First, the video:
Two observations:
1. If these soulless cretins went into an insular Hasidic community in Brooklyn and tried to tell the residents — who had been minding their own business — that they were sinners, that Jesus is the only way to Heaven and that God abhors their “lifestyle choices,” the response would have been quite uglier than this.
2. When the peaceable gay Christians of the Soulforce Equality Ride visit Evangelical colleges, seeking only to have a respectful dialog with students, the colleges’ theocratic Christianist administrators’ response is almost always the same: Set one foot on our campus and you will be arrested.
The obligatory preliminaries of “violence is never the answer” aside, let’s not confuse ourselves, or allow others to be confused, about who’s being “tolerant” and who isn’t.
Simultaneously via JMG and Towleroad.
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Link dolphin // Nov 17, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Ignoring the claims of what happened made by the Justice House of Prayer (which I think is prudent to do), I really saw very little in that video that was particularly unacceptable. I didn't see any violence. I mostly saw a group of people chanting. Isn't that more or less, precisely what the Justice House folks were there to do themselves?