Mat Staver and these charlatans are only looking for attention. I can’t fathom that they want to take on the merits of conversion/reparative therapy — long discredited — to “pray away the gay” to court. But as LGBT rights advance, groups like Liberty Counsel have fewer opportunities to put on their dog and pony show [...]

Here’s a parody from Liam Kyle Sullivan of the Liamshow telling us how to Get Straight! It is waaaaay too funny — but it ain’t work friendly! ~~~~~ Further reading: * Truth Wins Out: Ex-Gay activist Alan Chambers saying there is no gay cure changes everything

Peterson Toscano and I often go back and forth ralking about scripture and Christianity on Twitter. He and I are really both Biblical scriture geeks, and can both quote obsure Bible stories and obscure Bible scriptures. Maybe it’s because we’ve both experienced reparative therapy earlier in our lives by therapists and/or Christian therapists who consider [...]

Amanda Marcotte’s piece over at Alternet, Why Are Religious Conservatives So Scared of Gay Sex?,  is so spot-on that I had a good chuckle with my English Breakfast tea this AM. Time and again here on the Blend and other blogs covering the Religious Right and the GOP Sexual Hypocrites, it’s an endless parade of [...]

In what appears to be an attempt to make light of her husband’s controversial, bogus ex-gay therapy service, Michele Bachmann bizarrely throws him under the bus while on Jay Leno’s show. It finally got through her thick political skull that most Americans think that praying away the gay is preposterous and her husband is a [...]

We welcome friend of the Blend Wayne Besen to our new digs. Wayne 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 [...]