Good As You: Ex-Gays Roundup
11/16/2009
70+ years of treating us like lab rats
In light of this week's National Association For Research and Therapy of Homosexuality convention, we thought we'd take a look back at some of the laughably antiquated yet still-frighteningly-relatable ways that people have tried to "cure" us throughout history. Here...
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Audio: NARTH gears up for annual convention; Scientists prepare to smack heads in frustration
NARTH is a sham organization that engages in faith-based lies in order to reach a preconceived outcome. Focus on the Family is its enabler: If you care to go to the convention, you should know that the cost is very...
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11/01/2009
Maine's Question One: War on gay existences not limited to ring fingers!
Just a reminder, because it can't be said enough: Maine's Pastor Bob Emrich supports "ex-gay" therapy. The same Bob Emrich who was just today cited by Bangor Daily News as the "leader of the Yes on 1 campaign to overturn...
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10/21/2009
Audio: The law, science, and now HIV. At this point we don't even trust that her name's Regina Griggs
We've already told you how the recent legal "win" that the PFOX organization has been crowing about for the past few months is anything but. Our pal Timothy Kincaid wrote a great assessment of it for Box Turtle Bulletin: And,...
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10/06/2009
Video: Stand for ['ex-gay' therapy] Maine?
*Pastor Emrich's YouTube Channel *This video on YouTube: Stand For Marriage Maine's Bob Emrich supports 'ex-gay' therapy [YT]
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09/21/2009
Photo: It's ain't a conservative party till the 'ex-gays' show
Talking Points Memo has a gallery of photos from this year's Values Voters Summit. Here's but one: We hear the exhibitor was hoping that through hope and prayer, he could "change" his Blackberry into an iPhone. Science (and Apple's proprietary...
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09/10/2009
Shame-sex disparage
Shame: The background music for many gay discos: Shame: The background of gayness in general? So says professional "ex-gay" advocate and credible science-shunner Joe Nicolosi: You can call it "shame" all you want, Dr. N. This writer will continue to...
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09/08/2009
Video: 'Science is now catching up with the Bible'
You tell Learn2Discern: Science Catches Up With the Bible [YT] Okay, let's break this down: -The study with a supposed 53% success rate is not really some new research. It's a continuation of the research of Mark Yarhouse and Stanton...
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08/27/2009
Mama says 'change', daughter says 'smile for the camera'
Baptist News is running a piece penned by Judy Williams, a professional "ex-gay" advocate who, along with her husband, has founded Mississippi's In His Time ministry. In said piece, Judy never actually identifies the love one to whom she is...
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08/14/2009
'Report is flawed,' says group who report reported to be flawed
Wow, shocker: The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), a group whose sole professional purpose is to foster the "ex-gay" fallacy, is attempting to refute a credibly scientific report that essentially invalidates their organized existence: "NARTH appreciates...
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08/11/2009
Video: 'Love Won' may be out, but nonsense is still woefully in
Focus on the Family may be cutting its Love Won Out program loose, but don't you dare think they're gonna cut out their "gays can change" activism anytime soon. In fact they've just put forth a new video in which...
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FOF loses ex-gay 'Love'!
It's just been announced that Focus on the Family is cutting its "ex-gay" Love Won Out conferences out of the fam, sending the "gays can change" dog and pony shows to instead live with their Florida-based cousins at Exodus International!...
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This writer hasn't had sex since last night. Look, I've 'changed'!
When it comes to spinning, the "ex-gay" world makes tops stop enjoying bottoms green with envy! Like check out this latest "study," wherein the researchers and their allies at Baptist Press try to make it sound as if their numbers...
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08/06/2009
Don't impose on us, says group who calls homosexuality dangerous to America's national health
While the new APA report on "ex-gay" efforts absolutely encourages respect for people of faith and for conservative faith views in general, it's bottom, inarguable line is that (a) faith is not science, and (b) the science surrounding "gay change"...
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08/05/2009
They overlooked you, Joe? Or is it that they too fully looked you over with a fair microscope?
Predictably, the far-right "ex-gay" advocates are decrying the new American Psychological Association (APA) research that essentially poo poos every last ounce of their "gay-changing" work. Perhaps the most prominent face of so-called "reparative therapy, Joseph Nicolosi, tells Focus on the...
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Thanks, credible science
TORONTO—The American Psychological Association adopted a resolution Wednesday stating that mental health professionals should avoid telling clients that they can change their sexual orientation through therapy or other treatments. The "Resolution on Appropriate Affirmative Responses to Sexual Orientation Distress and...
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08/03/2009
Audio: Subjectively, we find 'ex-gay' odd; Objectively, we find 'ex-gay' otherwordly
-While fun, benign, charming homecoming events wherein students dress up in various ways have been regualr parts of high school life for years and years, the ones where students dress up like members of the opposite sex are now somehow...
