MCC: A Gay Church, LGBTQ Church, Human Rights Church & More

Contents:

• GAY SACRAMENTO
• GAY REVEREND VASTATED AFTER PRI FLAG SET ON FIRE SPECTED HATE CRIME
• LATVIAN ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SPILLS OVER TO U.S.
• SLAVIC FUNDAMENTALISTS, NEW TO U.S., RAIL AT GAYS

GAY SACRAMENTO

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GAY REVEREND VASTATED AFTER PRI FLAG SET ON FIRE SPECTED HATE CRIME

Jimenez started the nference 2016 after gag natnal notoriety for praisg the mass shootg of 49 people at a gay nightclub Orlando, nference’s seven preachers are part of a work of about 30 church lled the New Inpennt Fundamental Baptist Movement, which, experts on hate and extremism say, is growg and spreadg vlent rhetoric over the ter an era when hate crim agast LGBTQ people are nference took place Jimenez’s storeont church six om the state Capol. 5 ln people the Goln State backed Print Tmp 2016, and there are movements to create a “sanctuary cy” for guns and to rve a separate State of Jefferson out of California’s ral, nservative northern to gay rights, the state spent years urt battlg the voter-approved Proposn 8, the 2008 measure that banned same-sex marriage until was overturned 2013.

Jimenez, 33, opened by sayg that although the media pict gay people as “a ltle flamboyant” and “kd of funny, ” he believed they were a danger to children. (That belief — also ced by Catholic bishops seekg a spegoat for sexual abe by prits — has long been discreded by studi showg no nnectn between homosexualy and pedophilia. In 2016, he was ported om Botswana, which crimalized gay sex June, after sayg on the rad that gay people should be stoned to New IFB Movement is a 21st century offshoot of the Inpennt Fundamental Baptist movement, which emerged the 1940s as a rponse to growg liberalism large Amerin nomatns, said John Fea, a profsor of Amerin history at Msiah College Pennsylvania who has studied fundamentalism.

LATVIAN ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SPILLS OVER TO U.S.

The Uned Methodist Church this year tightened s ban on gay clergy and same-sex marriage, a cisn that uld spl the nomatn.

SLAVIC FUNDAMENTALISTS, NEW TO U.S., RAIL AT GAYS

In June, the Southern Baptist Conventn adopted a rolutn disuragg the phrase “gay Christian” bee nsirs same-sex attractn a “sful sire.

Weapon” — Sodome Apolypse Defense — and envisns a day when gay people surround his hoe like zombi, tryg to get to avoid God’s wrath. All people s and n be saved, she said — except those who m certa “unnatural” ss like homosexualy, pedophilia and btialy.

”Spenser Frz, a gay man, sued Jimenez, the church and a parishner, sayg Jimenez’s anti-gay sermons spired the parishner to shove him durg the the ongog lawsu, Frz said he saw “a small child, no olr than 5, ” peerg through the door at protters. Bethany Slavic Missnary Church don’t shy away om giant Pentestal church near Rancho Cordova, one of the rnerston of the Sacramento area’s Eastern European immigrant muny, jected self to a fierce and borrle vlent bate over gay rights more than a ago, earng reb om elected officials and srn om the gay muny over s year, s members participated protts at the state Capol agast a bill that strengthened California’s vaccatn now Bethany Slavic and s 3, 500 members have found themselv acced by Sacramento County health officials of blatantly vlatg the stay-at-home orrs signed to slow the spread of the ronavis.

He hanged himself protters clash wh LGBT munyJerry Sloan, a -founr of Sacramento’s LGBT Communy Center, n still remember the tensn ripplg through the cy’s annual gay pri para.

“They were knockg people off their bik, they were sptg on people, ” Sloan 2006, the gay muny and Slavic Christians were a pched battle over ee speech, relig valu and gay rights.