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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
When I was in college, the town tried to add sexual orientation to the non-discrimination something or another, and the baptist church in town was the loudest mouthpiece against it. But when the Phelps brigade came to same small town to protest a veteran's funeral, the bigots ended up seeing what kind of assholes they were, and many minds were changed.
Did you know that Christian slave owners the world order use the biblical reference to the curse of Canaan (a descendent of Ham, who was allegedly black) as justification and grounds for the enslavement of blacks... Yet there they are tapping their bible in their Jamaican speak trying to intimidate an entire neighborhood with their hate. IDIOTS!
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Conte…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38814397/ns/…
(Of course, there is plenty of homophobia amongst the many-generation Canadians, too, it's just quiet and "veddy British."
The first one orders a Jack Daniels.
The second one orders a Rum and Coke.
The third orders a dirty martini.
The bartender says "Hey, I thought you guys couldn't drink alcohol ..."
So they all leave.
Moral of the story: don't tell religious jokes about bars.
Why go to their church?
Take down their individual names and protest outside their houses.
UNLIKE with Phelps and his ilk, I'd wholeheartedly support that in this case. Though I second the suggestion to have the kiss-in outside their homes, not their church. (For one thing, we don't know if the majority of their congregation is like that or if those eight guys are "special.")
The angrier and more tense it got, the more obnoxiously cheerful we'd get. I'd blast my Patty Duke's Greatest Hits CD, and we'd put on Hawaian shirts and square dancing dresses, and fire up the hibachi. It was great fun, and we even made it onto the TV a few times.
But then the landlord kicked us out for having a cat, and we had to move to a much more boring part of the hill.
Someone please spay these people.
http://www.muchmormagazine.com/2010/03/k…
Canada is one of the most liberal countries in the world with regards to immigration and equal rights for homosexuals, but the reality is many immigrants come from countries where homosexuality is not tolerated. So we have a cultural clash, especially in Toronto which is the most culturally diverse city in the world.
Noah plants a vineyard and makes wine. He gets drunk from too much, and takes all his clothes off inside his tent. His sons Ham, Shem, and Yefeth walk backwards (so they don't see him in the disgraceful state of nude and inebriated) while pulling a blanket over Noah to cover him up. Ham, however, sneaks a peek, and Noah gets royally pissed at him and curses him and his descendents.
Dear all,
I was deeply disturbed to receive these 4 messages all tonight which are seemingly related to an event I am unaware of. I am simply an individual person who put this site up. I grew up attending the Gospel Hall (which I'm guessing this is all related to), but am not currently affiliated nor do I attend one, even though I still have the directory of Gospel Halls on this web site.
I would be interested to know the details of exactly what took place which has offended and angered all of you?
Would you please let me know what happened and why you all chose this website to respond to?
Thank You!
Bobby
The dancers at the strip club started their own protest outside of the church during their services, sometimes dancing in their bikinis.
This has been going on for quite some time, and will continue until the church members stop protesting at the strip club.
@ 34: Thanks. It really is as literal as it reads, and Noah was apparently both a strict father and an asshole...and the ancient Hebrews were weirder about their bodies even than modern Americans. Got it. :)
And its too bad, If I didn't hate getting beaten up so much I would totally rip that lady apart.
"So when's the kiss-in?
(address of the church follows)"
But Daaaaaan - that just addresses the "where" and not the "when". I mean, sure... people could just turn up and kiss at any given time, but - that's not so much an event as how things ought to be all the time, no?
Got any further details for us interested readers in Toronto, Dan?
My bad.
Guess I'll just have to keep my ear to the ground on that, then.
Even though religious/bigoted Jamaicans could and would do something like this, so could religious .
Speaking as a Torontonian, this is frankly embarrassing. Galling, even. All the more so as we're quite accommodating to people of many differing faiths, ethnicities, orientations, languages and politics - and this sort of behaviour flies directly in the face of all of that. 'Til now, I've never even heard of such a thing occurring in this city - and to claim that "freedom of speech" grants one the right to harass and intimidate people is complete and utter nonsense here in Canada.
I would hope that the couple (or better yet, their local Neighbourhood Association) seek a restraining order, at the very least. And frankly, I wouldn't shed a single tear on behalf of these Xtians were they to find themselves facing a civil suit.
