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David Bahati, Deputy Chair will assume the leadership position of the ruling NRM while the current chair steps down awaiting a court ruling on charges of corruption. Here’s the story from the Daily Monitor by way of AllAfrica: Two days after stepping aside from the Cabinet until the anti-corruption court…
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According to a World Net Daily report, a couple of bricks were thrown through the window of the Christian Liberty Academy which hosted the Americans for Truth About Homosexuality banquet earlier this evening. The vandalism was conducted in the early morning hours today with an email sent to a Chicago area news…
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Michelle Goldberg has a piece online at the Daily Beast which asks the question: End of the Ex-gay Movement? In the piece she features John Smid’s recent column where he asserted: I also want to reiterate here that the transformation for the vast majority of homosexuals will not include a…
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This weekend Moody Church pastor Erwin Lutzer is slated to speak at a banquet hosted by the American for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH). Also on the agenda is the presentation of AFTAH’s “Truth Teller” Award to Scott Lively. You can read more about Mr. Lively here. I have written much…
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I was wondering when NARTH would weigh in on the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy publication of the Jones and Yarhouse study. Dated October, 2011, the title of the post — Change in Sexual Orientation is Possible — immediately spins the study. Here is what the press release about…
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Peter Waldron, the man who helped Michele Bachmann take the Iowa caucus vote in August, is back in Iowa organizing pastors. According to the New York Times yesterday, Waldron was deploying his faith based strategies: One Bachmann aide, Peter Waldron, gathered 16 evangelical pastors in Des Moines last week to…
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John Smid was once the director of Love in Action a longtime Exodus International affiliate based in Memphis, TN. I have always found John’s candor refreshing. My first contact with John was at an Exodus meeting where he questioned the slogan, “change is possible.” In addition to support groups, LIA…
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In a blog post today on the Exodus International site, Exodus President Alan Chambers walked back from earlier criticism of the “It Gets Better” campaign a bit. Chambers writes: A few months ago I went on record criticizing the “It Gets Better” campaign that has gone viral with an anti-bullying…
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So says the Washington Post, Right Wing Watch and Religion Dispatches. My preference would have been for a more energetic response, but at least Romney addressed Fischer’s unChristian bigotry.
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Here are the results of today’s Values Voter Straw Poll: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has won Family Research Council Action’s fourth-ever Values Voter Summit Straw Poll. Businessman Herman Cain finished in second place and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) finished third. The following are the straw poll…
