Andy Birkey, the house homosexualist at the Minnesota Independent, writes in an article titled “Bible-wielding couple arrested for trespassing at Pride”:
A Wisconsin couple was arrested on Saturday for distributing bibles without permission at Twin Cities Pride, Minnesota’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender celebration. After Brian and Doris Johnson, self-described “born-again Christians,” were denied a vendor table at the festival, the couple took matters into their own hands and began distributing bibles. When they were told by police to stop because they were in violation of festival rules, the couple continued and were arrested on trespassing charges.
The Johnsons have hosted a table at the festival for more than a decade, displaying models of aborted fetuses and signs with bible verses. While they don’t have signs criticizing LGBT people, they would often engage festival goers in heated conversations homosexuality. The couple told WCCO on Friday that they “believe homosexuality is a sin and God has sent them to share that message.”
Because the couple often sparked controversy and arguments, the organizers of Twin Cities Pride denied them a table this year.
“It is not, in our belief, discrimination, certainly not,” said Twin Cities Pride chair David Hill. “If anything, we’re worried about being discriminated against at our own event.”
My response to the pathetically clueless David Hill is included here.
Mr. Birkey, for the purposes of objective truth, should correct his synopsis, to wit:
“Bible wielding”. The Christians were not throwing Bibles at anyone.
“[D]isplaying models of aborted fetuses”. The display showed the process of fetal development.
“While they don’t have signs criticizing LGBT people, they would often engage festival goers in heated conversations [about] homosexuality”. Wrong. Festival goers would engage the Christians in “heated conversations”. Some would rip pages from the Bible and steal part of the display.
“Because the couple often sparked controversy and arguments, the organizers of Twin Cities Pride denied them a table this year”. The Anti War Committee – who supports Palestinian Arab-Islamic jihadists – are allowed a table at the event. The goal of jihadists is the creation of an Islamic theocracy, which (including the Palestinian Arab territories) routinely tortures and executes homosexuals. The existence of the AWC at the Festival, apparently “spark[s] [no] controversy and arguments”, and therefore a group that sympathizes with those who tortures and executes homosexuals is acceptable.
On the other hand, Christians handing out bibles, preaching their gospel, and talking with those who seek their counsel are not acceptable.
We live in a strange, strange world.
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“for the purposes of objective truth,” there are about 40 Christian churches and organizations present at Twin Cities Pride. You should stop down and check out what you are knocking.
I don’t have to agree with the anti-war committee’s stance on Israel-Palestine (I don’t) for them to have a place, but the aren’t being deliberately antagonistic of LGBT people.
Either the Pride festival is intent on kicking out Christians, and for some reason forgot to “discriminate” against 40 organizations, or these folks were there to deliberately cause trouble.
I don’t really see any other scenarios. Do you?
And “homosexualist”? What is this, 1955?
Any theological debate about Christianity will be among the Christians. If you have read my posts, you should have concluded I have been present in at the Festival.
To allow the Republicans (who are traditionalists) and the Anti War Committee (supporters of eliminationist anti-Semites and jihadists who fight to impose a sharia state), then *not* allow Christians to hand out bibles is evidence of either ignorance, cowardice, anti-Christian bigotry, or the mistaken belief that inherent rights of Christians are abrogated by enforcement of the Contract Clause between TC Pride and the Minneapolis Park Board.
1955? No, it’s from the Weimar Republic, the last time homosexuals crawled out of their bars and gained socio-political power. The results were catastrophic.