay movement...
- [Truth Wins OUT Website Is Up](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/truth-wins-out/): In Wednesday’s press conference, founder Wayne Besen will present a slide show (which can be found here) and Love In Action survivor Lance Carroll’s story...
- [From Peterson’s Show on Sunday](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/from-petersons/): (Sorry bout the funky colors, theater lighting is beyond even photoshop.)
- [A Christian Look At the Marriage Protection Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/a-christian-loo/): Alan Chambers, Randy Thomas, and many other anti-gay leaders of the ex-gay movement are in Washington, D.C. lending their support to efforts to exclude gay...
- [Exgays Exploited](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exgays-exploite/): Steve Schalchlin, a co-founder of the online gay/exgay bridge-building project Bridges Across the Divide, comments on the political exploitation of exgays by Focus on the...
- [Pictures of Us](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/pictures-of-us/): Performance artist and former exgay Peterson Toscano was performing in Southern California last weekend. He has posted pictures of Ex-Gay Watch participants Daniel Gonzales, Regan...
- [Truth: Mike Haley V. Wayne Besen](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/truth-mike-hale/): I don’t know what they are proclaiming the truth to be — they like to claim that all the medical organizations are against reparative therapy...
- [Randy Thomas Ignores The Sacred Bond Of Marriage To Suit His Point](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/randy-thomas-ig/): Professional “former homosexual” and white male Randy Thomas had this to say over at his blog today: At today’s press conference one of my heroes,...
- [DL Foster, Lesbians And Logic](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/dl-foster-lesbi/): According to DL Foster, this statement – From what I know I believe there’s 80% of women, between 80 and 85% of women that are...
- [About Dave Rattigan](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/about-dave-ratt/): Glad to be here as a contributor to a blog of which I’ve been an avid reader for over a year. I am British-Canadian, and...
- [Love in Action Survivor Speaks to Protesters](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/love-in-action-11/): Lance Carroll spent last summer at Love in Action. He came back today to join Queer Action Coalition and the protesters outside. While Carroll’s prepared...
- [Exodus Goes to the Rose Garden](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exodus-goes-to/): OOOPS… I didn’t see that Daniel had already posted about this before I posted. Sorry Daniel. But here’s my take on it: According to writer...
- [Randy Thomas And Alan Chambers Invited To White House, Lobby For Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/randy-thomas-an/): Randy Thomas and Alan Chambers are in DC to lobby for the Federal Marriage Amendment. (I refuse to use the various names for such an...
- [Ex-Gay TV Ad Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/ex-gay-tv-ad-wa/): A couple of hours ago I caught a portion of a TV commercial run by the Arlington Assembly of God. It’s not clear to me...
- [Nullifying Tolerance](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/nullifying-tole/): The leaders of the political religious right frequently criticize pro-tolerance advocacy: They protest that tolerance advocates are not tolerant of intolerance. They assert that it...
- [Exgay ‘Freedom From Freedom’ Campaign (Open Forum)](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exgay-freedom-f/): Exodus has for years graced the world with an innovative plan for “freedom.” Exodus was first to offer the world a “Freedom from Homosexuality” campaign....
- [Stephen Bennett to Evangelize WorldPride in Jerusalem](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/stephen-bennett-20/): August has been evangelism season for Stephen Bennett Ministries: In 2003, he took a group to Provincetown and met with resistance from gays, some of...
- [Love In Action Survivor One Year Later](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/love-in-action-10/): One year ago next week the gay community, and many straight supporters, were energized by the story of a teenager named Zach who was being...
- [Wayne Besen Announces Launch Of New Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/wayne-besen-ann/): Posted today on Wayne’s site: ‘Truth Wins Out’ to Take on Key Issue In Anti-Gay Campaigns Washington, DC — As President Bush and Congress prepare...
- [Minnesota Methodists Support Inclusion](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/minnesota-metho/): From WCCO Methodists in Minnesota have approved ordaining gay clergy and accepting gay marriage at the state convention in St. Cloud. The annual convention will...
- [Exgay Ministries Move to Stifle Dissent On Discussion Forums](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exgay-ministrie/): Last week I received a rather bizarre email from a woman identifying herself as Carrie informing me DesertStream.org (an exgay ministry) had shut down their...
- [Two Anti-Gay Media Outlets Go Down](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/two-anti-gay-me/): Alain’s Newsletter, classified as hate speech by Google and supported by the TVC, recently discontinued publishing and put up a splash page on the domain’s...
- [Dobson: “Marriage Is Under Vicious Attack…From The Forces Of Hell”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/dobson-marriage/): Today’s Focus on the Family broadcast was the first in a series designed to whip up hysteria over gay marriage and try an convince black...
- [Audio: Ex-Lesbian Janet Boynes Gives Questionable Statistics](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/audio-ex-lesbia/): In a podcast interview with Kim Jeffries, ex-lesbian Janet Boynes cites makes up some interesting statistics: Jeffries: I understand that’s not uncommon that there has...
- [Villain in X-Men 3 Parallels Reparative-Therapy Movement Founder](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/villain-in-x-me/): I saw X-Men 3 at the Hollywood & Highland Chinese today and noticed some things I didn’t get from the previews… Charles Socarides, founder of...
