"A RIOT IS AN UGLY THING".
Posted on 11/02/2005 2:37:03 PM PST by tuesday afternoon
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (OCTOBER 29, 2005) As hundreds of people from across Massachusetts and other states came to the Tremont Temple Baptist Church to attend a widely acclaimed conference on recovering from homosexuality through a relationship with God, angry and enraged homosexual activists converged outside to intimidate and terrorize them.
The all-day conference, titled "Love Won Out" featured renowned lecturers, many of whom had left the homosexual lifestyle and are now married or in heterosexual relationships. Major themes included theology and relationships with God, as well as practical information for those struggling with homosexuality or who know people who are in that situation.
But outside, homosexual activists gathered before 8 am and stayed until that evening when the conference ended. They were joined by more activists as the day went on, including many who apparently came from an anti-war rally on the Boston Common.
They did whatever they could to harass and intimidate the attendees, including waving signs, yelling and screaming, and later they even brought a sound truck. Some of the activists went up to individual attendees and took close up photos at them, taunting them personally.
The homosexual demonstrators also set up two coffins right in front of the church, with frightening messages accusing the conference of causing death and suicides.
Pastor Dallas Henry, who came from Maine to attend the conference, said the raging crowd and the threats were "bone chilling." He described how the protesters were using PA systems, shouted obscenities and yelled “Shut it down! Shut it down!” for almost 45 minutes.
According to City of Boston officials, they did not have a permit to demonstrate outside the church, use sound equipment or props, or block traffic for that purpose. Nevertheless, Boston police stood aside and allowed the demonstrators to do pretty much whatever they wanted. At times they even cooperated with the activists, chatting with them, directing traffic for them, and finally allowing them to completely block the street. The police department later informed us that there were no arrests, despite the near-riot behavior and the apparent breaking of laws regarding demonstrating without a permit and disrupting a religious event.
On the other hand, police were abrupt and unfriendly toward attendees. As one woman told us, about when she asked the police about the sound truck that was disturbing the conference inside:
"I asked a very curt, unfriendly policewoman why they weren't getting the truck to move on the road, why they were letting it just sit there, and she snarled there was nothing they could do. It must have gone on for at least 10 or 15 minutes, maybe more."
When the police were asked if the demonstrators had a permit, they refused to answer. It appeared to people we talked to that the demonstrators were given special consideration, to say the least. They did nothing to stop or even control what was going on.
During the day, attendees were told by the conference managers not to leave the building to get lunch or interact in any way with the demonstrators. Instead, they arranged to have bag lunches brought in at the last minute.
But the most frightening situation came in the afternoon. Activists jammed the entire width of the street outside and stepped up their agitation. In response, rather than attempt to disperse the crowd, the police barricaded the church doors and told people inside they could not leave for any reason. When one woman asked why she couldn't go outside, the officer snarled "Because I told you so."
The demonstrators definitely affected the conference. As one attendee related:
"Joe Dallas (LoveWonOut speaker, former gay activist, former head of Exodus Intl) wrapped up the day w a statement about wanting the demonstrators to have their freedom of speech about their feelings and beliefs. But he said ONE THING FRIGHTENED HIM, & that was when they started yelling SHUT IT DOWN! He did send out the alarm that our freedom of speech and religion are seriously at risk. He recounted stories of ministers shut down in other countries..."
Ignored by media. In the Boston media over the following days, the only reference to this horrific incident we could find were two sentences buried at the end of another article, on page B6 (see sidebar).
Also: Click here for more pictures of demonstration throughout the day.
Also: Click here for some of the signs they brought to intimidate.
Article 8 commentary:
Could you imagine if this were an abortion clinic, and pro-life people did such a thing outside? The riot police would be swinging their billy clubs and using pepper spray. They would do whatever it took to disperse the crowd. And it would be on the front page of both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald, as well as all the Boston electronic media.
On a number of occasions, Article 8 Alliance has demonstrated in Boston. Here's how WE'RE treated: First, if you have more than a few people you absolutely need a permit. And you need a special permit if you're using a sound device. The police have the option to place you wherever they think it's "safe." For example, when we demonstrated at the SJC building earlier this year, we were placed across the street, in a specific area of the sidewalk, well away from any building entrance. And believe me, the police became quite nasty if we ventured outside of our designated area.
