Posted on 11/11/2008 7:42:10 PM PST by traumer
Using megaphones for amplification they shouted epithets at those entering the service such as “Jesus is a homo”. They also mockingly carried an upside down pink cross.
In a news release, Bash Back referred to Mt. Hope Church as “a deplorable anti-queer mega church.” They further elaborated their disdain for the Christian community at Mt. Hope on their web site. In a news release, Bash Back referred to Mt. Hope Church as “a deplorable anti-queer mega church.” They further elaborated their disdain for the Christian community at Mt. Hope on their web site.
LANSING, Michigan (Catholic Online) - Dr. Dave Williams is the Pastor of a large evangelical Protestant Church in Lansing, Michigan called the Mount Hope Church. The Church web site informs the visitor of Pastor Williams that “He has served for 25 years, leading the church in Lansing from 226 to over 4000 today.” The Pastor is respected in the broader Christian, religious and civic community and the Church has extensive outreaches.
This past Sunday, during a Worship Service at the Church, a group of loud and intentionally disruptive homosexual activists stood outside of the sanctuary of Mount Hope dressed in strange pink attire. Using megaphones for amplification, they shouted epithets at those entering the service such as “Jesus is a homo”.They also mockingly carried an upside down pink cross.
Reports filed with the Eaton County Sheriff’s office indicate that other demonstrators had staged a further action intended to disrupt the Sunday Worship at Mount Hope. Dressed in clothing which would not have indicated their intention, they entered into the sanctuary and were seated with the community. Then, in an orchestrated manner, they left their seats, pulled fire alarms, distributed anti-Christian literature and stormed the Pastor’s pulpit waving a rainbow colored flag shouting “It’s Okay To Be Gay!
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
I believe it is a Federal crime — and a fairly serious one too — to interrupt a religious service in this manner. Can anyone confirm?
What I do not understand about the news reports of this incident is why are we not told how it all ended up? Did the members of the congregation just sit there and watch all the shennanigans? Did the ‘protestors’ finally just get tired of making trouble and turn around and leave? What finally happened to end this event? Why didn’t the members just walk up to the protestors and take ahold of them and drag them outside (assuming they didn’t; we really don’t know what they did.) I find the descriptions of this incident quite unsatisfying.
Why did God create THEM ??
this is why they can’t get married. they are not stable.
Then you'd have a battery charge.
From what you posted, they proved the point of the APA.
Blasphemous liberals slandering our Savior for nothing.
God did create life, but sin created the homosexual.
BUT know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
2Ti 3:2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
2Ti 3:4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2Ti 3:5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
2Ti 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2Ti 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;
2Ti 3:9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
2Ti 3:10 But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance,
2Ti 3:11 persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.
2Ti 3:12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
2Ti 3:13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2Ti 3:14 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
2Ti 3:15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Thank you
....now that Obama has been elected, the inmates are running the asylum....
hey that looks familiar and sadly true
Why did God create THEM ??
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To test the faithfull...that’s why.
In the end, Jesus will seperate the sheep from the goats.
He will look upon the BOOK OF LIFE to see if one has lived to the teachings of the Gospel and has accepted Jesus as his/her savior.
To the goats he will say “Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.”
For the same reason He created you and I: To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
Problem is this:
Romans 1:
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because it was committed against Christians.
I was actually surprised we didn’t see more of this last Sunday. I hope they do more of this. They turn more common-sense Americans against their cause with every Fascist hissy-fit they hold.
Battle lines are being drawn, folks. Gays vs. God. Fairies vs. Faith.
So far, the politicians in California are siding with the fruits and nuts.
Judicial tyranny in the wind. Religious freedoms’ days numbered. A bloody culture war.
From a Bash Back MySpace Page:
Members of Bash Back! must agree to:
1. Fight for liberation. Nothing more, nothing less. State recognition in the form of oppressive institutions such as marriage and militarism are not steps toward liberation but rather towards heteronormative assimilation.
2. A rejection of Capitalism, Imperialism, and all forms of State power.
3. Actively oppose oppression both in and out of the “movement.” All oppressive behavior is not to be tolerated.
4. Respect a diversity of tactics in the struggle for liberation. Do not solely condemn an action on the grounds that the State deems it to be illegal.
it’s a part of the media’s culpability that it’s not getting wider coverage.
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