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	<title>Comments on: The Religious Right’s Violent Bully Pulpit</title>
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	<description>Fighting antigay lies and the ex-gay myth</description>
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		<title>By: hank kelly</title>
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		<dc:creator>hank kelly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eugenics became an excuse for the Nazis to commit mass murder.  Welcome to 21st century Christianity which believes that they too can change, alter, destroy what God intended.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eugenics became an excuse for the Nazis to commit mass murder.  Welcome to 21st century Christianity which believes that they too can change, alter, destroy what God intended.</p>
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		<title>By: Derek</title>
		<link>http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressrelease/2010/10/11800/comment-page-1/#comment-29733</link>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wayne, the only comment that I think is incorrect is that Boyd K Packer isn&#039;t the president of the Mormon Church.  He&#039;s next in line to be president.  He is the current president of the quorum of 12 apostles.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wayne, the only comment that I think is incorrect is that Boyd K Packer isn&#8217;t the president of the Mormon Church.  He&#8217;s next in line to be president.  He is the current president of the quorum of 12 apostles.</p>
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		<title>By: Truth Wins Out - Late Friday Random Ten [Jill Sobule edition]</title>
		<link>http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressrelease/2010/10/11800/comment-page-1/#comment-29559</link>
		<dc:creator>Truth Wins Out - Late Friday Random Ten [Jill Sobule edition]</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] the gay teen suicide issue, wingnuts are being predictably awful, depraved, smug, evil, mouthy, shocked! shocked!, stupid, mindnumbingly deranged, [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the gay teen suicide issue, wingnuts are being predictably awful, depraved, smug, evil, mouthy, shocked! shocked!, stupid, mindnumbingly deranged, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Becky</title>
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		<dc:creator>Becky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wayne, I&#039;m sure Peter doesn&#039;t really care about facts.  I mean, anyone can work the google nowadays but if they actually found out about the incident they wouldn&#039;t be able to hold on to their misguided beliefs.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wayne, I&#8217;m sure Peter doesn&#8217;t really care about facts.  I mean, anyone can work the google nowadays but if they actually found out about the incident they wouldn&#8217;t be able to hold on to their misguided beliefs.</p>
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		<title>By: Jerry Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressrelease/2010/10/11800/comment-page-1/#comment-29439</link>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Johnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To All—If you haven’t read Wayne Besen’s book, Anything but Straight, I strongly urge you to do so.  I’ve read it three times and each time am again astounded at the lengths to which religious/ex-gay bigots go to further their cause, all of which he exposed beautifully.  

I consider the book a monumental achievement in our movement for equal rights.  It, plus the many articles in truthwinsout, along with counter-demonstrations he organizes around the country, have the bigots on the run.    

As more and more high-profile gays come out of the closet and high-profile straights jump on the bandwagon with us, we are progressing like I never could have dreamed.  However, I fear it will get worse before it gets better, much like the Civil Rights Movement many years ago.  It will be a tough battle, but we are on our way like we have never been.   

Jerry  Johnson]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To All—If you haven’t read Wayne Besen’s book, Anything but Straight, I strongly urge you to do so.  I’ve read it three times and each time am again astounded at the lengths to which religious/ex-gay bigots go to further their cause, all of which he exposed beautifully.  </p>
<p>I consider the book a monumental achievement in our movement for equal rights.  It, plus the many articles in truthwinsout, along with counter-demonstrations he organizes around the country, have the bigots on the run.    </p>
<p>As more and more high-profile gays come out of the closet and high-profile straights jump on the bandwagon with us, we are progressing like I never could have dreamed.  However, I fear it will get worse before it gets better, much like the Civil Rights Movement many years ago.  It will be a tough battle, but we are on our way like we have never been.   </p>
<p>Jerry  Johnson</p>
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		<title>By: William</title>
		<link>http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressrelease/2010/10/11800/comment-page-1/#comment-29435</link>
		<dc:creator>William</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter: Nowhere in the above video (or anywhere else, to my knowledge) does Wayne claim to have had a LONG conversation with John Paulk IN THE GAY BAR. The conversation in which Paulk gave his unconvincing explanations for being in the bar took place later, over the telephone.