- [Creepy ‘Christian’ Website: Parody Or Hate?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/creepy-christia/): When I originally wrote this post, I assumed that Jesus Loves Everything was a hate site — hate gays, hate China, hate freedom for anyone...
- [True Prophet Vs. Servant to Worldly Powers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/true-prophet-vs/): Feminary is a “socially liberal theologically orthodox inclusive tolerant feminist Episcopalian (who) goes to one of the world’s top evangelical seminaries.” Feminary’s preaching class recently...
- [SNL’s ‘Heteroy’ Changed Homosexuals Into Bible-Thumpers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/snls-heteroy-ch/): In October 1998, Saturday Night Live‘s animated TV Funhouse skit invented an exgay superhero. Watch the video: Heteroy has real-world counterparts: LiveJournal blogger Keith recently...
- [LA Times: ‘Ex-Gays’ Seek a Say in Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/la-times-ex-gay/): The Los Angeles Times reports that antigay Christians and Jews are challenging and sometimes suing school districts: If proponents of tolerance and opponents of bullying...
- [Divinity Student Says ‘Love In Action’ Resembles Canaanite Child Sacrifice](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/divinity-studen/): Blogger Brian Rainey is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School. He is currently focusing in Hebrew Bible and Political Theology. He...
- [Open Forum: The New Name for Ex-Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/open-forum-the-2/): People Formerly Identified as Formerly-Gay-Identified.
- [Exgay TV Show to Air on ‘Christian’ Networks](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/exgay-tv-show-t/): From The Advocate: A television show hosted by and featuring “ex-gays,” including a former prostitute and a self-confessed thief, is preparing for its launch on...
- [New Blog Aims to Track Deceptions of the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/new-blog-aims-t/): In anticipation of his upcoming book, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, Alvin McEwen has begun a weblog that itemizes the day-to-day and strategic deceptions of...
- [Dos Cristianos Escriben Sobre Su Fe Y Sus Deseos Homosexuales](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/dos-cristianos/): In August 2006, Peterson Toscano and a friend nicknamed Ariadna launched a Spanish-language blog, Dos Equis, that looks at the ex-gay movement as well as...
- [Note From Dan](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/note-from-dan/): I’ll be in Austin, TX through Tuesday night so in the meantime send urgent news and story tips to one of your other favorite XGW...
- [Open Forum: A Comment on Mormons And Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/open-forum-a-co/): From a comment to XGW today: …I feel this information might be important: The Mormon/LDS Church has published on their news-web a pseudo-interview with two...
- [Archbishop’s U-turn: Gays Must Change?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/archbishops-u-t/): Archbishop Rowan Williams’s most recent remarks about homosexuality have been widely interpreted as “gays must change”. Speaking in the Sunday Telegraph last month, ++Rowan said:...
- [Thoughts for Peterson](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/thoughts-for-pe/): I’m sure readers and authors alike would like to join me in sending some love Peterson’s way today.
- [Palm Springs Rally Organizers Charter Bus to Indian Wells](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/palm-springs-ra/): I just spoke with a delightful woman from Palm Springs N.O.W. who explained why the Unity Rally organizers have chartered a bus to take participants...
- [Seeking Reformists (and A Social Life) in New England](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/seeking-reformi/): If you live in the northeastern United States, I’d like to hear from you. I have just moved to Hartford, Connecticut — lured north from...
- [NARTH Quietly Revises History Concerning Berger Comment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/narth-quietly-r/): As you may have read recently, NARTH has received a lot of criticism over the callous advice of one of their committee members, Joseph Berger,...
- [Palm Springs Mayor to Attend LWO](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/palm-springs-ma/): Gay Palm Springs mayor Ron Oden announced at a press conference today he: …would accept Thursday’s invitation from Focus on the Family to attend the...
- [Palm Springs’ Gay Mayor Welcomes Upcoming Love Won Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/palm-springs-ga/): After being contacted by friend of XGW Scott H, openly gay mayor of Palm Springs Ron Oden rolled out the welcome mat in The Desert...
- [NARTH Scientific Advisory Committee Member Joseph Berger Advocates Children Teasing Gender-nonconforming Peers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/narth-scientifi/): From PinkNews.co.uk: Gay pressure groups have accused an “ex-gay” organisation of “inviting child abuse” after claiming children with gender identity issues should be exposed to...
- [Alan Chambers Turns Domestic-Violence Fact Into Fiction](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/alan-chambers-t-2/): In another dazzling display of deception that borders on the unethical, Exodus President Alan Chambers and Focus on the Family News have taken a Department...
- [Anti-Gay Activist in Charge of Screening Minnesota Police Officers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/anti-gay-activi-2/): Michael A. Campion gets to make decisions as to whether applicants are psychologically fit to be police officers at a number of departments in Illinois....
- [AGLP Film Project on Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/aglp-film-proje/): The Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists has a new film project underway about reparative therapy: Abomination: Homosexuality and the Ex-Gay Movement. Abomination focuses on...
- [Alan Chambers’ Personal Reference for Truthfulness](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/alan-chambers-p/): In responding to comments on the thread below about whether the use of the term “the homosexual” was intentionally offensive, Alan Chambers said the following:...
