Comments on: Palm Springs Unity Rally Website Gets It Wrong

By: Boo

Boo — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:14:00 +0000

Having a philosophical preference for male-female parenting does not lead to a conclusion that gay parents should be viewed any differently by schools (or anybody else for that matter).

Are you saying this is your position and you disagree with the article, or are you saying this is the article’s position, which it clearly isn’t? Not trying to nitpick, but you’ve confused me a lil.

“Building Family Equality in the Classroom” suggests parents attend the first PTA meeting together and introduce themselves as a couple.

Barbara McPherson, legislative affairs coordinator for the California Family Council, told Family News in Focus such activism doesn’t belong in school.

Say ye yea or say ye nay?

By: Throckmorton

Throckmorton — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:35:00 +0000

Having a philosophical preference for male-female parenting does not lead to a conclusion that gay parents should be viewed any differently by schools (or anybody else for that matter).

By: Boo

Boo — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:49:00 +0000

Furthermore, I fully support FOTF and LWO’s efforts to articulate a conservative Christian view of sexual ethics.

Do you support FOTF’s contention that if gay parents go to their children’s school as a couple and engage in the same kind of involvement any straight parents would normally be expected to, it should be considered “activism”?

http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0042003.cfm

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:44:00 +0000

I would not be a member of, give an address to, or be a guest speaker for an organization that publishes articles by men who advocate views like Berger or Schonewolf, any more than I would be a guest speaker for NAMBLA.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:20:00 +0000

Membership in an organization does not imply agreement with all its positions or statements. That is a very simplistic notion.

It is a common error we all must be careful to avoid.

David Blakeslee

By: Throckmorton

Throckmorton — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I am not a member of NARTH but I spoke at their conferences from 2002-2004. I am slated to speak again this year regarding the sexual identity therapy guidelines. I am going because I believe the guidelines can be of assistance to many who seek a non-ideologically driven means of helping people with sexual identity conflicts. I have also spoken at APA, ACA, and other groups I do not belong to.

By: grantdale

grantdale — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:46:00 +0000

Love Won Out, NARTH (the National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality), and Exodus are all intertwined with Focus on Family

Unless they’ve changed it, the Unity site has it exactly right.

They are intertwined. LWO is, as you note, a product of Focus. Exodus itself is up to it’s eyeballs in Focus money. Full page ads and billboards don’t come cheap, you know. Then there is that awkward little issue about who’s a member of the Exodus Board… “Mike Haley, employee of Focus and Exodus Chairman” might jog people’s memories.

I don’t think you’re being entirely clear about your relationship with NARTH either.

While it may have been in the (not so distant past), you certainly DID associate with them. Or are they in a habit of randomly inviting guest speakers to their annual conferences?

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:22:00 +0000

Warren: I just called Claire who is helping to organize the Unity Rally. She apologized, said she had misunderstood and that she would make the corrections today on the Unity Rally website — to make it clear that you are NOT “one of NARTH’s own.”

By: Michael Bussee

Michael Bussee — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:12:00 +0000

I don’t think it is “unfair” to “link” Schonewolf, NARTH, EXODUS and FOTF. What?

Focus on the Family in advertizing, sponsoring and coordinating these road-shows — not only in Palm Springs, but across the country. You have to call FOTF to register for the conference, as I did. I PAID Focus On The family for my registration fee. What are you saying here?

EXODUS and NARTH may not be “part” of FOTF in a “formal” sense, but they are all cooperating to put on the conference. And as Robbi Kenney put it on your own blog — EXODUS and NARTH are “in bed together”.

I think “guilt by association” apllies here.