Pat Robertson, Conservative Anti-LGBTQ+ Televangelist, Dies at 93
Robertson helped imbue the Republican Party with conservative Christianity, turning it in the nightmare it is today.
June 8, 2023
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Robertson helped imbue the Republican Party with conservative Christianity, turning it in the nightmare it is today.
Ralph Reed formalized plans last week to open an affiliate of his new Faith and Freedom Coalition in Florida.
Georgia's branch of the Christian Coalition has announced plans to change names and split from the national group, joining several others who say the coalition isn't antigay enough.
The fractured coalition of Christian conservatives is meeting in Washington, D.C., on Friday and Saturday for a "Values Voters Summit," to be capped Saturday evening by a straw poll of the 2,500 participants. But if media reports are to be believed, consolidating the far-right vote may be wishful thinking this primary season.
The new coalition's members are a who's who of haters.
Representatives from the Episcopal diocese of Pittsburgh voted overwhelmingly Friday to approve constitutional amendments that are the first step in leaving the national church in a widening rift over homosexuality and interpretation of Scripture. Pittsburgh joined dioceses in San Joaquin, Calif., and Quincy, Ill., in granting preliminary approval to separating from the national church, which the dioceses contend have wrongly abandoned Scriptural authority and traditional teachings on truth, salvation, and the divinity of Jesus Christ.