- [Exodus Has A New Book Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/exodus-has-a-ne/): Alan Chambers and the “leadership team of Exodus” have a new book out titled “God’s Grace And the Homosexual Next Door: A Guide to Overcoming...
- [Photos - Truth Wins Out Protest At Dallas Exgay Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/photos-truth-wi/): Voila! Photos from the Truth Wins Out protest in Dallas over the weekend. Lots more images after the jump…
- [Report From TWO Protest At Dallas Exgay Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/report-from-two/): When I was putting this together a week ago I thought it’d just be me out there.-Wayne Besen Hearing that Wayne needed help as well...
- [Friday Musings on Faith](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/friday-musings/): The following are a few of my musings on faith and religion. If that’s not your thing, you may want to skip this thread.
- [AgapePress Describes Attendees of San Diego Pride As Sodomites](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/agapepress-desc/): Really now, who uses the term “sodomite” anymore except maybe Fred Phelps? The AgapePress, that’s who: Hartline says last year the not-for-profit San Diego Pride...
- [Would That Be a Money-Back Guarantee?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/would-that-be-a/): On an Australian radio program ex-gay Richard Cohen may have said the stupidist thing to date about ex-gay ministries: RICHARD COHEN: I was exclusively homosexual....
- [Truth Wins Out Seeks Participants for Response to Exodus Event in Texas](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/truth-wins-out-4/): On Saturday August 26th Living Hope Ministries is having an exgay conference at Vista Ridge Baptist Church in Carrollton, TX. Wayne Besen of Truth Wins...
- [Infographic: Exgay Groups Pose As Moderates for APA Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/infographic-exg/): I knew something had to be done with the images from the recent exgay protest at the APA convention. The two groups who organized the...
- [NARTH And TVC Use Pejorative Term ‘Shemales’ in Article About Gender-Queer](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/narth-and-tvc-u/): Both NARTH and the Tradititional Values Coalition have published summaries/reactions to a story in The Advocate titled “Life in the T Zone – With the...
- [Oregon Christian Coalition Leader Admits Molestation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/oregon-christia-2/): We briefly discussed the accusations against Lou Beres, previous leader of the Oregon Christian Coalition and a long-time anti-gay activist, relating to inappropriate behavious with...
- [Fools At AFA, Christian Post Continue to Count on Paul Cameron](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/fools-at-afa-ch/): Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute has been completely discredited. After being expelled from the American Psychological Association and condemned by resolution of the...
- [Ex-Gay Champions Homophobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/ex-gay-champion/): It is true that sometimes the gay community will make misplaced accusations of homophobia. Sometimes those who may not support full equality for gay people...
- [Peter LaBarbera Resigns From Illinois Family Institute](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/peter-labarbera-2/): “Porno-Pete” LaBarbera has resigned his position as Executive Director of the Illinois Family Institute to: …pursue his goal of creating a national organization dedicated to...
- [W. W. Finlator, Early Southern Baptist Preacher to Oppose Discrimination, Died](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/w-w-finlator-ea/): According to the Associated Baptist Press, W. W. Finlator, longtime pastor of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, died of pneumonia July 3. He was...
- [Exodus’ Changed Priorities](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/exodus-changed/): In Straight to Jesus, Tanya Erzen notes that after Alan Chambers took the helm of Exodus International in 2001 the organization became much more political....
- [Just for a Chuckle](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/just-for-a-chuc/): Perhaps it was intentional, perhaps it was a matter of two countries separated by a common language, but I had to chuckle at this headline...
- [Upcoming NPR Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/upcoming-npr-pr/): NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross has an upcoming piece on the ex-gay movement. Those interviewed include Tanya Erzen, Alan Chambers, and an ex-ex-gay New...
- [Attraction And Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/attraction-and/): In reading Tanya Erzen’s Straight to Jesus (get this book) a number of things jumped out at me as being relevant to our discussions here....
- [Straight to Jesus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/straight-to-jes/): 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...
- [AP Reports NARTH’s APA Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/ap-reports-nart/): 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...
- [Photos From the NARTH/Exodus Protest At APA Convention](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/photos-from-the/): 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...
- [Friday Free-For-All](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/friday-free-for/): 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....
- [Wishing Ben Well](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/wishing-ben-wel/): 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....
- [APA Releases Statement on Conversion Therapy Following Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/apa-releases-st/): “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...
- [Texas Ford Dealers Don’t Want Gay Customers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/texas-ford-deal/): 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...
- [Truth Wins Out to Counter Antigay Coalition’s ‘Subversion of Science’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/truth-wins-out-3/): FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 10, 2006 TRUTH WINS OUT TO COUNTER ANTI-GAY COALITION’S ‘SUBVERSION OF SCIENCE’ AT AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION’S CONVENTION Religion-Based Bigots Cloak Scripture...
- [Pot Calls Kettle Black: Exodus Criticizes APA for Informing Public Policy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/pot-calls-kettl/): 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...
- [To Thine Own Self](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/to-thine-own-se/): 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:...
- [Stephen Bennett’s WorldPride Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/stephen-bennett-21/): 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...
