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George Tiller, a notorious Kansas abortion doctor, was shot and killed yesterday in his church foyer. The suspect in his killing, Scott Roeder, was picked up about three hours later according to the Wichita Eagle. Christian and pro-life groups were out immediately yesterday with condemnations of the shooting. If readers…
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Scott Lively has made a career of drawing parallels from Nazi Germany to modern homosexuality. He has gone around the world with the message that homosexuals were responsible for Nazi totalitarianism. Throughout the next month or so, I will provide counter arguments to Lively’s thesis. In this post, however, I…
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Glenn Sacks at Fathers and Families featured my Fathers, Sons and Homosexuality article yesterday on his blog. Discussion has been lively…
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The Southern Poverty Law Center reports today on Scott Lively’s efforts to get off the SPLC hate group list. As the U.S. envoy for the international anti-gay hate group Watchmen on the Walls and co-author of The Pink Swastika, a history that falsely asserts gays masterminded the Holocaust, Scott Lively…
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I think the headline is on target. The questioner is talk show host Lester Kinsolving; responding is press secretary Robert Gibbs. Via Politico with a tip of the hat to David Blakeslee. I wonder if this will revive the longest comment thread in the history of the universe here.
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Obama announces his SCOTUS pick at 10:15am (est) . California Supreme Court announces ruling on Prop 8 appeal at 1:00pm (est). CNN and USA Today is reporting that Obama will nominate Sonia Sotomayor. If true and if confirmed, she will be the first Hispanic justice. She was nominated to the…
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Back in December, 2008, I posted a critique of Neil Whitehead’s re-analysis of Shidlo and Schroeder’s study of harm from reorientation change efforts. In that post, I noted that Whitehead said Shidlo’s study actually demonstrated the value of reparative therapy because suicides were reduced. In her report on the 2008…
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Through the end of June, the Archives of Sexual Behavior is available to the public via the publisher’s Reading Room website. This is a limited opportunity to get access to full text articles at no cost. Different journals are featured each quarter and in this case ASB was selected as…
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Many comment threads on this blog turn into discussions of same-sex marriage. Well here is a post where that conversation will be on point. The Pew Foundation yesterday published a Q & A on the topic with “professors Robert W. Tuttle and Ira “Chip” Lupu of The George Washington University…
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Due to time constraints, this post is less review than description of results. However, I wanted to post something on this study in advance of some commentary coming from Michael Bailey on the topic. Here is the reference and abstract: Abstract: The existence of genetic effects on gender atypical behavior…
