Hundreds of red-shirted anti-gay Christians converge on Charlotte NC Pride

Hundreds of red-shirted anti-gay Christians marched on Charlotte Pride this weekend in order to hurl insults and condemnation at the event's attendees. According to Matt Comer's of North Carolina's Q-Notes, the group's leader, Michael Brown, "started his FIRE School of Ministry to 'raise up a holy army of uncompromising spirit-filled radicals who will shake an entire generation with the gospel of Jesus by life or death.' Chilling.

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there was another group that dressed alike....oh yeah

Isn't it spelled Forever?

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These people are dangerous. Potential domestic terrorists.

Sorry you have to put up with those turds.

lots of redneck idiots in the bible belt south unfortunately - but what's most disgusting is that they are PROUD of their ignorance, intolerance, and just plain general stupidity!



We also have a lot of openminded pro GLBTQ rights people too though. :)

Hundreds rally in Charlotte against anti-gay marriage amendment -- http://www.wbtv.com/story/14973403/hundreds-rally-in-charlotte-against-anti-gay-marriage-admendment

We have, probably, about an even amount of people on both sides. The right wings ones are loudest though, unfortunately. They never STFU with their one-upsmanship trying to prove they hate gay people more than the next person. It becomes a damn contest and they are super mouthy about it...and so proud of their ignorance.

they have planned for the convention next year.

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"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Ghandi

Personally, I'm a fan of The Christos and his fellow prophets. It hurts to hear these fucking assholes referred to as 'Christians'.

They're hateful fucking morons. I say that because I've talked to them and I know them and if they challenged me I'd drop a million tonnes of shame on them.

"Leviticus." AFAIK, the Nazarene of the New Testament never said a word about LGBT issues explicitly. Implicitly, of course, he preached a gospel of 'love' which was not confined to the hetero community.

Leaving aside the poasibility that the Nazarene was himself gay or bi (scripture is utterly silent on the question), his covenant of love supersedes and takes precedence over the Old Testament's covenant of the law.

I've talked to them also and they are the farthest you can imagine from 'love' or 'empathy'. I once had one of them tell me he wanted to see all the gays rounded up and burned to death. When I pointed out how un-Christian such a sentiment sounded, he backtracked and said he was 'joking.' Funny thing, though, is that I didn't get a 'joking' vibe off him when he first said the words.

So jesus like. :sarcasm:

Because they protest too much.

You're right

Look at all the kids dragged into this twisted thinking.

GLBT community to walk such as in Durham but maybe this is a good character test. Sometimes you win when the vileness of your detractors is on public display.

Charlotte prides themselves on how conservative the are. They even have a county commissioner who asked another commissioner, "Your son was a homo? Really?" when she voted in favor of providing same-sex benefits to county employees.

Even when Charlotte has one really good thing happen, that jerk, Bill James, and other high profile Charlotteans like him always have to say something hideous to screw it up.

how can parents bring their kids to an anti gay rally? dont they realize that there is a ten percent chance that the kids they bring will be gay later in life? dont they care that they may be traumatizing their own kids?

seriously, how many of these protestors have seen gay people having sex? how do they know that it is disgusting if they havent done or watched? why do they waste time telling other adults which adults they should have sex with? why dont they just go out for a hike in the woods and have heterosexual sex instead of telling gays not to have gay sex????

They "hear things" from the adults when they are kids and never try to learn otherwise. I grew up around those types. It's damn dangerous to try to correct them when they are flat out wrong. Some of us still try to counteract them, though.

I agree with you. They really need to get their noses out of other people's crotches and mind their own business.

but only when invited ;)

little children to their hatefest. :puke:

Bullying in the name of Jesus?

Insulting and Condemning and attempted intimidating in the name of the Prince of Peace?

Those folks are messed up.

n/t

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We tried to find their anti-protest staging ground afterwards, but they had already given up and left.

