Tag Archives: Truth Wins Out

Press Release Of The Day

From Wayne Besen at Truth Wins Out. Every now and again we highlight “ex-gay” activists who disappear from the scene. One such individual is Mike Ensley, who was laid off from Exodus in 2008. For those who do not remember, Ensley was the group’s “Youth Analyst”, with the insidious role of brainwashing young people. He has now reinvented himself as …

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Wayne Besen: Tell Apple To Dump Exodus International’s “Ex-Gay” iPhone App

The petition demanding that Apple remove Exodus International’s “ex-gay” app now has over 135,000 signatures. Watch the below video in which Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out blows the lid off the lies and hate group affiliations of Exodus.

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EX-GAY FALSEHOODS: Truth Wins Out Rips Lisa Ling’s Pray Away The Gay Show

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Truth Wins Out Launches Petition To Remove “Ex-Gay” App From iPhone

Truth Wins Out, the organization that fights the “ex-gay” movement, has launched a petition calling on Apple to remove Exodus International’s new iPhone app. This new iPhone app is the latest move in Exodus’ dangerous new strategy of targeting youth. In light of the recent wave of LGBT youth suicides, this tactic is particularly galling as it creates, legitimizes, and …

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Wayne Besen On Porno Pete LaBarbera

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World Bank Ditches PFOX (Sort Of)

Last week Metro Weekly reported that World Bank had added the nasty “ex-gays” at PFOX to their list of charities for whom they’d match any donations by employees. Following a petition campaign spearheaded by Truth Wins Out and Change.org, today World Bank issued this rule change. For this year’s Community Connections Campaign, Bank-matching funds will be provided to those organizations …

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The Good Guys At The NARTH Protest

Members of NARTH are featured in the slideshow one post down, these photos are all the good guys, the thinkers, those whose minds are unbound by prehistoric religious dogma and twisted unscientific hooey. I think we had about 40 folks willing to sacrifice a beautiful Saturday morning for a schlep out to a remote airport hotel crawling with people who …

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The Douchebags Of NARTH

Today I participated in the Truth Wins Out protest at NARTH’s annual convention in Philadelphia, where TWO’s Wayne Besen led a chanting crowd of activists on the sidewalk outside their host hotel. Many of NARTH’s attendees took turns peering at us from the windows, but hid from us (in shame) otherwise. However Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber, a speaker at the …

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SATURDAY AT 8PM: JMG Reader Meet-Up
At Philadelphia’s Westbury Bar

Sorry for the last minute notice, but based on suggestions from the Facebook gang, we’ve decided on the Westbury Bar for tomorrow’s 8pm JMG reader meet-up in Philadelphia. Westbury is at 261 South 13th Street in the heart of the gayborhood and (I’m told) meets our requirements of dive-y, friendly, and not too loud. I hope to meet lots of …

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REMINDER: Truth Wins Out NARTH Protest This Saturday In Philadelphia

This here website thingy is a proud co-sponsor of this Saturday’s protest at the NARTH annual convention in Philadelphia. Truth Wins Out reminds us: The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is having its annual convention in Philadelphia (Nov. 5-7). The notorious “ex-gay” group is hoping that Americans have amnesia and don’t remember that its most “prominent” …

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Truth Wins Out Announces Philadephia Protest Of “Ex-Gay” Group NARTH

Truth Wins Out, our heroes in the battle against the cruelties of the “ex-gay” industry, have launched the Lift My Luggage! website to promote their November 6th protest at the annual convention of NARTH in Philadelphia. The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is having its annual convention in Philadelphia (Nov. 5-7). The notorious “ex-gay” group is …

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Wayne Besen On Rachel Maddow

Truth Wins Out founder Wayne Besen appeared on Rachel Maddow last night to discuss Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell and the “ex-gay” movement.

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Porno Pete’s Hate Academy Flops

Truth Wins Out reports today that Porno Pete LaBarbara’s Hate Academy is a complete dud, with the number of attendees barely exceeding the number of scheduled speakers. The Hate Academy, which began Wednesday, it meant to train young aspiring anti-gay bigots on how to more effectively enable the brutalization of LGBT people across America. One of TWO’s spies notes: “It …

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Today In Creepy “Ex-Gay Therapy”

Today Wayne Besen’s Truth Wins Out has posted an expose of the “ex-gay” group JONAH, which has young men get naked and fondle themselves to “get in touch with their masculinity.” They do this in the presence of their much older creepy “therapist,” of course. The clients, Ben Unger and Chaim Levin, alleged that during individual therapy sessions, Downing made …

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PhoboQuotable – Rev. Lou Engle

“If we’re struggling with a homosexual, same-sex desire, LET THE BIBLE KILL YOU, rather than make it easier for you, and say well, there must be a better scriptural answer to this … Brothers and sisters, let the Bible kill you rather than you twist the scriptures! And in that killing, it will break you so that you can find …

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National And State LGBT Organizations Step Up To Protect Rekers’ Rentboy

An impressive group of state and national LGBT organizations have expressed their support for Jo-Vanni Roman, the Miami rentboy caught in the middle of the best/worst scandal to hit the anti-gay political machine in years. The above listed organizations and other skilled Florida-based professionals have all indicated their willingness to step in with their widely varied areas of expertise, should …

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When “Ex-Gay” Means Ex-Con: NARTH Leader Exposed As Convicted Scam Artist

James Hartline isn’t the only “ex-gay leader” who has spent a lot of time in the can. In a joint investigation, Truth Wins Out and South Florida Gay News have unmasked a leader of the infamous NARTH “ex-gay” group as a convicted scam artist. Surprise! Not! And NARTH isn’t the only “ex-gay” outfit he’s involved with. The leader of JONAH, …

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Surviving The “Ex-Gay” Industry

How blatantly bizarre and predatory does “ex-gay reparative therapy” have to be for even the mental cases at Exodus International to disavow you? Here’s some of what their “therapist” at their Lansing, Michigan affiliate did to young Patrick McAlvey. “He asked how large my penis was. He asked if I shave my pubic hair. He asked what type of underwear …

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Truth Wins Out Counters “Ex-Gay” Conference In Charlotte NC

Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out was in Charlotte, NC this weekend to counter the lies of the “ex-gay” movement and Focus On The Family. In this interview with local television, Besen charges the “ex-gay” movement with “consumer fraud” for promising conversion from homosexuality. I also see my pal Matt Comer seated at the table behind Besen. (Via – Good …

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Truth Wins Out Calls For Resignation Over Hush Money Paid To Haggard’s Boyfriend

Truth Wins Out, the anti-“ex-gay” organization headed by Wayne Besen, is calling for an investigation into New Life Church for paying hush money to the young man who last week revealed a longtime sexual relationship with disgraced evangelical Ted Haggard. Besen further calls for the resignation of Haggard’s replacement, Pastor Brady Boyd. Truth Wins Out (TWO) today called on Colorado …

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