After years of stg abandoned on Church Street, the buildg that once hoed one of Toronto's most inic gay nightclubs uld soon transform i...
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The rabow "Equaly Hoe" is loted across the street om the anti-gay Wtboro Baptist Church.
When Aaron Jackson found a property for sale across the street om the Wtboro Baptist Church Topeka, Kansas, right away he had the ia to buy the hoe and pat the lors of the Pri founr of Plantg Peace — a global nonprof whose iativ clu environmental nservatn and LGBTQ advocy mpaigns — Jackson wanted to make a statement wh his choice of pat a number of relig groups are supportive of LGBTQ cln and equaly, acrdg to the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), the Wtboro Baptist Church is not one of anizatn is nsired to be an extremist and anti-gay relig group, acrdg to the Southern Poverty Law Center. And s members believe that homosexualy is a s, acrdg to the church's webse (which clus a homophobic ephet s URL).
Left: A sign above an entrance to the Wtboro Baptist Church photographed Augt 2014 says that homosexuals will suffer "the vengeance of eternal fire. As NBC reported at the time, Jackson and thori disvered anti-gay graffi as well as seven bullet hol on the outsi of the home.
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Visors started wrg posive msag on the outsi of the Equaly Hoe after was vandalized wh antigay graffi 2016, Jackson told Insir.
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