Thanks to the unscientific, unregulated underworld of ex-gay therapy, frauds and hacks of all stripes are getting away with any kind of therapy they can think up.
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September 1, 2010
May 6, 2010
February 27, 2010
Words Hurt
Bullying in Schools: Harassment Puts Gay Youth at Risk
While trying to deal with all the challenges of being a teenager, gay/ lesbian/ bisexual/ transgender (GBLT) teens additionally have to deal with harassment, threats, and violence directed at them on a daily basis. They hear anti-gay slurs such as “homo”, “faggot” and “sissy” about 26 times a day or once every 14 minutes.[1] Even more troubling, a study found that thirty-one percent of gay youth had been threatened or injured at school in the last year alone![2]
Their mental health and education, not to mention their physical well-being, are at-risk.
[ Read more at Mental Health America ]
August 21, 2009
Man’s disappearance renews debate on ’Ex-Gay’ netherworld
Man’s disappearance renews debate on ’Ex-Gay’ netherworld
The mystery surrounding the location and well-being of Bryce Faulkner, a 23-year-old medical student who appears to have entered into an ex-gay treatment facility, has again thrust the controversial topic of reparative therapy into the public eye.
Full story by Joseph Erbentraut HERE
The mystery surrounding the location and well-being of Bryce Faulkner, a 23-year-old medical student who appears to have entered into an ex-gay treatment facility, has again thrust the controversial topic of reparative therapy into the public eye.
Full story by Joseph Erbentraut HERE
August 15, 2009
Focus on the Family sells its 'ex-gay' program to Exodus
One of the largest and most politically influential groups of the past three decades, Focus on the Family, has sold off its "ex-gay" program called Love Won Out to Exodus International.
According to the Minnesota Independent, FOTF has posted a record profit loss of $6 million so far this year.
The group was founded by James Dobson in 1977, a vehemently anti-gay religious leader who has maintained tremendous political influence over GOP leaders.
[ FULL STORY ]
According to the Minnesota Independent, FOTF has posted a record profit loss of $6 million so far this year.
The group was founded by James Dobson in 1977, a vehemently anti-gay religious leader who has maintained tremendous political influence over GOP leaders.
[ FULL STORY ]
July 10, 2009
Another Young Man Kidnapped by Ex-Gay Camp
4 years ago, 15 year old Zach Stark was placed in facility ran by Exodus, to 'cure' him of his homosexuality. Thankfully he emerged as gay as ever and stronger too.
Today another young man has been taken. Bryce Faulkner is a bright young pre-med student who, like many in college, was totally dependent upon his parents for survival. His car, his cell phone, his education, even his job was all connected to his parents purse strings. Bryce was making plans to come out to his parents, but before he had the opportunity to carry out these plans, his mother found his email password and discovered communications between he and his lover Travis Of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
[ FULL STORY HERE ]
Today another young man has been taken. Bryce Faulkner is a bright young pre-med student who, like many in college, was totally dependent upon his parents for survival. His car, his cell phone, his education, even his job was all connected to his parents purse strings. Bryce was making plans to come out to his parents, but before he had the opportunity to carry out these plans, his mother found his email password and discovered communications between he and his lover Travis Of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
[ FULL STORY HERE ]
June 27, 2009
May 23, 2009
April 28, 2009
Carrie Prejean Thinks People Choose To Be Gay
The now infamous Miss California, Carrie Prejean, is still on the defensive after last weekend’s Miss USA pageant, in which she said marriage should be between a man and a woman and not the gays. This weekend she sat down with a gay blogger (but not Perez Hilton!) to discuss her feelings on the subject in more depth. Rex Wockner got the heart of the matter pretty quick.
[ More Mindless Crap From This Idiot ]
[ More Mindless Crap From This Idiot ]
April 14, 2009
April 4, 2009
Ex-gay? No way, the experts agree
Ex-gay? No way, the experts agree
By Doug Marshall-Steele
Despite all scientific evidence to the contrary, many religious conservatives insist that gay people can and must become heterosexual, since they think homosexuality is a sinful choice rather than a human variant.
Ex-gay "reparative therapy" or "conversion therapy" proponents assert that counseling, prayer and sometimes aversion therapy, exorcisms, fasting and lipstick-application seminars for lesbians are sufficient for flipping sexual orientation.
The scientific community, however, resoundingly agrees that sexual orientation cannot be changed, and such "therapies" may in fact be harmful.
[ Continue ]
By Doug Marshall-Steele
Despite all scientific evidence to the contrary, many religious conservatives insist that gay people can and must become heterosexual, since they think homosexuality is a sinful choice rather than a human variant.
