Stedfast Baptist pastor Jonathan Shelley Homophobic church Stedfast Baptist is once again being forced to vacate leased premises, pastor Jonathan Shelley said in a video posted to YouTube on Sunday, Dec.
18. The church, known for its pastors’ hateful rhetoric targeting LGBTQ people, must get out of facilities at 6900 Denton Highway in Watauga by the end of the year.
The church was evicted from its previous facilities in Hurst in 2021, thanks in large part to weekly protests staged by a group known as No Hate in Hurst.
When the church moved to Watauga, protesters changed the name of their group to No Hate in Texas and stepped up their efforts. “We’re actually, unfortunately, going to have to move again for next year,” Shelley says, while apparently filming himself in the parking lot of the Watauga address.