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Christian Youth Rally in San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/24/06 | Joe Garafoli

Posted on 03/24/2006 10:40:10 PM PST by TFFKAMM

More than 25,000 evangelical Christian youth landed Friday in San Francisco for a two-day rally at AT&T Park against "the virtue terrorism" of popular culture, and they were greeted by an official city condemnation and a clutch of protesters who said their event amounted to a "fascist mega-pep rally."

"Battle Cry for a Generation" is led by a 44-year-old Concord native, Ron Luce, who wants "God's instruction book" to guide young people away from the corrupting influence of popular culture.

Luce, whose Teen Mania organization is based in Texas, kicked off a three-city "reverse rebellion" tour Friday night intended to counter a popular culture that he says glamorizes violence and sex. The $55 advance tickets for two days of musical performances and speeches were sold out, but walk-up admission was available for $199.

After stops in Detroit and Philadelphia in the next few weeks, Luce wants to unleash a "blitz" of youth pastors into the communities to do everything from work with the homeless to find new ways to bring others to Christ. He challenged youth leaders to double the size of their groups in the next year.

And then he plans to return to San Francisco next year to chart their progress.

That's bad news to Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, who told counterprotesters at City Hall on Friday that while such fundamentalists may be small in number, "they're loud, they're obnoxious, they're disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco..."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: ac; antichristian; california; christian; evangelical; fascistleft; homosexualagenda; nutleft; persecution; sanfrancisco; sfboardofstupes; tolerantleft; youth
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To: TFFKAMM
"Battle Cry for a Generation" is led by a 44-year-old Concord native, Ron Luce, who wants "God's instruction book" to guide young people away from the corrupting influence of popular culture.

Go For It!.....shalom

81 posted on 03/25/2006 12:59:40 PM PST by patriot_wes (papal infallibility - a proud tradition since 1869)
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To: TFFKAMM

"You who...which one of you put super glue in my KY Jelly you bastard..."
82 posted on 03/25/2006 1:02:37 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (COLD PINK: Frigid Womyn For Peace)
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To: Doctor Raoul

LOL! I just spewed Dr Pepper all over the monitor.


83 posted on 03/25/2006 1:07:35 PM PST by DirtyHarryY2K ("Ye shall know them by their fruits" ;-))
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To: TFFKAMM
" Luce wants to unleash a "blitz" of youth pastors into the communities to do everything from work with the homeless to find new ways to bring others to Christ."

What a bunch of Nazis.

84 posted on 03/25/2006 1:18:48 PM PST by Ranald S. MacKenzie (Its the philosophy, stupid.)
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To: dbb
I suppose asking about the tooth fairy is repetitive?

Your underlying moral relative argument is repetitive regardless the window dressing. Your "godless atheist" tagline is clear enough and tolerated -why dilute your message with leftist rhetoric which is not tolerated and quite unwelcome on FR unless you activeluy seek a zotting?

85 posted on 03/25/2006 1:23:14 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: TFFKAMM

You know how when once in a while someone will smuggle some photos of what Cuba is really like, off the tourist strips? Someone needs to get some photos (limited to the printable) of the real San Fran and get a web site going to show America what it has on its West Coast. It is astonishing that a city in our nation came out and condemned a mainstream Christian group. At the very least the SF tourism board should be glad for the dollars they're going to spend.


86 posted on 03/25/2006 1:27:53 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: dbb

Just checked your posting history -- it is obvious you are a sleeper troll. Kitties incoming?


87 posted on 03/25/2006 1:28:23 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: TFFKAMM

"Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence." Heh, that's cute.


88 posted on 03/25/2006 1:32:00 PM PST by Zeroisanumber
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To: dbb
Good job of avoiding the issue.

Now you just keep hating what you believe doesn't exist! I believe that that's a diagnosable mental disorder!

89 posted on 03/25/2006 1:32:37 PM PST by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: DBeers

Looks like he just got banned. Good riddance.

I can deal with -- and actually welcome -- intelligent critique from nonbelievers here (ex. RightWingAtheist's posts), but this guy was just a snarky, snotty troll.


90 posted on 03/25/2006 3:08:31 PM PST by TFFKAMM
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To: AD from SpringBay
Someone needs to get some photos (limited to the printable) of the real San Fran and get a web site going to show America what it has on its West Coast.

It's being done.

91 posted on 03/25/2006 3:10:22 PM PST by TFFKAMM
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To: metmom
 Sounds like what the Sodomites might have said about Lot. Look what happened when he left.
 
TADA!!!

 

Genesis 13:13
  Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
 

Genesis 18:20-21
 20.  Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
 21.  that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
 4.  Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house. 
 5.  They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
 6.  Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
 7.  and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

Isaiah 3:9
 9.  The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

 More?

Ezekiel 16:49-50
 49.  "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
 50.  They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

 



But there IS hope!!!


 
1 Corinthians 6:9-11

 9.  Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
 10.  nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 
 11.  And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
 


If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape.....


92 posted on 03/25/2006 4:03:14 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: dbb
I suppose asking about the tooth fairy is repetitive?

Unlike One who changes not; the TF has experienced massive inflation in the years since I've had to deal with him (her? it??)

93 posted on 03/25/2006 4:06:04 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: winner3000

We're LOUD!

We're PROUD!

Ooops that's, uh... humble.....

94 posted on 03/25/2006 4:07:56 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: durasell
...the $3 million condo and million dollar art collection should be some comfort for giving up life in rural Alabama, doncha think?

Yup... but...



NIV Psalms 106:20
  They exchanged their Glory for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
 
NIV Jeremiah 2:11
   Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their  Glory for worthless idols.
 
NIV Hosea 4:7
   The more the priests increased, the more they sinned against me; they exchanged their Glory for something disgraceful.
 
NIV Matthew 16:26-27
 26.  What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchanged for his soul?
 27.  For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.

95 posted on 03/25/2006 4:16:01 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: endthematrix
Yeah, dbb is Zot worthy... Maybe the viking kitties will come to play...

Sons of Thunder: UNITE!

96 posted on 03/25/2006 4:17:30 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

No silly, Unitarian Universalist!

 

Just not THIS branch!  http://www.uupa.org


97 posted on 03/25/2006 4:23:08 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie

These guys generally go to churches that accept them. Some don't go to church at all.

My point, such as it was: if you grow up in a place where the people don't like you. Where your parents don't even like you very much. And where you are generally not wanted/welcome, and there is no future for you -- then leave and don't look back. And under no circumstances whine to me about missing some integral part of yourself in the big city while consuming a $300.00 meal. My response is and always has been -- move back or buy a postcard if you miss "home" that much.


98 posted on 03/25/2006 4:24:52 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: Doctor Raoul
NIV Proverbs 1:10
   My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
 



 
 
NIV Proverbs 1:20-33
 20.  Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
 21.  at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
 22.  "How long will you simple ones  love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
 23.  If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
 24.  But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
 25.  since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
 26.  I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you--
 27.  when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
 28.  "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
 29.  Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD,
 30.  since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
 31.  they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
 32.  For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
 33.  but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."
 
 

99 posted on 03/25/2006 4:30:35 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: metmom

>>All those years of work could be going right down the tubes if someone gets convicted and converted. Right out of *The Screwtape Letters*.<<

You're assuming that Satan holds some sort of power other than simply the ability to tempt us. God is sovereign over his entire creation, and that includes Satan. Satan does nothing outside of God's perfect will.

Rejoice in the fact that we fight a vanquished enemy!


100 posted on 03/25/2006 5:27:17 PM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before Him.")
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