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What counts as change in the ex-gay context often looks quite different from what cultural outsiders might expect. A recent NPR story left out the fact that Wyler was married and had children at the time of his conversion therapy, not a single gay man living in L.A. making a rational decision between gay life and religious and family life, as the story depicted. It is not surprising that a fourteen-year marriage would be a strong pull toward resolving an identity clash in favor of existing commitments—especially when those commitments are seen as reflections of God’s will.

The people who gathered at Reliant Stadium are not just Rick Perry’s spiritual army, raised up, as Perry and others imagine it, in the spirit of Joel 2 to sound an alarm and prepare the people for Judgment Day. They are the ground troops the religious right set out four decades ago to create, and duplicate over generations, for the ongoing culture wars.

The senator’s passing reminds us that “liberal Republican” wasn’t always an oxymoron.

Questioned anti-communist Christian crusaders of the Cold War era.

“We believed that our listeners are well informed about (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues and thus would not need to have this spelled out…”

The Ombudsman for NPR responds to criticism of this week’s story on ex-gay reparative therapy.

Conversion therapy is a religious experiment, not a “health” treatment.

A roundup of religion headlines.

What NPR didn’t tell you about how Rich Wyler became “ex-gay.”

Host of Perry prayer rally under the microscope.