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Wayne Besen


Last Updated: 6/4/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 39
Sign: Cancer

City: BROOKLYN
State: New York
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/16/2007

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Thursday, January 03, 2008 

Category: News and Politics
NEW YORK - TruthWinsOut.org today called Mike Huckabee's statements on Meet the Press about gay people backwards and also raised serious questions about his close association to the Christian Reconstructionist movement - which believes the Bible justifies stoning adulterers and homosexuals.  

On Meet The Press, host Tim Russert asked Huckabee, "When you say aberrant or unnatural, do you believe you're born gay or you choose to be gay?" The candidate replied, "I don't know whether people are born that way. People who are gay say that they're born that way. But one thing I know, that the behavior one practices is a choice. We may have certain tendencies, but how we behave and how we carry out our behavior..."

"It is alarming that a man with such backward views is a serious contender for the GOP nomination," said TruthWinsOut.org's Executive Director Wayne Besen.  "In the real world, people either act on their sexuality in healthy ways or act like Ted Haggard and Sen. Larry Craig - a tragic lesson that seems lost on Mike Huckabee."

Russert also pointed out that in Huckabee's 1998 book, "Kids Who Kill," the former governor wrote, "It is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and institutionally supported aberrations--from homosexuality and pedophilia to sadomasochism and necrophilia."  

Kids Who Kill was co-written by George Grant, a known Reconstructionist, who has also written fanatical books such as, "The Changing of the Guard: Biblical Principles for Political Action." The Cato Institute also reported that Huckabee held a fundraiser at the Houston home of Dr. Steven Hotze, another leader of the radical and dangerous Reconstructionist movement.

"Huckabee should explain why he is freely associating with known extremists and how this squares with his professed sunny and optimistic vision for America," said Besen. "Furthermore, the comparison of homosexuality to pedophilia and necrophilia is as ignorant as it is offensive. As the primaries approach, Mike Huckabee is beginning to show his true colors - and they are quite dark and intolerant."

TruthWinsOut.org is a non-profit organization that counters right wing propaganda, exposes the "ex-gay" myth and educates America about gay life. For more information, visit www.TruthWinsOut.org.
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Sunday, December 16, 2007 

Category: News and Politics
Dallas Voice Reveals That 'Convert' Was Bipolar – Not 'Ex-Gay'

NEW YORK – TruthWinsOut.org called on the leaders of several major Christian ministries to apologize to a family after they took advantage of their son, who suffered from bipolar disorder. The crass manipulation of James Stabile – and false sexual conversion on television outside of a Dallas gay bar – was deceptive, immoral and unchristian, said Truth Wins Out.

"This was predatory coercion, rather than a legitimate conversion," said Wayne Besen, Executive Director of TruthWinsOut.org. "The overzealous preachers were so intent on proving that gay people could change, that they never considered the damage they were doing to James Stabile and his family. Pat Robertson, Heartland World Ministries and Pure Life Ministries ought to apologize for dividing this family and fraudulently claiming that Stabile had become 'ex-gay.'"

The absurd drama began when televangelist Pat Robertson aired a segment on the 700 Club on a supposed biblical prophecy that claimed the Old Testament mentioned that Interstate 35 is the "highway to holiness." To fulfill this bizarre prophecy, Heartland World Ministries Church in Las Colinas staged so-called "purity sieges" on Friday nights at porn palaces, nightclubs and gay bars off of I-35 in Dallas. The group's favorite hangout is outside JR's nightclub, a popular watering hole for gay men.

On one night, Stabile, a 19-year-old gay atheist from Dallas, exited JR's after a few drinks and was approached by Heartland evangelist Joe Oden, the coordinator of the controversial sieges.

"He just barely touched me, and he said, 'Fire!' And I remember staggering backward, and I thought I was, like, tripping on acid," Stabile said in the widely seen 700 Club interview. "It was the weirdest thing ever. I didn't feel the desire to be with men like I had felt before."

Stabile had been evacuated to Pure Life Ministries, an ex-gay boot camp in Kentucky. It is the home of Michael Johnston, who was Rev. Jerry Falwell's personal ex-gay leader until TruthWinsOut.org's Wayne Besen and Virginia attorney Michael Hamer revealed that the HIV+ Johnston was having bareback orgies with men he met online.

According to the Voice, Stabile had been kicked out of Pure Life for being, what Oden termed, a "compulsive liar." The Voice contacted Stabile's father, Joseph, who is the pastor of Cochran Chapel United Methodist Church. It turns out, he accepts his son for being gay.

Furthermore, Joseph said that his son is not ex-gay, but bipolar and had stopped taking his medication. Indeed, Joseph told the Voice that the Heartland also may have advised James to throw away his medication, telling him that God would cure his bipolar disorder.

"James did not fit into the program [Pure Life] because their whole aim was to have him not be gay," his father said. James is now home – as gay as ever - with his supportive family.

"It turns out that James Stabile was saved – but it was from the predatory practices of the ex-gay ministries," said TruthWinsOut.org's Besen. "It is commonplace for these groups to take advantage of people who are in need of genuine professional care. They place these people in harms way, and then blame them when the miracle cure does not occur."

Additionally, Truth Wins Out introduced two new Internet Public Service Announcements today (IPSA) that show the absurdity of the ex-gay myth, while rebutting the blatant fear tactics that these organizations use to recruit new members. The organization is urging all bloggers and websites to consider posting the ads.

Truth Wins OUT is a non-profit organization that counters right wing propaganda, exposes the "ex-gay" myth and educates America about gay life. For more information, visit www.TruthWinsOut.org.
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