Seattle Paper runs ad for anti-gay preacher, gives ad cost to GLSEN

Why The Stranger Accepted the Ad on Page 15 of This Week's Paper
posted by ELI SANDERS on WED, JUN 23, 2010 at 11:28 AM
In April, Pastor Ken Hutcherson threw a shit fit after the Snoqualmie Valley Record refused to run an ad similar to this one.

This month, The Stranger received our own ad submission from Hutcherson, and we figured: We’ll run it, take his money, and donate all of it—$2,115—to his archenemies at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. If you’d like to honor Hutch’s idiocy with your own donation, you can do so here.

As for the “facts” in his Stranger ad:

They are false. Obviously.

Fighting against homophobia does not cause you or anyone you know to become a homosexual (though it will cause you to become a better person). Being a homosexual does not cause HIV/AIDS any more than, say, being born with the body of an NFL linebacker causes a person to grow up to play for the Seahawks and then, later in life, become an evangelical pastor who exhibits symptoms of football-induced chronic traumatic brain injury......