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07/30/2009
Convenient claims for a CON-niving movement
1. Gays are molested by older people. A claim that's too offensive to even dignify. Of all the far-right's claims about us, it is perhaps the most unhinged. And while it is meant to demonize LGBT people, it is a...
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Photo: Truth in advertising
God love the internet: 15 Billboards That Don’t Belong Next To Each Other [Buzzfeed]
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07/24/2009
'The truth is, I am in denial, but it is self-denial.'
In what might be his most revelatory interview yet, professional "ex-gay" Alan Chambers is essentially conveying what we all know: That his and many others' "change" is little to nothing more than re-closeting for the sake of pleasing one certain,...
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07/22/2009
'Ex' communication: PF and 'Odus decide to just be casual friends
Warren Throckmorton, ExGay Watch, and others are reporting that the "ex-gay" advocates at Exodus International are breaking all ties with the ever-fringe PFOX group. This from Throckmorton's blog: Within the last couple of weeks, PFOX gave up affiliation with Exodus....
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07/20/2009
Hate crimes law and the religious right: Has anyone lied more about anything ever?
In a new One News Now piece, professional "ex-gay" Greg Quinlan says the following: "Every time now that I tell my testimony, talk about that change is possible, quote the science from the American Psychiatric Association, from the Human Genome...
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07/17/2009
We too are in this game to protect children
One thing that's so frustrating about the far-right's anti-gay activism is how they have set up their own stable of researchers, news sources, groups, advocacy organizations, and talking points, so that they can avoid actual information from actual LGBT people...
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07/16/2009
Stop drinking. Get help for traumas. Heck, stop having gay sex. But stop linking these disconnected elements!
If there was even ONE self-declared "ex-gay" who didn't marry their supposed "change" out of homosexuality with their concurrent move away from things like drug abuse, past traumas, promiscuity, and clubbing, then that movement wouldn't come across quite as misguidedly....
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07/13/2009
If rejecting 'ex-gay' therapy is pro-gay activism, then no wonder Pinnocchio never comes to our rallies
You know how we've been telling you about the recent National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) study that their pals at Focus on the Family have been trying to pass off as a "peer-reviewed" "study," even though...
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07/09/2009
Video: If credibility began and ended at FOF's front door, then vids like this might help
Even more Focus on the Family staffers, one of them a professional "ex-gay," are desperately trying to make NARTH sound like an objective, respected voice of science, and their new fallacious "report" sound like something worth more than the paper...
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07/06/2009
Video: WOW, shocker -- professional 'ex-gay' advocates support professional 'ex-gay' advocacy!
What do you do if you support a scientifically-obliterated concept, with a goal to mold actuality so that it fits your purview (instead of the other way around)? Well if you're Focus on the Family, you rely on "studies" commissioned...
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07/01/2009
They see a 'way out'; we see the music and the mirror
This is the image that greets folks when they stumble upon the Southern Baptist Convention's "The Way Out" pro-"ex-gay" site: SBCTheWayOut.com Our one and only thought upon seeing it? God we hope he gets it. We hope he gets it:...
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06/08/2009
You're gay, son? But what about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?
Want yet another example of "pro-family" self-absorption? Well check out the following snippet from a new Focus on the Family interview. The refeernced speaker is Anita Worthen, who co-founded New Hope Ministries with her "ex-gay" husband Frank: Q.. Anita, tell...
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06/01/2009
Hey Maine: Do you really want to lend your name to gay 'conversion'?
The Bangor Daily News is reporting that the campaign to roll back marriage equality in Maine has begun in earnest: The Rev. Bob Emrich, a spokesman for a coalition of groups that support traditional marriage, traveled the state last week...
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05/15/2009
Heterosexuality? Absolutely protected! 'Ex-gay'ness as a separate class? Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever!
Professional gay-"changing" advocate Regina Griggs is still working the ridiculous idea that the social construct known as "ex-gay" will be punished if LGBTS-inclusive hate crimes legislation becomes law: The ex-gay community will be under fire. We are under fire now,"...
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05/13/2009
Another day, another group (quietly) admitting a lie
Yesterday it was the Illinois Family Institute. Now America's most prominent "ex-gay" group, Exodus International, has given up the charade that there are "30+ sexual orientations"! Up until this week, whenever someone moused over the word "orientation" on Exodus' site,...
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But what about grasping at straws, WND -- is that genetic or a 'choice'?
A little over a year ago, we were surprised to see professional "ex-gay" Randy Thomas spinning the text of an updated American Psychological Association brochure, making it sound as if the organization's new text about their being no conclusive consensus...
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05/07/2009
Greg, no on 'hates' you. We detest anti-scientific anti-truths!
Last year, we caught professional "ex-gay" Greg Quinlan misrepresenting a quote from noted geneticist Dr. Francis Collins, which then set off a whole chain of nutty in which he labeled the ExGayWatch site a "hate group," repeatedly denied to acknowledge...
