From Salon.com:
Obama’s unparalleled spy state
Another blockbuster: New revelations expose the NSA and FBI's vast online surveillance powers
Now we know for sure: The Obama administration has presided over the most thorough expansion of the domestic surveillance state of any U.S. presidency 

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On a different note completely:
“Ex-gay” Christian group shuts down following bombshell apology
Exodus International is closing its doors after apologizing for decades of promoting discredited "ex-gay" therapies 

We actually had one of these guys speak to us at CHIC (Covenant High Congress) in 1994.
At least I think he was from Exodus.  Or if not, then he was from a similar group.
He claimed to be a former homosexual, who had learned how to conquer his sinful desires through Christianity and was now a fully practicing heterosexual.  The message was that, contrary to what the liberal media might tell us, homosexuality was a choice and could be controlled and changed.

...I just searched the Internet now to see if I could find anything on him, but very little information is coming up for CHIC 1994.
The only thing I could even find that referenced CHIC 1994 was this article here:

Sixteen-year-old Tim Shanahan doesn't curse as much as he used to. He changed his habit after attending an eye-opening national youth convention a few weeks ago.
The Manchester High School senior was one of 14 teenagers from Trinity Covenant Church's youth group who attended the weeklong convention at Colorado State University in Colorado Springs July 16to 22.

Shanahan said that he never drank or used drugs, practices he ascribed to ``typical teens,'' but that he did swear frequently. The convention has made him self-conscious about uttering language he now considers bad.
 and then later: The cost for each student was $800. Trinity youths earned $11,000 in the past two years, raising money with an auction, dinners, food sales, yard work and babysitting.

A lot of money.  But I suppose if it gets some 16 year old kid to feel guilty about meaningless phonetic utterances that someone else has arbitrarily decided are in bad taste, then it's time and money well spent.

....One other thing popped up while doing a google search on CHIC: this memoir from a former CHIC counselor gone rogue.  An interesting piece. I think I agree with him ideologically, although he comes off sounding a little bit too self-satisfied with himself.  Nonetheless, worth a quick look perhaps.