Well, I'll leave you all to your preferred graven images.
Posted on 09/26/2007 9:53:51 AM PDT by presidio9
On September 30, a Sunday – the Lord’s Day in the Christian church – San Francisco will host the Folsom Street Fair, perhaps the most hedonistic event held in public in America. The fair is the San Francisco homosexual community’s annual celebration of promiscuity, sadomasochism and debauchery. The ad for this year’s fair mocks Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, with a half-naked beefcake Christ and disciples bedecked in all manner of leather and chains. The bread and wine of The Last Supper are replaced with sex toys. Many Christian groups have expressed outrage.
Will the national media cover the story?
When it comes to the media treatment of Christian issues, you never know what you’ll get. For instance, in the October 1 issue of Newsweek, Lisa Miller’s “Beliefwatch” column tsk-tsks over the outrage felt by Christians over comedienne Kathy Griffin saying “Suck it, Jesus” at the Creative Emmy Awards. The outcry was loud enough that E! deleted Griffin’s remarks during their broadcast of the awards show. Miller’s sarcastic tone in reporting the story reveals her complete lack of regard for the offense felt by followers of Jesus.
Twenty-two pages later in the same issue of Newsweek is a two-page spread on how Democrats are wooing evangelical Christians. This is a story the media like. Three pictures accompany the article. One is of Sen. Barack Obama praying with Pastor Rick Warren, another is of Hillary Clinton in front of the word “Faith.” The third is of a very disappointed-looking James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, with the caption “Dobson isn’t supporting Thompson.” The article paints a very hopeful picture of the Democrats’ chances (the subhead to the story says “their efforts may have a prayer”) of winning the younger evangelical vote, because “many younger evangelicals are worried about issues beyond the traditional struggles over abortion, school prayer and gay marriage.”
There it is, the G word. The mainstream media are, shall we say, selective in their coverage of homosexuality as well. They collectively went nuts when Senator Larry Craig’s solicitation of ‘gay’ sex in a Minneapolis airport bathroom became public knowledge. However, they typically turn a blind eye to nudity and sexual acts occurring in broad daylight during “pride” parades. Public nudity is commonplace, as is sadomasochism, at the Folsom Street Fair. The fair’s Web site proudly promotes pictures of past events to prove the point.
According to Concerned Women for America, “The most unimaginable and vile acts of debauchery are commonplace during the fair. Senator Larry Craig was arrested and driven out of the Senate for allegedly soliciting public ‘gay’ sex, yet during this event the city of San Francisco suspends the law and allows ‘gay’ men and women to parade the streets fully nude, many having sex – even group orgies – in broad daylight, while taxpayer-funded police officers look on and do absolutely nothing.”
And so we ask again: Will the mainstream media cover the Folsom Street Fair?
For the media, it must be like being caught between a rock and a hard place. The media love the Democrats. The Democrats are courting evangelicals as well as gays. The Folsom Street Fair pits one against the other – in a brazen and profane ad – for a taxpayer-supported event that flouts just about every moral precept upon which this country was built. Will the media cover THIS story?
This is hardly news....hasn’t that fair has been going on for decades?...if the MSM covers it all it will be positive coverage.
“To my knowledge, the media have never even shown grooms kissing at Massachusetts wedding ceremonies. They don’t want to upset their carefully crafted message of quiet acceptance. “
Oh yes they have, every time a news story about homosexual marriage comes up, on the evening news, they show exactly that. And they are angering people more and more by doing so. We have the remote close by to quickly turn it off. I go to the trouble of making dinner not to have it lost when our stomachs turn.
Will Christians riot, burn cars, and threaten to behead the organizers of this event?
No?
If they really wanted to get publicity for their "street fair" they should have shown Mohammed, wearing a bomb hat, being dominated by a camel.
Of course it will be ignored. The “Pink Hand” and it’s sympathizers have control of the MSM.
Think children. You love your children, but you do not approve or accept it when they do wrong. It doesn’t mean you stop loving them, you just don’t support those decisions, even when they are grown.
And since when is open sex and orgies IN PUBLIC, acceptable or approved of??
You have some 'splainin to do. Hehe, seriously, that is an awesomely unfortunate typo.
Lucky I brought along my trusty parachute. Suckers.
Someone told me once that it was a city built on seven hills.
I never looked into that.
Where’s that earthquake to drop the queer capital of the world into the ocean?
Since so many major cities (Long Beach, San Diego, NY, SF, Seattle, Chicago and many others) have approved of and supported 'Gay Pride' parades.
Some friends of mine live on the street in Long Beach where the Gay Priders line up to start the parade route. Long ago they gave up the protets and have gone away for that weekend so as to avoid that which they have seen in the past.
When they went to the City Council to complain, they were harassed unmercifully by the 'prideful' few (but vocal).
You are the one who needs a course in theology. Hate the sin and love the sinner is a summery of some of Christ’s most important commands. Christ specifically tells us he “hates” sin in Chapter 2 of Revelation (You have hated the teachings of the Nicolations which I hate also) he also tell us to love our brothers and sisters as Jesus has loved us. Since Jesus loved the sinners we are commanded to also. Futher, Jesus tells us that not a sparrow falls to ground that God doesn’t will. Even the hairs on your head are numbered. If God’s Glory is so great he manages the most obscure minutia of his creation, then yes, I believe he wanted 3000 people to die on 9/11 - it could not have happened otherwise. Why he wanted this no one knows but we do know God does use evil to accomplish good. I also believe God wanted to Joshua to slaughter thousands and thousands of men, women and children Cannanites. Why? - because the Bible explictly tells us so. This isn’t rocket science - try actually reading the bible rather that harping on it an you’ll learn a lot.
Note that I have several openly gay friends and family members.
Again, nobody other than Gordon Gekko, porn stars and David Duke types are making the argument that any of those other sins are not just ok, but something to be celebrated. If you can't see that homosexuality has a special toehold in the mainstream, then I can't help you.
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