- [Diagram: What Is An Ex-Gay?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/diagram-what-is/): There’s been a great deal of discussion recently at Warren Throckmorton’s site regarding Alan Chambers’ possible retirement of the term “ex-gay.” Although I didn’t join...
- [Mixed Orientation Mormon Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/mixed-orientati-2/): There is an article in the Salt Lake Tribune about gay/straight married Mormons. These are relationships in which straight women knowingly marry gay men. While...
- [Focus Strikes Out With Atlanta Braves](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/focus-strikes-o/): According to the Southern Voice, The Atlanta Braves have asked that anti-gay Focus on the Family not be included in future Faith Days events.  “We...
- [Visitor/Commenter Adam Kautz Banned](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/visitorcommente/): An infrequent visitor/commenter named Adam Kautz has posted 12 comments at Ex-Gay Watch in the past three years. One prior comment was deleted because Kautz...
- [Beat Him Straight: Do Ex-Gay Ministries Have Blood on Their Hands?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/beat-him-straig/): This past weekend in El Paso, three young men kidnapped a gay teen, tied him up, and beat him all night. the attackers told the...
- [Anti-Gay “Love” Seems More Like Hate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/anti-gay-love-s/): Anti-gay activist often claim to “love the sinner, hate the sin”. A recent example is Guy Adams of Renew America who (in the midst of...
- [Renaming Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/renaming-ex-gay/): According to Michael Bussee at Warren Throckmorton’s site, Alan Chambers seeks to do away with the term “Ex-Gay”. Michael Bussee quoted Alan Chambers, Ex. Dir....
- [Ex-Gay Minister Became a Supporter](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/ex-gay-minister-3/): There is an article in the Washington MetroWeekly about a gay-supportive African American minister that is leaving DC and going to a church in New...
- [Guy Adams of Renew America Says “Gays Having Sex With Infants” Is New Trend](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/guy-adams-of-re/): Guy Adams recently spoke with Stacy L. Harp on her podcast, The Right View.  Incredibly, during the interview he claimed that the new trend among...
- [Jeffrey John: Ex-gay of Sorts](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/jeffrey-john-ex/): I challenged a blogger the other day on his consistent use of the most juvenile, sophomoric insults to express his belief that homosexuality is a...
- [On a Personal Note](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/on-a-personal-n/): I need to gloat for a moment. I just passed my ninth architectural registration exam. If I lived in any other state besides CA or...
- [Exodus Blog Reprints Article Containing Known Factual Errors](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/exodus-blog-rep/): Here Exodus blogger Nancy Brown reprints an aricle from the Agapepress so poorly written it confuses the difference between sex and gender as well as...
- [Anti-Gay T-Shirt Update](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/anti-gay-t-shir-2/): As discussed before, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that anti-gay activists do not have a constitutional right to go into the classroom...
- [CWA Intern Repeats LaBarbera’s Deceptions](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/cwa-intern-repe/): UPDATED Concerned Women for America has an internship program in which they train young women to be culture warriors against those who don’t share CWA’s...
- [Exodus Staff And the Florida Marriage Amendment Petition](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/exodus-staff-an/): KnowThyNeighbor.org, which is a website which publishes the names of everyone who signed the petition to amend the Florida state constitution defining marriage. I naturally...
- [Hartline Comments on Bathhouse Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/hartline-commen/): As we’ve discussed before, the IFI protest at the Gay Games in Chicago were highly ineffective. The protesters were outnumbered and then rain washed them...
- [XGW At San Diego Pride](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/xgw-at-san-dieg/): I’m in San Diego this weekend for San Diego Pride and was lucky enough to meet friend of Ex-Gay Watch Autumn Sandeen.
- [Protest At Courage Meeting in St. Louis](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/protest-at-cour/): The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article about Courage, the Catholic ex-gay group, meeting there and a protest held by Catholic Action Network for Social...
- [Is Exodus Complying with Tax Law?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/is-exodus-compl/): The Internal Revenue Code has a long history of favorable tax treatment for “ministers of the gospel”. I do not prepare income tax returns for...
- [A Post Revisited](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/a-post-revisite/): Last month when I wrote about the death of HIV+ Exodus board member Michael Lumberger, the post generated a great deal of comments and discussion....
- [Nancy Heche’s “Love” Shows Its True Colors](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/nancy-heches-lo/): Focus on the Family’s ex-gay roadshow, Love Won Out, has presented Dr. Nancy Heche (doctorate in pastoral counseling) as an authority on sexual orientation issues....
- [Good Times This Weekend](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/good-times-this/): I’m headed to San Diego pride this weekend. Does anyone know if James Hartline has anything festive planned?
- [Chad Thompson Provides An Ex-Gay Angle on X-Men 3](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/chad-thompson-p/): Chad Thompson, one of the most fair-minded exgay activists I know just wrote a piece on X-Men 3. (I know he’s a wee bit late.)...
- [Alan Chambers: Gays Trying to Portray Themselves As Equals](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/alan-chambers-g/): From Family News In Focus today: Some think the ads [on gay marriage] having nothing to do with marriage. Alan Chambers is with Exodus International....
