AL pastor demands anti-trans banners after Pride Month display goes up in Mobile

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Alabama pastor demands anti-trans banners after Pride Month display goes up in Mobile

https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/alabama-pastor-anti-trans-banners 🔗

Desiree Guerrero (17 June 2026)

An Alabama pastor is pushing the city of Mobile to approve anti-trans banners after Pride banners were installed downtown, raising new questions about whether private groups should be allowed to use city property for political or cultural messages.

The trouble started Sunday, when Rev. Travis Johnson of Pathway Church announced in a sermon broadcast on social media that he had submitted a request to the city to post banners "focused on the traditional family," as reported by the Alabama news site AL.com. Johnson's proposed banners read: "National Child Awareness Month – Protect Our Children from Gender Ideology."

"I am calling on the City of Mobile to honor my duly submitted banner application," Johnson said in the sermon, noting it was "made in good faith, through the proper processes as a privately-funded banner display for Pride Month. ... There is no legal, procedural, or policy basis to treat it differently."

The Pride banners that are now on display along Water Street were also privately financed by Mobile resident Bryan Fuenmayor.

It makes a lot of positive difference here," Fuenmayor told local news outlet WKRG when he hung the banners earlier this month. "It just makes me happy, as someone who was disowned by my family when I came out. So for me, Pride is very special, very important for me."

Now, the pastor's move to place banners with anti-trans messaging has sparked heated debate on whether the city should continue to allow private parties, like Fuenmayor and Johnson, to display banners promoting events or causes.

[Lori Dee ✅]

"Traditional Family" typically refers to "as mentioned in the Bible".

Also mentioned in the Bible is the hero King David, slayer of Goliath, and an alleged ancestor of Jesus Christ.

King David had at least eight wives and at least ten concubines who are mentioned in the Bible.

Solomon, in particular, had 700 wives and 300 concubines.

Abraham took Hagar as a secondary wife.

Jacob was married to both Leah and Rachel.

Polygamy was not discouraged until Paul's epistles, written 15-20 years after Jesus' time.

So, which "traditional family" are they referring to?

[Devlyn ✅]

This one?