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05/01/2009
Love Won Out? Try 'Love' Your Gay One Right Out The Door!
We've know for a long time that Focus on the Family's Love Won Out "ex-gay" program specifically targets parents. But check out the following ad, which is running in the latest issue of Focus on the Family's Citizen magazine. It's...
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04/20/2009
They can't even make the date truthful?!
We've noticed that attention to the so-called Day of Truth, the "ex-gay" promoting event that the anti-gay community is throwing today as an attempt to counter Friday's pro-gay Day Of Silence, has been very quiet this year. Yet despite that...
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04/14/2009
'True tolerance', except for both the true and tolerant part
Focus on the Family has launched a new website wherein they seek to embolden the idea that "true tolerance" accommodates brute intolerance of LGBT people. Partnering with rabid anti-gay outfits like the Alliance Defense Fund and the "ex-gay"-advocating Exodus International,...
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04/06/2009
Video: And if I'm wrong, then it's only innocent gay lives I've destroyed
Our political opponents constantly accuse of us "indoctrination" because we have the nerve to suggest that we are decent human beings who deserve a fair shake. But of course on gay issues, there's no proselytizing more blatant than that which...
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03/23/2009
Video: The pain is not from homosexuality. The pain is from h'sexuality in an anti-gay world.
Sometimes "ex-gay" videos are so wacky they make us double over with laughter (::cough:: Richard Cohen :::cough:: beat a pillow). Other times, the combination of swallowed teachings and obvious personal pain creates a sullen product that makes us nothing short...
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03/12/2009
Sodomy vs. jointly sodding your shared yard
Think it's only the sex part of homosexuality that earns the ire of professional "ex-gay" Alan Chambers? Well guess again. In a new column for Charisma magazine, the Exodus International prez reveals his belief that the mere act of cohabitating...
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03/11/2009
Taking 'ex-passivity' action
Open letter to the Exodus International Board of Directors: We, the undersigned organizations, have monitored the ex-gay industry for more than a decade. To our great horror, prominent members of the ex-gay organization Exodus International participated last week in a...
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03/04/2009
Oh yea -- it's really teh gays who want 'special' rights
In my younger days, yours truly dated women. Got intimate with them, even. Sorry to disappoint you all, but it's totally true. What can I say? I was young and silly. A silliness that led me to make some unnatural...
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02/27/2009
Video: Ro, Ro, Ro your duplicitous boat
Okay, so the following CPAC video shows professional "ex-gay" Doug McIntyre standing in front of PFOX signage, passsing off all the usual "you're not born gay" talking points. Big yawner. But here's what we want you to do. Turn up...
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02/26/2009
No J-Lo this spring concert season. But you can see Ri-Co!
Fleetwood Mac is on a tour this spring, bringing Rumours back to a national stage. The Eagles will also be hauling their "Lyin' Eyes" to the American public. And of course Miss Britney has a "Toxic" tune that she'd like...
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02/23/2009
Video: Where there's a will to 'cure' gayness, there's a Wayne
TWO Counters Love Won Out in Charlotte, NC [TWO] **SEE ALSO: ‘Ex-Gay & The Law’ Released by Truth Wins Out and Lambda Legal [TWO]
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02/20/2009
Video: In which another person stops having gay sex then publicizes/politicizes the decision
Larrell, her "ex-homosexual" tee shirt, and her affirmations (Mmm. Mmm Hmm. Right. Amen.) are back with another supposedly saved soul. But if you ask us, this case is a little weak even for the spurious "ex-gay" movement: So she had...
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02/19/2009
Video: Same ol' script
Here we go -- another "abuse made me a lesbian" story from the Christian right: It's just too bad it wasn't Leviticus 11:9-12 that Ms. Burton heard on the radio that day. Then, rather than condemning his life and love,...
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02/18/2009
Love Won Out ad: Man who says he no longer wants to lay a man is himself no layman
If an organization runs an ad that promotes "gay change," shouldn't that organization reveal if the "changed" gay featured in the ad is actually on their payroll? We certainly think so. However, the "ex-gay" community routinely puts their own staffers...
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02/17/2009
Bakkes, back to back
Jeanette Bakke penned a piece for the anti-gay/pro-"ex-gay" PFOX organization. Daughter Christine Bakke, an "ex-gay' survivor, penned a rebuttal on her personal blog. We now bring both in for a side-by-side comparison. Jeanette's on the left, Christine's on the right...
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01/27/2009
Video: Comically oversized magnets, comically undercooked views
Yesterday, professional "ex-gay" activist Richard "beat a pillow with a tennis racket" Cohen made some bloggy waves when he lashed out against the Lifetime TV movie Prayers For Bobby. Now in this, a clip from the upcoming documentary Chasing the...
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