- [LaBarbera’s Bathhouse Visit - One More Thread](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/labarberas-bath/): We now have a report from the Windy City Times about Peter LaBarbera’s outreach to Steamworks, a gay bathhouse in Chicago on the final Saturday...
- [Why the Ex-Gay Debate Is So Important](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/why-the-ex-gay/): Anti-gay activists spend millions of dollars every year to promote the idea that “change is possible”. Although there is no empirical evidence to support their...
- [The Proper Response to Bashing](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/the-proper-resp/): Papers around the country are picking up an AP article by Ling Liu in which heterosexuals complain about mistreatment in Provincetown, Mass., a gay resort...
- [AgapePress’ Jim Brown Fails to Open Dictionary to “transgender”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/agapepress-jim/): From Jim Brown over at the Agape today: Transgenders are individuals who have changed their sex through surgery, or at least have tried to. Hmm…...
- [AgapePress / Bob Knight Confuse Sex And Gender](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/agapepress-bob/): The AgapePress begins with apples: Students looking to enter the Harvard Business School MBA program are asked to fill out an online profile that offers...
- [Haley’s Claims Contrast with Reporter’s Experiences](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/haleys-claims-c/): Cindy Rodriguez, columnist for the Denver Post, attended the peace vigil that Soulforce organized to pray for the end of James Dobson’s persecution of gay...
- [Ex-gay Protest of Gay Games Comes to an End](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/ex-gay-protest/): With the culmination of the Gay Games VII in Chicago, so too ends the protest led by IFI’s LaBarbera and his crew of less-than-reputable ex-gays....
- [Water: a Deepa Mehta Film](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/water-a-deepa-m/): My family came to town for my birthday and we saw the Indian film Water. (official site / apple.com trailer) It’s the story of 8-year-old...
- [LaBarbera’s Ex-Gay Message to Chicago’s Gay Games](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/labarberas-ex-g/): We reported earlier that Peter LaBarbera was to be in town to “counter the upcoming Gay Games events in Chicago with a ‘Truth and Love...
- [Articles Unpublished](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/articles-unpubl/): I’ve unpublished three recent articles: 1. My item on the Taiwan hospital and parents that incarcerated a gay youth for 56 days on false claims...
- [New England Says “NO” to Anti-Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/new-england-say/): Marriage equality has been legal now in the State of Massachusetts for over two years. In Vermont, civil unions have been open to gay couples...
- [Leaving Ex-Gay Efforts Turned Latvian Priest Christian](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/leaving-ex-gay/): In an ironic twist, a priest in Latvia tells of his efforts to become ex-gay and how after they failed he found acceptance from God....
- [LeVay Exposes Evergreen’s Deception](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/levay-exposes-e/): On July 8, David Clarke Pruden, the executive director of Evergreen International, an ex-gay group for Mormons, wrote an opinion piece in the Salt Lake...
- [NARTH Enters the Blogosphere](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/narth-enters-th/): Yes, NARTH has entered the blogosphere. Alas, there’s still a long way to go before they truly enter the 21st century.
- [Numerous Inaccuracies in Focus’ Attack on Transgendered Child](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/numerous-inaccu/): When Focus goes after transgender issues it’s both sad and comical how little they appear to know. This time they’re all worked up about a...
- [Dan’s Over LA](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/dans-over-la/): I’m currently exploring my options for moving to a gay-friendly city with more affordable housing than exists in southern California. Cities must have at least...
- [Ex-Gays At the Gay Games](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/ex-gays-at-the/): Athletes from around the globe are converging on Chicago for Gay Games VII. But they will not be alone. Also in attendance will be ex-gays...
- [Do You Moo?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/do-you-moo/): Borndifferent.org is seeking to let Colorado Springs meet Norman, a dog that says “Moo”. It’s part of an effort to encourage discussion about the biological...
- [Unrealized Expectations](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/unrealized-expe/): People Can Change, a seminar series that purports to help people reorient, has polled participants on their website. Although only a small percentage took the...
- [Dan’s Roommate From the Nicolosi Years](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/dans-roommate-f/): As I detail in my bio I saw Joe Nicolosi for exgay therapy during my freshman and sophomore years of college. Both years I had...
- [Lowest Divorce Rates in States Favorable to Gay Partnerships](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/lowest-divorce/): Christian Right Wrong On Gay Marriage in Massachusetts:Mass Likely To Retain Lowest Divorce Rate Spot In 2005,States Hostile to Gay Marriage Lag by Bruce WIlson,...
- [Christians Should Not Wish for a Theocracy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/christians-shou/): There is an excellent article in the most recent issue of Christianity Today entitled “The Lure of Theocracy.”  It is a great illustration of why...
- [Exodus’ Home County Blocks Antigay Discrimination in Housing](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exodus-home-cou/): (Most of the Orlando Sentinel articles linked in this post are behind a paywall.) While Exodus 2005 keynote speaker Jerry Falwell claims to support equal...
- [Exgay Mormon Leader Twists Science to Accuse Others Of… Twisting Science](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exgay-mormon-le/): Writing in the Salt Lake Tribune, Mormon exgay activist David Clarke Pruden — head of Evergreen International — misrepresents gay activist claims about scientific research...
