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November 29th, 2007
Parts 3 and 4 of “The Watchmen In Riga” series will resume next week. If you haven’t already, I encourage you to read Part 1 and Part 2. Meanwhile, I leave you with this “pastor’s prayer” from Alexey Ledyaev. He heads the New Generation Church movement (based in Riga, Latvia, with congregations throughout the former Soviet Union, […]
November 29th, 2007
In last night’s Republican CNN/YouTube debate, there were two questions about gay issues. The first question came from Brigadier Gen. Keith Kerr (Ret.), who has been openly gay since his retirement. He asked about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The second question was about whether the candidates would accept support from the Log Cabin Republicans. Here […]
November 28th, 2007
(This series on the Watchmen On the Walls conference in Riga, Latvia held Nov. 14-18 is based on the videos posted on the New Generation web site. Translations from Russian were generously provided by Ruslan Porshnev of the Russian LGBT web site Anti-Dogma.) By mid-morning of the first full day (November 15) of the Watchmen […]
November 26th, 2007
Tom Brokaw’s new book, Boom! Voices of the Sixties is supposed to be a sweeping review of all of the highlights of that pivital decade for social change. Brokaw left virtually nothing untouched: civil rights, the war, feminism, the sexual revolution — all of it is right there in his exhastive review. Except for one […]
November 26th, 2007
The Watchmen On the Walls held another conference two weeks ago, this time in Riga, Latvia, home of Alexey Ledyaev’s New Generation church. Ledyaev is one of the Watchmen’s founders, along with holocaust revisionist Scott Lively and Seattle-area pastor Kenneth Hutcherson. This latest conference garnered very little attention here in the States, but since Ledyaev’s […]
November 21st, 2007
We mentioned that UNAIDS revised their estimates downward for the number of people worldwide infected with HIV. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is grappling with the opposite problem. The Washington Blade reports that the CDC is trying to figure out how to break the news that the annual number of new […]
November 20th, 2007
This is something that happens all too often. Say you’re a medical professional trying to understand the spread of a particularly sexually transmitted disease. What better place to go to study it than the local STD clinic? Just run a survey of the people who show up, and if you’re lucky and the findings are […]
November 16th, 2007
Rev. Ken Hutcherson, pastor of Antioch Bible Church and one of the founders of Watchmen On the Walls, decided to drag his bullying pulpit to Mircosoft’s annual shareholder meeting. You may recall that in Hutcherson persuaded Microsoft to withdraw its an employment anti-discrimination bill that was before the Washington state legislature which would have made it illegal […]
November 16th, 2007
Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX, is a moderately welcoming church. Although they have had gay members for many years, they seek to neither “endorse or condemn homosexuality.” This neutrality has served them well, allowing gay people to feel welcome but also allowing those Texas Baptists who’s religious convictions persuaded them of homosexuality’s sinfulness […]
November 13th, 2007
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina has does not have many requirements for association. As the Charlotte News-Record rather concisely put it Churches must provide financial support and not affirm homosexuality. During their meeting last year, the Convention voted to kick out of fellowship any church that did “affirm, approve, endorse, promote, support or […]
November 13th, 2007
Filmmaker Brian Murphy has just posted a wonderfully produced video of last summer’s Ex-gay Survivor’s Conference held in Irvine, Califormia. The thing that struck me while watching this video is the balanced representation of views at the conference. Alan Chambers dismissed the conference as a “protest” against the ex-gay movement, but in reality the conference […]
November 13th, 2007
Dr. James Holsinger, President Bush’s nominee for Surgeon General, may be preparing for a recess appointment according to Frank Lockwood at Bible Belt Blogger. Frank reports that Dr. Holsinger has resigned from the board of trustees of Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, Ky: Holsinger’s nomination, opposed by several leading Democrats, has stalled in the Senate Health, […]
November 10th, 2007
As I was reading ex-gay gadfly Richard Cohen’s book, Gay Children, Straight Parents, I kept encountering passages that I thought would make great material for future blog posts. By the time I reached the end of the book, I looked back at all the dogears and concluded that this book could give me material for […]
November 9th, 2007
Jennifer Mesko, associate editor at Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink had this to say about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA): ENDA would prevent employers from taking sexual orientation into consideration when hiring, promoting or firing. That could spell trouble for Christian business owners, churches and faith-based groups, which could be obligated to hire people who […]
November 8th, 2007
Ex-Gay Watch’s David Rattigan noticed that discredited anti-gay “researcher” and holocaust revisionist Paul Cameron was a guest speaker at a Christian Council of Britain meeting in London on October 26. According to Rattigan, Cameron brought up his most recent claim that homosexuals are responsible for 29 percent of child rapes and murders. While the CCB is little […]
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On February 10, I attended an all-day “Love Won Out” ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.
Prologue: Why I Went To “Love Won Out”
Part 1: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Part 2: Parents Struggle With “No Exceptions”
Part 3: A Whole New Dialect
Part 4: It Depends On How The Meaning of the Word "Change" Changes
Part 5: A Candid Explanation For "Change"
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