Tag Archives: Anchorage Baptist Temple

Prevo's devil masks

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.
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Prevo's red herrings

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.
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Sermon (a poem)

It’s Sunday, a day of sermons. Tales have it that Rev. Jerry Prevo will be delivering one of his predictable diatribes against homosexuality from his pulpit at the Anchorage Baptist Temple (broadcast live at 11:00 AM on KCFT-TV — cable channel 19, broadcast channel 35). In counterpoint, this week’s sermon at 2:00 PM at MCC [...]
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The noise begins

The Anchorage Daily News has a story by Megan Holland on the proposed equal rights ordinance: “Assembly to consider gay rights ordinance — Discrimination ban: Proposal would also cover veterans; Rev. Prevo plans fight” No big surprise that Jerry Prevo of the Anchorage Baptist Temple plans to battle the ordinance — Prevo was also a [...]
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Publicity, publicity, publicity

Which Anchorage churches did the Phelpists picket during PrideFest 2003, & which not, & why?
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Those Phelpists aren't too clever, are they?

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?
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