Well, I guess it was too much to hope for that Farris et al. would speak out against the egregious threat to the rights of gay parents in Russia. When a concerned former homeschooler asked him about it on his Facebook page, he pretty much blew her off by saying that because it wasn’t a […]
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Why I’m so conflicted about Ender’s Game and Orson Scott Card
I don’t normally do boycotts. Back in my retail days, the religious right went after the retailer I worked for as part of the whole “War on Christmas” silliness because they didn’t think the company slapped “Merry Christmas” on enough things. The result, at least on my part, was that was the last holiday season […]
So this is how the religious right tosses out people who are no longer useful
World Magazine today posted Andree Seu Peterson’s column, “Remember the Signs,” from their upcoming July 26th issue. The piece is about Exodus International disbanding and presents the Gay Christian Network as the enemy (remember, in christianese, “the enemy” means “satan”) leading Alan Chambers away from the truth. Oh, yeah, and she pretty much says that Alan […]
I Resemble That Remark
I’m not generally in the habit of responding via blog post to tweets by 21 year old college students, but when that 21 year old college student is an occasional World Net Daily columnist tweeting slurs to mock something I’m involved in, I’m willing to break that rule. This lovely little gem was tweeted earlier today, he’s […]
A few more thoughts on Exodus shutting down
Yesterday I gave the emotional response to Exodus International closing up shop, now here’s the logical one. I want to preface this by saying that I do think that Alan Chambers is sincere. Also, after watching the video of his comments (skip to the 19 minute mark) to the Exodus conference telling the attendees that Exodus […]
Well, that just made my night. Exodus International is shutting down
I was walking home from work this evening when I checked my Twitter feed and saw that Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus International, the biggest and oldest ex-gay organization, had issued an apology to the LGBTQ community for the way that Exodus had hurt people. The apology came with a promise that an announcement […]
Presented without comment
Because if I said what I really wanted to say about this evil blog post by John Piper, I’d probably regret it. Actually, I will give one comment. John Piper is a self-righteous Pharisee who rejoices in the suffering of others and invents rules so that he can feel himself more righteous. Matthew 27:1-33 1Then […]
No, I will not sign your petition asking Apple and Google to remove something from their app store
There’s this article/petition that’s making the rounds of the Internet telling me that I’m apparently supposed to be OUTRAGED! that Apple and Google have some app from an ex-gay group in their app stores. The details don’t really matter, it’s the same as the go around a few years ago when people pitched a fit […]
Guard Your Heart, Part Two
This is part two in a two part series. It was originally written as part of the Homeschoolers Anonymous series, “Homeschoolers Are Out.” In this series: Part One | Part Two ***** Sometimes the hardest person to come out to is yourself. After spending a few years post-college working as a wedding and gift registry consultant (turns out I liked studying computer […]
Guard Your Heart, Part One
This is part one in a two part series, Part Two is here. It was originally written as part of the Homeschoolers Anonymous series, “Homeschoolers Are Out.” *** It turns out that it’s easy to guard your heart when you’re not attracted to someone, but I’m getting ahead of myself here. To begin this story, we […]