- [PFOX President Lashes Out At Critic of Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/pfox-president-2/): From Wayne Besen: Today, disgraced “counselor” Richard Cohen has once again gone off the deep end with insane attacks against me. My crime – informing...
- [Salon.com Reviews ‘Straight to Jesus’ About Exgay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/saloncom-review/): Read Gay, godly and guilty, written by Laura Miller for Salon.com. Miller interviews Tanya Erzen, author of the new book Straight to Jesus. Then read...
- [It’s Hard to Hate a Clown](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/its-hard-to-hat/): Gay Pride in Kansas City was invaded by an anti-gay clown. And this one was dressed up in clown make-up. It was a busy busy...
- [Open Forum: Eerie Look Into the Past Reveals That Some Lies Haven’t Changed](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/open-forum-eeri/): While browsing the blog Two World Collision, I found the following video clip from the 1950’s.  It was apparently produced as a joint project between...
- [‘We Are Thinking’: Exgay PAC Seeks to Splinter Civil-Rights Movements](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/we-are-thinking/): Updated to reflect the location of WeAreThinking PAC. There has never been just one civil rights movement; there have been numerous movements: for Jews and...
- [Barry Goldwater, 1981: Resisting the Arrogant Power of the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/barry-goldwater/): 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...
- [From Focus on the Family: Yours Free for a Required Donation?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/from-focus-on-t/): Apparently too many people have been requesting antihomosexual and exgay resources from Focus on the Family while offering less than the organization’s “suggested donation.” So...
- [Dobson Invites Ann Coulter to Rally His ‘Values Voters’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/dobson-invites/): Karl Rove called him “nuts.” Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey called him a threat to religious liberty. And evangelical voters and Baptist leaders...
- [Open Forum: Your Favorite Exgay Blogs](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/open-forum-your/): Tell us about exgay blogs that dare to think outside the box of the political religious right.
- [Open Forum: Name Your Favorite Exgay Or Former-Exgay Music, Books And Movies](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/open-forum-name/): What should Ex-Gay Watch review or advertise in the future?
- [Exodus Lobbyist: Fairness in Journalism for Me, Maybe Not for Thee](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-lobbyist-2/): 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...
- [Former Exgay Educates Illinoisans About Sexual, Spiritual Struggle](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/former-exgay-ed/): From the Daily Egyptian, the student newspaper at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale: You can’t make fish fly, but you can chuck them across the...
- [Ex-gay Lobbyist Thomas Claims Gays Mortified At Gay Activism](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/ex-gay-lobbyist/): 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...
- [Exodus Board Member Undermines Ohio Domestic-Violence Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-board-me-4/): 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...
- [Did Alan Chambers Follow His Book’s Advice to ‘Stand Up for Gay People’ After Liberty Sunday Profanities?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/did-alan-chambe/): “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...
- [Transglobal Ethnic Profiling At Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/transglobal-eth/): 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...
- [Academics Refute FRC’s Pedophile-Pandering](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/academics-refut/): Tony Perkins, leader of the Family Research Council, is a former Louisiana lawmaker with fundraising ties to the KKK dating to 1996 and political ties...
- [Speaker Uses FRC Podium to Voice Bigoted Rape Fantasies](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/speaker-uses-fr/): Last weekend at a Family Research Council event — a gathering of politicians and religious power-seekers that was misnamed “Liberty Sunday” — Bishop Wellington Boone...
- [Dobson’s Quest for Power](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/dobsons-quest-f/): 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...
- [Dick Armey: James Dobson Is Imperiling Religious Freedom](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/dick-armey-jame/): Commentaries on Dick Armey’s Oct. 12 statement against Focus on the Family are available from: Andrew Sullivan Jesus Politics via Will Hinton Malcontent Andrew Sullivan...
- [Religious-Right Correctness: An Effort to Rebuild Tower of Babel?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/religious-right-13/): From Dwight at A Religious Liberal Blog: This was a quote I gleamed off of Fr Jake’s site. It identifies a problem with the drive...
- [Thoughts on “God’s Grace And the Homosexual Next Door”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/thoughts-on-god/): “God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door” is a new book written by several senior leaders at Exodus International. On page 69: “Some Christians believe...
- [‘Identities’ That Are ‘Contrary to Christ’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/identities-that/): Exodus President Alan Chambers and staffer Mike Goeke pass judgment against “identities” that are “contrary to Christ.” They also slap Roman Catholics in the face...
- [NARTH Introduces Reprint/Synopsis Series Because…?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/narth-introduce/): The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) has announced that it is going to begin a reprint and synopsis series. Included in...
- [LA Times Picks Up On NARTH’s Berger & Schoenewolf Statements](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/la-times-picks/): “Its statements routinely outrage gay-rights activists. But two commentaries posted online in recent months by members of NARTH’s scientific advisory committee have raised concerns among...
- [UK: Anti-Gay “Pure” University Course](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/uk-anti-gay-pur/): The Times Online and PinkNews are reporting that UK students nationwide have joined an online protest (on Facebook) against a campus based Christian course —...
- [Civil Rights Movement: Political Correctness Or Moral Decency?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/civil-rights-mo/): Sexual Identity Therapist Dr. Warren Throckmorton, who recently pulled out of the NARTH conference program over their handling of Dr. Gerald Schoenewolf’s justification of slavery,...
