Conservative Christian summit in Chino to draw protests
A two-day conservative Christian event — which opponents are calling a “white supremacist gathering” — is coming to the Inland Empire.
Sponsored by the conservative think tank Family Research Council and community partners, the summit will address topics such as transgender and LGBTQ+ identity, AI technology, political engagement, pro-life health, evangelizing and exercising one’s faith in public, organizers said on the event’s website.
Since 2010, the Family Research Council has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that tracks hate groups and activities.
Other guest speakers include pro-life activist Lila Rose, Larry Elder of the “Larry Elder Show,” Chino Valley Unified School District board President Sonja Shaw, Family Research Council President and Chairman of its advocacy arm, Tony Perkins, BibleThinker founder Mike Winger, Real Impact Executive Director Gina Gleason, Tim Barton of WallBuilders and Maine state legislator Laurel Libby.
Perkins said in an email that “we gather at a truly pivotal and consequential moment in our nation’s history.”
“This is a moment we have prayed for, worked for and voted for,” Perkins wrote. “We will not be intimidated by the Left’s threats or their violence. We will not retreat into silence or fear. We are resolved to pray, to vote, and to stand — and that is why we gather.”
Shaw, who has pushed conservative policies on the Chino Valley school board and is running for California State Superintendent of Schools in 2026, is set to speak at a Saturday session titled “Taking Back California.” The seminar, she said, will address education issues such as transgender athletes in sports and gender ideology.
Shaw said Calvary Chapel has “long stood for biblical truth, civic responsibility, and the right of people of faith to live out their convictions.” She applauded the event for “bringing together faith leaders, parents, and community members to focus on protecting children, strengthening families and defending freedom of faith.”
Meanwhile, a coalition of 12 local, pro-LGBTQ/pro-immigrant, advocacy and faith grassroots organizations plans to protest both days at the intersection of Pipeline and Eucalyptus avenues near Calvary Chapel.
Some coalition leaders are calling the event a “white supremacist gathering.” In a Monday, Oct. 13, news release, leaders said their demonstration, called “Expose, Unite, Resist” is a response to the “major Christian Nationalist Summit” that they said has the goal of “integrating religious extremism into the U.S. government and policy. The stakes are high: they want to restrict our freedoms and control our future.”
“Together we plan to EXPOSE the hate and hypocrisy, UNITE against fascism and oppression, And RESIST Christian nationalism and all it stands for,” coalition leaders said in the release issued by Kanan Durham, a spokesperson from one of the member organizations, Pride at the Pier.
Coalition leaders also decried the event’s scheduled speakers, many of whom they say “have long track records of actions that openly target marginalized communities in pursuit of a Christian Nationalist model of government” and called it an “alt-right summit.”
“They are flying in some of the most dangerous forces in Christian nationalism, U.S. far-right politics, Eugenics, and Zionist propaganda,” the organizers said on Instagram, while accusing the council of pushing abortion bans, Christian “supremacy” and immigration fearmongering.
Chino is “no sanctuary for hate,” they said. The summit “platforms Christian nationalists who defend genocide and push anti-queer laws.”
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, also accused the council of having an “extremist agenda,” listing on its website “grievances” exposing the council’s “most extreme anti-LGBT positions and actions,” and citing what it called racist or anti-LGBTQ+ claims made by council leaders or through its programs and initiatives, including its past summits.
https://www.dailybulletin.com/2025/10/15...-protests/
A two-day conservative Christian event — which opponents are calling a “white supremacist gathering” — is coming to the Inland Empire.
Sponsored by the conservative think tank Family Research Council and community partners, the summit will address topics such as transgender and LGBTQ+ identity, AI technology, political engagement, pro-life health, evangelizing and exercising one’s faith in public, organizers said on the event’s website.
Since 2010, the Family Research Council has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that tracks hate groups and activities.
Other guest speakers include pro-life activist Lila Rose, Larry Elder of the “Larry Elder Show,” Chino Valley Unified School District board President Sonja Shaw, Family Research Council President and Chairman of its advocacy arm, Tony Perkins, BibleThinker founder Mike Winger, Real Impact Executive Director Gina Gleason, Tim Barton of WallBuilders and Maine state legislator Laurel Libby.
Perkins said in an email that “we gather at a truly pivotal and consequential moment in our nation’s history.”
“This is a moment we have prayed for, worked for and voted for,” Perkins wrote. “We will not be intimidated by the Left’s threats or their violence. We will not retreat into silence or fear. We are resolved to pray, to vote, and to stand — and that is why we gather.”
Shaw, who has pushed conservative policies on the Chino Valley school board and is running for California State Superintendent of Schools in 2026, is set to speak at a Saturday session titled “Taking Back California.” The seminar, she said, will address education issues such as transgender athletes in sports and gender ideology.
Shaw said Calvary Chapel has “long stood for biblical truth, civic responsibility, and the right of people of faith to live out their convictions.” She applauded the event for “bringing together faith leaders, parents, and community members to focus on protecting children, strengthening families and defending freedom of faith.”
Meanwhile, a coalition of 12 local, pro-LGBTQ/pro-immigrant, advocacy and faith grassroots organizations plans to protest both days at the intersection of Pipeline and Eucalyptus avenues near Calvary Chapel.
Some coalition leaders are calling the event a “white supremacist gathering.” In a Monday, Oct. 13, news release, leaders said their demonstration, called “Expose, Unite, Resist” is a response to the “major Christian Nationalist Summit” that they said has the goal of “integrating religious extremism into the U.S. government and policy. The stakes are high: they want to restrict our freedoms and control our future.”
“Together we plan to EXPOSE the hate and hypocrisy, UNITE against fascism and oppression, And RESIST Christian nationalism and all it stands for,” coalition leaders said in the release issued by Kanan Durham, a spokesperson from one of the member organizations, Pride at the Pier.
Coalition leaders also decried the event’s scheduled speakers, many of whom they say “have long track records of actions that openly target marginalized communities in pursuit of a Christian Nationalist model of government” and called it an “alt-right summit.”
“They are flying in some of the most dangerous forces in Christian nationalism, U.S. far-right politics, Eugenics, and Zionist propaganda,” the organizers said on Instagram, while accusing the council of pushing abortion bans, Christian “supremacy” and immigration fearmongering.
Chino is “no sanctuary for hate,” they said. The summit “platforms Christian nationalists who defend genocide and push anti-queer laws.”
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, also accused the council of having an “extremist agenda,” listing on its website “grievances” exposing the council’s “most extreme anti-LGBT positions and actions,” and citing what it called racist or anti-LGBTQ+ claims made by council leaders or through its programs and initiatives, including its past summits.
https://www.dailybulletin.com/2025/10/15...-protests/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
