AFTER ACTION REPORT - Support Traditional Marriage Rally!

Self ^ | 06/24/2004 | Me

[ItsOurTimeNow]

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[ItsOurTimeNow]

Pictures Ahoy!!

Crowd, from the back-left:

Crowd, from the back-middle:

Crowd, from the back-right:

Crowd shots 1, 2, and 3 (such an ethnically diverse crowd for a bunch of bigots and haters, huh?)

Our musical entertainment - SingForHim:

Our Speakers:

Attorney Scott Spear

Minister Ruth Dapaah-Afriyie:

Pastor Jay (who went fearlessly into the belly of the beast):

Pastor Ken:

Pastor Jason

And last, but not least, Pastor Dave:

Oh, I forgot to mention, and neglected to get a photo of him, but the event was emcee'd by Kris Mineau of the Massachusetts Family Institute.

Megablessings on all who attended, prayed and supported us in this effort!

Amen!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Can you please ping your lists?

[VOA]

We had about 300 men and women in attendance, not including children.

I hope you encouraged them all to bug their Congress-critters in Washington.
James Dobson of Focus on The Family says that not enough phone calls are being made.

Otherwise, looks like you had a great turnout!

[VOA]

And get folks to sign the Save Marriage petition at The American Center for
Law and Justice at:

http://www.aclj.org/petitions/marriage/petition.asp

The last I heard (a week ago?), the petition had about 350,000 signatories.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Mmm-hmm...4 of our speakers told the crowd to go home and call, fax, e-mail, and snail-mail. We had information sheets to hand out, and I have an e-mail list of about 200 names now that I can send out links to.

Such a holy, blessed day. I feel awesome!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

We had petitions there for people to sign as well. Got about 275 new names put on it.

[scripter]

Can you please ping your lists?

I got this one, lj. Ping.

[VOA]

You've probably already know about it, but the ACLJ does air their radio show in RI.
Here is the listing from their website (their show is titled "Jay Sekulow Live",
after their lead attorney):

RI Warwick/Providence WARV-AM 1590 12:00 PM E

Keep up the good work!

[scripter]

Each time they'd pass the group of 12 (6 of which were kids), they'd shout obsceneties, flip the middle finger, spit, and curse.

From my experience that's business as usual for some groups. They never seem to realize the damage they do to their own cause. I'm glad Pastor Jay approached the group in a Christlike manner as some in the group, someday, will remember his attitude.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

I'm glad Pastor Jay approached the group in a Christlike manner as some in the group, someday, will remember his attitude.

That was the entire spirit of the rally...one of love, compassion, and support.

The opposition wanted SO BADLY for us to react the same way they were behaving. Wasn't going to happen.

[scripter]

I'm really proud of you guys for taking action and doing it right.

[bgcountry187]

great job. thanks for the after-report. Sounds like a wonderful afternoon. It sounds like it was truly a blessing from God that it didn't rain until after. Keep up the good work. God bless you all!!

[conservativeammom]

Boy what great afternoon you guys had, wish I had been there. What a spirit filled event it must have been. God Bless you and thank you so much for the after action report, it was a blessing.

[Jeremiahs Call]

Kudos for taking a stand in RI!! Great job keeping a Christ-like attitude towards the hateful rabble of 8. You all did not react like they wanted you to, and they will remember the love and strength displayed.

Thanks for your inspiring rally!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

The best part is, we're not done by a long shot. Our next event will be in late September. Then another, and another, and another.

We're not giving up. We may not win this war, but we'll go down fighting until the very end.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Just thought I'd ping y'all to something I've been working my tail off for this last month.

[2Jedismom]

What a great rally! Too bad you had to deal with the hippies.

Hair has a little thing she says about hippies, but I can't remember it exactly...she told me at the weddingmoot...

It was funny...maybe she can post it?

[RMDupree]

Great job, Seamus! But I expect nothing less from you! *grin*

Oh, and 2J, the hippie comment is a South Park reference. Cartman is having nightmares where he mutters..."Hippies, hippies everywhere. They want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad!"

LOL!!

[little jeremiah]

Awesome! ItsOurTimeNow, I can't believe it - I mean I can, and it's nothing other than awesome what one person's vision and courage can do. We take one step towards God, He takes a thousand towards us.

May your example inspire other Freepers (and non-freepers alike.)

I hope those who attended had www.freerepublic.com somewhere on the literature!

And thanks so much for telling us all about it.