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Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Grove City College, author of Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President, co-founder of the Golden Rule Pledge, co-author of the Sexual Identity Therapy Framework, and past president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association.

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David Barton Justifies Destruction of Indian Tribes

(2) Comments | Posted March 28, 2013 | 2:30 PM

Late last week on his Wallbuilders Live broadcast, evangelical writer David Barton addressed just war theory and conduct toward nations who don't follow conventions of war. In doing so, he justified the destruction of Indian tribes by English settlers:

What happened was the Indian leaders said "they're...

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NARTH Loses Tax Exempt Status

(1) Comments | Posted March 24, 2013 | 10:25 AM

In September 2012, the tax exempt status of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) was revoked due to failure to file Form 990 for three consecutive years. The notice of revocation was posted on March 11 according to the IRS website:

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Thomas Jefferson: American Enigma

(12) Comments | Posted July 3, 2012 | 10:51 AM

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."

This week we celebrate the independence declared and won during the founding era of...

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Did Virginia Law Prevent Thomas Jefferson From Freeing His Slaves?

(17) Comments | Posted June 6, 2012 | 4:17 PM

Nearly two centuries after his death, Thomas Jefferson continues to be the subject of competing claims about his public policy and his private beliefs. Over time, public discussion of Jefferson waxes and wanes, but, of late, has heightened due to the publication of evangelical writer David Barton's new book, "The...

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Take the Jefferson Quiz

(2) Comments | Posted May 8, 2012 | 11:43 AM

Interest in Thomas Jefferson never seems to fade. Our third President was a multi-faceted Founder who helped guide the early United States to codify religious liberty and freedom of conscience. Two centuries after Jefferson left the presidency, he is still the subject of competing claims about his public policy and...

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Dominionism? What Dominionism?

(12) Comments | Posted September 14, 2011 | 5:16 PM

Some in the Christian right have a memory problem. If I was diagnosing it, I would call it amnesia or maybe denial. They have forgotten who they are and whence they came.

Christian reconstructionist Gary North has no such amnesia. He has been a fellow traveler with the Christian Right...

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David Barton Misleads Focus on the Family on Death Penalty Case

(1) Comments | Posted July 13, 2011 | 11:06 AM

At the beginning of July, Focus on the Family rebroadcast a speech by David Barton, titled the Founding of America. In the address, Barton, history adviser to GOP Presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich, sought to make the case that institutions of American government have become hostile...

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Experts and Homosexuality: Don't Try This at Home

(67) Comments | Posted June 9, 2011 | 12:36 PM

Last week, Chuck Colson used his Breakpoint radio show and column to promote the theory that one can prevent homosexuality by altering parent-child relations. To prevent male homosexuality, Colson wrote, "early intervention, in which the boy's father learns how to be both strong and...

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What's Next for Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill? (UPDATE)

(9) Comments | Posted May 12, 2011 | 4:37 PM

Scroll to the bottom for an update on the situation.

This week nearly 2 million people from around the world have signed online petitions urging Uganda's politicians to reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The bill, introduced by MP David Bahati in October 2009, would make all same-sex intimacy punishable by life...

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