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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

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 ]

Falwell's Liberty Univ. Bans Democratic Club

Vatican whines

Vatican accuses AIDS groups of intimidation
By The Associated Press
04.17.2009 2:22pm EDT

(Vatican City) The Vatican on Friday denounced the criticisms of the pope’s comments about condoms and AIDS during his trip to Africa, saying they marked an unprecedented attempt to intimidate him into silence.

Pope Benedict XVI said last month that condoms weren’t the answer to Africa’s AIDS epidemic and could make the problem worse.

[ MORE ]

Gay Bash By Mélange Lavonne

Game of Life’s Gay Agenda

The Christian conservative website WorldNetDaily has got its undies in a twist over an option that permits same-sex couples in Hasbro’s The Game of Life.

[ MORE ]

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!

"Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality," - Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart and Mike Huckabee discuss gay marriage!

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'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]

’Model’ Ex-Gay Couple Divorces

"Ex-gay" activist Greg Quinlan, founder of the Pro-Family Network, has seen his mixed-gender marriage end and his credibility be called into question after he made a claim that Nobel Prize-wining geneticist Francis Collins had declared that no "gay gene" exists, reported Ex-Gay Watch. [FULL STORY]

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.

Quickest way to God?

Priest charged with selling coke from campus rectory

A Catholic priest was charged this week with selling cocaine from his office and residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, local news organizations report.

The Rev. Christopher Layden, 33, was arrested Wednesday after police found "about 3 grams of powder cocaine and items of drug paraphernalia" while executing a search warrant on the campus, according to The Pantagraph.

Layden pleaded not guilty to three charges, the paper says.

The News-Gazette reports an informant told police that he has used cocaine with the priest "40 to 50 times" since 2007. "First Assistant State's Attorney Steve Ziegler said in court Thursday that the UI police monitored a cocaine purchase by the informant from Layden on Sept. 4," the paper says.

Here's the campus police department's blotter entry about this case.

The Peoria Diocese says in a statement to the local ABC affiliate that it was "shocked and saddened" to learn of the priest's arrest. He has been suspended pending the outcome of the case, the statement says.

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