Every time I start to type, my head keeps shaking in disbelief. MY city? This happened in MY city? Just unbe-freaking-lievable.
Under section 319, it is illegal to publicly incite hatred against people based on their colour, race, religion, ethnic origin, and sexual orientation, except where the statements made are true or are made in good faith. The prohibition against inciting hatred based on sexual orientation was added to the section in 2004 with the passage of Bill C-250.
It could be argued that they are inciting hatered against the couple and should, I believe get a restraining order.
Fuck fuck fuck.
I'm a black Christian too and my closest friends all identify as queer. Fucking hypocritical fucks invading my neighbourhood and pissing all over my neighbours. I'm so angry I need to think through things I can do that aren't illegal.
Damn them.
http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Toron…
http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Toron…
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/…
What I don't get about this conduct is the ludicrously public nature of it. Let's assume arguendo that they aren't bigots, that they're the nicest people in the world. What on earth makes them want to belt out hymns and bible verses on somebody else's quiet residential street?
Be sure to kiss as many people as possible.
It's the Gay Way!
(if you're really lucky maybe you'll snag some errant anal wart viruses off the tip of someone's tongue.....)
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Nice job digging up the facts.
Your efforts, however, are totally unwelcome on Slog.
Dan is all about hate mongering and lying and demagoguery.
Dan's tried and true recipe:
Shit out a little pile of made-up homoperscecution.
Stir up the credulous fanboy base.
Crank up the Internet HomoLiberal Hate Machine.
Shake.
Bake.
repeat daily.....
please take your facts and truth and fairness somewhere else.......
the "victims" of the "Christofacists" have a message for you...
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
oh yeah, and
MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS.
thank you.
"Skelding, who moved to the street in January, said he did not personally hear any of the parishionersâ words and did not know whether they had said anything homophobic."
âHE DID NOT
PERSONALLY
HEAR ANY OF THE PARISHIONERSâ WORDS"
âHE DID NOT KNOW
WHETHER
THEY HAD SAID ANYTHING HOMOPHOBICâ
Damn, Danny, you should jump on this guy-
he would be a perfect writer/researcher for Slog.......
Asked about the Internet response to the video, most of which has assumed the parishioners were homophobic, Skelding said: âUnfortunately the Internet is its own animal, and I canât control it."
"Who would have dreamed people would assume they were bigots just because I titled the YouTube piece âNeighbourhood comes together and kicks out religious haters.â?
"Go figure..."
"Obviously the correct forum for spreading malicious lies and hate is the internet. YouTube. Slog. Not in neighborhoods...."
And they don't like it.
Who are the harassers?
Homophobic Christofacists?
No.
Dan Savage.
They speak out-
âI donât like how the whole issue is being distorted,â said Blair Chiasson, a civil servant who lives with his partner, Paul Collins. âNothing happened. Nothing happened.â
He added: âI just want this to stop. Stop discussing it. Stop talking about it. Itâs really kind of spiralling out of control.â
âI just want this to stop, Dan."
"Stop discussing it, Dan."
"Stop lying about us, Dan."
"You asshole...."
"Jane Farrow, executive director of Janeâs Walk and a Highfield resident, said neighbours have told her the parishioners have also preached outside the home of a lesbian couple on nearby Kerr Rd. She and Skelding both said they knew of heterosexual neighbours whom aggressive door-knocking parishioners have called sinners for living with partners outside of marriage.
âIt goes beyond spreading the word of God. Itâs righteous, itâs rude, itâs bigoted â and thereâs no room for it on Highfield,â Farrow said."
And why is it always the religious nutsos that go around knocking on people's doors? Do liberals go around knocking on fundies' doors, telling them to chill the fuck out and to add oral sex to their monthly repertoire? No, because that would be an invasion of privacy and just downright rude.
As a matter of law, they should form a block club and get a petition signed to prevent this type of activity in their neighborhood. Such groups can get area-based restraining orders, at the cost of the legal filings and posting/maintaining proper signage, in the US at least. Public walkways are provided for passage and transport, not standing and preaching. That's called loitering, and is quite illegal in many places, public and private.