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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-15T21:21:11.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "with a powerful opinion piece from Rev. Mike Schuenemeyer,",
    "Learn more about it here",
    "with UFC heavyweight \"figher\" Josh Hokit"
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  "textContent": "Hello folks, Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez, back in your inbox, hoping you all had a great weekend!\n\nWe'd like to kick this week off with a powerful opinion piece from Rev. Mike Schuenemeyer, reflecting on religion and the LGBTQ+ community.\n\n\"For too long, religion has been used as a weapon against LGBTIQ+ people—especially transgender and nonbinary youth who are being targeted with a cruelty that should break every heart awake to the sacred,\" they write. \"Many of us in faith leadership have watched this unfold with grief, anger, and a growing conviction that silence is no longer an option. Silence, after all, is not neutrality. Silence is complicity.\"\n\nIn response is the release of __Sacred Worth, Shared Freedom__ by the Lavender Interfaith Collective (LInC), \"a bold, multi-faith statement and call to action affirming the inherent dignity of LGBTIQ+ people and urging communities, leaders, and institutions to defend human rights, expand democratic freedoms, and stand in courageous solidarity against all forms of anti-LGBTIQ+ violence and discrimination.\"\n\nLearn more about it here. Feel free to also share it with UFC heavyweight \"figher\" Josh Hokit.\n\nUntil next time!\n\n### Nina West helped make drag mainstream. Now she's fighting Ohio's proposed drag ban\n\n\n\n\n### Microsoft touts LGBTQ+ inclusion while critics point to Trump concessions\n\n\n\n\n### Federal judge dismisses lawsuit from fired ranger who flew trans Pride flag at Yosemite\n\n\n\n\n### Kamala Harris thrills crowd with surprise appearance at iconic West Hollywood gay bar\n\n\n\n\n### Knicks fans go viral with steamy gay kisses in the streets\n\n\n\n\n### How Donald Trump transformed the federal government’s treatment of LGBTQ+ Americans\n\n\n\n\n### Laverne Cox: I've lost 90 percent of my income since Trump crushed DEI\n\n\n\n\n### Maine judge upholds block of anti-trans initiative on November ballot\n\n\n\n\n### UFC fighter yells 'Michelle Obama is a man' at Trump's birthday spectacle\n\n\n\n\n### Trump admin eliminates health care programs for LGBTQ+ veterans\n\n\n",
  "title": "Advocate NL 6/15/26"
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