Preacher

Venues are canceling Graham because of his anti-LGBTQ hate speech.

Evangelical pastor David Grisham recorded himself trying to “teach” kids “that Christmas is about Jesus Christ.”

Anti-LGBTQ preacher Flip Benham warns “blood is going to course down the corridors of our schools, our workplaces and our streets” if Charlotte mayor doesn’t repent.

Dean Saxton was arrested for assaulting a woman who challenged his message that gay people are “destroying the country.”

HARRISONBURG, Va. — When an anti-gay preacher stood outside of a James Madison University library in Harrisonburg, Va., this week, to preach the sinfulness of homosexuality, he was greeted by students sharing a song about love and tolerance. The unidentified preacher was drowned by a chorus of more than 100 student voices singing the song “How He Loves.”

ST. PAUL, Minn. — There are a couple of clues that the mobile kitchen parked every Thursday at lunchtime on Payne Avenue on St. Paul’s East Side this summer isn’t just another food truck. First of all, the food — hot calzones — is free. And the person who drives the truck is a young woman in a clerical collar who likes to say, “Peace be with you.”

I read that James Edward Belcher, a preacher, is prosecuting his abuser, a grandmother, for abusing him with unwanted advances in public. It shows me how preachers are created — abusers make them somehow become preachers to try to shake off the abuse.

A North Carolina woman and gay rights supporter has been charged with assault after kissing an anti-gay preacher at a pride event in North Carolina last weekend.