A groundbreaking new faith-based resource combining original musical and spoken word tracks for high school students, college students and young adults wrestling with homosexual issues, as well as their counselors, is being released during Marriage Protection Week, October 12-18. The … Continue reading
Warren Throckmorton
A Good Offense
Orlando, Florida, is home to lots of sunshine, Mickey, Donald and Goofy and Exodus International. You know about the sun and Disney but you may not have known that the world’s leading referral and support organization for former homosexuals is … Continue reading
Hoosier Controversy
Recently the school that hosts the Kinsey Institute temporarily removed the web log of a faculty member for suggesting gay men might not be the best teachers of young boys. Indiana University Business Professor, Dr. Eric Rasmusen said on his … Continue reading
Hasta la Vista, State Assembly!
While Arnold seeks to say hasta la vista to Gray Davis, Californians should think about saying the same to their State Assembly legislators in the next election cycle. California politics are often viewed as – how can we put this … Continue reading
Learning to be European: Do We Need to Import More Sexual Freedom?
Maybe its because I’m a father of girls that I reacted viscerally to the movie, “Teens and Sex in Europe.” In the video a pharmacist sells condoms to a teen boy he obviously does not know. Then the scene shifts … Continue reading
The Joys of Being Private: Ex-gays Keep Out
Gay activist groups must really want to avoid ex-gays. Now that’s a bold statement but witness the new love of the First Amendment by some gay rights organizations and their supporters. For instance, the oldest gay activist group in the … Continue reading
The NEA Strikes Again: Religious Counselors Targeted
The National Education Association is not making many friends among conservatives lately. First, it admits discriminating against the Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays organization by refusing to allow them to exhibit at their annual convention. Now, I have … Continue reading
Ex-Gay Leader’s Fall Proves Counseling is Ineffective, Right? Wrong!
If you haven’t heard about Michael Johnston, you probably will soon. At least the gay activist organization, the Human Rights Campaign, hopes you will hear about him. The gay-oriented web site SouthernVoice.com today broke the story that Johnston, former head … Continue reading
The Right to Divide
With the installation of Gene Robinson, the newly elected and openly gay Episcopal Bishop, the Episcopalians continue to do what mainstream churches seem to do best: divide their congregations. It is difficult to find a large protestant denomination, save the … Continue reading
NEA Admits Discrimination Towards Ex-Gay Group
Stop the presses! After weeks of silence, the NEA on Wednesday admitted discriminating against the Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX). The nation’s largest organization of educators acknowledged that it excluded PFOX from exhibiting at the 2002 and … Continue reading
Top Tier Dems are Civil to Gay Activists
Well at least they were civil. Before the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) this week, seven of nine Democratic candidates for President supported some extension of marital rights to gay couples, akin to Vermont’s “civil unions.” However, were they for “gay … Continue reading
Ex-homophobia: The National Education Assocation’s Intolerance of Ex-Gays Continues
As a life long public school educator and administrator, my father, Earl Throckmorton stood for values that have long been a foundation for American education. He would be out of step with today’s NEA and their ex-homophobia. Academic freedom and … Continue reading
National Education Association Fails Tolerance Test
Class, let’s match wits with the NEA. Answer the following multiple-choice question: Tolerance can best be defined as: a. the acceptance of the differing views of other people and fairness toward the people who hold different views b. active suppression … Continue reading
What Goes Around Comes Around: The Invention of a Sexual Minority
Karl Ulrichs and Karl Kertbeny would approve. The Supreme Court’s decision (Lawrence vs. Texas) overturning the nation’s laws against sodomy closes the loop on the quest for decriminalizing homosexuality that these men started a continent away and over a century … Continue reading
News Advisory — New Genetics Study Undermines Gay Gene Theory
A study to be published in the March 2005 issue of the journal Human Genetics, and available online now, actually undermines the commonly held view that homosexual orientation is determined by genetic factors. The study’s lead author Brian Mustanski from … Continue reading
Milking the School System
Imagine this: You are 16 years old and going back to school this fall. Like most students you purchased a backpack, a protractor, paper and pencils, but unlike most students, you did not go back-to-school clothes shopping. Why not? Because … Continue reading
