A Mass Shooting in the 'Evangelical Vatican'

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NEW on SAPIENS The recent violent attack on Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, happened in a place shaped by decades of anti-LGBTQ organizing by evangelical Christian groups.

In 2008, Colorado again debated whether to extend civil rights protection to cover LGBTQ citizens. The local conservative Christian radio stations ran ads on repeat dubbing the legislation “the Bathroom Bill,” as one element of it allowed trans people to use the public restrooms of their choice. Tom Minnery, then senior vice president at Focus on the Family Action , warned in aDespite these criticisms, then-Gov.

During my research, I heard dozens of stories of evangelicals and ex-evangelicals losing their religious and social communities, families, and sometimes their faith in response to either coming out as LGBTQ or taking a position supporting LGBTQ rights. Parents who supported a gay or lesbian child were told by church elders to either quit posting photos of their child on social media or to leave their church. People were fired from church positions if they came out in support of LGBTQ rights.

 

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