- [New Book By Exodus Leadership Calls ‘Celibate Gay Life’ A Sin](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/new-book-by-exo/): Pro-exgay blogger Disputed Mutability calls the Exodus leaders’ new book, God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door, “profoundly alienating.” DM is especially dismayed at Exodus...
- [Wayne Besen Speaking in Long Beach](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/wayne-besen-spe/): Wayne Besen will be speaking at Glory Tabernacle Christian Center in Long Beach, Calif., this Saturday, Oct. 14, at 11 a.m.
- [If You Own a Blog Or Personal Web Site…](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/if-you-own-a-bl/): If you write a blog or own a personal web site, and you’d like to track XGW’s latest headlines, please feel free to add the...
- [NARTH & Dr. Schoenewolf Respond to Southern Poverty Law Center](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/narth-dr-schoen/): Last week, the Southern Policy Law Center posted an article about the controversial paper (pdf) written by Dr. Gerald Schoenewolf, a member of the NARTH...
- [The Politicized Vs. The Personal](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/the-politicized/): From Focus on the Family’s ‘Love Won Out’ Conference Comes to Woodstock; Message That ‘Change is Possible'” to Be Shared in Georgia on Nov. 4:...
- [Exodus’ Healing Message to Homosexuals: You Don’t Exist](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-healing/): Pure Passion is a new weekly television series endorsed and promoted by Exodus International and co-hosted by Exodus President Alan Chambers. David Kyle Foster produced...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers Tells NPR Most Gays Aren’t Interested in Anti-Discrimination Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-presiden-6/): Chambers made that bizarre statement on NPR’s Fresh Air this morning (alternate link 1 / alternate link 2). I created the following video to document...
- [The Qualifications to Advise NARTH: Burtoft](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/the-qualificati-2/): NARTH presents itself as a secular organization whose “primary goal is to make effective psychological therapy available to all homosexual men and women who seek...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Author Responds to “I Hate Being Gay” Article in the Advocate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/ex-gay-watch-au/): On September 15, a young man named Kyle Rice wrote a “first person” article in the Advocate titled I Hate Being Gay. Kyle described how...
- [Scouting For All Rally in San Diego](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/scouting-for-al/): NARTH, PFOX, the CWA — these folk all find the Boy Scouts among their issues. Well, the San Diego chapter of Scouting For All held...
- [Video Clip: My Exodus From Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/video-clip-my-e/): Created by Dan Rickard, this appears to be a sincere and heartfelt presentation of one young man’s experience with anti-gay shame imposed by both family...
- [Wayne Besen Hospitalized](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/wayne-besen-hos/): Clearly displeased with his work,Earlier this week God struckWayne Besen suffered with a stomach ailment that briefly hospitalized him. XGW invites readers, who are so...
- [Holy Potpourri, Batman!  Dobson Decries Any Evangelical-Foley Link](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/holy-potpourri/): I don’t know what disingenuous smells like, but I’m guessing disingenuous smells something quite the opposite of potpourri. From Dr. Dobson Responds to Liberal Attacks...
- [Southern Poverty Law Center Weighs in on NARTH’s Schoenewolf Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/southern-povert/): Yesterday (Oct. 6) the Southern Poverty Law Center weighed in on the NARTH Schoenewolf controversy with an Intelligence Report article “Ex-gay” psychologist claims Africans “better...
- [Former Exgay to Appear on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/former-exgay-to/): Former exgay Shawn O’Donnell will be interviewed by Terry Gross of National Public Radio’s Fresh Air program on Monday, October 9. Visit www.freshair.com to find...
- [Exgay Stephen Bennett Appeals for Foley Media Attention](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exgay-stephen-b-2/): Stephen Bennett of Stephen Bennett Ministries is available for comment on the Foley scandal. From the “Foley, Molestation and Homosexuality — Expert Available for Comment”...
- [Men Can Stop Rape: Masculinities in Media](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/men-can-stop-ra/): Nine years ago, I co-founded the Men’s Rape Prevention Project (archive link), the predecessor organization to Men Can Stop Rape. MCSR assists high schools and...
- [Question for Readers: What’s the Name, Location of Foley’s Rehab Center](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/question-for-re/): We’d like to know. If you know, please tell us via e-mail — and include the source of your information.
- [Exodus Reacts to Foley Teen Sex-Messaging Scandal](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-reacts-t-2/): On Sept. 29, Exodus’ resident lobbyist Randy Thomas employed admirable restraint in his personal blog by offering a politically neutral focus on the charges against...
- [A Look At the Science: Are Homosexual Men More Or Less Likely to Molest?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/a-look-at-the-s/): In former Rep. Mark Foley of Florida, the underwriters political partners of the exgay movement see both a threat to their growing influence in Congress,...
- [Peter LaBarbera: There Is a Higher Element of This…the Word Is Pederasty…](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/peter-labarbera-3/): I loathe the idea of commenting on the Foley scandal here in the XGW; however; Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth commented on the scandal,...
- [NARTH’s Changing Disclaimer: The Buck Doesn’t Even Pause Here](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/narths-changing/): During the past few weeks, NARTH has made quiet changes to their disclaimer concerning the views voiced on their blog. This includes the blog administrators...
