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ATLAH Church Protested: Pastor Throws Verbal Stones

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Human rights advocates braved the elements Saturday in Harlem to show their angst over the church sign promoting violence against the LGBT, and for good reason. Just 20 blocks away, last year, fists were thrown at a transgender woman who lay dying on pavement stones. Islan Nettles was taken off life support by her mother a short time after. This is the violence that the ATLAH church promotes and this very sign, the one demanding violence, was most likely seen by the people that beat Islan to death. “Homos, sodomites, perverts of the worst sort.” – ATLAH Pastor James David Manning Protest organizers Jennifer Louise Lopezand Terry Roethlein at Atlah World Ministries When a preacher maliciously uses words to hurt, it makes one pause and wonder, what kind of religious leader would lead his parishioners to hate? It’s pretty clear that the ATLAH church doesn’t preach love, and there is

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Community significance

“ATLAH Church Protested: Pastor Throws Verbal Stones” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to religion and morality, while also engaging violence, safety, and dehumanization. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “ATLAH Church Protested: Pastor Throws Verbal Stones” provides dated evidence of how religion and morality was being argued in relation to violence, safety, and dehumanization. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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“ATLAH Church Protested: Pastor Throws Verbal Stones” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with religion and morality. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for violence, safety, and dehumanization.

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Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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How “Religion and morality” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 7 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2007.

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Kelli

32 publications · 35 inbound sources/citations