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I have posted several times on the Ugandan conference on homosexuality last weekend. In researching this, I wrote to Exodus International, International Healing Foundation and Scott Lively to ask if they were quoted accurately regarding calls for criminalization of homosexuals and forced therapy as an option to jail. Exodus International…
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Michelle Vu, reporter for the Christian Post, penned an article regarding the Ugandan anti-gay conference. Exodus International is quoted in this article, I think for the first time since the controversy began: In response, Exodus International said it applauds its board member Don Schmierer, who attended the Uganda conference, for…
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The Christian Post has published my feature on PANDAS – Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococci. There are some great quotes from Susan Swedo, MD, who is often credited with discovering the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and strep throat. I don’t say much about it but I also report…
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Frank Mugisha is the chairperson of a gay advocacy group in Uganda called Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG). An unnamed person from his group attended all of the meetings in Kampala and filed this report. Obviously, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of it and I think it should be considered…
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Gay Without Borders is reporting that John Bosco Nyombi is back in the UK after being returned to Uganda against his will. While there, he was beaten and had to hide from police to avoid detention, according to GWB. Nyombi’s case made headlines in September of 2008 but little has…
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Yesterday morning I reported that Ugandan officials were considering stronger penalties for homosexuality. In the same meeting, Family Life Network seminar leader Scott Lively promoted further criminalization of homosexuality but added an outrageous consequence — forced therapy. If reports from the conference are accurate, we don’t have to wonder what…
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The Ugandan anti-gay seminar now is coming into sharper focus. In this disturbing article from UGPulse, Scott Lively, invited by Family Life Network to speak at a church-based conference on homosexuality, spoke to a government conference and called for the forced therapy of homosexuals. Here is the article in full:…
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Wanting to know more about the Family Life Network ex-gay conference in Uganda (first covered here), I wrote FLN Director and conference organizer, Stephen Langa. In contrast to rumors that the Ugandan government funded the conference, Langa said that the Family Life Network funded it locally. I asked why he…
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The Day of Silence is coming — April 17 to be exact — and some conservative groups are already calling for students to walkout of school on that day. TINLEY PARK, Ill., Mar. 3 /Christian Newswire/ — A national coalition of pro-family organizations is urging parents to call their children…
