Tag: Christian evangelicals

Jim Bakker — yes, the former host of the Praise the Lord (PTL) club with his then wife Tammy Faye Bakker who was busted for fraud and sexual misconduct in the late 1980s and early 1990s — has been making a comeback over the last few years, combining hard-right religious conservatism with “doomsday prepping” and good old-fashioned hucksterism.  Alongside his support of President Trump and others on the right, Bakker regularly claims natural disasters such as hurricanes Harvey and Matthew,...

The Evangelical Covenant Church, a 134-year-old denomination of the American evangelical church, voted this past weekend to defrock pastor Dan Collison and expel his church First Covenant Church of Minneapolis for permitting a staff member to officiate same-sex marriage in 2014. The Guardian explains what actions got the church and its pastor censured: “In 2014, a First Covenant staff member officiated at an offsite wedding of two women from the church worship band. The church has also put out a “love...

According to Diane Gramley, head of the American Family Association’s (AFA) Pennsylvania chapter, the 1969 Stonewall uprising wasn’t caused by queer people fighting against police harassment, it was caused by police trying to rescue a young transgender boy who was being sexually abused by the bar’s queer patrons. Gramley made the baseless claim on a recent broadcast of Stand in the Gap, a radio show produced by the American Pastors Network, a largely evangelical, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ group who believes...