2023-11-01 Two Paths

Jonny reviews new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson's (R-LA)
incredibly toxic anti-LGBTQ legislative and legal history. He
profiles Johnson's origins in the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)
and the damage they are doing across the nation and across the
world in the name of "defending" their religious beliefs. In the
back half of the show, Jonny profiles Pastor Elazar Schoch
Zavaletta of the formerly-named North Avenue Mission in Baltimore,
MD. Zavaletta is an out, trans pastor serving the unhoused and
marginalized in an impoverished urban neighborhood. Jonny
juxtaposes Johnson and the ADF with Zavaletta and the NAM as two
different paths for faith-based Christian responses to LGBTQ+ (and
other) people and their needs.