Posted on 04/26/2006 6:28:14 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
CHARLOTTE, NC, April 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The first-ever "Not Ashamed Charlotte" rally will unite Christians from different churches to proclaim their faith in the public square, replacing the annual gay pride event usually scheduled for early May in Marshall Park. The Christian rally will be held from 3-4 p.m. May 6 in the park. According to Dr. Michael L. Brown, Director of the Coalition of Conscience and organizer of Not Ashamed Charlotte, the timing of this event is highly significant.
"For the last four years," Brown explains, "on the first Saturday of May, Marshall Park has been will filled with as many as 3,000 gays and lesbians celebrating Charlotte Pride." This gay pride event, marked by public lewdness and obscenity, has drawn protest from various Christian groups. Mayor Pat McCrory has also voiced his displeasure with the Charlotte Pride event being held in a public park. In other cities, similar gay pride events have drawn upwards of 100,000 participants.
"This year," Brown states, "the Charlotte Pride organizers had to delay their event, and we were able to get the park for our rally. So, instead of transvestite dancers simulating sex in the presence of toddlers and little children, we will be proclaiming the goodness of God and the love of Jesus. And instead of vendors advertising hot nudist camps, we will be standing together with our families proclaiming that we are not ashamed of purity and morality and wholesome living."
Brown is careful, however, to add that his organization does not condone hatred or mistreatment of gays and lesbians, explaining, "We are absolutely not intolerant bigots, and we believe that strong moral convictions must go hand in hand with respectful and gracious treatment of all people. So we reach out to homosexual men and women with compassion, but we resist with courage their agenda to reshape America."
The rally will take place from 3-4 p.m. May 6 with participants from different churches in the greater Charlotte region.
For further information, go to: http://www.coalitionofconscience.org
Prude Pride
What the heck is a rightwingest? Oh, and enjoy your brief stay on FR.
I am a lot more liberal in terms of gay rights than most people around here, and I am not a Christian. Yet I find it really, REALLY strange how you libs get all bent out of shape when a group you don't like does something a group you like does, and you start with the vile namecalling.
So much for "Live and Let Live"; more like "Live like I want you to live, otherwise, shut up."
I used to think that until I was confronted by a "gay pride" march some years ago.
I was abused for holding the hand of a female. What we're dealing with here are very sick puppies.
BTW, Christ did say "Love thy enemies". He also said, "Go and sin no more". I've no doubt HE wouldn't be impressed by anyone trying to make that sin into a virtue.
I'm not a fascist, but I'm also not going to be thrilled at the prospect of individuals displaying their own hate for my beliefs.
adios, Troll
You moron. Democrats ran the South in the 50-60's..
But what is even more disgusting is the ignorance of this post.
This is not about gayness -- it is about lewd behavior in public (a hallmark of the gay lifestyle -- it is not about sexual orientation, just sex)
What you are speaking of now resembles the mind set of Southern right-wingests in the 1950's and 1960's. It was people like you that looked at the "White's only" signs with pride. And in another 40 years, you and the people who share your beliefs will target another unfortunate minority.
Coming together in a park to say that you love Jesus is analagous to "whites only?" Your strawman would be laughable if you and your type didn't believe it.
Didn't Christ say, Love thy enemies? You are a fascist and your enemies are homosexuals. You have some serious soul searching to do.
Love the sinner, hate the sin. If you sin and continue to do so, then at the very least your influence should be abated.
Live and let live.
Live and let Zot.
From dictionary.com:
Usage Note: The word gay is now standard in its use to refer to homosexuals, in large part because it is the term that most gay people prefer in referring to themselves. Gay is distinguished from homosexual primarily by the emphasis it places on the cultural and social aspects of homosexuality as opposed to sexual practice. Many writers reserve gay for males, but the word is also used to refer to both sexes; when the intended meaning is not clear in the context, the phrase gay and lesbian may be used. Like the other names of social groups derived from adjectives (for example, Black), gay may be regarded as offensive when used as a noun to refer to particular individuals, as in There were two gays on the panel; here phrasing such as gay members should be used instead. But there is no objection to the use of the noun in the plural to refer collectively either to gay men or to gay men and lesbians, so long as it is clear whether men alone or both men and women are being discussed. See Usage Note at homosexual.
I'm just going to start calling them perverts again.
Both are correct-- with "sexually disoriented" replacing "gay" the adjective; "perverts" replacing the noun "gays", the latter which, according to the definition presented above, is more pejorative anyway.
I've always been a Puritan and am proud of it!
Down with NewSpeak!
Ping to read later
Now you've gone and done it...you're just going to confuse a liberal when you present the FACTS. It's the dems that keep electing the ex-clansman (Sheets) Byrd.
ROFLMAO.
I just love love love it when these freaks come over to FR to "tell us like it is."
They are, without fail -- and to a poster -- inevitably WRONG about everything they post.
Read my tagline, I think it says it all.
Now, go back to DU where you came from.
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