Posted on 05/01/2005 6:12:20 PM PDT by SmithL
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - About 500 people braved cold temperatures and light snow Sunday to protest a conservative Christian group's campaign against gay rights and same-sex marriage.
The protesters gathered in front of the Focus on the Family campus, holding rainbow flags, multicolored balloons and signs reading "God Loves Justice" and "Love Thy Neighbor." An American Indian group played drums and some protesters sang "We Shall Overcome."
Focus on the Family, founded and led by James Dobson, has vigorously opposed gay rights and same-sex marriages, urging voters during last year's election to vote for President Bush and in favor of same-sex marriage bans that passed in 11 states.
"We are here to say, Jim, we love you enough to stop you from doing the damage you are doing to families across the nation," said Mel White, executive director of Soulforce, a national interfaith organization that supports gay rights.
Kendra Wiig, and her mother, Deborah Wiig, both of Denver, also challenged the group's position.
"Although Focus says homosexuality is against families and against religion there are a lot of loving families with gay mothers, daughters and sons," said Kendra Wiig, who is bisexual.
Thomas Minnery, the group's director of public policy, said he watched the rally from inside the headquarters. He denied that Focus delivers a message of hate but reiterated the organization's belief that homosexuality violates Biblical scripture.
"There are thousands of people who have left homosexuality, including some on our staff. To say that one is born that way obviously flies in the face of facts," Minnery said.
Dobson was not at the headquarters Sunday, Minnery said. He is traveling on the East Coast this week and was expected to be in Washington, D.C., for the National Day of Prayer events on Thursday.
It seems to me the protesters are delivering a loud and clear message of hate and intolerance of traditional Christian believers.
Yeah, right.
They say they are doing it out of love for Mr. Dobson, and that they hate that he is doing damage to families across America....
If we said the same exact words to them--WE would be called bigots and intolerant...the exact same thing!
and many will say to me on that day..."Lord, Lord,"...
How do I give money to Focus on the Family?
Given that there are literally thousands of butt thumpers in nearby Denver, CO, I fail to see how this can be very newsworthy.
So the village people and a bunch of assorted fruit loops think they are hurting the Christian Coalition in Colorado huh? Guess I need to break out my check book again.
Proper term is "rump rangers".
I like to use "butt thumpers" because they call Christians "bible thumpers".
An Army buddy told me that the latest term is "meat gazer".
So named, I suppose, for a method of non-verbal communication in communal showers.
The usual media multiplier is 10X. +10X for socialists, -10X for Democratic Republicists. Ergo 500 Disease spreaders = 50 in real numbers. Just axe CNN about staged # protests, they are accomplices in this distortion (nice way to say LIE) of reality in Iraq.
ABC CBS NBC CNN its all the SAME, Propaganda.
Might as well call them all AmeriJazerra.
Show them how much Gravitas Hugh Bris has. Vote with your remote! Shut down the Alphabet channels.
He's Got A Plan
Zippo Hero
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LOL - sounds like your typical liberal cluster f**k.
Proper term is "Turd Burglars".
" some protesters sang "We Shall Overcome." "
So far they can't seem to beat AIDS or stop analizing it to each other.
I read this thread at about 10pm local time here in So Colorado. So I put the local TV news on.
They covered it big time. Reporter said 1,000 were expected but fell well short. Later she said the protesters self estimated at 800.
From the tape they showed I never saw more than 50. Several shots of only a handful. If it was possible I'm sure there would loved to have shown a huge crowd, but it just wasn't there.
They did say that 140 cops were there. So if you count the cops, reporters, protesters, the (God Hates Fags)counter-protesters maybe there were 500. But I doubt it.
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