C'est la vie.

mikey_the_rat

Centenary United Methodist Church is Virginia’s first United Methodist Reconciling Congregation, extending hospitality and encouraging full participation of all, regardless of age, race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, educational or economic background, and physical or mental ability.

One final note to The Redshirts - if you think homosexuals have no place in your church, I'd recommend against in-depth, personal conversations with your Music Director/Organist.

mikey_the_rat

is also a Reconciling Congregation. There are one or two nearby, however that are "Transforming" congregations...meaning: " A movement among mainline denominational churches to affirm that those who deal with homosexual temptations are loved and that Christ can and does have power to change those who face such temptations."

Whatever makes them so sure that Christ wants to "change" anyone's sexual orientation is beyond me. Nobody I have asked has been able to show me the passage in the Christian Bible that even addresses the matter.

Let's call it what it is.

Charlotte is a cesspool of klan and other hate groups. A lot of people don't know that.

This is the kind of behavior that evokes suicidal thoughts later.

I grew up in Charlotte and it becomes more liberal every year...

I'm gay and have never had a single problem here.
I've never seen a Klansman either....not sure what Charlotte you are talking about.

Except for the woman carrying a tiger-striped bongo drum.

The east coast just suffered a devastating hurricane - I'm pretty sure their God would be happier if they were helping the victims of Irene.

Just a thought.

Oh, and here's another thought: FUCK those bigots.

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They should go for some nice earth tones, like brown. :eyes:

Wow, scary undertones. Either go back in the closet or else.

Go for it, kids! I did stupid things during my teenage years, too. At least things didn't degenerate into violence. In about five years (probably less), Mr. Brown will find himself a very lonely hate-filled ranter.

They all went home and masturbated to their favorite soft core porn.

Why are they dragging children to this debacle, sickening!!!

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I'm gay. How in the FUCK can anyone think it's a choice, considering what gay people are up against? My family was freaked out that I'm a lesbian and threw me out of the house, I've had people make derisive comments when I've been out with a girlfriend, and I don't even suffer the dyke penalty, because I'm femme.

People act like you can just shut off your sexuality, and that you are making a choice. It's not a choice. It has never been a choice for me. I just plain love women, and no amount of men asking me out and no amount of peer/familial pressure is going to stop me from becoming emotionally attached to women. It's far more than just sexual. It's a mental and emotional thing, though of course, physicality does come into play.

This display of "Christianity" is yet another in a long line of atrocious behavior by those who consider themselves "Christian soldiers". If Christ was alive today, he'd be the first to rebuke followers like this like he did the Pharisees.

...they are choosing to be straight, when in fact they are in deep deep denial. If it is a choice for them, well then, that answers that question.

I don't get why others will make a choice to deceive themselves and live in misery - along with dragging others into misery with them.

nurture their selfrespect and love for themselves.

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”

That's what it comes down to. People can't say they love you on one hand, then turn around and revile such a basic part of your humanity as the person you love and are attracted to. You can't love someone if you hate them for something so defining of humanity as loving another human being.

These people aren't ever, ever, ever going to vote for a Democrat anyway, so can we stop pussy-footing around their bigotry?

It just boggles my mind.

The people that get so upset about it get upset for only a handful of reasons. 1. They are in unfulfilling relationships themselves. 2. They are seeking to control others for their own purposes, something that religion has always excelled at. 3. They gain a sense of power in their own lives by feeling superior to others.

but some people get a kick out of being petty.

Way too bitter.

Those types are usually the same ones who think canned hunts are ok. The lions wouldn't stand a chance.

would probably be haranguing these guys for being intolerant. Religion has ever been twisted to exert control on people by bad religious leaders. Kind religious leaders know the difference.

the part were Jesus preached against gays.

"will shake an entire generation with the gospel of Jesus"

They proclaim to follow a just and honest God, then want to shoot people in the street over a difference of opinion.

It makes no sense.

about gay people or abortion!" :applause:

No turning the other cheek for these people.

