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Our Town's PRIDE Festival Was a Beautiful, Joyful Celebration of Community. Then, The "Christians" Showed Up.
“And they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” - Christian hymn
As a longtime progressive pastor, I’ve come to understand that there are few people as unloving as Conservative Evangelicals claiming to hate the sin but love the sinner.
And yet, when the snarling ugliness is a few feet away from you, showing you just how unloving it intends to be, it’s always disorienting.
Yesterday, for the second year, our town of Wake Forest held a Pride Festival in our quaint, historic downtown area. As I turned the corner and entered the blocks of the festival grounds, I was immediately taken aback by…
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