Ex-gay "reparative therapy" or "conversion therapy" proponents assert that counseling, prayer and sometimes aversion therapy, exorcisms, fasting and lipstick-application seminars for lesbians are sufficient for flipping sexual orientation.
The scientific community, however, resoundingly agrees that sexual orientation cannot be changed, and such "therapies" may in fact be harmful.
[ Continue ]
March 15, 2009
February 17, 2009
December 26, 2008
Bush administration rule change could allow doctors to reject gay patients
The Bush administration issued a “right of conscience” regulation last week that could enable health care workers to deny treatment to gay patients based on religious beliefs. [FULL STORY @ Southern Voice]
Thank Gawd we only have 24 more days of his crap!
Thank Gawd we only have 24 more days of his crap!
November 16, 2008
November 8, 2008
'No More Mr Nice Gay' as Mormons face vote backlash
Protesters vent fury after church funds successful effort to ban gay marriages
By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Saturday, 8 November 2008
Daniel Ginnes carried a banner declaring: "No More Mr Nice Gay." Brian Lindsey held up a sign billing Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, as a "prophet, polygamist, paedophile." Hundreds of others simply chanted: "Mormon scum."
[FULL STORY]
By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Saturday, 8 November 2008
Daniel Ginnes carried a banner declaring: "No More Mr Nice Gay." Brian Lindsey held up a sign billing Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, as a "prophet, polygamist, paedophile." Hundreds of others simply chanted: "Mormon scum."
[FULL STORY]
October 4, 2008
Anti-gay church raided in child porn case
Anti-gay church raided in child porn case
By The Associated Press
09.22.2008 12:38pm EDT
(Fouke, Arkansas) Six minors have been temporarily placed in state custody as part of a child porn investigation after a raid on a ministry run by a man who says “consent is puberty” when it comes to sex, officials said Sunday.
The children will be in the custody of the Arkansas Department of Human Services as investigators interview them, state police spokesman Bill Sadler said in a statement.
Sadler didn’t say how long the interviews would last, but did say that courts would decide the children’s status in the event of any “long-term separation” from the property of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries in rural Fouke.
He did not say how old the children were, but an email that authorities inadvertently sent to media members last week referred to 12-, 13- and 14-year-old girls.
The move comes after a raid Saturday by more than 100 federal and state authorities. Investigators said their two-year probe into allegations of child pornography and abuse focused on convicted tax evader Tony Alamo and his ministry, described by its critics as a cult.
Alamo claimed in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Saturday that the investigation was part of a federal push to legalize same-sex marriage while outlawing polygamy. He also said for girls having sex, “consent is puberty.”
News of the raid brought Anthony Justin Lane, 34, into Fouke from his job roofing in nearby Texarkana, hoping for some word about his family.
Lane said he has been trying for 10 years to reunite with his children, who belong to Alamo’s ministry. Lane said he saw a 13-year-old girl marry a man of about 40 just before he was kicked out of the church for asking too many questions.
Lane hired a lawyer and said that he is trying to subpoena his wife, but that it remains difficult as she moves among Alamo’s churches in Arkansas and California.
Lane said he last saw his oldest daughter, Ashley, who would now be 13, in 2005. She offered him a pamphlet as he sat in his car reading a newspaper outside Alamo’s church in Fort Smith in 2005. When Lane told her he was her father, he said, she ran off.
He has received only a few photos since then of Ashley, daughter Sarah, 11, and son Timothy, 9, from a relative. His longtime girlfriend was pregnant with Timothy when he said he was expelled from the church for questioning their practices.
“I see pictures of those kids and I feel robbed - robbed of being a father,” Lane told reporters.
“I keep laying it in the Lord’s hands and hoping he’ll have mercy on my children and protect them,” he said.
Authorities’ search of the Fouke complex ended after midnight Saturday, and Sadler said officials had no plans to search the buildings again. Authorities have not indicated any plans to search other ministry locations.
September 9, 2008
Sarah Palin's Church prays away the gays
The news articles I've been linking to seem to vanish.
Try these three or the title link above:
Sarah Palin's church hopes to 'pray away the gay' and convert homosexuals to heterosexuals
Palin's church: You can pray away the gay
Alaskan Families & Allies Condemn So-Called 'Ex-Gay' Conference
Palin on the power of prayer
Try these three or the title link above:
Sarah Palin's church hopes to 'pray away the gay' and convert homosexuals to heterosexuals
Palin's church: You can pray away the gay
Alaskan Families & Allies Condemn So-Called 'Ex-Gay' Conference
Palin on the power of prayer
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