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Wayne Besen November 12, 2009

About the Author

Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

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Ephilei November 13, 2009 at 12:07 pm -

“Both groups say there is scientific research to back them up.”

Who doesn’t? A good journalist would examine those claims instead of implying both groups do have backup.
Michael Airhart November 13, 2009 at 1:55 pm -

The U.S. broadcast news media appear to have largely adopted the intellectual and amoral relativism, if not the actual political positions, of the Christian Right.

For these people, there is no such thing as a material fact or a proven fiction.
William November 13, 2009 at 2:50 pm -

Those words “loving” and “compassionate” again! I’m sick of hearing them in this context. They’re nothing but sanctimonious cant.