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Monday, June 23
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Hutch: Qblog , Qnews Pastor Ken Hutcherson believes that a challenge to his authority, as happened in January at Mount Si High School, constitutes discrimination, but he just can't get anyone to listen. He sent this message to his "Prayer Warriors" today: This past Sunday I was preaching on Romans 2:11 which says God is no respecter of persons. I was informed last week that this is not true of Governor Christine Gregoire and the State of Washington. There is extreme favoritism in this state. I was informed by Rosalund Jenkins, head of the Commission on African American Affairs for...
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Friday, April 18
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Hutch: Qblog , Qnews King shooting Ken Hutcherson has asked his "Prayer Warriors" to join him on April 25 as he stages a protest of the Day of Silence observance at Mount Si High School. This is the message he sent to the Antioch Bible Church mailing list today: Prayer Warriors, it's time to put on your knee pads and start praying! I am organizing a protest of Mt. Si High School and the Snoqualmie Valley School District. We will be protesting at Mt. Si High School on the Day of Silence, April 25 at 10:00 am. We have taken out a huge ad in the Snoqualmie Valley newspaper which will...
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Thursday, March 06
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Rev. Ken Hutcherson declared what he called a 'war' on February 15 when he learned that a poster for the Gay/Straight Alliance was displayed at the school his daughter attends, Mt. Si High School in Snoqualmie. Update: see Qnews summary of Times and PI coverage of meeting: Day of Silence at Mt. Si High prompts loud controversy at Washington school GLSEN has put out a call for those who live in the area to attend a meeting of the school board tonight at 7:30 when issues raised by the pastor's battle-call are likely to be discussed. We would love people from the Snoqualmie Valley School...
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Thursday, November 15
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Hutch: Qblog , Qnews Really, when you think about it, you've gotta have a bit of sympathy for Redmond's anti-gay preacher Ken Hutcherson. He competes for attention in a crowded field of anti-gay ministers and doesn't seem to make much headway. Despite his constant appeals for media attention, he couldn't even make it onto Queerty 's list of top-20 anti-gay activists . For weeks now, he's been hinting on his "Prayer Warriors" mailing list that he was about to make a big splash with a program to target companies that offer employment equality to their LGB workers...
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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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Thursday, October 18
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Yesterday, Ken Hutcherson sent to his "Prayer Warriors" this missive: Please pray for me as I speak at the Watchmen on the Wall Conference this weekend. There has been misinformation and lies told about the conference. Pray that there will be a good turnout and there will be a clear presentation about what God is and isn't pleased with. Indeed. There's probably been a wealth of misinformation -- starting, of course, with the misinformation about their project given to the Lynnwood Convention Center by the conference sponsors when they booked the center. Part of the cause of the...
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Wednesday, October 17
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UK Gay News is a website that has -- along with its wonderfully inclusive daily summery of gay-related news stories -- done more than any other to recount the frightening flowering of often-violent homophobia that has accompanied the re-emergence of religious institutions in the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This week, their focus turned slightly to the west as Eastern European homophobes prepare to meet with some of their American fellow-travelers in Lynnwood. UK Gay News combines a summary of the week's developments here with one of those lessons in Latvian politics that has become...
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Tuesday, October 16
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In its weekend editions, The Herald (Everett) has a thorough and informative story by Jackson Holz on this week's anti-gay conference in Lynnwood. (The link comes to us via Orcinus blog that has been closely following developments with the conference hosted by virulently anti-gay group Watchmen on the Walls.) The chairman of the quasi-public group responsible for booking the center refused to admit to the Herald's Holz there is anything untoward about this group. "Our understanding is that they're law-abiding. They have a right of free speech just like any other group," said...
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Monday, October 15
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We suspect that Pastor Hutch will be sending out a missive to his "Prayer Warriors" asking them to intercede on his behalf because he's been left off of Part 1 of a list compiled by widely-read blog, Queerty , of the " 20 most frightful anti-gay activists ." Hutcherson, after all, appears to consider himself to be a major player in this hate game and would probably be offended not to be given 'props' in such a list. But you've gotta hand it to the Redmond preacher, he's doing his best to get his name into the top of any future collection of that sort. He's...
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Monday, October 15
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David Schmader at Slog has the CYA memo issued by Lynnwood's mayor about the Watchmen event being held this weekend at the city's convention center. The mayor takes pains to point out that his city doesn't have anything to do with scheduling events at the Convention Center. • The City of Lynnwood does not make decisions as to who rents or uses the convention center. • The City of Lynnwood did not have advance knowledge, nor has it "approved," nor does it support, nor is it "hosting," the "Watchmen on the Wall" Event. But first -- and just in case the not...
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Sunday, October 14
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Lynnwood Convention Center According to figures posted on the Lynnwood Convention Center's website , organizers of the hate-group conference scheduled...
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Sunday, October 14
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The violently anti-gay group 'Watchmen on the Walls' will hold a conference this week in Lynnwood, reports the blog BoxTurtle Bulletin . What the...
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Friday, October 05
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AlterNet offers a great report today by Casey Sanchez of Intelligence Report . The extensive report begins and ends with the tragic death of a Sacramento man. In between, Sanchez ties together the international anti-gay evangelical cabal spearheaded by...
