JewsOnFirst.org posted this report today
Last month interfaith clergy groups led Pride parades in several cities, sending a message of tolerance to haters and disparagers. Only days after their show of solidarity, the interfaith group in one of those cities, Sacramento, came together again in sadness to celebrate the life of Satender Singh (pictured), cut short by hatred of gays. Sacramento's militantly anti-gay Slavic Christians are suspected of harboring the killer.
Last month interfaith clergy groups marched in the lead of gay pride parades in several cities, sending a message of tolerance to haters and disparagers. Only days after their show of solidarity, the interfaith group in one of those cities, Sacramento, came together again in sadness to celebrate a life cut short by hatred of gays.
On July 1st a Russian-speaking group harassed a group of Fijians, as both groups picnicked at a local lake. The Russian speakers reportedly hurled anti-gay epithets at the Fijians and one of them punched 26-year-old Satender Singh, who fell and sustained a brain injury. His family took him off life support the following week.
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In the last several years, some of the Slavic evangelical congregations in the Sacramento area have become known for their crude and threatening opposition to LGBT rights. They turn out in large, disruptive numbers at government hearings and gay activities.
Rabbi Mona Alfi of Congregation B’nai Israel in Sacramento notes that, as a fundamentalist group, the Slavic Christians were persecuted when they were in the former Soviet Union. But in Sacramento, she said, "They have been out there in the streets with signs and yelling and screaming."
And now members of the immigrant community are suspected of murdering Satender Singh.
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Our coverage includes recorded conversations with Rabbi Mona Alfi, whose Congregation B'nai Israel, has taken a prominent role in supporting the LGBT community, and Stonewall Democrats leader Dr. Darrick Lawson. A member of Congregation B'nai Israel, Stella Levy, contributes a column.
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