Showing posts with label hate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hate. Show all posts

Monday, July 9, 2012

Hate Speech

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2012 Pridefest Parade 50

I mentioned there was some unfinished business with the Pridefest parade shots. This is it.

There is a fundamentalist church in Topeka, Kansas, whose members have the most extreme, virulent opinion of homosexuality. They and their allies travel around the country demonstrating like this at military funerals, much to the offense of the bereaved families. They think that God causes the deaths of American soldiers because the country tolerates gay relationships and a few states allow same-sex marriage or civil unions. Holy . . .  If they are indeed Christian, I wonder how they deal with the concept that the same God made them and the objects of their scorn. Reason does not trouble them.

These people enrage almost everyone; I am posting this simply as reportage. The police kept them on a side street but next to the march. Tomorrow's post will be about the crowd's reaction. Here's a hint.

2012 Pridefest Parade 49

2012 Pridefest Parade 48