Features Dec 14, 2011 at 4:00 am

Stranger in Their Midst

I Attended a Strategy Meeting of Anti-Gay-Marriage Christians, and They Called Security to Kick Me Out When They Discovered I Was a Nonbeliever

Dominic Holden
You were in the right to be there,” the facilities manager later confirmed.
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I so love that you went to this. Thank you!
gloomy gus on December 14, 2011 at 11:22 AM Report this
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I have respect for reporters since they have to go into hostile environments like this to do their jobs. It can probably be entertaining sometimes, but I'm personally too chickenshit for much drama. Thanks Dominic.
Smell on December 14, 2011 at 1:00 PM Report this
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THIS is what a reporter does; gather important news, write and report. Cheers to Dominic, the intrepid hero of the fourth estate.
Texas10R on December 14, 2011 at 2:49 PM Report this
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Perfection.
yaelisimone on December 14, 2011 at 8:16 PM Report this
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Perfect.
yaelisimone on December 14, 2011 at 8:18 PM Report this
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thank you for doing this. well done and very enlightening.
devinderry on December 15, 2011 at 8:45 AM Report this
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This is the kind of reporting I'd like to see more of in the Stranger.
Nikkinuski on December 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM Report this
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When I first heard about this meeting, I was really tempted to sit in and observe. It's refreshing that 5 out of the 14 attendees were pro-equality.
DowntownTaylor on December 15, 2011 at 11:53 AM Report this
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...point person, in a church, to further a political agenda? I say take the names of all the church's people listed.
Church's are allowed tax exemptions because they are, on good faith, not involved in politics per the separation of church and state.
If church's want to start espousing political doctrine, I say take names and start taxing those holy fucks.
TheloniousPunk on December 15, 2011 at 7:02 PM Report this
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Thank you, Dominic, for an informative article, and for attending this!!
auntie grizelda on December 16, 2011 at 12:19 AM Report this
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@ #9, if you go the route of "start taxing those holy fucks" you are cutting out many of the people united for marriage equality as well. The recent meeting in Seattle attended by a few hundred people was held at St Marks Episcopal Church. There is a large diverse list of religious organizations in the coalition of equal marriage supporters.
get in goin! on December 16, 2011 at 10:54 AM Report this
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Elizabeth Scott & those of similar thought processes, are far more dangerous to the threads of democracy than any group I can think of......the mere act of 'calling security' should have resulted in the city going in & canceling the meeting in the middle of it ! This woman has too many "power" hormones in her system ! Thanks for the article.
unclep on December 20, 2011 at 3:10 PM Report this
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The gay terrorists with all that fire power and bad boy bad girl badness?
Topping Christianity with a single hump of the popes leg?
Undermining American law that has been so fair to all people for ever?
See what happens when you get involved with America?
slade on December 23, 2011 at 3:53 PM Report this
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Great article, scary stuff those folks are talking about, and more of us should sit in on public meetings like this.
on January 3, 2012 at 1:43 PM Report this
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People can support the work of Washington United for Marriage, from your computer, if you just go to their website. http://washingtonunitedformarriage.org/
on January 3, 2012 at 2:00 PM Report this
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Wow real journalism... !!! Well done, it is important to bring the working of society into light, not as a strategy for opposition, but as an expression of democracy.
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