...what the undoubtedly obnoxious slogan is written on these assholes' T-shirts?

even in the close up photos at the blog.

Marketing fail.

It is based on a group with the same name and a website in which the "o" is not dropped from G-d and ends with (dot) com. I don't want to directly link to it.

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the new nazi brigade!

here's their chant: "We hate people, we hate people, we hate people... we are unified in hating people."

local enemy's are.
Lou

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Nothing like a gang of thugs determined to force people to kowtow to their bigoted agenda....or else.

Go ahead and bring your buy-bulls to the gunfight, muthafuckers....

nice "Christian" love... (which of course it is not! Jesus preached incredible love in His words - these people ignore it ALL)



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He was there with his church- couldn't have been more than ten.

my friend, who is Lesbian, said she was horrified I sat next to her at work because she knew I was a Christian, but realized I was very loving after a couple days. It all comes from the parents, and/or who and what groups you let your child be around. No one should have to hear anyone, especially a child, curse at them like that. I'm surprised he didn't have rocks to throw at you, too! Sheesh! If a troubled or bullying kid sees his parents or church say something is bad, they go overboard and think that gives them permission to do and say whatever they want about it. Sickening.

and he'd never dream of saying anything like that, and I hate to see that kid being steered so wrong. The family is kind of the local low-rent version of the Phelpses, but maybe he'll learn better when he's grown.

The thing that did crack me up though- it's a big statewide protest, you can't throw a sensible shoe without hitting a lesbian, and that kid picked me to yell a slur at. I'm straight. His gaydar sucks.

weird ass version of religion. It's like a damn contest to see who can outdo each other and who can voice the most extreme views. They better not ever claim they don't have their damn First Amendment rights in NC, because they most certainly do. They never shut the fuck up with their extremist crap. It is beyond tiresome. It's sickening.

"Eh".

I'm still pissed that the cutest guys I ran into tried to preach to me.

I expect to see all 3 on our side next year ;-)

ETA: The two best aspects were: (1) a gay-owned ice-cream truck blaring its tune to drown out protesters with mega-phones across the street; and (2) the "peace corps" they had. They stood between the festival attendees and the protesters. Any time a protester got near, they approached and shielded us (in an awesomely non-violent way).

The number of pro-gay participants FAR exceeded these folks.

I got chills.

a good chance there are a few of those children who are gay themselves. When the child ends up committing suicide, the parents are devastated, then they realize their bigotry harmed their child more than "teh gays" ever did.

reminds me of that. where the mom drives the young man to suicide because more than anyone, he is harmed by his God fearing mother, who belittled his being gay so much that he killed himself despite being Christian and very loving to others, but she didn't care about that because he was gay and she told him he was displeasing to God.

If these parents even took the time to think things through they'd realize they're potentially committing the sin of cruelly judging their own child. But, they can't see that because no child of theirs could ever be gay!

exactly what Jesus had to say about homosexuality,....Right?

Oh! whaddya mean he never said a word about it?......NEVER A WORD, MR. BROWN!!!

n/t

They are bigots, no different than Klan members or Nazis. They want a theocracy in this country even though Jesus would have smote all of them for spouting this insane, HOMOPHOBIC BULLSHIT.

Gay people deserve respect. I hate listening to people who claim that people choose to be gay. Um, I didn't choose to be straight. I'm a male, and I like women. I like them a lot. I couldn't CHOOSE to like men tomorrow. The thought of engaging in sex acts with other males feels weird to me, as it should, because I am straight. I'm sure that a gay gentleman would also feel weird if he was thinking about having sex with females. Why is this? Because of biology. People are born straight, they are born gay, they are born bisexual, and they are born transgendered. God doesn't make mistakes. Homophobes are the sinners. 50 years from now, these "Christians" will be thought of as no different from those who opposed interracial marriage -- bigots. You cannot hold someone responsible for acting on natural desires in consensual encounters. That is why we were put on this Earth -- to love one another. I try to keep that in mind.

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