Category Archives: The incredibly true adventures of Rev. Jerry Prevo

I’ve got a tag for Jerry Prevo too, but posts filed under that are sometimes more glancing references. This category collects more substantive discussions of Prevo, pastor since 1971 of the Anchorage Baptist Temple, & chief high muckety-muck of Alaska antigayness.

James Dobson’s God is a child abuser, & so is Jerry Prevo’s

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Max Blumenthal's new book Republican Gomorrah talks among other things about corporal punishment in Christianist practices of child discipline -- practices taught by Focus on the Family leader James Dobson and, at least in 1985, Anchorage Baptist Temple pastor Jerry Prevo.

Also posted in No Way Way | Tagged Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage Christian Schools, child abuse, children, Christianism, crossposted, God as a bully, James Dobson, Jerry Prevo, Max Blumenthal | 6 Comments

Christianist, defined

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 23 June 2009

I first used this term in the post “The new Carrie Prejean?” I’m using often enough that it seems helpful to break the definition I used there out into a separate post. Christianist is a term I first heard from Atlantic Monthly blogger Andrew Sullivan — a useful term that to me conveys not Christiantity as [...]

Also posted in No Way Way, Ordinance | Tagged Anchorage Baptist Temple, Andrew Sullivan, Christianism, Christianity, Jerry Prevo, religion | 8 Comments

The new Carrie Prejean?

By Mel | Published: Monday, 15 June 2009

In what looks like another of last Tuesday's ploys by Prevo & company, an obvious attempt to bait LGBT people & our allies into turning the newly-crowned Mrs. Alaska United States® into another Carrie Prejean, martyr of the religious right.

Also posted in Ordinance | Tagged AKMuckraker, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Andrew Sullivan, Assembly public hearing, Carrie Prejean, Christianism, cynical ploys, Jerry Prevo, June 9 public hearing, lgbtq, Mrs. Alaska United States, Mudflats (blog), Philip Munger, Progressive Alaska (blog), Reneé Scott | 3 Comments

Billboards

By Mel | Published: Friday, 12 June 2009

While in 2003 Jerry Prevo decried Westboro Baptist Church tactics, in 2009 he & his allies didn't hesitate to use children — even some younger then 10 — in a very like way, as billboards for their parents' prejudices.

Also posted in Ordinance | Tagged AKMuckraker, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Assembly public hearing, children, cynical ploys, Fred Phelps, Jerry Prevo, June 9 public hearing, lgbtq, Matthew Shepard, Mudflats (blog), Philip Munger, Progressive Alaska (blog), Westboro Baptist Church | 2 Comments

Outside influence

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Why are Mat-Su residents being bused into Anchorage to testify on Anchorage's equal rights ordinance?

Also posted in Ordinance | Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Assembly public hearing, cynical ploys, Jerry Prevo, June 9 public hearing, lgbtq, Mat-Su residents | 11 Comments

My letter to the Anchorage Assembly

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 2 June 2009

My letter to the Anchorage Municipal Assembly and Acting Mayor Matt Claman in support of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, which would add "sexual orientation" and "veteran status" to those classes already included in Title V, Anchorage's equal rights code.

Also posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance | Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, Jerry Prevo, lgbtq, One in 10 | 4 Comments

Prevo’s devil masks

By Mel | Published: Friday, 29 May 2009

Jerry Prevo's 1985 "devil costume debacle" illustrates that it's not only against homosexuals that Prevo is willing to throw up red herrings, deceptions, and outright lies.

Also posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance | Tagged Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage history, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Jerry Prevo, South Africa | 11 Comments

Prevo’s red herrings

By Mel | Published: Friday, 22 May 2009

There's no doubt that the Anchorage Baptist Temple's Jerry Prevo has followed Jesus' instruction to the fishermen Simon Peter and Andrew to become a fisher of men. But evidence suggests he also excels as a fisher of red herrings, especially when it comes to his opposition to equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transfolk.

Also posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance | Tagged Anchorage, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Jerry Prevo, lgbtq, red herrings | 1 Comment

Those Phelpists aren’t too clever, are they?

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 8 July 2003

Why did Westboro Baptist Church, famous for their website "godhatesfags.com," picket Anchorage Baptist Temple — famous in Anchorage as the very center of antigay attitudes in Alaska?