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Wednesday, August 22
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One of two suspects in the hate-crime death of a Sacramento man entered a plea today of not guilty. Aleksandr Shevchenko, 21, faces a single felony count of intimidating and interfering with a person's rights, a charge that falls under the state's...
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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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Sunday, June 03
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After a Polish official briefly suggested last month that the character should be investigated, Tinky Winky became an unofficial mascot of the Riga Gay Pride celebration. UK Gay News photo With a huge police presence protecting them from counter-demonstrators, LGBTQ folk and their supporters celebrated Gay Pride in Riga, Latvia with a march through a city park. UK Gay News reports Around 1,200 people marched around the Vermanes Gardens at lunchtime as Riga staged, after two previous attempts, its Gay Pride. But it was not like most Prides around the world. Today was more of a walk around the park...
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Friday, June 01
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According to UK Gay News, Redmond preacher Ken Hutcherson is expected to join Oregon anti-gay activist Scott Lively this weekend in Latvia as anti-gay protesters seek to distrupt gay pride observances in Riga, capitol of the Baltic republic of Latvia. Scott Lively, the American author of The Pink Swastika, is reported to be already in Riga. "He has asked if he can attend the conference on family models in Latvia and Europe," a spokesperson for Mozaika, the organisers of Riga Friendship Days and Gay Pride, said last night. There are rumours here that the American preacher and former NFL...
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Thursday, May 10
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The Roman Catholic archbishop of Riga, Cardinal Janis Pujats, Latvia has issued a public letter asking his countrymen to take to the streets to oppose any attempt by gay and lesbian folks in the Baltic country to march. Riga Pride and Friendship Days is scheduled to start in less than four weeks. "If there are 1,000 sexually crazy people acting foolishly in the square of Pride, then the people's march in Riga should have at least 40,000 or 50,000," Pujats wrote. "That is a conflict situation. It would be better, therefore, if the provocative demonstration were to occur in a location...
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Thursday, April 26
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Crosscut , David Brewster's new online newspaper for the Northwest run largely by Seattle Weekly alumni, has -- and this is remarkable -- used the word "gay" in a headline today, " Young gay-rights opponents get vocal in Oregon ". That's news in itself, but more interesting is the story under the headline. Those young gay-rights opponents were mostly from Russian-language (Russophone) churches in Oregon. They provide a link that helps explain the reasons for the recent visits to Riga, Latvia by Redmond's Ken Hutcherson and Oregon haulocaust revisionist Scott Lively...
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Monday, April 02
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Viktors Birze, an anti-gay activist and right-wing politician in Latvia, will be prosecuted by Latvian authorities for violence that was aimed at the people who tried to hold a gay pride observation last year in the capitol city of Riga. The Riga regional prosecutor's office said that Birze and one of his supporters, Valdis Rosans, will be prosecuted for hooliganism in a group, causing bodily injuries and damage of property, and showing resistance to law enforcement authorities. Under the Latvian Penal Law, such crimes carry a sentence of up to seven years in jail. On July 22 2006, anti-gay...
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Thursday, March 29
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Latvian blogger Peteris Cedrins has added an extensive comment to an earlier post here in which we touched on religion in Latvia. Peteris confirms our suspicion that statements like Hutcherson's that "Latvia is a Christian nation" are more aspirational than factual. Given the interference of our local preacher in Latvian politics, Cedrins' comment deserves to be brought up here to the top. [We apologize that the Blogger software that we use in the background for this blog can't handle the diacritical marks that are used on most Latvian names, including Cedrins'.] by Peteris...
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Tuesday, March 27
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President George W. Bush signs a guest book after Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga presented him the Order of the Three Stars, First-Class at Riga Castle in Riga, Latvia, Saturday, May 7, 2005. Established in 1924 to commemorate the founding of the Latvian State, the medal is awarded to recognize outstanding civil merit in the service of Latvia. White House photo by Eric Draper Does Pastor and discrimination-activist Ken Hutcherson see in Latvia the possibility of creating the kind of church-based (or Christianist as Andrew Sullivan calls it ) government that he and his allies would like...
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Wednesday, March 21
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Prior post: Pride and hatred: Hutcherson's odd connection with Latvia's homophobes These are the domestic and regional political issues in Latvia into which US citizen Ken Hutcherson placed himself while making his still discredited claims that he had the power to speak for the White House: News item from Baltic Times, March 21 : Special Assignments Minister for Societal Integration Oskars Kastens said that Riga Pride, a gay and lesbian parade scheduled for May 30 - June 3, will only increase misconceptions about homosexuals among the country’s population. The minister made the statement...
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Tuesday, March 20
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Pastor Ken Hutcherson in Riga photo: New Generation Church During his two recent visits to the Baltic republic of Latvia, Redmond's anti-gay activist pastor Ken Hutcherson called himself a "special envoy" from the White House Office of Faith Based Initiatives. The Stranger's Eli Sanders checked with the White House about the title. A spokesperson for the office told him that Hutcherson had no official sanction for his trip. Disputation ensues . The White House has reason to be concerned about the title that the pastor has been using because Hutcherson's activities in Latvia...
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