Showing posts with label ex-gay movement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ex-gay movement. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

"We've Got to Get Past the Fact That Sexual Orientation Is a Reason to Discriminate": Video Resources

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I continue working on the writing project I've been commissioned to write about Garrard Conley's painful, beautiful memoir Boy Er...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Michael Coren's Epiphany and Garrard Conley's Boy Erased: "America Remains a Place Where Queer People Have to Fight for Their Lives" — Implications for 2016 Elections

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I'm now reading Michael Coren's book Epiphany: A Christian’s Change of Heart and Mind Over Same-Sex Marriage (Toronto: Signal,...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Historical Footnote to Orlando Discussions: 19 June 2013, World's Largest "Ex-Gay" Organization Exodus International Announces It's Shutting Down

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Jim Burroway reminds us that yesterday in 2013, the world's largest "ex-gay" organization, Exodus International, announ...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Garrard Conley's Boy Erased: Template for Understanding Religion-Based Homophobia and Its Assault on Queer Humanity

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I mentioned a few days back that I was reading Garrard Conley's book, Boy Erased (NY: Riverhead, 2016) , which recounts his expe...
Friday, May 20, 2016

David Gibson and Tom Heneghan Publish Religion News Service Report about Father Tony Anatrella: "Scandal That Could Have Repercussions All the Way to the Vatican"

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An update as the week ends, on the story of Father Tony Anatrella, about which I've been keeping you posted  (and here ) as it...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Talk About Ex-Gay Conversion Therapy Not Working: Update on John Smid Story

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I've blogged about John Smid and his remarkable story a few times in the past — here  and here . As these postings note, Smid pre...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Ex-Gay Activist Peterson Toscano Launches New Blog: Combining Climate Change Activism with Queer Activism

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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Churches and Gays: Stephen Fry on Ex-Gay Therapy, Becca Morn on Exporting of Anti-Gay Hatred, Rowan Williams on Appalling Anti-Gay Violence of Many Christians

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It's worth watching Stephen Fry's stylish, humane look at ex-gay therapy * for his observation (at about the 8.24 mark) that Jos...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Faithful America Petition: "Tell Roman Catholic Cardinal: Don't Offer Your Blessing to Ex-Gay Therapy"

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On Thursday, I blogged about the decision of Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, the past president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Cardinal Francis George to Celebrate Mass at Courage Conference Featuring NARTH Speakers

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Maureen Fiedler reports  at National Catholic Reporter  this morning that the past president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bisho...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Exodus International's Big Announcement (and Apology): A Selection of Valuable Responses

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Exodus International Shuts Doors: We've Been "Imprisoned in a Worldview That’s Neither Honoring Toward Our Fellow Human Beings, Nor Biblical"

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Big news in the world of "ex-gay" therapy: the leading organization in the U.S. that has long dangled false hopes of curing...
Friday, December 14, 2012

In Religion News: Scalia Father, Scalia Son, Uganda and Stone-Cold Silence of U.S. Catholic Bishops

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On Wednesday, I noted that Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia's son Father Paul Scalia has served as a chaplain for the Cath...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Leopards and Spots, Silk Purses and Sows' Ears: Exodus International and Reality as Reality

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And speaking of media-hyped, market-driven re-branding (as Valerie Tarico does in her take on the Southern Baptist Convention's ...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Dr. Robert Spitzer's Significant Apology to the Gay Community

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This is a very important story for a number of reasons: as Benedict Carey notes in today's New York Times , in 2003, Dr. Robert ...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

In the News: Marcus Bachmann and Ex-Gay Therapy, Phelps and Westboro Baptist, God and GOP

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More end-of-week religion and politics news: 
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Wayne Besen on John Smid's Admissions: "Ex-Gay" Therapy Employs Cult-Like Mind Control

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Because Wayne Besen's commentary about John Smid and his recent admission that "ex-gay" conversion therapy hasn't wor...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Prominent "Ex-Gay" Leader Tells Truth about Conversion Therapy: Doesn't Work, Perverts the Gospel

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There's an important story breaking right now regarding how churches--and, in particular, the conservative wing of evangelical chur...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

New Documentary Focuses on Ex-Gay Ministry Love in Action

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I don't know if any readers of this blog followed the case of Zach Stark back in 2005, when his parents sent him to the ex-gay Love in...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Who's the Barbarian? A Reflection on "Christian" "Ex-Gay" "Therapy"

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Though he tried to deny it once he'd been exposed, Michelle Bachmann's therapist husband Marcus Bachmann has called gays (includin...