Tag Archives: Wayne Besen

Former Exodus Head To Divorce Wife

Back in April I reported that former Exodus International chairman John Paulk had made some interesting changes to his Facebook profile. Yesterday Truth Wins Out took the story further: “Ex-gay” poster couple John and Anne Paulk may be Splitsville. Sources tell Truth Wins Out today that John has moved out of the couple’s Portland, Oregon home. Other sources in Portland …

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Richard Socarides And Wayne Besen Discuss Marriage Equality And SCOTUS

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Wayne Besen Interviews Former “Ex-Gay” Researcher Dr. Robert Spitzer

Truth Wins Out founder Wayne Besen sends us his interview with Dr. Robert Spitzer, who earlier this month renounced his own study claiming that people can change their sexual attractions. Spitzer’s now worthless study continues to be cited by hate groups and the enemies of civil equality.

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Federal Court Dismisses Libel Suit Against PFOX “Ex-Gay” Activist Greg Quinlan

After wacko “ex-gay” weirdo Greg Quinlan told a live television audience that Truth Wins Out founder Wayne Besen had threatened to “inject him with AIDS,” Besen sued him for libel when Quinlan refused to retract his statement. That suit was thrown out this week by a federal judge. Although Besen argued the contrary, Hudson found that Besen qualifies as a …

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Has Another “Ex-Gay” Given Up?

You may remember John Paulk as the nationally infamous “ex-gay” activist once touted on the cover of Newsweek as the poster boy and chairman for Exodus International. Paulk was chased out of the organization some time later after activist Wayne Besen accosted him in a DC gay bar, where Paulk claimed he had only dropped in to get directions on …

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Ex-Gay Researcher Repudiates His Own Study: I Had It All Entirely Wrong

The nation’s most famous/infamous “ex-gay” researcher today renounced his best known study, work that is heavily cited by anti-gay and Christianist hate groups. In a move that serves as a significant blow to “ex-gay” programs and anti-gay organizations, Dr. Robert Spitzer repudiated his much-criticized 2001 study that claimed some “highly motivated” homosexuals could go from gay to straight. His retraction …

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UPDATE: MSNBC Says “It Was Our Fault”
Maggie FLAKES On MSNBC Interview

We can stop our chortling, Maggie Gallagher did NOT flake on her interview. MSNBC host Thomas Roberts just tweeted: MYSTERY solved… @maggiemarriage was in a studio ready for our #nom interview it was just the wrong studio booked improperly on @msnbc_booking IT WAS OUR MISTAKE and she has an open invite for the show. Our sincerest apologies. Well, that was …

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Truth Wins Out Sues “Ex-Gays”

As was threatened last month, Truth Wins Out has filed a defamation suit against the “ex-gay” group PFOX after its leader claimed on television that TWO leader Wayne Besen had tried to have him murdered. “We will not let PFOX’s outright lies and bizarre fabrications go unanswered,” said TWO Executive Director Wayne Besen. “Greg Quinlan’s false allegations were deviously designed …

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ATLANTA: SPLC And Truth Wins Out To Protest “Ex-Gay” Conference

The Southern Poverty Law Center and Truth Wins Out are in Atlanta today to protest the Exodus International convention. Via SPLC press release: Conversion therapy — sometimes known as reparative or “sexual reorientation” therapy — is a dangerous practice based on the premise that people can change their sexual orientation, literally “converting” from gay to straight. It has been discredited …

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TODAY: Truth Wins Out Publishes Full-Page Anti-Gingrich Ad In DC Paper

The above full-page ad will appear in today’s edition of Roll Call in Washington DC. “Newt Gingrich must be blind not to see the glaring dissonance between his belief that he should have whatever kinds of marriages – open or otherwise — that he wants, and his stated conviction that LGBT Americans shouldn’t be allowed to marry at all,” said …

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Romney Foundation Gave To “Ex-Gays”

Last night Rachel Maddow and Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out delved into the donations made by a Romney foundation. I recently mentioned the anti-gay groups that get Romney money, but as Besen explains, at least one of those groups also advocates for “ex-gay” therapy.

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Truth Wins Out To Run Full-Page Ad Calling For Resignation Of Cardinal George

The ad will run in this Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. Via press release: Truth Wins Out stepped up its campaign calling on Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George to resign today by placing a full-page ad in this upcoming Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. The ad is headlined, “Hey, Cardinal Francis George, Gay is not like the KKK,” and slams the Cardinal for foolishly …

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HomoQuotable – Greg Quinlan

“Wayne, if you really feel you must waste money you could be using to bash ex-gays, bully Christian churchgoers and spread the lie that people who are trapped in unwanted homosexuality can never escape it, I say knock yourself out. We’re happy to countersue and expose the hundreds of smears you and Truth Wins Out have lodged against me and …

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Gay Group To Sue “Ex-Gay” Tool?

“Truth Wins Out if you look further, including Wayne Besen. He’s asked for people, you know, somebody needs to run Greg over. He needs to be hit with a bus. Somebody should inject him with AIDS. Those are the things that Wayne Besen and Truth WIns Out says about me. That’s pretty hateful rhetoric.” – PFOX president Greg Quinlan, speaking …

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Linda Harvey: I Should Sue Wayne Besen

Linda Harvey is threatening to sue Wayne Besen for a post published yesterday on Truth Wins Out. In the post, Besen notes that Harvey has endorsed Uganda’s still-pending “kill gays” bill. Her exact words: “The fact they are re-criminalizing homosexuality is (a) their business, (b) it is patronizing for white Westerners to be telling these folks — they are seeing …

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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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Opposition To Confession App Mounts

Last week the Catholic Church launched a confession app for smart phones, leading some LGBT activists to denounce its makers as promoting anti-gay spiritual abuse. One portion of the app demands to know if the operator has been “guilty of any homosexual activity.” Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out, a group that campaigns on behalf of lesbian, gay, …

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