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Contents:

• ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
• SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
• ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA
• A NEW FILM BRGS CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ANTI-GAY PURGE TO THE SCREEN
• STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM
• ANTI-GAY ‘DOCUMENTARY’: GAYS ‘GROOMG’ KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
• GOP PRINTIAL HOPEFULS AND MEMBERS OF CONGRS APPEAR IN NEW ANTI-GAY ‘DOCUMENTARY’
• REPUBLIN LEARS JO ANTI-GAY EXTREMISTS FOR INSANE DOCUMENTARY
• 'GOD LOV UGANDA': HOW RELIGN FUELED AN ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT

‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE

1946: The Mistranslatn That Shifted Culture is a feature documentary that follows the story of tirels rearchers who trace the origs of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslatn of the Bible 1946. While other documentari have been succsful their attempt to treat the symptom of homophobia the church, 1946 is workg to diagnose and treat the disease - Biblil Leralism. Movi|‘Pray Away’ Review: Atong for an Anti-Gay Stance ADVERTISEMENTIn this documentary, people who had promoted the ia that sexual orientatn uld be changed exprs their AwayDirected by Kriste StolakisDocumentaryPG-131h 41mThe Netflix documentary “Pray Away” profil several people who, the public sphere and the ntext of Christiany-cloaked “nversn therapy, ” peddled the ia that homosexualy uld be changed, and who now regret the sufferg they ed.

Michael Bsee, a founr of Exod Internatnal, nsired one of the major anizatns that preached that sexual orientatn uld be changed, was both an early promoter and an early harms nversn therapy , and the tactics , aren’t news at this pot, and “Pray Away” is more tertg when foc on how most of s subjects eventually embraced gay and bisexual inti spe havg formerly been so public their homophobia. More than three s after a serial killer began preyg upon gay and bisexual men at bars New York Cy, the victims and their fai, as well as the activists who fought to brg the elive murrer to jtice, are the subjects of a four-part doceri that premier Sunday on HBO and Max.

SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

Rogers was acquted a nonjury trial a few months leadg their own vtigatn to the victims wh sensivy, the creative team wanted to “peel back the onn of homophobia” by creatg the faiar feelg of most te-crime documentari — and then addg a queer twist, Caronna said. "By the time we get to 1973, I hope we set up enough so that the dience go, ‘Oh, my God, this is jt another example of extreme homophobia that allowed the murrs to keep happeng, ’” he said. Gertler said one of the big them of “Last Call” is “the way that stutnalized homophobia and transphobia works, and that was one of the most horrifyg thgs [they disvered] when we were dog our own diggg and reportg to the circumstanc around the 1973 murr and trial and the 1988 asslt and trial.

A film about good Christians showg their love for gays by preachg to them and breakg up their relatnships, padd wh lots of footage of preacher Ray Comfort's street terviews. "Joni Table Talk" often featur guts who are anti-gay and/or "ex-gay", cludg Michael Brown, Joe Dallas, Dennis Jernigan, Anne Plk. The film foc on activists workg day and night unr extreme durs to rcue plete strangers om a vlent purge of gay men Chechnya.

And I already knew every gome tail of Chechnya’s anti-gay purge of 2017, documented our own report They Have Long Arms and They Can Fd Me, and portrayed so vividly this remarkable documentary. Between Febary and April 2017, Chechnya’s law enforcement and secury officials round up dozens of men on spicn of beg gay, held them unofficial tentn facili for days, huiated, starved and tortured them.

ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA

The passage of the law saw an uptick  homophobic vlence  Rsia, cludg by vigilante groups who were sufficiently embolned to film and post onle their nigratn and abe of young gay men. Official hostily toward “non-tradnal sexual relatns” predictably led Chechen thori to nclu that gay men uld be round up, disappeared and tortured wh impuny. Unfortunately, the revised versn of the RSV which replaced “homosexual” wh “sexual perverts” wasn’t published until 1971 — 25 years after the mistranslatn occurred.

A NEW FILM BRGS CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ANTI-GAY PURGE TO THE SCREEN

Today, the mise of the word “homosexual” appears most translatns of the Bible, namely 1 Corthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10.

STEELERS: HOW ANTI-GAY ROW SPIRED GBY FILM

""The filmmakers (some of whom are gay and/or have gay children) are dited, life-long, Liberal Democrats, " the statement said.

Republin printial ndidat Mike Huckabee and Rand Pl, along wh several GOP ngrsmen, recently appeared an anti-gay documentary lled “Light Ws. ” They joed several ge activists, cludg Theodore Shoebat, who lls for the executn of gay people, and Stt Lively, the pastor who helped craft Uganda’s notor anti-homosexualy law, the film, which was the brachild of extreme anti-gay activist and former Huckabee mpaign official Ja Porter. Peter LaBarbera of Amerins For Tth About Homosexualy says that schools now teach kids “dangero sexual practic unr the guise of equaly” and Dr.

