Something You Never Hear about in Conservative Churches
July 1, 2026
Here is something you never hear about in conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist churches. A large LGBTQ+ pride parade was held in Tel Aviv, Israel, last month, as it is every year during “Pride Month.” Some of these churches blindly support and defend everything that happens in Israel. They certainly don’t observe “Pride Month” in these churches, and rail against pride parades, but are strangely silent about pride parades in the gay mecca of Tel Aviv.
I note also that, according to the Jerusalem Post, Israel was set to host the Middle East’s largest ever LGBT festival at the Dead Sea in June, near the site of the ancient Sodom and Gomorrah, I believe. I have not been able to confirm if it took place.

Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