What appears to be yet another attempted explanation, which Paulk gave some years later at an “ex-gay” gathering, although he didn’t specifically refer to the bar incident, was that when he travels around too much, the “demon of homosexuality comes and sits on my shoulder.”]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter: Nowhere in the above video (or anywhere else, to my knowledge) does Wayne claim to have had a LONG conversation with John Paulk IN THE GAY BAR. The conversation in which Paulk gave his unconvincing explanations for being in the bar took place later, over the telephone.</p>
<p>What appears to be yet another attempted explanation, which Paulk gave some years later at an “ex-gay” gathering, although he didn’t specifically refer to the bar incident, was that when he travels around too much, the “demon of homosexuality comes and sits on my shoulder.”</p>
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		<title>By: Karl Streips</title>
		<link>http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressrelease/2010/10/11800/comment-page-1/#comment-29434</link>
		<dc:creator>Karl Streips</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The utterly astonishing thing to me about the religious Reich is its complete and total misreading of what the Bible is about.  The central message in the Bible is this:  Love one another.  Or, to put it in 21st century terms:  Be nice to each other, for goodness&#039; sake.  Now, those members of the religious Reich who have more than seven brain cells will smirk at that and then smarmily say that of COURSE they love the L, G, B or T person, it&#039;s just that the L, G, B or T person is such a naughty, naughty person, and wouldn&#039;t it just be wonderful if that were not the case?  But thanks to Wayne for tracking those maniacs who do have fewer than seven brain cells.  There is absolutely no such thing as an ex-gay.  If there were, then there would also be ex-straights.  Perhaps we could start up an organization to help unhappy straight people to return from their sad lives and to become happily gay instead.  Of course, no amount of intervention could ever help someone like Mel Gibson, for instance.  But one has to start somewhere.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The utterly astonishing thing to me about the religious Reich is its complete and total misreading of what the Bible is about.  The central message in the Bible is this:  Love one another.  Or, to put it in 21st century terms:  Be nice to each other, for goodness&#8217; sake.  Now, those members of the religious Reich who have more than seven brain cells will smirk at that and then smarmily say that of COURSE they love the L, G, B or T person, it&#8217;s just that the L, G, B or T person is such a naughty, naughty person, and wouldn&#8217;t it just be wonderful if that were not the case?  But thanks to Wayne for tracking those maniacs who do have fewer than seven brain cells.  There is absolutely no such thing as an ex-gay.  If there were, then there would also be ex-straights.  Perhaps we could start up an organization to help unhappy straight people to return from their sad lives and to become happily gay instead.  Of course, no amount of intervention could ever help someone like Mel Gibson, for instance.  But one has to start somewhere.</p>
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		<title>By: Wayne Besen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wayne Besen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter:

Are you kidding me? 

This incident is a known fact. Paulk admitted it, as did Exodus and Focus on the Family. 

As for picture, as you can imagine, most people do not pose for their scandal photo.

What is sketchy is that you commented without doing your homework.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter:</p>
<p>Are you kidding me? </p>
<p>This incident is a known fact. Paulk admitted it, as did Exodus and Focus on the Family. </p>
<p>As for picture, as you can imagine, most people do not pose for their scandal photo.</p>
<p>What is sketchy is that you commented without doing your homework.</p>
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		<title>By: PhilipJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>PhilipJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter, if you were the poster-child/king of the &quot;ex-gays&quot;, and were recognized by two different people in a gay bar, wouldn&#039;t you do everything in your power to keep from being photographed? (Read the full story in Wayne&#039;s book &quot;Anything But Straight&quot;.)  

What is MORE important is that Paulk finally had to fess up (after lying to Focus on the Family AND Exodus) that he was indeed in a gay bar, that that was him in the photograph that Wayne took. (His initial explanations for being there were hilarious, IMHO.)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter, if you were the poster-child/king of the &#8220;ex-gays&#8221;, and were recognized by two different people in a gay bar, wouldn&#8217;t you do everything in your power to keep from being photographed? (Read the full story in Wayne&#8217;s book &#8220;Anything But Straight&#8221;.)  </p>
<p>What is MORE important is that Paulk finally had to fess up (after lying to Focus on the Family AND Exodus) that he was indeed in a gay bar, that that was him in the photograph that Wayne took. (His initial explanations for being there were hilarious, IMHO.)</p>
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		<title>By: Peter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think is interesting how you had a LONG conversation with him, but you only got a picture of his back. Sketchy...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think is interesting how you had a LONG conversation with him, but you only got a picture of his back. Sketchy&#8230;</p>
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