Judh Reisman, the Liberty Universy law profsor, says that public schools that make “out gay novels” available to stunts are all vlatg feral obsceny laws bee such schools effectively “groom children for sex. The words "homosexual" and "heterosexual" were first ed as German nouns by Atrian-born Hungarian psychologist, Karoly Maria Benkert, the late 19th century, who wrote unr psdonym K. A gay Christian, as well as a graduate of the Talbot School of Theology, his specialty is the history of the Bible, focg on Bible translatns, wh a foc on the Greek and Hebrew translatns, pecially those that relate to human sexualy.

ANTI-GAY ‘DOCUMENTARY’: GAYS ‘GROOMG’ KIDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Kathy Baldock is an LGBTQ+ advote and executive director of Canyon Walker Connectns, an anizatn dited to repairg "the divisn that exists between social and Christian nservativ and the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny through tn, trag, and dialogue both secular and relig environments. "Each had been dited to rearchg the roots of antigay theology, and together have wrten Fg a Sacred Weapon: How the Bible Beme Anti-Gay, and they are also the rearchers behd the documentary, 1946: The Mistranslatn That Shifted Culture. "This is important to know, bee the actual word "homosexual" appears for the first time on Febary 11, 1946 the Revised Standard Versn.

In , their translatn of 1 Corthians 6:9, they substute the word "homosexual" for the the Greek words "malakoi" and "arsenokoai. ' So we went to 1 Corthians to see how they translated arsenokoai (origal Greek word) and stead of homosexuals said, 'Boy molters will not her the kgdom of God. '"Although the mistake was rrected om "homosexual" to "sexual perverts" the Revised Standard Versn 1971, the damage had been heavily done, wh the word "homosexual" appearg most translatns of the Bible, mostly 1 Corthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10.

This beme the fuel for the antigay movement embraced by Amerin nservative Christians, as well as others around the documentary, 1946, explor and enlightens about this issue, g rearch and physil evince, as well as the ttimony of scholars, amics, and experts the field.

GOP PRINTIAL HOPEFULS AND MEMBERS OF CONGRS APPEAR IN NEW ANTI-GAY ‘DOCUMENTARY’

Back 2014, extremist anti-gay activist Stt Lively appeared a vilently anti-gay documentary that aired on Rsian televisn:. The film was produced by famoly anti-gay TV host Arkady Mamontov, who once implied that the Chelyabsk meteore explosn was ed by the gay rights movement. “This anizatn, stead of focg on the te needs of people around the world, they are tryg to clare that homosexualy is a human right, ” Lively says.

REPUBLIN LEARS JO ANTI-GAY EXTREMISTS FOR INSANE DOCUMENTARY

It begs by reuntg the story of Sodom and Gomorrah before clarg that the “Phoenician mon” that was at work there is still “satiatg his belly wh human sacrific [and] vourg youth and children today” through gay rights activism.

They mt nquer every opponent and the spir that has produced this book, this false Bible, this gay theology is the hery of the morn world. Today, Fah 2 Actn’s Ja Porter sent out an email to activists excedly announcg that she is fishg up edg a new anti-gay documentary that she tends to release at the Natnal Relig Broadster’s Conventn Nashville at the end of this month. Porter, who was a longtime Relig Right activist and rad host until she lost her program due to her creasg radilism only to re-emerge as an anti-abortn activist and right-wg social media entreprenr, has brought together a who’s who of hardle anti-gay activists, members of Congrs, and printial hopefuls for her film entled “Light Ws: How To Overe The Crimalizatn Of Christiany.

Rand Pl, Mike Huckabee, David Barton, Jam Dobson, Mat Staver, Phyllis Schlafly, Stt Lively, Alveda Kg, Brian Camenker, Frank Pavone, Robert Knight, John Stemberger, and, of urse, Porter herself, who n been seen walkg around the woods wh a lantern, warng that gay activists are seekg to turn Christians to crimals:.

'GOD LOV UGANDA': HOW RELIGN FUELED AN ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT

Porter released a separate preview of the film today, featurg a clip which she blasts the Boy Suts for havg “needlsly ved to a dark sexual agenda” by allowg gay Suts to jo the anizatn while Knight and Stemberger warn that, as a rult, the Boy Suts will soon face “homosexual sndals” jt like Penn State and the Catholic Church:. Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Steve Kg and Tim Huelskamp also make appearanc, jog the lik of creatnist lear Ken Ham, discreded psdo-historian David Barton and even “ex-homosexuals. Stt Lively, the Relig Right activist who phed for laws crimalizg homosexualy Uganda and banng pro-gay-rights speech Rsia, is also a featured gut.

Not only do Lively believe that Obama is the Antichrist and claim that gay weddg songs ed Noah’s flood, but he even wrote a book, The Pk Swastika, blamg gay people for the Holot. Porter has built que a reputatn for claimg that Print Obama is set to lerally imprison, starve and murr his polil opponents and that the gay rights movement will stroy eedom as we know . Said that the Shepard-Byrd Hate Crime Law will make a felony to refe the “unwele advance” om a gay person, give legal protectns to pedophil and imprison pastors.

Insisted that she will soon be arrted for opposg LGBT rights bee “people who disagree wh homosexual behavr will … go to jail. Worked to promote opposn to gay rights wh anti-Semic pastor Ted Pike, who believ that Jews will m an anti-Christian genoci to seek “world domn.