Joy Stamey is an 86 year old member of the Liberty Live Church in Hampton, Virginia and a devout Christian. But despite being a Christian since she was young, she was never baptized due to her fear of water. Over the past months, however, she began to consider confronting her fears and getting baptized in order to obey Jesus Christ.
Over the past 12 years there have been 284 flags—from LGBTQ rainbow flags, a Turkish flag with the Islamic star, to Communist China flags—raised on a public flagpole owned by the city of Boston.
Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz said this week he would support former President Donald Trump becoming the new Speaker of the House. While this may sound outlandish, it is not as impossible as it might seem.
The two books, "Gender Queer: A Memoir" by Maia Kobabe and "Lawn Boy" by Jonathan Evison, have recently been the source of heated debates in schools, as parents have complained they contain “porn and pedophilia”, while activists claim that the books may increase understanding of gender and LGBT issues.