- [Resignations Mark Disbelief Over NARTH’s Lack of Accountability](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/resignations-ma/): Source: wthrockmorton.blogspot.com Late this afternoon, Dr. Warren Throckmorton wrote in his blog: Call me crazy but I have decided not to present the Sexual Identity...
- [July’s ‘City of Sodom’ Pride Event Still a Fresh James Hartline Topic](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/julys-city-of-s/): Maybe it’s because I still live in San Diego/Sodom that I care about all things James Hartline — my city’s perennial ex-gay activist. Here it’s...
- [“The Heterosexual Agenda” - What the Sex Studies Used Against Gays Say About Straights](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/the-heterosexua-2/): Friend of Exgaywatch Jim Burroway describes it this way: I’ve spent the better part of the past year or more looking at how the far...
- [Exodus Member Ministry in Wisconsin Enters Marriage Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-member-m/): Someone who appears to be an ex-gay wrote an editorial in the Oshkosh Northwestern in favor of the Wisconsin marriage amendment: …many people with homosexual...
- [“Allow Myself to Introduce… Myself!”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/allow-myself-to/): To quote Austin Powers…”Allow myself to introduce… myself!”
- [TVC: “Will Cross-Dressing Activists Come To Your School?”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/tvc-will-cross/): The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) released a press release and report on September 26th entitled Will Cross-Dressing Activists Come To Your School?. (Off-TVC Link to...
- [Open Forum: Project Runway’s Exgay Success Story](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/open-forum-proj-2/): It’s Nazri. How so? Whether she’s wearing salt ‘n’ pepper or a tie dye, Nazri is sexy enough to turn a gay man straight. Uh...
- [Author Tanya Erzen on Public Radio](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/author-tanya-er/): Tanya Erzen, author of “Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement” was recently on Orange County’s NPR affiliate KPCC discussing her...
- [Sex, Lies, And Oprah](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/sex-lies-and-op/): Peter LaBarbera’s anti-gay group, Americans For Truth, delighted in today’s Oprah show. He posted this article: Oprah Exposes NAMBLA: Homosexual Pedophiles Online …Mr. Eisenwald [sic]...
- [NARTH & Focus on the Family Cooperate on DVD Presentation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/narth-focus-on/): Focus on the Family’s Mike Haley and National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality founder and president Joseph Nicolosi have participated in the making...
- [Schoenewolf Defended By NARTH’s Blog Administrator on NARTH’s Blog Site (UPDATED)](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/schoenewolf-def/): The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is not pleased that they are being perceived as an organization that endorses slavery and...
- [Gay Brothers Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/gay-brothers-st/): There is an article today in the Chicago Sun-Times that profiles an effort by Researchers from the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute, Northwestern University, University...
- [A Satirical Seven-Point Plan to Protect GAY YOUTH Against OPPRESSION](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/a-satirical-sev/): In response to Linda Harvey’s “A Seven-Point Plan to Protect Christian Youth Against Homosexuality,” I present this satire. But first, I just want to remind...
- [Linda Harvey: Hatred Or Fear?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/linda-harvey-ha/): Recent discussions on this site and others have revolved around whether Christians who are parents, pastors, grandparents or friends of gay people and that attend...
- [Added to the Blogroll](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/added-to-the-bl/): Some of these have been on the blogroll before, and I have no idea how they got dropped. Anyhow, here goes: Newly Noted Accidental Christian...
- [German Fashion Magazine to Exgay Movement: “You’re In”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/german-fashion/): Exgay movement leader Alan Chambers and former exgay Peterson Toscano are both featured in the October 2006 issue of Maxi, a German women’s fashion magazine....
- [The Difference Between Me And Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/the-difference/): While summarizing more than two-dozen recent news stories involving mostly antigay and exgay activists on Sept. 22, QueerlyKos (TerranceDC) observed: When I weigh in one...
- [Send Us Ideas for Response to Upcoming LWO Atlanta](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/send-us-ideas-f/): It looks like I might be collaborating with various Atlanta based organizations in planning a response to the Love Won Out there on November 4th....
- [Love Breaks Out (UPDATED)](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/love-breaks-out/): From an article in the Desert Sun, it seems that a minister in Palm Springs is planning a conference called Love Breaks Out. I don’t...
- [Yo! That Definition’s Wicked Clear](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/yo-that-definit/): The ex-gay movement’s favorite verses of the Bible are 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of...
- [Open Forum: ‘The Big Voice: God Or Ethel Merman?’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/open-forum-the-3/): A New England theater describes The Big Voice, an award-winning musical, like this:
- [Blogging Exgays: A Snapshot of the Blogosphere](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/blogging-exgays/): How do you challenge ‘Satan’? Good As You, September 25 Focus on the Family accused of breaking IRS laws MLM Liberal, September 25 (reprint from...
- [Sweden: Publicity for Former Exgay Is Good — But Inaccurate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/sweden-publicit/): Performance artist Peterson Toscano, a former exgay from the Love In Action program in Memphis, recently performed “Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway...
- [NARTH Disavows Its Own Web Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/narth-dis