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Protesters Chastise Vallejo Mayor Over Gay Remarks ["Gays Don't Go To Heaven"]
Sacramento Bee ^ | December 02, 2009

Posted on 12/02/2009 1:08:25 PM PST by Steelfish

Protesters Chastise Vallejo Mayor Over Gay Remarks

The Associated Press Dec. 2, 2009

VALLEJO, Calif. -- Vallejo's mayor is under fire from demonstrators who gathered on the steps of City Hall to protest his remarks that gays will not go to heaven.

Dozens of protesters waved rainbow flags and held signs demanding separation of church and state before Tuesday's city council meeting. Some called for Mayor Osby Davis' resignation.

The evangelical mayor told The New York Times last month that gays are "committing sin and that sin will keep them out of heaven." He later apologized, saying his remarks were taken out of context.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Religion
KEYWORDS: vallejo

1 posted on 12/02/2009 1:08:26 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

He’s got a point.


2 posted on 12/02/2009 1:10:24 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: Steelfish
Dozens of protesters waved rainbow flags and held signs demanding separation of church and state

Tell me again why they are protesting? Are they unaware of the irony?

3 posted on 12/02/2009 1:10:45 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Steelfish

“Gays Don’t Go To Heaven”

they would hate it anyway...doesn’t need any decorating and everyone’s hair is perfect...


4 posted on 12/02/2009 1:11:18 PM PST by jessduntno (Take a minute and watch it: -> http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=uoeuh-EGj7s <-)
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To: Steelfish

Gays, do go to heaven, but are no longer gay. In fact they can be gay up to the moment before their death and if they repent (and true repentance would mean that they reject their homosexuality as the sin that it is).


5 posted on 12/02/2009 1:17:34 PM PST by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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To: Steelfish

So you can’t even tell the truth in public anymore? This is getting like Canada.


6 posted on 12/02/2009 1:21:42 PM PST by Awestruck (Now if we can only get the rest of the "republican" leaders to stand up to the liberals.)
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To: Steelfish

Someone needs to tell them that even mayors have freedom of religion in this country.


7 posted on 12/02/2009 1:22:44 PM PST by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: Steelfish

I thought these were atheists who don’t believe in Heaven any way, why do they care if anyone thinks they aren’t going to some non-existent place.


8 posted on 12/02/2009 1:28:43 PM PST by Truthsearcher
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To: Steelfish

Well, at least we know that “all dogs go to heaven.”


9 posted on 12/02/2009 2:17:33 PM PST by HighlyOpinionated (Abortion-Euthanasia kills the very people for whom Social Justice is needed.)
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To: Steelfish

“The evangelical mayor told The New York Times last month that gays are “committing sin and that sin will keep them out of heaven.” He later apologized, saying his remarks were taken out of context.”

What he meant was “Gays will spend eternity burning in Hell”.


10 posted on 12/02/2009 2:34:37 PM PST by Mashood
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> He later apologized, saying his remarks were taken out of context.

Nope. His remarks were perfectly contexted. He ought not apologize because gays will not go to heaven if they persist in sinful behavior.


11 posted on 12/02/2009 7:10:44 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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