Another interesting tidbit. . . We telephoned the office of Boston City Councilor Felix Arroyo, who is an active member of the city's "Human Rights Board." When we outlined what had happened at the church, the person at his office curtly told us "I'm not terribly sympathetic." (Why are we not shocked? Councilor Arroyo proudly marches in the annual "Gay Pride" parade in Boston, and is endorsed by the homosexual newspaper.)
Are you going to wait until this happens to YOUR church? Unfortunately, unless and until people around America begin to stand up to this kind of horrific outrage, our message is: Get used to this, and worse. And it will spread across the country unless it's stopped now!
Outraged? Here are some handy phone numbers to start with:
Boston City Hall (for the Mayor's Thomas Menino's office): 617-635-4500
Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole: 617-343-4500 Police comment page.
Soooo, why should the folks hosting the conference care about paying city taxes?
BTTT
Fuchsia and lavender terrorists?
For years now, we've been inundated with lame justifications from the pro-perversity crowd that their "struggle" is identical to the struggle that black Americans endured. Rational people capable of deductive reasoning naturally laughed at such as leaps-of-logic, arguing constructively that the color of one's own skin is not a lifestyle choice (unless you're Michael Jackson). Even many black leaders rejected the comparisons.
Yet ironically, the pro-weird-sex crowd DOES have something in common with the black American community: it's monolithic in its "stay-on-the-plantation" ideology. Apparently, just like Maryland's Michael Steele who gets pelted with oreo cookies or Clarence Thomas or Walter Williams or Condoleeza Rice or any other distinguished black American, if you stray then you're a branded beast by the so-called aggrieved-privileged-victim classes.
Apparently, it doesn't matter what particular liberal group one may belong to. They all have one thing in common: they're the foulest of hypocrites ("Tolerance for us, but we reserve the right to be intolerant of anyone we disagree with")...
"A RIOT IS AN UGLY THING".
Homosexual=lover of sin!
Will pingout for sure later on!
It's cuz they are shoving their ex-homosexual agenda down everyone's throats.
Not to stereotype, but PO'd gays and transvestites are some of the bitchiest vindictive cruel people I've ever known. Very defensive egomaniacs.
They're behaving like muslims!
Is theres some scale where rainbow-colored signage tips you right into full-blown anarchy?
99+% of the "raibow signage carriers are 99+% carriers of filth and death with HIV, AIDS and worse. Many of them infect themselves intentionally so they can spread it in any way possible.
This one they are helping to spread was concocted in communist china earlier in 2004:
http://www.gohotsprings.com/usa/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=440
New Homosexual-Transmitted Disease Expected Soon From Europe
November 4, 2004 – The Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for October 29, 2004, describes a rare homosexually-transmitted venereal disease that may soon come to the United States.
The disease is called Lymphogranuloma Venereum (LGV), a variant of Chlamydia and it is spreading in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Sweden. The disease rarely occurs in the U.S. or other industrialized nations.
In a related story, AIDSMap has reported that one out of five homosexual males in Chicago has syphilis due to oral sex. The Chicago Department of Public Health announced this in late October.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that as a response to this new public health threat from homosexual sodomy, the state is now distributing 2.1 million condoms, including 360,000 of them that are flavored. The condoms will have orange, lemon, grape, and cherry flavors.
i was watching cops on tv one night when a couple of lesbos had tried to cut each other to pieces-cop said they were the meanest people to deal with
One out of five!
Along with NY, CA, MD, and NJ, does anyone need another reason to not live in MA!
A solution: NEVER have anything to do with a convention in Boston. Don't plan one; don't attend one; and discourage all you know to do the same. It's only a small step, but it's one we can take.
Yeah, really!
Just once I'd like to see a response where every single one of a group of protestors gets their a$$es kicked so hard at one of these that most of 'em never ever want to disagree with anyone again.
You sexist you!
Homophobe too!
;)
Funny how libs all have one means of attempting to get their points and messages across.
It is typical. They can't win debates so they attempt to shut them down.
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