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Saturday, October 27
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It strikes us as strange that events way off in those little Baltic states of Europe can take on local significance, but with a homophobic preacher like Ken Hutcherson in our back yard, what happens there does indeed affect those of us here who care in some way about LGBTQ rights. We saw that last week when Hutcherson and his partners tried to bring to Lynnwood a group of like-minded homophobes. One of the invited guests of the conference (and we're not sure if he made it) was the Russian-speaking preacher Alexey Ledyaev who operates New Generation Church in Riga, Latvia. And that brings us...
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Sunday, July 22
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A portrait of Satender Singh rests on his grandmother's table. Sacramento Bee photo by Kevin German Anti-gay American crusaders, including Redmond's Ken Hutcherson and Oregon's Scott Lively have celebrated the anti-gay energy brought to their movements by evangelical churches for Russian-speaking emigres from former Soviet republics. A recent assault in Sacramento shows the danger of that "energy" when misdirected. The death in Sacramento early this month of Satender Singh, a 26-year old immigrant from Fiji, has riled tensions there between the city's large Slavic immigrant...
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