Good As You: Ex-Gays Roundup
08/31/2010
Brian's changed: National Organization For Marriage prez dabbled in 'ex-gay' lifestyle
Nowadays, National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown is way too politically savvy to encourage gays into scientifically discredited "ex-gay" change. But that wasn't always the case. Back when Brian was heading up the Family Institute of Connecticut and the...
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07/19/2010
Video: A tale that will swallow JONAH?
Breaking News: Major ‘Ex-Gay’ Life Coach Accused of Sexual Misconduct By Former Clients [Truth Wins Out]
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07/16/2010
Video: And now another installment of the 'ex-gay with pained background' saga
Once again, "The 700 Club" and a professional "ex-gay" are misdirecting the pain of a difficult childhood, the regrets of poor adult choices, and cosmetic choices like "unfeminine" sweat pants and turning those into a repudiation of one certain sexual...
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07/09/2010
You seriously have to wonder if Regina Griggs is arguing with a mirror
"It seems that Anne Murray is fond of over-the-top costumes," says pop star Lady Gaga. "It seems that my local nun is obsessed with money," says magnate Donald Trump. "It seems that Bugs Bunny has been drinking a little too...
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06/30/2010
Video: No concrete biological realities were harmed in the making of this video
The "ex-gays" recently held their annual "ex-gay" convention thingie. So naturally some of them would wanna give a "hey, girl!" to the camera: [Exodus Blog] We could say they all made love to the camera. But we won't, since we...
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06/08/2010
Video: What, because accepting gays = walking into traffic?
If ever there were a time for someone to yell "Get over yourselves!" it was during this filming: 2010 Exodus Freedom Conference Promo from Exodus International on Vimeo. Oh please. The natural world has plenty of room for Jay Walker...
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05/20/2010
Flashback Thursday: A peeing fox takes squat
1996, on the day before National Coming Out Day. The Family Research Council gives the world PFOX (Parents and Friends of 'Ex-Gays'): (*Special note: At 40:26, George Rekers is cited as "a leading researcher") *** **SEE ALSO: Truth Wins Out's...
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05/19/2010
Audio: Guided by CON-science
No, this is *not* what credible science says. At all: (click to play audio clip) Get your head out of the clouds, Janice! And no, clouds are not those things that science says are made outta marshmallow fluff.
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Greg Quinlan's anti-PFLAG 'hate' meme: Ex-appropriate
It's one thing if professional "former homosexual" Greg Quinlan wants to foster his scientifically-discredited, widely-rejected "ex-gay" ideas. But if he's going to keep painting the widely-revered PFLAG (Parents and Families, Friends of Lesbians and Gays) as a "hate group," then...
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05/12/2010
Video: ...if not for decency's sake, then at least for access to choreographers!
Oh. My. Creepy: CPM Video from Stonegate Fellowship on Vimeo. Quick, someone say "unfreeze" so that these grown adults can stop this silly game and start dramatically addressing actual issues! Or at the very least, put on an intentionally entertaining...
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05/04/2010
Forget the fox we have in this hunt -- PFOX's constant half-truths & misreps are reason enough to rescind D.C. honor
On multiple occasions, we've told you about a supposed DC court "win" that PFOX (Parents and Friends of 'Ex-gays') likes to claim. Essentially what happened: A Superior Court last year found that "ex-gay" people cannot be discriminated against, in general,...
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04/27/2010
Video: Repair shop founder condemns vehicle he helped jack up
Exodus Co-Founder: I Never Saw One Of Our Members Become Heterosexual [Box Turtle Bulletin] *MORE:
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04/22/2010
Video: Man with no science degree vs. biology's known realities
FishImp [YouTube] **SEE ALSO: Mr. Yuan's blog
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04/19/2010
Audio: 'Ex'-actly, Peter!
This telling Freudian slip comes from Peter LaBarbera's latest radio show: *Source: LaBarbera's anti-gay talk show, 4/17/10 [AFTAH] Love it. Now to be fair, Pete went on to "oops" himself, saying he meant to say that one will find an...
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04/16/2010
NIH Director on far-right's 'Facts About Youth': 'Particularly troubling'
Family Research Counsel, Focus on the Family, Liberty Counsel, Concerned Women For America, Richard Cohen, and a whole host of other "pro-family" groups have been lying for weeks about the fringe American College of Pediatricians group's role in the pantheon...
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04/05/2010
[Fallacies] about Youth: It's just plain reprehensible. Period.
Some things that our organized opposition do in the name of the anti-gay agenda are just borderline unethical. Other efforts are downright unbelievable in their willingness to misrepresent for Jesus. The following falls to the right of that latter category....
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03/31/2010
Video: It's an A & B conversation, they just wanna C everyone outta homosexuality
Exodus International is once again trying to earn validity for their annual "Day of Truth," in which they essentially propagandize children with pro-"ex-gay" materials. But since the "gays can change" advocacy group has learned over they years that the straightforward...
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03/02/2010
'Stop stealing our act,' says unbiased science's biggest sidestepper
Do we think the organized anti-gay social conservatives were born without an adequate amount of professional self-awareness, or do we think their hypocritical assessments of their own work are merely a lifestyle choice? We ask after seeing this comment on...
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02/06/2010
There are gay students in MD who now hate themselves. Stay 'moral', PFOX!
-The world is flat. -People think with their hearts and pump blood with their brains. -We breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. -Gay people can "change" into heterosexuals. All of the above are examples of ideas that credible...
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12/16/2009
Exodus: Corduroy ties are finally out of fashion
Patrick McAlvey's testimony has been circulating since August, so you may have already seen it: This week Patrick's back in the news, thanks to Truth Wins Out's commitment to following through on the story: Truth Wins Out (TWO) revealed today...
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12/11/2009
Stephen Bennett: Stop sucking pipes!
From time to time people will ask me what Stephen Bennett -- a man who until recently was one of this country's most prominent and called-upon openly "ex-gay" personalities -- is up to these days. Today, I'm happy to say...
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12/08/2009
MSNBC custodians, take the night off -- Rachel already mopped the floor with Richard Cohen
We warned you. Now here it is: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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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: [Audio has been pulled] If you care to go to the convention, you should know that...
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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 that 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
This just in from the APA: 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...
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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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