Newsletters / ULC Newsletter - June, 2022

The Visionary
It's Pride Month, and - while there is plenty of love to go around - not everyone seems to be feeling it! There's a Texas pastor who says that gays should be executed, a queer woman who's going viral for exposing a Christian 'cult' she grew up in, and a library in Louisiana that's banning Pride Month displays entirely.
Pope Francis gun control

Pope says Guns Must Go

In the wake of the shocking shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead, Pope Francis is calling for gun control in the United States, saying "Enough".
Is Pope Francis Right?
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Religious Symbols Pendants

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Outbanned!

Outbanned!

Libraries in Lafayette, LA are preemptively banning displays celebrating Pride and BLM. Their hope is that if book-banning activists never see the titles, they'll leave them be.
Dewey Think It Will Work?

Clerical Dickey

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Pride standoff

Pride for Sale: Anti-LGBTQ+ Workers vs. Pro-Gay Employers

By now we're accustomed to corporations rainbow-ifying their logos and releasing Pride merch and messaging each June - but increasingly employees aren't on board. In the latest chapter of the ongoing reshaping of religious freedom in the legal system, employees are filing lawsuits claiming that the acknowledgment of Pride by their employers violates their religious beliefs.
How Should Pride Be Celebrated in the Workplace?
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Modern Marriage Certificate

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Texas Pastor

Hate Wins?

A Texas pastor is making headlines after saying gay people should be executed because homosexuality is an "abomination against God." He says his hate speech is biblically justified, and he's refusing to back down.
God's Love = Death?
Christian cult

Cancel Cult-ure

What's it like to be in a cult? A woman's series of viral videos details her time under the thumb of an extremist Christian ministry with controversial teachings – and a surprising reality TV connection.
Pull Back the Curtain
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Baptism Package

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Rainbow stole

Get Colorful This Summer

By now we're accustomed to corporations rainbow-ifying their logos and releasing Pride merch and messaging each June - but increasingly employees aren't on board. In the latest chapter of the ongoing reshaping of religious freedom in the legal system, employees are filing lawsuits claiming that the acknowledgment of Pride by their employers violates their religious beliefs.
Get Yours Here
Facebook
Can you be an American patriot and a Christian? One pastor doesn't think so, and in a recent essay he explains why. See what our friends on Facebook made of Pastor John Pavlovitz's argument that the idea that God uniquely confers favor upon America is "a nasty bit of heresy" that is "straight-up of the devil."
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