Thursday, December 16, 2004
The Religious Right Gives Me Ulcers
The spin begins:
(AgapePress) - An attorney with a pro-family ministry says a judge's decision on Tuesday, ordering four Christians in Philadelphia to stand trial for witnessing at a homosexual pride event, is comparable to the atmosphere of the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s.
For. The. Love. Of. Fuck. Look, I was there. No one got a truncheon to the knees for waving a sign. In fact, no one got any form of beatdown whatsoever. The members of Repent America had a permit to stand off to the side street and wave their "You fags are going to Hell!" signs; they did this because, according to The Gay Philadelphian, their efforts to obtain a table at the block party had failed. They had that right to peaceful protest, and we had the right to ignore them.
And you know what they did what that right? They threw it away. They barged through a crowd of people to work their way on to the main street and disrupt the festival (well, more so than before). The paddy wagon came, the police talked with them, and they left peacefully.
There. No dogs. No fire hoses. No cattle prods. It's exactly like the civil rights protests of the '60s, except where it totally isn't.
(AgapePress) - An attorney with a pro-family ministry says a judge's decision on Tuesday, ordering four Christians in Philadelphia to stand trial for witnessing at a homosexual pride event, is comparable to the atmosphere of the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s.
For. The. Love. Of. Fuck. Look, I was there. No one got a truncheon to the knees for waving a sign. In fact, no one got any form of beatdown whatsoever. The members of Repent America had a permit to stand off to the side street and wave their "You fags are going to Hell!" signs; they did this because, according to The Gay Philadelphian, their efforts to obtain a table at the block party had failed. They had that right to peaceful protest, and we had the right to ignore them.
And you know what they did what that right? They threw it away. They barged through a crowd of people to work their way on to the main street and disrupt the festival (well, more so than before). The paddy wagon came, the police talked with them, and they left peacefully.
There. No dogs. No fire hoses. No cattle prods. It's exactly like the civil rights protests of the '60s, except where it totally isn't.
