Two sides of gay-marriage debate face off at Safeco Field rally

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Sun May-02-04 12:34 PM
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Two sides of gay-marriage debate face off at Safeco Field rally

Two sides of gay-marriage debate face off at Safeco Field rally

By Lornet Turnbull and Patrick Coolican
Seattle Times staff reporters

STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Sharon Hunter cheers after James Dobson's speech at
yesterday's Mayday for Marriage rally at Safeco Field.
Hunter, of Seattle's Capitol Hill, calls her bullhorn
"O magnify the Lord."

More than 20,000 of Washington's religious faithful rallied in support of traditional marriage yesterday, undaunted by a throng of gay-rights supporters with expressive signs, catchy chants and a thumping marching band.

Gospel music poured from Safeco Field.

Dozens of people from churches throughout the Puget Sound area and statewide had gathered outside the ballpark long before the gates opened for yesterday's Mayday for Marriage rally. They came to stand in support of traditional marriage, they said: One man, one woman.

More at the Seattle Times

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Sun May-02-04 12:43 PM
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1. with so many terrible things happening...

Edited on Sun May-02-04 12:46 PM by jdolsen

...and so many problems that deserve so much attention why are "the faithful" so concerned about who loves who and who sleeps with who?

I am sick and tired of bibical justification for bigotry, hatred and petty jealousy. I guess I can only ask: how would Christ feel about this? What would Christ say and do? Would he protest against someone loving someone or celebrate and encourage that love? There you go, that's my sunday morning sermon, and I'm stickin' to it!

On edit: This 700-Club stuff is startin' to scare me...

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Sun May-02-04 12:53 PM
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2. Would it be unforgivably rude for me to point out

that if this "rally" had taken place in, say, Alabama or Mississippi, there would be fifty or a hundred posts by now saying that we should have let them secede, this is what you get when people impregnate their sisters, I bet they had to blow the whole trailer payment to afford to attend, etc?

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Sun May-02-04 01:52 PM
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3. Thread-hijacking, but, no, not rude n/t

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Sun May-02-04 01:52 PM
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4. Where was the "face-off?"

Whey you said "face-off," it suggested there would be some kind of argument, debate, two opposing sides. There was about as many dissident points of view in this crowd as at a Klan rally.

And if there had been any proponents of relaxed marriage standards - let's call it "love-based marriage" - who dared to speak up, this WOULD have turned into a Klan rally. There's a reason the Klan burns crosses, after all.

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